Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Two Rode Together (1961)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
- Overlooked Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark starrer with the master of the genre at the helm.
- Alamo, The (1960)
- Dir. John Wayne
Feat. John Wayne
- Duke's sprawling historical epic centres around a small fort where Texas fought for its independence. Slow pace builds to an exciting climax.
- Bonanza (TV Series) (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Allen, Arthur Lubin
Feat. Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts…
- Iconic, larger–than–life western TV show set near Virginia City, Nevada, in which Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his sons help protect…
- Comanche Station (1960)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins…
- Last of the Boetticher/Scott westerns with Randolph Scott again essaying the taciturn hero brilliantly. Here he's attempting to resuce saving a…