Archive for the 'Western movies' Category
Dodge City
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| Taglines: | 1: It’s Errol Flynn In His Greatest Role . . . A picture for every red-blooded son and daughter of the stars and stripes ! 2: West of Chicago there was no law! 3: West of Dodge City there was no God! |
| Plot Summary: | In 1866, Kansas, the American civil war has just finished and the armies disbanded. The building of the West begins, and in 1872, the new city of Dodge City is ruled by violence and shootings. The Irishman Wade Hatton (Errol Flynn) is a man adapted to these days and presently is conducting a group of pioneers, including Abbie Irving (Olivia de Havilland) and her reckless brother, to Dodge City. Once in the city, Wade is invited to be the local sheriff, and an incident makes him accept the position. He tries to clean up the cattle town, ruled by the powerful outlaw Jeff Surrett (Bruce Cabot) and his gang, with the support of the decent local people. |
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Beguiled, The
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| Taglines: | 1: His love… or his life… 2: One man…seven women…in a strange house! |
| Plot Summary: | During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit. |
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Blazing Saddles
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| Taglines: | 1: Never give a saga an even break! |
| Plot Summary: | The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople. |
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Seraphim Falls
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| Taglines: | 1: Never turn your back on the past. |
| Plot Summary: | In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a day once he’s captured. The hunted is Gideon, resourceful, skilled with a knife. Gideon’s flight and Carver’s hunt require horses, water, and bullets. The course takes them past lone settlers, a wagon train, a rail crew, settlements, and an Indian philosopher. What is the reason for the hunt; what connects Gideon and Carver? What happened at Seraphim Falls? |
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Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
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| Plot Summary: | Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader. |
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American Outlaws
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| Taglines: | 1: Bad Is Good Again. 2: Sometimes the wrong side of the law is the right place to be. 3: This Much Fun Can’t Be Legal! |
| Plot Summary: | When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. In the course of their vendetta, they will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jesse James. |
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Bad Day at Black Rock
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| Taglines: | 1: Suddenly you realize murder is at your elbow! - and there’s no way out! |
| Plot Summary: | John J. Macreedy doesn’t know it, but when he steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he will soon find himself the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot! The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War. What Macreedy couldn’t know when he stepped off of that train was that the town had a shameful secret, one that must be kept at all costs. |
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Hidalgo
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| Taglines: | 1: Experience the incredible true story of a man who left behind the world he knew, and found the courage to do the impossible 2: The True Story Of A Man Who Went Halfway Around The World To Find Himself. 3: Unbridled. Unbroken. Unbeaten. |
| Plot Summary: | Frank Hopkins was a rider for the Army, who was at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which would haunt him for life and he copes by turning to the bottle. He joins Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and is billed as the greatest horseman and his horse, Hidalgo is billed as the greatest horse in the world because of the countless races he has won. But an Arab questions that claim because they have not competed in a race like the Oceans of Fire which is very grueling. Hopkins decides to join it. So he travels to the Middle East to enter and has several rivals and there are those who don’t want him to win. And Frank gets to face some of the demons that plague him. |
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Dances with Wolves
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| Taglines: | 1: Inside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered. 2: Lt. John Dunbar is about to discover the frontier…within himself. 3: The journey begins this November. Discover it for yourself. |
| Plot Summary: | Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs “Two-socks” and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man’s ways. |
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Fistful of Dollars, A
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| Taglines: | 1: A Fistful of Dollars is the first motion picture of its kind. It won’t be the last! 2: In his own way he is perhaps, the most dangerous man who ever lived! |
| Plot Summary: | An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo’s. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain. |
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