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Arizona 1879. Legendary Dodge City marshall Wyatt Earp his wife Mattie and his brothers Virgil and Morgan just rode into Tombstone. These veteran frontiersmen hope to open a small business and settle into a quiet life. But they get more than they bargained for: Tombstone is a lawless municipality inhabited by a bunch of carousing locals. To make matters worse the entire village is victimized by a gang of infamous outlaws. Wyatt Virgil and Morgan may be the only formidable force around to confront them head-on.

Fonda is agreeably peppery as a teacher in the Old West who wreaks vengeance on the men who murdered her father. Marvin enlists as a drunken old gunfighter trying to retain his old glory and also portrays his twin brother a rustler with a silver nose. A 60s-style genre spoof with enough action to keep it real. Marvin won an Academy Award for his two performances.

Fess Parker captured the hearts of millions with his strong, confident portrayal of the legendary king of the wild frontier. Climb aboard for two rip-roaring adventures with Davy Crockett (Fess Parker) and his trusty companion George (Buddy Ebsen) as they encounter dangerous rapids, treacherous river pirates, a tomahawk duel, and excitement at every turn.

In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western Little Bill Daggett Gene Hackman a sadistic dictatorial sheriff enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel one of whom has been slashed by a client the women hire Bill Munny Eastwood a reformed gunslinger to gain vengeance. However Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind. Eastwood's directorial masterpiece also stars Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris.

A pure western in which a lawmen tracks a criminal TRUE GRIT based on Charles Portis' novel reunited John Wayne with director Henry Hathaway THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER. Wayne is crotchety U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn who would rather stay home than chase criminals. He heeds the call though when fourteen year-old Mattie Ross Kim Darby calls on him to avenge her father's death at the hands of a man who has escaped into Indian territory. Glen Campbell is a Texas ranger who accompanies them for his own reasons. Wayne reprised the role six years later in ROOSTER COGBURN.

Morton Gabriele Ferzetti the power-hungry owner of a railroad company hires Frank Henry Fonda playing against type a gunfighter without a conscience to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain Frank Wolff McBain's widow Claudia Cardinale hires two killers of her own to protect her and gain revenge: a mysterious harmonica-playing desperado Charles Bronson and his rogue sidekick Jason Robards. Using techniques previously unseen in the genre Sergio Leone utilizes close-ups color and Ennio Morricone's trademark score to create a tense and somber meditation on death which is widely considered to be one of the best westerns in cinematic history. Soon-to-be legendary Italian directors Dario Argento SUSPIRIA and Bernardo Bertolucci THE LAST EMPEROR collaborated with Leone on the screenplay.

Starring Clint Eastwood as mercenary gunfighter Hogan TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA opens with its star saving a naked woman from being gang-raped. He's more than a little surprised when the attractive woman Sister Sara Shirley McLaine dons a habit. It seems she's deeply committed to a group of Mexican revolutionaries fighting against the French. Hogan agrees to escort her to the camp since he's interested in helping them attack the French garrison if the money is right. As they travel Hogan becomes a bit suspicious of the nun's fondness for cigar smoking and the odd shot of whiskey. Near Santa Maria Hogan's attempt to blow up a French ammunition train is foiled by an arrow in the shoulder but after bandaging him Sara helps the mercenary set off the planted charge with a rifle. When they reach the camp of Juarista commander Col. Beltran Manolo Fabregas Sister Sara displays a detailed knowledge of the layout of the French garrison while revealing her true identity which comes as a surprise to no one but Hogan. Thi

Quigley Tom Selleck is an American sharpshooter imported from the heat and dust of the Old West to the heat and dust of the Australian outback to fight off rustlers. Upon arrival he learns he's been hired to kill Aborigines by a heartless rancher which disgusts Quigley so he runs off into the bush with a woman he's rescued. The local aboriginals discover him and help him and the woman survive in the outback long enough for Quigley to return and seek vengeance.

Clint Eastwood once again portrays the 'Man With No Name' in this bleak morality play about a man who protects a frontier town from outlaws more out of contempt for the outlaws than love for the cowardly townspeople. This was Eastwood's second directorial effort following the very successful PLAY MISTY FOR ME.

This exciting western was based on two best-sellers by the famous western author Louis L'Amour. After the Civil War three brothers head to the Wild West to seek their fortune rather than return home to Tennessee and a lethal family feud.