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Cat Ballou
IT’S THAT WAY-OUT WHOPPER OF A FUNNY WESTERN… A SHE-BANG TO END ALL SHE-BANGS! On her way to see her rancher father in Wyoming, the kind-hearted and inexperienced Cat Ballou (Jane Fonda) gets...
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Priest
THE WAR IS ETERNAL. HIS MISSION IS JUST THE BEGINNING. When Priest (Paul Bettany), who’s part of the elite warriors who won a war between humans and vampires, tries to warn the leaders of the current...
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
FOR JUSTICE. FOR LOYALTY. FOR FRIENDSHIP. When Melquiades Estrada (Julio César Cedillo) is accidentally shot in Texas, his good friend Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones) honors a vow and takes his body...
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McLintock!
HE LIKES HIS WHISKEY HARD… HIS WOMEN SOFT… AND HIS WEST ALL TO HIMSELF! Rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) is suddenly visited by his wife (Maureen O’Hara) who left him years ago; now...
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Little Big Man: Echoes of Vietnam
EITHER THE MOST NEGLECTED HERO IN HISTORY OR A LIAR OF INSANE PROPORTION! There once was a real-life figure called Little Big Man. An Oglala Lakota warrior, he fought under but was also rivals with...
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Rio Bravo: A Sheriff Takes a Chance
THEY FOUGHT BACK TO BACK… NO QUARTER GIVEN… NO QUARTER ASKED… NO WAY IN… NO WAY OUT… OF RIO BRAVO. John Wayne was not a fan of High Noon (1952) for purely political reasons. In his view, that film...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
BRING PROTECTION. Arizona, 1882; sheep farmer Albert Stark (Seth MacFarlane) loses his girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried) due to a lack of ambition and courage, but a newcomer (Charlize Theron) in town...
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Magnificent Seven: It Takes a Village
ONCE YOU’VE MET THEM… YOU’LL NEVER FORGET THEM. In 2009, Robert Vaughn released an autobiography that revealed the full extent of the rivalry between Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner on the set of The...
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The Westerner: Law and Disorder
DANGEROUS… JUDGE ROY BEAN… WHO CALLED HIMSELF “THE LAW WEST OF THE PECOS”… THE MOST DREADED MAN ON THE FRONTIER! Gary Cooper read the script for The Westerner and decided that this was not for him....
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High Noon: Waiting for the Whistle
THE STORY OF A MAN WHO WAS TOO PROUD TO RUN. In a notorious 1971 interview with Playboy, John Wayne talked about how proud he was to have helped make sure a communist like screenwriter Carl Foreman...
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Shane: The Boy and the Stranger
THERE’S A SCORE TO SETTLE… AND THIS IS IT! Shane was Jack Palance’s breakthrough. Playing a villainous gunslinger, the actor flashed a very creepy smile and became a minor Western icon. His only...
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The Lone Ranger
NEVER TAKE OFF THE MASK. Lawyer John Reid (Armie Hammer) arrives in Texas in 1869 and is immediately drawn into a hunt for an outlaw (William Fichtner) that ends in tragedy – and a new career for John....
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Deadwood: How the West Was Won
David Milch, already a seasoned showrunner in the mid-aughts with experience from NYPD Blue, came to HBO with plans for a new TV series about the rise of a civilization. He was originally thinking...
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Once Upon a Time in the West: When the Railroad Came to Town
THERE WERE THREE MEN IN HER LIFE. ONE TO TAKE HER… ONE TO LOVE HER… AND ONE TO KILL HER. This film wasn’t always loved. At its U.S. premiere, Paramount listened to critics who thought Sergio Leone’s...
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The Homesman
In the 19th century Nebraska Territory, spinster Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) volunteers to transport three women who have lost their minds back east, and enlists the help of a man (Tommy Lee Jones)...
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The Ridiculous 6
“White Knife” (Adam Sandler), who’s been raised by indians, goes on a quest to save his kidnapped father (Nick Nolte), and runs into one peculiar man after another who turn out to be his brothers… The...
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The Hateful Eight
NO ONE COMES UP HERE WITHOUT A DAMN GOOD REASON. After the Civil War, two bounty hunters (Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell) and a prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) arrive at a stagecoach lodge during a...
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The Revenant: Back from the Dead
BLOOD LOST. LIFE FOUND. The movie business is full of strange rumors, exaggerations and lies. As a journalist it is sometimes difficult to navigate around them, especially when they seem highly likely...
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Hombre
HOMBRE MEANS MAN… PAUL NEWMAN IS HOMBRE! After being raised by the Apache, John Russell (Paul Newman) returns to “civilization” to claim an inheritance; after deciding to sell a house, he leaves on a...
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SHE TURNED TO HER PAST TO PROTECT HER FAMILY. When her husband (Noah Emmerich) comes home with bullet wounds, Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman) teams up with a neighbor (Joel Edgerton) to fight a criminal...
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