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Collection of western films and feature-length TV episodes. In 'Cry Blood, Apache' (1970) five wandering prospectors discover gold at an Apache camp, and quickly despatch the resident Indians bar one woman (Marie Gahua), who they hope can lead them to more riches. A brave who was absent at the time of the killings returns to discover the massacre and quickly sets out to track the murderers down, meting out justice the Apache way. In 'Mohawk' (1956) Boston artist Jonathan Adams (Scott Brady) travels to Mohawk Valley to paint portraits of the Native Americans, and while there falls in love with the local Indian chief's daughter, Onida (Rita Gam). But when a resentful local landowner, Butler (John Hoyt), tries to instigate a war with the Indians, Adams is forced to step in to stop the bloodshed. In 'The Battle of Bloody Stones' (1967), an episode from the 'Cimarron Strip' TV series, John Wolf (Tom Nardini), the son of Indian Chief Ghost Wolf (Henry Wilcoxon), is killed as a result of a re-enactment show put on by Wildcat Gallagher (Gene Evans). It is up to Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman) to suppress the outbreak of war between the Indian tribe and Gallagher's posse. In 'Heller' (1968), another episode from 'Cimarron Strip', Marshal Crown is badly injured when chasing thief Logan Purcell (Morgan Woodward) and his fellow outlaws. When Heller (Tuesday Weld), a young woman with connections to Purcell's gang, helps Crown to recover, the two decide to run away to Cimarron but are chased by the crooks who are determined to punish Heller for her betrayal. In 'Sitting Bull' (1954), set in the lead-up to the Battle of Little Bighorn, Major Robert Parrish (Dale Robertson) is disgusted with the US Army's treatment of the Sioux Indians in the Black Hills of Dakota. Parrish attempts to make peace between the warring sides, but when he fails, a final brutal battle ensues. J. Carrol Naish co-stars in the title role. Finally, 'Kentucky Rifle' (1956) follows a group of travellers whose wagon breaks down in Comanche territory. Concealed in the travellers' wagon are Kentucky rifles, made for settlers to defend themselves against the natives. Aware these weapons are in the group's possession, the Comanche tribe deliver an ultimatum - if they do not hand over the rifles, they will not be allowed to pass safely through the Indians' land.
John Drew Barrymore stars in this low-budget western. A family on an isolated cattle ranch is unsettled by the mysterious appearance on the ranch of a teenage drifter (Barrymore). The mystery deepens as the locals connect him with two men thought to have died 15 years previously.
Another feature-length episode of the 1960s Western series set in the town of Cimarron. In this instalment, a ruthless prison convict arrives in Cimarron with more on his mind than just sweeping the floors at the Wayfarers Inn. Knowing that a prison train loaded with convicts will be passing through an abandoned ghost town outside Cimarron, he devises a plan to free his prison buddies.
Feature-length episode of the 1960s Western series set in the town of Cimarron. In this instalment, Marshal Crown (Stuart Whitman) finds himself looking at almost everyone in the town as a potential suspect after a string of Cimarron dance hall girls are found brutally murdered. Suspecting that the pattern of murders may be similar to that of the Jack the Ripper slayings in England, Crown must now do all he can to find the killer before he claims his next victim.
Episode 15 of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). After the Hardesty bank refuses to cash trail boss Joe Bravo (James Stacy)'s $500 cheque, he takes over the bank with the help of his men, discovering the $100,000 in the vault. Much to his men's dismay, Bravo refuses to steal the money and merely takes the $500 he came for. They then travel to Cimarron where they are immediately arrested by Crown. Realising it's his old pal Bravo (and with a full knowledge of his friend's wayward past) Crown sentences him to 90 days working as a Deputy in Hardesty in the hopes that he can turn him straight. However, when crooked Judge Samuel Gilroy (Leonard Stone) finds out, he releases Bravo's men in the hope that they will cause trouble for him. It is up to Bravo to now prove that he can be a man of the law and that Crown was right to believe in him.
Episode 14 of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). When some bandits bushwhack an army payroll wagon, one of their band, Bo (J D Cannon), is injured by a dynamite charge. Leaving him for dead, the rest escape with the money and Bo is arrested and jailed for several years. Desperate to get even, Bo kills a Texas deputy, steals his papers and arrives in Cimarron where he gets a job working for Crown who is unaware of his true identity. Now, with the law on his side, Bo starts hunting down each member of his former gang who are living the good life that should have been his. It's not long before Angus MacGregor (Percy Herbert) realises that there is something suspicious about the new deputy and Crown must put a stop to his ruthless killings before he gets even further out of control.
Episode ten of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). In this episode Deputy MacGregor (Percy Herbert) is in charge while Marshal Crown is out of town, but things don't run smoothly. After a prisoner, Luther Happ (Harry Dean Stanton), escapes from Cimarron jail, MacGregor pursues him and kills him, but ends up getting shot too. MacGregor is then arrested for the prisoner's murder as it comes to light that Happ was also a Deputy. Under the authority of dishonest Sheriff Hawkes (Clifton James), MacGregor is sentenced to be hanged, that is until he escapes from jail along with his cellmate who is chained to him. When Marshal Crown gets word of what has happened, he returns to try and find MacGregor before Sheriff Hawkes does.
Episode nine of the 1960s American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). In this episode the loyalty of the Cimarron townspeople towards their Marshal is put to the test. Dickie Vardeman (Bud George) has been arrested for murder, but his notorious criminal family are thought to be planning a rescue. Marshal Crown decides to send Dickie for trial in another town, but while trying to move him clashes with the Vardeman family. During the altercation Crown shoots and kills Dickie's brother and gets shot himself. The people of Cimarron initially rush to search for their missing Marshal but when a reward is put out on his head by Dickie's father, nobody is sure what Crown's fate will be.
