Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Western: 281 Films to Buy & Rent
- Wild Rovers (1971)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden…
- Saddle–sore cowpunchers William Holden and Ryan O'Neal safeguard their retirement by bank robbery, then head for the Mexican border.…
- A Man Called Horse (1970)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Richard Harris, Dame Judith Anderson
- Notorious yet serious–minded late western is set around the capture by Sioux of an English nobleman and his subsequent initiation into the…
- Adios, Sabata (1970)
- Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Yul Brynner, Pedro Sanchez, Dean Reed
- Yul Brynner takes over the role of the ex–confederate master blaster, but the song remains essentially the same as Sabata aids Mexican…
- Barquero (1970)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker…
- Taut and bloody morality play set by a river's edge with Van Cleef as an ornery barge owner holding out against a band of mercenaries desperate to…
- Chisum (1970)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George…
- A western starring John Wayne, very loosely based around events from the Lincoln County War in 1878, when a conflict arose over the control of goods…
- Lawman (1970)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb…
- Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are veteran adversaries in this violent '70s Western. Saddle–sore Lancaster is on the trail of a band of…
- Little Big Man (1970)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam…
- Life–story of 121–yr old 'white' Indian Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) at first lightly sketches his progress from Cheyenne brave to…
- McMasters, The (Blood Crowd, The) (1970)
- Dir. Alf Kjellin
Feat. Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine…
- A tough depiction of post–Civil War strife, with former slave Peters, who fought for the Union, trying to start over in the American southwest.…
- Rio Lobo (1970)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Jack Elam, Victor French…
- The third and final Western collaboration between John Wayne, dir. Hawks and screenwriter Leigh Brackett (after RIO BRAVO and EL DORADO), this…
- Soldier Blue (1970)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Candice Bergen
- Perhaps the most violent and disreputable of the ‘revisionist’ Westerns (initiated by THE WILD BUNCH), this depiction of mutual barbarity between…