Western

  • Hugh Wilson – Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985)

    1981-1990ComedyHugh WilsonUSAWestern

    From All Movie Guide:
    While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator’s voice wonders what such a movie would be like today…

    An amusing spoof of the good ‘ole westerns back in the halcyon days when all the cliches were held up as icons, this parody by Hugh Wilson works best for savvy audiences. Rex O’Herlihan (Tom Berenger) is a singing cowboy with a wardrobe straight out of the Hollywood westerns of the ’40s – he worships his horse, amend has a trusty sidekick too. Every town he wanders into has a sheriff on the dole, a shady cattle rancher, a prostitute with a heart of gold, an innocent young damsel, a town drunk, and the standard bad guys in black hats and long coats (Spaghetti-western style) who brutalize the poor sheep ranchers. After setting things straight in each identical town as goes, Rex is beginning to feel like a re-run junky, when he saunters into a town that is slightly different – and the parodies continue.Read More »

  • Roberto Mauri – …E lo Chiamarono Spirito Santo (1971)

    1971-1980Euro WesternsItalyRoberto MauriWestern

    The owner of a ranch commissioned Holy Ghost to carry out the robbery of a cargo of gold transported by a train. Holy Ghost hires some men, and makes the criminal enterprise that generates even death of Consuelo. The contracting party accuses Holy Ghost who killed her.Read More »

  • Ismael Rodríguez – Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)

    1961-1970DramaIsmael RodriguezMexicoWestern

    MY SON, THE HERO (1961)
    In northern Mexico, in the early twentieth century, Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velasco. Spurred to vengeance by their mother, they grow up to carry out a vendetta against the killer. But their revenge only begets more violence, a cycle the brothers are helpless to stop.Read More »

  • Christopher Kirkley – Zerzura (2017)

    2011-2020African CinemaChristopher KirkleyNigerWestern

    Synopsis:
    Zerzura is a feature-length ethnofiction shot in the Sahara desert. Mixing folktales and documentary, the film follows a young man from Niger who leaves home in search of an enchanted oasis.Read More »

  • Edward L. Cahn – Five Guns to Tombstone (1960)

    1951-1960Edward L. CahnUSAWestern

    Billy Wade (James Brown) is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt (Robert Karnes), not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces Billy’s participation with an offer he cannot refuse, unaware that Billy is actually working on the side of the law.Read More »

  • Roberto Mauri – Bada Alla Tua Pelle Spirito Santo (1972)

    1971-1980ItalyRoberto MauriWestern

    A crook masquerading as an Army Colonel in charge of gold shipments, replaces gold ingots with fakes. Spirito Santo is recruited to solve the case and make sure the gold gets through.Read More »

  • John Huston – The Unforgiven (1960)

    1951-1960ClassicsJohn HustonUSAWestern

    The Unforgiven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Huston. It stars Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Charles Bickford and Lillian Gish. The story is based upon a novel by Alan Le May.The film, uncommonly for its time, spotlights the issue of racism against Native Americans and people believed to have Native American blood in the Old West. The movie is also known for problems behind the scenes. John Huston often said this was his least satisfying movie.Read More »

  • Larry G. Spangler – The Soul of Nigger Charley (1973)

    1971-1980BlaxploitationExploitationLarry G. SpanglerUSAWestern

    From imdb:
    This sequel to “Legend of N. Charley” is a step in the right direction for whoever decided to make a franchise out of character with such a tasteless name. Charley finds his legend has spread and he is now a well-known folk hero that children worship and fawn over. Film is tonally imbalanced in a 1970’s way that seems to straddle grim nihilism and do-gooder adventure simultaneously. Film seems firmly set in “PG” territory until a downer montage showing lots of characters’ bloody deaths pops up in the third act. Fred Williamson tries to express emotions such as laughter and sadness as opposed to just ‘looking bad and looking cool’ and the results are debatable at best. Still, Fred is a fine movie presence and it is his fans that will want to see this movie despite the low quality of the DVD.Read More »

  • Raoul Walsh – A Distant Trumpet (1964)

    1961-1970Raoul WalshUSAWestern

    IMDb wrote:
    West Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.Read More »

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