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Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young woman has run off with an army deserter, a hired gun, Max, is contracted to go after them and bring her home. Finding out that she fled from an abusive husband, Max is faced with the choice to finish the job or look the other way while ruthless assassins and his longtime rival, Joe close in.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Missie and Wille LaHaye are on their way to the west. The couple become rugged pioneers as they face all kinds of hardships, including death. Missie fights homesickness, boredom, and being pushed to the limit. Can her faith help her through?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD is based on the classic novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn with a screenplay by award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace (Tribal Justice). Upon its release in 1990, the film won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A raucous western comedy, is punctuated with a classic Lerner and Loewe musical score, including “They Call the Wind Maria” and “I Talk to the Trees.” The story of a gold mining boomtown full of brawny men centres on the work-and-play partnership of Ben and Pardner (Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood) and the delicate wife they share (Jean Seberg).
9) Maverick
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens. While providing fresh perspectives on landmarks such as Stagecoach, Red River, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Wild Bunch, the authors also pay tribute to many under-appreciated Westerns. Ride, Boldly Ride explores major...
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Old West, a family of renegades controls the only water source in a Mexican border town ravaged by severe drought. However, when a stranger arrives to reclaim his father's land, a violent confrontation changes all of their lives forever.
13) Silverado
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail and learn who their real friends are. Includes featurette.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest films of all time by the American Film Institute, is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes awry, the gang flees to Mexico and falls in with a brutal general of the Mexican Revolution, who offers them the job of a lifetime. Conceived by a stuntman, directed by a blacklisted director, and shot in the sand and heat of the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spectacular gun battles and epic heroes make "THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN" a legend among westerns. When Calvera (Eli Wallach) and his band of outlaws terrorize a poor Mexican village, the locals hire Chris Adams (Yul Brynner) and six other gunfighters to defend them. With time running out before Calvera's next raid, the heroic seven must prepare the villagers for battle and help them find the courage to take back their town...or die trying! James Coburn,...
16) The salvation
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he lays waste to the scoundrels who killed his wife and son, a Danish ex-soldier incurs the wrath of a sadistic gang leader hell-bent on hunting him down.
17) Go West
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
18) Painted Woman
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A saloon girl entangled in the Western underworld is presented with two chances of escape when she befriends a hired assassin and a wayward horse trainer with a dark past, but not without a fight first.
20) Hickok
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In hopes of escaping his past as gunslinger and outlaw, “Wild Bill” Hickok has drifted to Abilene, Kansas to start a new life as town marshal. His efforts are challenged when saloon owner Poe attempts to destroy him and the town he calls home.