Subgenre Sampler
Western: 480 Films to Buy & Rent
Beguiled, The (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
- Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier taken refuge at a Confederate girl's school, where his presense stirs up a hornet's nest. The closest…
Chisum (1970)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George…
- A western starring John Wayne, very loosely based around events from the Lincoln County War in 1878, when a conflict arose over the control of goods…
Lawman (1970)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb…
- Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are veteran adversaries in this violent '70s Western. Saddle–sore Lancaster is on the trail of a band of…
Little Big Man (1970)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam…
- Life–story of 121–yr old 'white' Indian Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) at first lightly sketches his progress from Cheyenne brave to…
Man Called Sledge, A (1970)
- Dir. Vic Morrow
Feat. James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Laura Antonelli…
- Spaghetti western with James Garner slumming it in the role of a grimy villain who connives his way into a prison intending to steal a large shipment…
McMasters, The (Blood Crowd, The) (1970)
- Dir. Alf Kjellin
Feat. Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine…
- A tough depiction of post–Civil War strife, with former slave Peters, who fought for the Union, trying to start over in the American southwest.…
Monte Walsh (1970)
- Dir. William A. Fraker
Feat. Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau
- Beautifully contemplative western set during the final days of the Wild West, following an aged cowboy and his friend who spend their days picking up…
Rio Lobo (1970)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Jack Elam, Victor French…
- The third and final Western collaboration between John Wayne, dir. Hawks and screenwriter Leigh Brackett (after RIO BRAVO and EL DORADO), this…
Soldier Blue (1970)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Candice Bergen
- Perhaps the most violent and disreputable of the ‘revisionist’ Westerns (initiated by THE WILD BUNCH), this depiction of mutual barbarity between…
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda
- Prison inmate Kirk Douglas matches wits with warden Henry Fonda in an attempt to escape. Curious mix of black comedy and melodrama.