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The Americano

William Castle · Olive Films
Format: DVD

A Texas cowboy herds bulls through the Brazilian jungle to a buyer in a range war with a cattle baron.
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Apache Ambush

Bill Williams · SPE
Format: DVD

A former Confederate soldier and a Union officer are brought together to lead a herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas, fighting Apaches and Mexican bandits along the way.
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Bad Man's River

Lee Van Cleef · Kino Lorber
Format: DVD

Newly Remastered in HD! The con is on! During the volatile Mexican Revolution, Roy King (Lee Van Cleef, Sabata, Barquero) and team of bandits gets drawn into a scheme with two other criminals, Francisco Paco Montero (James Mason, The Destructors) and the lovely Alicia (Gina Lollobrigida,...
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Broken Arrow (1950)

James Stewart · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

A frontiersman seeks a truce with Apache leader Cochise and marries an Indian. Directed by Delmer Daves.
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Broken lance

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

Broken Lance is a noble entry in the trend of adult Westerns of the early 1950s, scoring on a couple of fronts: (1) as a multigenerational saga, with Shakespearian overtones, of a family bickering over a giant ranch, and (2) as a grown-up look at the dilemma of the Native American......
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Buck and the Preacher

Joel Glickman · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Widely regarded at the time of its release as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a social conscience, BUCK AND THE PREACHER is an immensely satisfying Western which marked Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, as well as his first screen pairing with superstar Harry Belafonte. Poitier...
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Cannon For Cordoba

Bill Fennelly · Kino Classics
Format: DVD

A rousing, action-filled historical adventure! During the 1912 Mexican Revolution, Capt. Rod Douglas (George Peppard, Operation Crossbow) leads a small group of misfits into Mexican territory to destroy six cannons before rebel leader Hector Cordoba (Raf Vallone, The Secret Invasion)...
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Captain Apache 1971

Alexander Singer · Kino Lorber
Format: DVD

Newly Remastered in HD! The Wild West was Murder! Spaghetti Western legend, Lee Van Cleef (Bad Man s River, Sabata) stars in this western as Captain Apache, a Native American US Army officer on a secret mission. Van Cleef investigates the murder of an Indian Agent whose dying words April...
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Cat Ballou

Jane Fonda · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

The sleeper hit of 1965, CAT BALLOU was declared an instant classic when its sly blend of Western parody and rapid-fire action hit the screen. Lee Marvin won an Oscar(r) for Best Actor in his dual role as both Tim Strawn, a noseless ("it got bit off in a fight") gunslinger,...
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The Comancheros

John Wayne · FoxVideo

Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros will prove something of a disappointment on DVD, at least for those of us who owned or have seen the laserdisc of the movie. The latter, also produced by Fox, contained a very enjoyable and rewarding commentary track by movie co-star Stuart Whitman that...
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Day of the outlaw

Burt Lancaster · Shout! Factory / Timeless Media
Format: DVD

In the forsaken town of Bitters, Wyoming, tensions between homesteaders and cattlemen are high. When a conflict erupts between a farmer and ruthless rancher Blaise Starrett (Ryan) , it appears that the icy relations in snow-covered Bitters are in danger of heating to a boil. But as a gang...
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Death of a Gunfighter

Richard Widmark · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

This product is expected to play back in DVD Video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.
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Decision At Sundown

Charles Lang · SPE
Format: DVD

This product is expected to play back in DVD Video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.
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Doc

Kiara Muhammad · Shout! Factory / Timeless Media
Format: DVD

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral has been the subject of many cinematic adaptations, but never anything quite like Doc. Exploring a darker side of gunslinger Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach, The Long Riders) , Marshal Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin) , and Katie Elder (Faye Dunaway, Bonnie &...
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El Dorado

James Caan · Paramount
Format: DVD

A gunfighter comes to the aid of a cattle baron, but switches sides when he meets up with his old friend, the alcoholic sheriff. Includes commentary, featurettes, galleries, original theatrical trailer, and eight-page booklet.
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Five Card Stud

· Paramount
Format: DVD

Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum play deadly adversaries in this curious mixture of the western and mystery genres. During a poker game in Rincon, Colorado, a stranger in the game is lynched for cheating. One of the gamblers, Van Morgan (Dean Martin) , tries to prevent the lynching but is rebuffed...
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Goin' South

· Paramount
Format: DVD

Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch,...
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Good Day for a Hanging

