 | Broken Lance
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.97 **** - Broken Arrow meets King Lear in Edward Dmytryk's entertaining western. Spencer Tracy and Richard Widmark are particularly good.
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 | Cockfighter
Buy used from: $19.99 **** - Warren Oates nails it in this low-budget, sometimes brutal, character study from the early 70s.
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 | Cody! - An Evening With Buffalo Bill
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.27 *** - One-man show presentation of the life and times of the creator of the Wild West Show. Interesting, if a little static.
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 | Custer of the West
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.95 ** - Less-than-grand review of the Son of the Morning Star. Beware full screen only copies.
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 | Dark Command
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.23 ***** - Raoul Walsh directs a young John Wayne in this action packed and entaining look at the William Quantrill legend.
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 | Drums Along the Mohawk
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $6.49 ***** - John Ford's classic story of Revolutionary War-era frontier conflict looks great in restored Technicolor print.
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 | Five Bloody Graves
Buy used from: $6.99 ** - Cheap drive-in western from the early '70s doesn't have much going for it besides pretty scenery and some recognizable faces.
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 | Great Wacky Western Comedies (The Wackiest Wagon Train In The West / Fair Play / The Terror Of Tiny Town)
Buy used from: $17.74 ** - Four stars for Terror of Tiny Town, the other two are simply bad made-for-tv movies from the '70s.
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 | In Old Arizona
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.42 **** - Good early-talkie western features Warner Baxter in his Oscar-winning role as the Cisco Kid.
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 | Johnson County War
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.51 *** - Overlong and overblown ranch war western stars Tom Berenger as the little rancher taking on the big guys. Covers the same territory Heaven's Gate did with better success.
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 | TV Classic Westerns: Legends of the Old West
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $8.93 *** - Pretty complete set of episodes from Jim Davis's (Jock Ewing of 'Dallas') 1954 TV series 'Stories of the Century'. Undemanding entertainment that trends towards sameness.
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 | A Man Called Sledge
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.39 *** - James Garner is great but his performance is undermined by this muddled tale of robbery and greed. Needed at least one more re-write.
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 | Ned Blessing: Dead Man's Revenge
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.57 **** - Two episodes of the short-lived 1993 CBS are great fun. Good characters, acting, and lively plot make this one worth checking out.
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 | Paint Your Wagon
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.99 ***** - Much too long western musical that rambles muddily all over the place and contains maybe one - Maria - memorable song. One of my favorite movies. Go figure.
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 | Painted Desert/Clark Gable on Film
Buy used from: $4.99 * - Dreadful early talkie (1931) with William Boyd and Clark Gable (in his first talking movie.)
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 | The Scalphunters
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.89 **** - Fun Sydney Pollock comedy-western from 1968 features an energetic Burt Lancaster and an erudite Ossie Davis.
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 | Shalako
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.59 ** - Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot fail to strike sparks in this lame adaptation of a Louis l'Amour novel.
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 | Texas
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.88 **** - Amiable and inconsequential 1941 showcase for then young and untested Glenn Ford and William Holden. Strong cast also includes Claire Trevor and Edgar Buchanan.
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 | To Build a Fire
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.00 *** - Just okay television adaptation of classic Jack London short story. Orson Welles provides the vital narration.
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 | The Tracker
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.76 **** - (Mostly) good guy Kris Kristofferson tracks bad guy Scott Wilson in this well-done, 1988 HBO move.
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 | El Tres de Copas (The Card of Luck Love and Death)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.09 **** - Two mercenaries and a mysterious, beautiful woman combine for an oddly entertaining New Wave Mexican movie.
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 | Vera Cruz
Buy used from: $13.99 *** - Okay teaming of Burt Lancaster & Gary Cooper as two soldiers of fortune chasing gold south of the border.
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 | Warlock
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.61 ***** - Brilliant western about a small town hiring a pair of gunslinging vigilantes (Hank Fonda & Anthony Quinn) to bring peace to their troubled town.
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 | Winchester '73
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.89 ***** - First teaming of director Anthony Mann with Jimmy Stewart results in a classic western tale of revenge. Essential viewing for western film fans.
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 | Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold
Buy used from: $34.75 ** - Flat and cheesy Indiana Jones rip-off has platinum blonde Apache beauty searching for a hidden cache of gold.
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