Subgenre Sampler
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles… - A dream cast and director deliver the classic that one would expect. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne compete for Vera Miles but unite against Lee Marvin…
Ride the High Country (1962)- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea - Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…
Virginian, The (TV Series) (1962-1971)- Feat. James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
- Television adaptation of Owen Wister's novel, where Jame's Drury's 'The Virginian' tries to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming…
Comancheros, The (1961)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin… - John Wayne stars (and served as an uncredited director when Michael Curtiz fell ill) in this Western set in Texas in 1843. A Texas ranger arrests a…
Deadly Companions, The (1961)- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Steve Cochran - Sam Peckinpah's debut film is a typically unorthodox western, that while uneven reveals the quirky characters and emotive nostalgia of his later…
Last Sunset, The (1961)- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone… - Melodramatic Western set against the backdrop of the Texas/Mexico border stars Kirk Douglas as a fugitive hounded by Rock Hudson's sheriff, only to…
Misfits, The (1961)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe - Stark melodrama was to be the curtain call for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. They are two of a group of cheerless souls roping wild mustangs…
One Eyed Jacks (1961)- Dir. Marlon Brando
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado… - Marlon Brando is an outlaw battling a sheriff in this psychological Western played out against a brooding landscape. Bursts of violence punctuate the…
Second Time Around, The (1961)- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith… - Debbie Reynolds stars as a feisty widow who becomes sheriff of a wild Arizona town, where a gambler and a rancher vie for her affections.
Singer Not the Song, The (1961)- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot… - Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
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