Archive for the 'Western movies' Category
Missing, The
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| Taglines: | 1: How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? |
| Plot Summary: | In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie’s daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back. |
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Paint Your Wagon
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| Taglines: | 1: Ben and Pardner shared everything — even their wife! 2: Lee Marvin Sings! 3: Stake Your Claim To The Musical Goldmine of ‘69! |
| Plot Summary: | A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining. |
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Lawman
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| Plot Summary: | While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken, trail-weary cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident. Maddox, however, will not compromise even though small ranchers like Vern Adams are not in a position to desert their responsibilities for a long and protracted trial. Sabbath’s marshal, Cotton Ryan, is an aging lawman whose tough reputation rests on a single incident that occurred years before. Ryan admits to being only a shadow of what he once was and no threat to stop Maddox. Maddox confides to Ryan that Bannock’s judicial system is weak and corrupt, and while he’s doubtful that anyone he brings back will suffer more than the price of a bribe, he will not be deterred in his unrelenting pursuit of his duty. Initially Bronson appears willing to make concessions, but when his oldest friend Harvey Stenbaugh is killed after deliberately picking a fight with Maddox, Bronson digs in his heels with the rest of the town to resist the relentless lawman. |
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Two Rode Together
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| Taglines: | 1: The West’s most violent story… The West’s most valiant hour! |
| Plot Summary: | The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two captives are released; and their reintegration into white society proves highly problematic. |
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Long Riders, The
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| Taglines: | 1: “All the world likes an outlaw. For some damn reason they remember ‘em.” - Jesse James |
| Plot Summary: | The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of of revenge. |
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Return of Sabata
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| Taglines: | 1: He’s Judge…Jury…Executioner! 2: The man with gunsight eyes is back! |
| Plot Summary: | Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that’s what McIntock says he’ll do with the money… |
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Unforgiven
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| Plot Summary: | The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff ‘Little Bill’ tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill’s justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as ‘The Schofield Kid’, and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth. |
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Summer Love aka Dead Man’s Bounty
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| Taglines: | 1: The First Polish Western |
| Plot Summary: | A small peaceful village suddenly becomes a very dangerous place when a foreigner appears with a wanted man. |
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Near Dark
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| Taglines: | 1: …pray for daylight. 2: Blood is our life, Darkness, our feeding ground and sunlight, our eternal damnation. 3: In one hot hungry kiss, he gave her everlasting love. She gave him everlasting life. 4: Killing you would be easy, they’d rather terrify you…forever. 5: Vampires can only kill you once, but they can terrify you forever. |
| Plot Summary: | A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar. |
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Geronimo
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| Taglines: | 1: No bullet could kill him. No army could capture him. 2: The Most Defiant Warrior Of Them All! |
| Plot Summary: | An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down. |
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