 | 3:10 to Yuma
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.65 ***** - Terrific psychological western from 1957 that has humble rancher Van Heflin attempting to get smooth and dangerous outlaw Glenn Ford on the train to justice. Superior entertainment.
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 | The Apple Dumpling Gang (Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.54 **** - Family-entertainment that an adult can sit through without squirming. Conway and Knotts make a good comedy team.
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 | Bend Of The River
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.95 ***** - Jimmy Stewart plays ex-outlaw trying to reform and help wagon train of settlers find a new life in Oregon. Typically strong Stewart/Anthony Mann collaboration.
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 | Blazing Across the Pecos
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.00 * - If this is representative of the series I understand why we've forgotten about the Durango Kid.
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 | The Bravados
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.94 *** - Gregory Peck stars in this okay tale of revenge. Shoulda been, coulda been a lot better.
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 | Buffalo Bill
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.25 **** - Joel McCrea is good as the title character in William Wellman's reinvention of famous scout and showman.
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 | Copper Canyon
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.08 *** - Odd casting of Ray Milland and Hedy Lamarr bring interest to otherwise so-so story of copper miners being squeezed out by the Big Boys.
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 | The Cowboys
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $2.05 *** - John Wayne and young cow-herders meet weird bad-guy Bruce Dern on trail. Interesting late-career Wayne vehicle loses its way in the third act.
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 | The Deadly Companions
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $1.98 **** - Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith star in Sam Peckinpah's first feature film. After accidentally shooting her son, Keith accompanies the bitter O'Hara across hostile territory for the funeral.
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 | Death Hunt
Buy used from: $44.39 ** - It's Mountie (Lee Marvin) versus trapper (Charles Bronson) in this tired man-hunt movie. Both stars have done much better.
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 | Four of the Apocalypse
Buy used from: $7.81 **** - Episodic spaghetti western works more often than not thanks to strong cast, beautiful locations, and Bret Harte.
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 | Frank and Jesse
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.55 ** - Bill Paxton and Rob Lowe play the James brothers in this one, the umpteenth remake of their story. In a word - improbable. In two words - improbable claptrap.
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 | Good Day for a Hanging
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.75 **** - Fred MacMurray slings the guns in this story of a town marshal who does the right thing.
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 | Have Gun Will Travel - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $24.99 ***** - Complete first season of the best western in television history. Will make a Richard Boone fan out of anybody.
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 | Heaven's Gate
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.25 * - One movie that IS as bad as its reputation. Slow, plodding, and more than a mite confusing.
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 | Hunt the Man Down
Buy used from: $13.28 * - Awful comedy-spaghetti western starring an unfunny Lee van Cleef and an embarrassed James Mason.
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 | Jeremiah Johnson
Buy used from: $150.13 ***** -Classic action-adventure story with beautiful locations, photography, and a buffalo robe full of colorful characters. Robert Redford plays the most laid back mountain man in Hollywood history.
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 | Last of the Dogmen
Buy used from: $37.99 *** - Entertaining movie asks interesting question - What would happen if a band of Cheyenne remained hidden from modern civilization for the last hundred-plus years?
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 | The Mountain Men
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $3.39 *** - Charlton Heston steals Indian woman and Brian Keith steals the show in this undemanding story of beaver trappers in the untamed west.
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 | Ned Blessing: Return to Plum Creek
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.00 **** - 1993 tv-movie starring series cast. Outlaw Blessing returns to Texas hometown searching for father. Kind of corny, but well done nonetheless.
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 | Rancho Deluxe
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.94 *** - Slow moving and dated 1975 comedy-western stars young Jeff Bridges & Sam Waterston as modern day cattle rustlers. Humor is not to all tastes, but movie is salvaged by good cast.
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 | The Ride Back
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.49 **** - Antony Quinn is the fleeing killer and William Conrad the lawman bringing him back to face trial in this entertaining entry from 1957.
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 | Terror in a Texas Town
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.84 **** - Sterling Hayden plays a Swedish fisherman hunting his father's killer while trying to hold onto the homestead in this quirky western. Stick around for outrageous final scene.
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 | The Unforgiven
Buy used from: $3.67 ***John Huston's story of racial intolerance in post-Civil War Texas features fine cast (Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, Lillian Gish, etc.) - but losses steam and kind of falls apart in the last act.
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 | Wild Horses: There's No Place Left to Run!
Buy used from: $6.97 ***** - Unpretentious 1983 New Zealand movie about displaced sawmill workers finding a second career as horse catchers is a quiet gem.
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