Subgenre Sampler
Western: 480 Films to Buy & Rent
Indian Fighter, The (1955)
- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau…
- Douglas plays a grizzled scout who must negotiate his way through hostile Indian territory on behalf of a wagon–train. Falling in love with a…
Kentuckian, The (1955)
- Dir. Burt Lancaster
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn…
- Western directed by and starring Burt Lancaster, an adaptation of the novel The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt.
Beautifully shot in Kentucky and…
Man from Laramie, The (1955)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp…
- An angst–ridden James Stewart seeks retribution on arms dealers whose illegal trade resulted in the ambushing of his brother's cavalry patrol.…
Man with the Gun (1955)
- Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jan Sterling, Karen Sharpe…
- Brawny western with Mitchum typically taciturn as a mercenary hired by frightened citizens to vanquish a pack of murderous gunfighters.
Man Without A Star (1955)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
- Character–driven Western sees Kirk Douglas plays a laconic gunslinger with a dark–side, who drifts from scrape to scrape while working…
Tall Men, The (1955)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan…
- Effortlessly enjoyable western with Gable as a Confederate who signs up for a grand cattle drive from Texas to Montana, Jane Russell and Robert Ryan…
Violent Men, The (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson…
- Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson transform a standard conflict of the land into a notable diversion.
White Feather (1955)
- Dir. Robert D. Webb
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund…
- Superior liberal western, scripted by Delmer Dawes, concerns the surrender of the last Cheyenne warriors to the U.S. government.
Though Wagner…
Apache (1954)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire…
- Although now dated in it's treatment of the subject – like casting the blue–eyed Lancaster as an Apache Indian – at the time this…
Broken Lance (1954)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters…
- King Lear loosely transposed as a gripping Western melodrama with proud yet stubborn patriarch Spencer Tracy at odds with his ungrateful sons over…