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41) Man of the west
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the train he is on gets robbed, Link Jones finds himself unwillingly reunited with his old gang. Dock Tobin, the gang's sadistic, half-crazed patriarch, was like a father to Link some twenty years past and welcomes him back. To survive, Link must take up his old ways--his killing ways.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (61 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bill Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone, comes to the rescue of fair maiden Ellen Brandon, who has shot and killed a tax collector in the employ of a crooked mayor. Local thug Leach Kilgrain has Mayor Ewell in his pocket, and his goal is to gain control of the local ranches through an unscrupulous tax scheme. Meanwhile, Bill's sidekick Cannonball is less supportive than usual as he's busy attracting the attention of twin sisters Melinda and Matilda,...
43) Joe Kidd
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made. Ford, known for his black eye patch and for his hard-drinking, brawling masculinity, was a son of Irish immigrants and was renowned as a director for both his craftsmanship and his brutality. John "Duke" Wayne was a mere stagehand and bit player in "B" Westerns, but he was strapping and handsome, and Ford saw...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo, an American legend (1993): The epic story of the Apache warrior who sacrificed everything for his people.
Missing (2003): In the desolate wilderness of New Mexico, an estranged father returns home to make peace with his adult daughter. When her child suddenly vanishes, father and daughter delve into the supernatural to get her back.
Major Dundee (1965): A Union soldier is in charge of a jail in the Southwest when renegade Apaches attack...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Any Johhny Reb who tries to escape the Union prison outpost at Fort Bravo faces the unforgiving Arizona Territory desert stretching out before him...and the even more unforgiving pursuit of Bravo's resolute Captain Roper. Yet there's a common foe that may unite the Civil War rivals: the fierce Mescalero horsemen waging guerilla war against Blue and Gray alike.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen format (2.35:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A generally light-hearted Western tale of would-be retiree Jack Beauregard, the fastest gun alive. Jack's plans of leaving gunfighting for a quiet life in Europe are put on hold when a man named Nobody tells Jack that there's a 150 hired hitmen on Jack's trail.
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1st work, during the Civil War, a European agent plans to seize western territory and control of California's wealth by forcing the state to break away from the union. Roy Rogers is a relay station attendant who gains the name of "Wild Bill" by overpowering some of the raiders. In the 2nd work, after a rancher is murdered and his fortune inherited by a young boy, a frontier newspaper editor teams up with a big-city journalist to hunt the killer....
50) Son of Paleface
Series
Publisher
Brentwood Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man heads out west to claim his fathers inheritance, and teams up with a cowboy and his horse to get to the bottom of a gold shipment robbery. An attractive female outlaw must save the hapless hero along the way.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colonel Marlowe is in command of a motley assortment of 1200 Union volunteers whose task-- and apparent suicide mission-- is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by his ferocious running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall.
Publisher
S'more Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part 2 explores the Black underground film industry featuring footage from the 1920s through the 1950s. Features respected western actor Bill Pickett, who starred in the firest Black western, "The bull dogger" in 1921. Also represented is Herbert Jeffries, also know as The Bronze Buckaroo and the first cinematic Black cowboy star.
55) The shootist
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
56) Big Jake
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big Jake McCandles, is a husband who hasn't seen his wife in over 18 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout and a box of money--even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake plans to exact good old frontier justice.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounting Billy the Kid's formative years, his depiction is stripped of the glamour and romance of legend. A stunning performance in a film that deserves to be rediscovered.
58) The Oklahoma Kid
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The range-riding rascal of the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma Kid is the territory's most hunted outlaw, wanted dead or alive. So when the Kid's black-clad enemy Whip McCord turns Tulsa into a den of corruption, leading citizen John Kincaid announces plans to clean up the town. Framing the old man for murder, McCord has him sentenced to hang, while the Kid, who's secretly Kincaid's son, risks his own neck as he races to Tulsa to see that justice is...
59) The Westerner
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wandering cowboy rides into a Texas border town and alone faces the guns of the self-appointed, ruthless men who dispense justice, including the infamous "Judge" Roy Bean.
60) Fort Apache
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This classic portrait of the old West depicts a military martinet calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
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