| Descriptive Video Catalog: Westerns |
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- Abilene Town
- DVX 375
A town marshal is caught in a clash between the cattlemen, who have been the town's mainstay, and the homesteaders, who aim to be the town's future. Randolph Scott, Lloyd Bridges, Edgar Buchanan and Rhonda Fleming star in this well made western.
Angel and the Badman
Dvx 314
When a wounded desperado is taken in by a a Quaker family, their daughter falls in love with him and begs him to retire from gun fighting and marry her. But can he escape his past? Stars John Wayne and Gail Russell.
Bad Man's River
DVX 376
Lee Van Cleef, Gina Lollabrigida and James Mason steam up Bad Man's River through hold-ups, shootouts and a revolution. With lots of laughs and a million dollars on the way.
Bells of San Angelo
DVX 315
Texas border ranger Roy Rogers takes on a gang of smugglers with the able assistance of Dale Evans, Andy Devine, and "Trigger." Lots of fistfights, shootouts, and toe-tapping tunes. Great Fun on the range.
Big Bear
DVX 316
Two-part epic story of Chief Big Bear is told through the eyes of the Cree Indians. In part 1, life as the Indians know it is about to change as the Canadian government expands westward. In part 2, famine and harsh treatment weakens Big Bear´s influence over the warriors, as violence threatens to destroy his vision of a peaceful settlement with the government.
The Big Trees
DVX 378
In the early 1900s, homesteading Quakers are pitted against a maverick lumber baron (Kirk Douglas) who seeks easy money in California's giant redwoods. This action-packed western builds to a spectacular climax.
Blue Steel/The Dawn Rider
DVX 381
A double bill of early John Wayne westerns. In the first, the young star has to track down a notorious thief and stop a gang of outlaws from terrorizing a small town. In the second, he trains his sights on the ruthless bandit who killed his father during a bloody robbery. Fisticuffs, fast guns and deadly, dramatic showdowns.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- DVX 6
A blend of adventure, romance and comedy that recounts the true story of the West´s most likable outlaws. Two bungling bank and train robbers tire from running from the law and set out to Bolivia, only to find that not speaking the language is the least of their troubles. Stars Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross.
Rated PG
Chino
DVX 319
Chino ekes out a spartan but satisfying existence raising horses. When he makes the mistake of falling in love with the sister of the local land baron, he gets bullwhipped and wants revenge. With Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland.
- El Dorado
- DVX 77
John Wayne and Robert Mitchum play the gunfighter and the sheriff who join forces to clean up a dirty town.
Four Rode Out
DVX 384
A U.S. marshal (Pernell Roberts) tracks a bank robber and a small fortune in greenbacks into the desert. Along the way he has to cope with a Pinkerton detective (Leslie Nielson) and the bank robbers girlfriend (Sue Lyon) both of whom have their own agendas.
The Guns of Diablo
DVX 324
A wagon master takes a young boy into Diablo for supplies and meets the love of his life. When they´re drawn to each other, the girls jealous husband plots revenge. Stars Charles Bronson, Susan Oliver, and Kurt Russell as a young Jaime McPheeters.
Lonesome Dove
DVX 391
In 1876 legendary Texas Rangers Gus McRae (Robert Duvall) and Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) decide to drive a herd of cows north, aiming to become the first cattlemen in Montana. Along the way they battle horse thieves, Indian warriors, a ruthless half-breed renegade and their own hearts un this epic adventure based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling novel. In four volumes.
The Man Called Noon
DVX 394
In this stylish western based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, a gunfighter (Richard Crenna), who loses his memory when he's shot in a ambush, sets out to discover his identity and why parties unknown want him dead-as they demonstrate in one dusty frontier town after another. With Stephen Boyd and Farley Granger.
McClintock
DVX 334
John Wayne and Maureen O´Hara strike sparks in this epic western version of "The Taming of the Shrew." Packed with action, humor, romance, and grand fights, it features a superb supporting cast including Chill Wills, Yvonne De Carlo and Edgar Buchanan.
- Mohawk
- DVX 271
A peace-loving federal agent (Scott Brady) and an Indian woman (Rita Gam) work together to prevent a range war, only to fall in love and face rejection from both their peoples.
Navajo Joe
DVX 418
When a gang of murderous marauders terrorizes a small western town, a young Indian warrior with his own reasons wreaks vengeance of the evildoers. Burt Reynolds stars in this tale of revenge. Some violence. No Rating.
One-Eyed Jacks
DVX 335
Young Rio and Dad Longstreet are best friends and partners-in-crime in old Mexico until one abandons the other to save his own skin. Five years later they meet again. Marlon Brando and Karl Malden star.
The Outlaw
DVX 443
Jane Russell stars as a beautiful young woman who finds herself falling in love with Billy the Kid (Jack Beutel), a notorious outlaw who has stolen Doc Holliday’s (Walter Huston) horse. A series of adventures involving Indians and gunfights ensues, all culminating in a fierce showdown. Rated G
Santa Fe Trail
DVX 339
Posted to Ft. Levenworth in the Kansas Territory, West Point graduates Jeb Stuart and George Custer are embroiled in the strife started by abolitionist John Brown in this action-filled historical western. Stars Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, Olivia De Havilland and Van Heflin.
- Shane
- DVX 274
Western saga with Alan Ladd as a former gunfighter who defends homesteaders and is idolized by a young boy. Two-fisted action and a tearful finale mark this George Stevens classic. Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance and Jean Arthur costar.
Stagecoach
DVX 400
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft, Andy Devine and John Carradine star in this classic Oscar-winning western from director John Ford about a group of travelers forced to journey through Apache territory. Great performances and a stirring musical score.
The Sundowners
DVX 420
A wonderful story about a small family's struggles in Australia in the 1920s. Robert Mitchu and Deborah Kerr are superb as a couple at odds but deeply in love. With Peter Ustinov and Glynnis Johns. No Rating.
They Call Me Trinity
DVX 449
Trinity is a lazy, shiftless gunfighter who would have been killed long ago if not for his blinding fast draw. He saunters into a town and discovers that his brother has somehow become the sheriff. But the two brothers find an opportunity to redeem themselves by helping a group of Mormons fight off an evil tycoon intent on taking their land. Stars Terence Hill and Farley Granger. Rated G
True Grit
DVX 78
John Wayne stars as the drunken, uncouth U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in this extraordinary western.
Rated G
- Tulsa
- DVX 278
Susan Hayward is Cherokee Lansing, an Oklahoma cattleman´s daughter out for revenge against the oil company she blames for her father´s death. She starts her own wildcat oil business, but as the black gold pours in, she becomes lost in the rush for money and power. With Robert Preston.
- Unforgiven
- DVX 202
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Winner of four 1992 Academy Awards.
Rated R
- Vengeance Valley
- DVX 279
Offbeat sagebrusher in which Burt Lancaster becomes embroiled in a nasty feud with bad boy half-brother Robert Walker when he´s accused of fathering an illegitimate child. Hoping to control Lancaster´s stake in the family ranch, Walker joins forces with the woman´s brothers to track down his sibling.
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