Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Western: 281 Films to Buy & Rent
- There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda
- Prison inmate Kirk Douglas matches wits with warden Henry Fonda in an attempt to escape. Curious mix of black comedy and melodrama.
- Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Shirley Maclaine
- Mexican–set western adventure following a mysterious nun pursued by the French Army who begins a mutually beneficial relationship with a…
- Boot Hill (1969)
- Dir. Giuseppe Colizzi
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Woody Strode…
- Typically raucous Hill and Spencer westerner with the un–dynamic duo doing battle with a tyrannical mayor.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Paul Newman, Robert Redford
- This light and tasty yarn enjoyed huge popularity, partly due to the abounding charisma of Paul Newman and Robert Redford who together have lots of…
- Charro (1969)
- Dir. Charles M. Warren
Feat. Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French
- An Elvis curiosity which (mis)casts him in a dramatic Western. An unintentional hoot.
- Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
- Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor…
- The first Alan Smithee film is a hard–bitten western with Widmark as an old–fashioned lawman in a town determined to modernise. The title…
- Mackenna's Gold (1969)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif
- Sprawling Western adaptation of the best–selling Will Henry novel about an Arizona Marshal travelling to an unknown canyon of gold who gets…
- Over the Hill Gang, The (1969)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Pat O'Brien…
- Laidback reunion for various horse–opera stars of old cleaning up a lawless town in the old west. Telemovie doesn't quite have a script worthy…
- Paint Your Wagon (1969)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg…
- Entertaining musical epic based on the popular Lerner–Loewe play. Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood play gold prospectors who share a wife they…
- Sabata (1969)
- Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Pedro Sanchez
- Berzerk spaghetti western with Van Cleef as the titular master gunfighter hunting robbers for rewards. Memorable is an understatement for this…