Wyatt Earp

(12)

Lawrence Kasdan's sprawling Western epic chronicling the life of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner). From Wichita and Dodge City to the OK Corral and Dodge City, this is a thrilling journey of romance, adventure and desperate heroic action.

Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby, Jeff Fahey, Joanna Going, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Bill Pullman, JoBeth Williams.

Extraordinary movie, well worth watching, truly excelent. A cinematography delight in every respect. Doc Holliday is the best in this movie with his wonderful quirky humour and his enigmatic screen presence, nearly out-shining Mr Earp himself.

High Noon

(U)

The story of a man who was too proud to run.

On the day Lawman Will Kane trades in his tin star for his beautiful bride, news arrives that a killer he helped send to jail is returning on the noon train to seek revenge. At the behest of his friends and concerned for his new bride's safety, they quickly leave town to avoid a confrontation. But Cooper realises they'll never run far enough away, and heads back to town to face the killer.

But when Kane tries to drum up support, one by one the townspeople he had protected turn their backs on him... until Kane stands alone to face four killers on the deserted streets of town in one of the most famous showdowns ever!

Garry Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Otto Kruger.

This movie is well worth the watching - the build up of suspense from the beginning until the climax make it a bit of a nail-biter really. Also a movie with nothing in it which might make it unsuitable for kids enjoyment. To my mind the most enjoyable of westerns involve a good mix of suspense and action - this one has it all.

The Searchers

(PG)

With The Searchers, John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it.

Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made.

This movie is one of the greatest westerns ever made, I have seen this movie many times and still marvel at it. If any of you have not seen this movie then just go and watch it you will not be disappointed.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

(PG)

Dutiful cavalry officer Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) is reluctant to retire in the face of an imminent Native American uprising. His last official task is to escort the commander's wife and her niece to the Sudrow's Wells stagecoach stop, but it proves to be a journey fraught with danger.

This film, the second in John Ford's cavalry trilogy, is a masterpiece of the cinema and is acclaimed as one of the greatest Westerns ever made.

I've seen this movie many times. It's beautifully shot and the story around Wayne's character holds together believably and well. Its a real classic of its time.

Paint Your Wagon

(PG)

Set in No Name City, California during the gold rush, this musical comedy concerns prospectors Ben and Pardner and their unusual nuclear family. The business partners strike a deal to share Ben's wife Elizabeth, whom Ben purchased from a Mormon. But the free-thinking Ben is worried about rivalry over Elizabeth from the town's all-male population, hungry for female company. So he arranges to kidnap a stagecoach full of working girls on their way to a nearby city, and sets up a brothel in No Name.

Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Tom Ligon, Alan Dexter.

I was only a teenager when I first watched this with my dad what a fantastic movie that is a must for any serious collector or lover of outrageous humour. I would highly recommend you watch this movie if you haven't seen it yet!!!

How The West Was Won

(PG)

With courage, sinew and conflict: that's how the West was won. With three directors, five interlocked stories, some of the most legendary action scenes in movie history and a constellation of acting talent: that's how How The West Was Won was filmed. Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big-event saga following a dauntless family's move West through generations - underscored by the spectacles of a heart-pounding raging river ride, a thunderous buffalo stampede and a bracing runaway train shootout. The winner of three Academy Awards, How The West Was Won was also a box-office winner.

This movie takes you on a great journey right through the wild west, its a western classic, it took 3 great directors each doing a different stage of the evolution of the west and its all woven into a most beautiful movie that will leave you with a long lasting impression . This is a major league western in every way.

The Big Country

(PG)

The Big Country is big entertainment, a magnificent Western spectacle of rival Texas cattle barons clashing violently over the water rights of the Big Muddy ranch. Gregory Peck stars as Jim McKay, a sea captain who trades the expanse of the oceans for the open range of the West and grows to regret his choice. Charlton Heston is the menacing Steve Leech, a rugged ranch foreman who loves the land and has a keen eye on McKay's beautiful fiancée...

Includes an Oscar winning performance from Burl Ives.

The Big Country is a wonderful movie starring a host of major stars. Gregory Peck gives a wonderful performance as an outsider coming to the West who doesn't quite fit in. It is an epic movie but well worth watching. All in all in a very good movie.

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

(12)

The Sundance Kid is the fastest gun in the West, his sidekick Butch is a dreamer, always planning that bigger, better bank raid. But things are getting tougher and soon the accident-prone anti-heroes decide it's time to head south and disappear into legend.

Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Screenplay for William Goldman and Best Song ('Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head') and Best Score for Burt Bacharach.

Paul Newman and Robert Redford have never been better. A great story, laughs and tears and one of the best endings in the movies. Go get it now!!

The Magnificent Seven

(PG)

Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village, pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic 'Seven Samurai'.

Released in 1960, John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and James Coburn.

It's a feel good western. A band of gunfighting, whiskey swigging mercenaries are recruited to protect a small village from rampaging Mexican bandits.

Unforgiven

(15)

Unforgiven is an exciting modern classic that rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired, down-on-their-luck 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: Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper, a colourful killer-for -hire called English Bob. Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of Law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey...

This movie was very good, an old fashioned western with brilliant actors included. If you haven't yet seen it your missing out on a good movie.

