Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- Virginian, The (1946)
- Feat. Joel McCrea, Sonny Tufts, Brian Donlevy
- Fourth time out of the stable adaptation of Owen Wister's influential novel.
Local ranch hand (McCrea) risks losing his best friend and the woman…
- Yearling, The (1946)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Claude Jr. Jarman, Jane Wyman, Gregory Peck
- Delightfully quaint fable of childhood, has innocent lad Claude Jarman Jnr raising a pet deer in backwoods Florida, while Ma and Pa, scrape together…
- San Antonio (1945)
- Dir. David Butler, Robert Florey
Feat. Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall…
- In the middle of a range war a tough dance hall girl falls for a chivalrous cowboy trying to bring law and order to San Antonio.
- Buffalo Bill (1944)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell
- Fictionalized story of one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, from his days as an army scout to his…
- Can't Help Singing (1944)
- Dir. Frank Ryan
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff
- Sugary sweet technicolour western musical based on the book "Girl of the Overland Trail" by Samuel J. and Curtis B. Warshawsky. Set during the…
- Tall in the Saddle (1944)
- Dir. Edwin L. Marin
Feat. John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond
- An action–packed John Wayne Oater in which he plays a tough, quiet cowboy who arrives at an Arizona town to find his boss has been murdered and…
- Outlaw, The (1943)
- Dir. Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell…
- Off–beat retelling of the legend of Billy the Kid with Jane Russell's cleavage outraging the censors of the day. Now a tame curiosity.
- Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…
- Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford.
Although…
- Spoilers, The (1942)
- Dir. Ray Enright
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
- A gold–rush Western set in Alaska in which gold–miner John Wayne tussles it out with corrupt commissioner Randolph Scott over his claims…
- They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
- Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland lead a great cast for the life and times of General Custer. Part romantic comedy, part tragedy, done in grandest…