Subgenre Sampler
Western: 481 Films to Buy & Rent
Warlock (1959)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn…
- A–grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set…
Big Country, The (1958)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston
- A big Western – where feuding families with rival patriarchs fight it out to the bitter end.
Bravados, The (1958)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Lee Van Cleef…
- Peck sets out on the grim task of annihilating the rapists and killers of his wife in this taut, if occasionally obvious Western. As Peck works his…
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley…
- Randolph Scott plays a loner who finds himself caught up in a violent feud in this taut Budd Boetticher western.
Law and Jake Wade, The (1958)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens…
- Western from director John Sturges (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) about a reformed town marshal whose old criminal partner starts stalking him while he's on…
Left Handed Gun, The (1958)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Paul Newman
- Influential version of the Billy the Kid story, with Paul Newman portraying the Kid in an ambiguous light, unstable and homosexually repressed. Has…
Man of the West (1958)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb…
- Gary Cooper stars in this battle of nerves as a former gunman forced by his old gang to engage in their criminal activity. Solid, intelligent film…
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau…
- Routine western with Murphy as a bank robber mistaken for a famed U.S Marshall and going along with the ruse. Some nice comedic touches and location…
Sheepman, The (Stranger with a Gun) (1958)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Leslie Nielsen…
- Lighthearted western with Glenn Ford as a hard–bitten sheep farmer duking it out with cattle baron Nielsen and Shirley Maclaine as the object…
Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, The (1958)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth More, Henry Hull…
- In this goofy western, Jayne Mansfield plays a buxom saloon proprietor who lassos a clueless Englishman when he becomes the sheriff of the titular…