Maurice Zimm · IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Format: DVD

Six men think they saw Eddie "The Kid" Campbell (Robert Vaughn, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) shoot down Marshal Cain in cold blood. But only respected lawman Ben Cutler (Fred MacMurray, The Caine Mutiny) would swear to it in court. For Ben was determined to see The Kid hang...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

John Sturges · Paramount
Format: DVD

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Guns of the Timberland

Joseph Petracca · Warner Archive Collection
Format: DVD

Jim Hadley has a government grant to cut timber near the high-country town of Deep Well, and that's what he and his callous lumbermen insist they'll do. But the townspeople, knowing the ruinous watershed destruction that follows such clear-cutting, resist Hadley setting in motion a clash...
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Hang 'Em High

Clint Eastwood · Mgm (Video & DVD)
Format: DVD

After starring in the now-legendary trilogy of spaghetti Westerns for Italian director Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood became a box-office star and imported the style of those classic shoot-'em-ups for this 1967 Western directed by Ted Post, with whom Eastwood had worked during their days...
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Hanging For Django

Sergio Garrone · Kino Lorber films
Format: DVD

In this classic spaghetti western from Sergio Garrone (Django the Bastard, Three Crosses Not To Die) making its home video debut, an evangelical bounty hunter teams up with another to bring an outlaw gang that has been sneaking illegal immigrants over the border to sell as slaves to justice....
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Hombre

Irving Ravetch; Harriet Frank; Martin Ritt; Paul Newman; Fredric March; All authors · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

An Apache-raised white man rises as the leader of stagecoach passengers stopped by outlaws. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Invitation to a Gunfighter

Yul Brynner · Kino Lorber
Format: DVD

Who will be the last man standing? Screen legend Yul Brynner (Taras Bulba) turns in a great performance as a smooth master gunfighter who must do battle with his most formidable adversary - his own conscience - in this gripping, double-barreled western full of blistering shootouts, surprise...
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Lonely are the Brave (Universal Backlot Series)

Kirk Douglas · Universal Studios
Format: DVD

Academy Award winner Kirk Douglas ignites the screen with one of his most personal roles as a cowboy on a collision course with the modern world in Lonely are the Brave. After landing himself in jail trying to break out his friend, Jack Burns (Douglas) finds himself alone and on the run from...
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My Name Is Nobody

Tonino Valerii · Image Entertainment
Format: DVD

My Name is Nobody is a spoof of spaghetti Westerns, but it's also a legitimate, highly regarded entry in the genre. Its pedigree is purebred, as it was executive produced by the maestro of spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone, as a personal farewell to the genre that he helped to create. It's...
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The naked spur

Sam H Rolfe; Harold Jack Bloom; William C Mellor; William H Wright; Anthony Mann; All authors · Warner Home Video
Format: DVD video

The powerhouse combination of star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann score another cinematic bullseye in The Naked Spur. Stewart plays a taciturn frontiersman who loses his home while he's off fighting the Civil War. To raise enough money for a new grubstake, Stewart becomes a bounty...
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Rio Grande

John Wayne · Olive Films
Format: DVD

A cavalry colonel's Southern wife and soldier son join him at a fort out west.
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River of no return

Otto Preminger; Frank E Fenton; Louis Lantz; Stanley Rubin; Joseph La Shelle; All authors · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

A farmer and his son raft Rockies rapids with a gold-rush gambler's girlfriend. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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John Wayne: The Searchers

Frank S Nugent · WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD

John Wayne stars with his son Patrick Wayne, Ward Bond and Natalie Wood in this classic Western about a Civil War veteran from Texas who will stop at nothing to find the men who murdered his family.
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The Shootist

Don Siegel · Paramount
Format: DVD

About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne) , "You have a cancer. " Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty. "...
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Silverado

Scott Glenn · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone--sometimes rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowpokes converge on a little...
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Support Your Local Sheriff

James Garner · Kino Lorber
Format: DVD

Mastered in HD! Armed with a wry sense of humor and a straight-shooting sidearm, James Garner (Duel at Diablo) fights for peace, justice and fun in this outrageous, irreverent and very funny farce co-starring Joan Hackett (Will Penny) , Walter Brennan (Rio Bravo) , Harry Morgan...
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Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970)

Clint Eastwood · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Clint Eastwood is a hard-hitting high plains drifter who rides into town and single-handedly rescues a local nun (Shirley MacLaine) from a gang of attackers. After meeting a band of Mexican revolutionaries bent on resisting the French occupation of Mexico, the cowboy and Sister Sara...
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