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Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
2) Oklahoma!
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Oklahoma Territory in the early 1900s, this joyous celebration of frontier life is a story of tender romance and dangerous passion." -- pub.
3) Hud
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
5) The cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither Andersen nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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...
7) 3:10 to Yuma
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed but strong-willed individuals in...
9) 3:10 to Yuma
Series
Criterion collection volume 657
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) The jack bull
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A feud becomes a war between a proud rancher and a wealthy, influential landowner in the Old West.
11) Giant
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The epic story of three generations of land-rich Texans and their relationships with their new oil wealthy neighbors.
13) Red River
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A cattle baron and his adopted son head the first drive over the Chisolm Trail when they cannot find a local market for their herd.
14) Lonesome Dove
Language
English
Formats
Description
Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explore the dramatic story behind the making of the film and meet the surviving cast, crew, and locals who participated in the production, many of whose lives mirrored the film's controversial themes of racism and segregation, as they celebrate the film that remains as powerful and relevant today as when it was first released.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Rooster Cogburn: A rough-edged deputy marshal teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend's daughter. War wagon: A rancher recruits a brash gunslinger along with a raucous crew of misfits and readies them to pull off one of the most impossible heists of all time. Spoilers: Adventure about...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Cattle baron John Chisum tries to protect his empire from a land-grubbing developer; hoping to clear her husband's name, the widow of a bank robber hires three cowboys to help her recover the stolen gold, but her husband's former partners have a differentplan for the buried loot; a widowed marshal fears that his two sons may have been involved in a bank robbery and murder; a Seattle police detective seeks revenge on the gangster who killed his friend....
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
John Wayne stars as a rancher, an ex-Navy man, a gun-for-hire, a trapper, an Army despatch rider, a Navy officer out to redeem himself, a pilot who crashes in Labrador, an overbearing cattle baron, an ex-Union officer in search of a traitor, a washed-up co-pilot of a commercial airliner, a rancher competing for the love of a woman, an old gunfighter dying of cancer, a gunfighter trying to regain the family ranch, and a hard-nosed U.S. marshal.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape-pulsating with both freedom and menace-that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.
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