The Return Of A Man Called Horse

(18)

In the sequel to A Man Called Horse, English nobleman Lord John Morgan (Richard Harris) returns to America to get reacquainted with his adopted Sioux tribe, who are at war with the US government over their sacred land. As the situation reaches breaking point, can he persuade them to take direct action against their oppressors?

This it is an excellent movie a great sequel to A Man Called Horse.

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A Man Called Horse

(15)

In 1825, John Morgan (Richard Harris), an English aristocrat, is captured by a tribe of Sioux Indians. Hoping to save his own life by proving his worth, Morgan undergoes the long, painful Sun Vow ritual.

It is one of the rare movies about American Indians that is not at all concerned by their extermination by Custer and company. But it is in fact a lot deeper than that. It shows from inside the functioning, the culture, the rites and rituals of Sioux Indians when a white English Lord is captured and turned into a slave for some time.

Little Big Man

(15)

Satirical look at the American West as the 121-year-old Jack Crabb reminisces with a historian about his life and the history he witnessed. According to Crabb's somewhat fanciful tales, he was raised by the Cheyenne from the age of 10 only to be seized by the whites at age 15, followed by a string of failed attempts to find a place for himself in the world. These attempts would bring Jack into contact with (among many others) Wild Bill Hickok, the U. S. Cavalry, a former preacher's wife turned prostitute, his own spunky sister-frontierswoman, and General George Armstrong Custer during the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, Martin Balsam.

This is great movie, good entertainment, and worth watching repeatedly every so often. It is a favourites of our family and we recommend it as good movies.

Jeremiah Johnson

(PG)

Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him. Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly.

This is really a great movie. Slow and easy but with enough tension to keep you on your toes. All the characters are wonderful and the scenery is just fantastic. Redford's best movie and he has many good ones, but this one shines. Should be in anybody's collection, it doesn't disappoint.

Broken Trail

(15)

Set in 1898, Print Ritter (Robert Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls (introducing Caroline Chan, Olivia Cheng, Jadyn Wong, Valerie Tian, and Gwendoline Yeo). Ritter and Harte's attempts to care for the girls are complicated by their responsibility to deliver a herd of horses while avoiding a group of bitter rivals intent on kidnapping the girls for their own purposes.

Watched this movie last night (04/08/2009) it was really good, if you like westerns then you will love this movie!!!

El Dorado

(PG)

Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams with two equally legendary stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, in this classic Western drama. Mitchum plays to perfection an alchoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked "businessmen." The Duke gives an equally adept performance as the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight. Filled with brawling action and humor, El Dorado delivers the goods. James Caan and Ed Asner co-star.

This is an extremely enjoyable and funny movie - hilarious in parts - with some great one liners and a couple of running jokes involving Caan. All the main characters spark well off each other...Wayne, Mitchum, Hunnicut and Caan are all on excellent form with Mitchum in particular, looking as if he was made for the part. Works for me every time....great fun!

Red River

(U)

John Wayne is Tom Dunson, a cattle baron who built his ranch with hard work and a determination to kill any man who would dare try to take his land. But when plummeting livestock values endanger his beloved ranch, Tom and his adopted son set out to get a fair price for their cattle by driving them through the treacherous Chisholm Trail from Texas to Kansas. Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan.

Battling Indians, stampedes and dissention among the ranch hands, Tom proves that he'll stop at nothing to reach his destination. He'll risk danger, hardship, betrayal and perhaps even his own sanity...

A true, unforgettable classic. Full of Indian attacks, shootouts and classic movie moments, Red River is a hard-hitting, action-packed adventure that leads to an unbearably tense final showdown.

The Alamo

(PG)

John Wayne produces, directs and stars in this larger than life chronicle of one of the most remarkable events in American history. At the Alamo - a crumbling adobe mission - 185 exceptional men joined together in a sacred pact: they would stand firm against an army of 7,000 and willingly give their lives for freedom.

Filmed entirely in Texas only a few miles from the site of the actual battle, The Alamo, is a visually stunning and historically accurate celebration of courage and honour.

Co-starring Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey and Chill Wills, and garnering seven Oscar nominations, it is a truly memorable movie spectacle.

Use to watch all the John Wayne movies with my dad when I was younger this is one of my favourites. A really great western

Stagecoach

(U)

One of the all time classic Westerns - considered by many to be the movie that propelled John Wayne, Claire Trevor to stardom back in 1939.

The film is set against the impressive backdrop of Monument Valley in Utah and tells the story of a mixed group of travellers who are making their way across country to Arizona. They are endangered by an Indian War Party, and this along with their various characters results in difficulties for the party...

One of the great Westerns. This is such an important movie, featuring one of cinema's most popular stars, that it deserves a proper restoration. Watch the astonishing Warner special editions of Casablanca and The Adventures Of Robin Hood to see what can be done with movies from this era.

Fort Apache

(PG)

The first of John Ford's trilogy of Cavalry Movies set during America's struggle against the Apache Indian.

Henry Fonda plays the stubborn Colonel Thursday whose Textbook methods of warfare appear as pure as suicide to everyone but him. John Wayne stars as Captain York, a soldier experienced in Apache warfare, from whom Thursday will take no advice.

The film builds to the inevitable confrontation with the Apache masses, and Thursday leads his men into the Lion's Den. Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), Lt. Col. Own Thursday (Henry Fonda).

Great story, escapist viewing, nostalgia for a lost youth.
They just don't make movies like this now.
I cannot recommend it enough.