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In 1875, after the Civil War, Leander McNelly organizes the Texas Rangers to battle the outlaws terrorizing Texas, notably crime kingpin John King Fisher. With a team of experienced gunmen and enthusiastic but green recruits, McNelly and his Rangers bring law and order to the wild Texas plains. McNelly must also keep order among his charges when two rangers fall in love with the same woman.
3) The homesman
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Single woman and pioneer Mary Bee Cuddy saves the life of claim jumper George Briggs in return for his help in getting three women who have gone insane from Nebraska to Iowa.
5) 3:10 to Yuma
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Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
6) Shane
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Acclaimed director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made Shane one of the classics of the American cinema. The story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). In fighting the last decisive battle, SHANE sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody...
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"James Garner stars as Woodrow F. Call, a wizened bounty hunter who has endured the death of his son and the financial failure of his Montana ranch. When a wealthy railroad president hires him to track down a young, cold-blooded bandit, Call travels south to seek out the fugitive and along the way encounters an array of old acquaintances, including his faithful ex-comrade." --Container.
8) 3:10 to Yuma
Series
Criterion collection volume 657
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English
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In this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford, to the train that will take him to prison. This apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man's particular brand of honor.
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The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend them from a ruthless and exploitative group of bandits led by Calvera. As Calvera's next raid approaches, the peasants and the gun fighters work together to prepare to defend the village.
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2008.
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English
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After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts (including Sondra Locke and Chief Dan George) is drawn to him and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected. Eastwood's skills behind and in front of the camera connected with audiences for its humor and tenderness as well as its hair-trigger action.
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[2008?]
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Apple Dumpling Gang: A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the kids discover a gold nugget they must fend off the greedy townspeople, so they join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold. Apple Dumpling Gang rides again: Two bumbling outlaws try to go straight, but can't even seem to get that right. They make a deposit in a bank and are accused of robbing it ; they join the U.S. Cavalry and...
13) 3:10 to Yuma
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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As other volunteers quit or are killed, a rancher is left alone to deal with the responsibility of putting a captured outlaw aboard a Fort Yuma-bound train.
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012)
The far country: A self-minded adventurer who locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson. It is one of the few Westerns, along with North to Alaska, to be set (not filmed) in Alaska.
Night passage: The workers on the railroad haven't been...
15) The proud ones
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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A marshal seeks the helps of a gunslinger who wants him dead to stop a band of outlaws from overrunning the growing town.
16) The river's edge
Series
Studio classic volume 40
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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A bank robber involves a wilderness guide and his wife in a desperate attempt escape to Mexico in order to get away with his crime and keep the money he has stolen.
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English
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Albuquerque: When Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his successful uncle John, he soon learns that family business is out to eliminate any local competition. Tiring of his uncle's underhanded tactics, Cole switches to rival operation run by Ted Wallace and his sister, Celia. But Cole soon learns John Armin is to a man to be crossed as the trio must fight for their business, and their lives, against his uncle's ruthless henchman, Juke Murkil.
Whispering...
18) The Newton boys
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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True tale of four brothers who robbed more than 80 banks from Texas to Canada.
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English
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An ex-Confederate spy for the Quantrill's Raiders, Jeff Travis torched and looted mercilessly for the "Confederate cause" during the Civil War. With the Union victory, he fears he is a wanted man and heads out West, closely followed by his long-time love Josie. He decides to settle in Prescott, Arizona, where he takes a job driving for the Conroy Stage Company. Soon enough, he learns that the town is now in the hands of outlaw gangs. Now he is expected...
Series
Criterion collection volume 732
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English
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Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
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