Episode six of the 1960s American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). After capturing unsuccessful robber Whitey, Marshal Crown manages to find out where his gang are due to strike next, but when he turns up to catch them in the act they are nowhere to be seen. Having realised his gang had tricked him, Whitey escapes from Cimarron jail taking Dulcey as his hostage and only agreeing to return her if Crown captures and hangs his old gang leader, Tinker (Michael T Mikler).
Episode six of the 1960s American western series, following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). Trouble erupts in Cimarron after Wildcat Gallagher's Wild West Show arrives in town and puts on a re-enactment of The Battle of Bloody Stones, which depicts Indians being massacred by cavalry. The show upsets the local Indian population and when the son of the Indian Chief Ghost Wolf (Henry Wilcoxon) is killed, Marshal Crown must intervene before more people get hurt.
Episode eight of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). In this episode a drunk cavalry veteran burns down the Cimarron funeral parlour. The veteran, Sergeant Bill Disher (Richard Boone), is upset after the death of his friend and comrade, Little Tom, and believes his death came as a result of the growth and changes taking place in the West. When the people of Cimarron react angrily to what he has done, Crown is forced to deal with Disher.
Episode two of the 1960s American western series, 'Cimarron Strip', following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). When Cimarron is terrorised by notorious outlaw Jud Starr and his gang, Marshal Crown is faced with the task of trying to seek them out and restore law.
Episode three of the 1960s American western series, 'Cimarron Strip', following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). This episode sees Marshal Crown having to deal with the rising anger of the people of Cimarron after the local preacher is shot by the drunken son of a cattle rancher.
Episode four of the 1960s American western series, following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). Crown is sent to Cimarron Territory to keep law and order in the area after disputes between cattlemen and incoming settlers. He must also deal with the return of his old friend, Bear, and his gang, when their behaviour becomes out of hand in Cimarron.
Spaghetti western in which a banker (Edd Byrnes), a bandit (Gilbert Roland) and a bounty hunter (George Hilton), set out to track down the whereabouts of a cache of gold stolen from an army train.
In 1878, young William Bonney (Emilio Estevez) joins a group of farmhands protecting a ranch and becomes 'Billy The Kid'. He and his friends set out to avenge the murder of their employer (Terence Stamp), but their vendetta becomes a bloody rampage, and they are soon the objects of a manhunt. The young stars, including Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips and Charlie Sheen, were the 'bratpack' of the mid-80s.
The director's cut of the bloody, violent western from one of the masters of the genre, Sam Peckinpah. In 1913, a gang of outlaws (William Holden, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Ryan, amongst others) ride into a Texan border town where the railroad office is their target. The robbery turns into a blood-bath so the gang flee to a desert hideout where they discover that their loot is worthless. With the railroad company's hired guns snapping at their heels, they decide to escape to the apparent safety of the Mexican revolutionaries.
Western centering around the fiercesome weapon invented in 1860 which made a telling contribution to the taming of the 'Wild West'. When a renegade Indian chief causes trouble, the US cavalry arrives with its latest firerarm - the Gatling Gun - a weapon that in the wrong hands could change the face of the west.
In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) plagues the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale) - struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch and desperate for money - volunteers need to escort him to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial. During the journey the two men learn grudging mutual respect, but with Wade's cold-blooded gang in hot pursuit, the mission soon becomes a violent dangerous journey where honour and loyalty clash with far-reaching consequences.
1878 New Mexico: Billy the Kid and five young outcasts are hired by British cattleman John Tunstall in an attempt to educate them and prepare them for a life in the wild Nebraska territory. But when their boss is brutally murdered by a gang working for corrupt rival cattleman L.G. Murphy, all hell breaks out as they create chaos in an attempt to avenge the death of their friend and benefactor. The Young Guns are branded outlaws and become the object of the largest manhunt in frontier history, now riding against incredible odds.
Katie Elder bore four sons. The day she is buried they all return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. John Wayne is the eldest and toughest son, the gunslinger. Tom is good with a deck of cards and good with a gun when he has to be. Matt is the quiet one-nobody ever called him yellow...twice. Bud is the youngest. Any hope for respectability lies with him.
In 1880s Kansas, ageing gunslinger-turned-farmer William Munny reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement to help old friend Ned Logan collect the bounty on two wanted murderers. The cowboys in question cut up a prostitute in a lawless town in Wyoming lorded over by the corrupt Sheriff Daggett, and if Munny and Logan want to catch them they are going to have to deal with Daggett first. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hackman) and Best Film Editing.
Gavin O'Connor directs this action Western. Natalie Portman stars as Jane Hammond, gun-wielding wife of Bill 'Ham' Hammond (Noah Emmerich). When Ham is severely injured in a duel with the Bishop Boys, a band of thugs headed by the devious Colin (Ewan McGregor), the couple go on the run. With the gang hot on their heels, Jane turns to old flame Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) to help the pair stake out against the approaching mob, whose past with Jane goes deeper than is at first apparent.
Academy Award winner Costner plays the man who became a myth in an epic, action-filled saga directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan. Gene Hackman as Wyatt's iron-willed father and Dennis Quaid as Earp's deadly best friend, Doc Holliday, add power to this hard-hitting Western. From Wichita to Dodge City to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp is a thrilling journey of romance, adventure and mythic courage.
Classic Western starring John Wayne and James Stewart. Big-city lawyer Ransom (Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice. En route, he is met by a posse led by Valance, who beat him within an inch of his life. Passing cowboy Tom Doniphon (Wayne) rescues Ransom, gets him set up in Shinbone and supports his efforts to be elected sheriff. Meanwhile, he also attempts to teach his clumsy protegé the fundamentals of gunslinging, so that Valance may at last be brought to book. |
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