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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
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A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
4) Compañeros
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Yodlaf Peterson is a suave Swedish arms dealer with a love for fast money. Vasco is a trigger-happy Mexican bandit with a hate for suave Swedish arms dealers. But when the two men team up to kidnap a professor who holds the key to a fortune in gold, they find themselves hunted by the American army, stalked by a marijuana-crazed sadist and trapped in the middle of a revolution about to explode. Can these two enemies blast their way across Mexico together...
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In Fistful of dollars, an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border 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.
For a few dollars more is the sequal to 'A fistful of dollars, ' in which two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader.
In The good,...
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Three "spaghetti westerns" featuring Clint Eastwood's nameless anti-hero. A fistful of dollars: Borrowing the plot of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Eastwood plays a gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rival gangs. For a few dollars more: Western drama in which two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader. The good, the bad and the ugly: Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune in this tale...
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Angel and the Badman stars John Wayne as wounded outlaw Quirt Evans. When sheltered by a Quaker family, he falls for the family's angelic daughter, Penelope (Gail Russell). Though she brings on a transformation in Quirt's hard-boiled character for the better, he is ever-obsessed with avenging the killing of his foster father. The first starring vehicle that John Wayne produced himself, Angel and the Badman is an unconventional Western romance classic...
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McLintock!: Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights with his estranged wife who wants nothing from him except a divorce. His daughter and the local political land-grabbers are fighting with McLintock as well. Along with taming the West, McLintock finally "tames" everyone who has been fighting with him.
Unforgiven: A former desperado agrees to go on one last bounty hunt, but finds his past cannot escape him.
Once upon a time in the West:...
10) McLintock!
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In this legendary John Wayne film, the cattle rancher McLintock puts his brand on the territory and every woman in it! The lovely Louise Warren plays a widow who moves with her two children onto McLintock’s ranch to serve as cook, while Maureen O’Hara plays the estranged wife. Every great Western staple is accounted for: Cowboys, Indians, gun battles and fistfights. Plus, that pair of (now infamous) spanking scenes!A western version of "Taming...
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At the end of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Jerry Brewster is jailed for a heist engineered by his buddy Ken Seagall, who escapes with the loot and builds quite a fortune for himself. While suffering behind bars, Brewster realizes he was double-crossed... and vows his revenge.
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Story of a Civil War hero who travels west where he is assigned to an abandoned fort. His nearest neighbors are members of a Sioux tribe, and they gradually become friends. He marries a tribe woman and ultimately must make a decision about the tribe and their life when he realizes what their fate will be at the hands of the white man.
13) Django
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A lone gunman dragging his own coffin behind him joins downtrodden townspeople to battle a sadistic colonel with his band of religious fanatics.
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"Shot like the classic European adventures of the 1960s and '70s! Filmed on the actual locations! With the feel of your favorite anti-heroes sagas (down to the not-quite-so-perfect audio dubbing). The heroes, the villians, the honor, the greed, the bullets and hell fire - if you yearn for the old tales told in a fresh way both new and familiar look no further than: 6 bullets to hell!"--Container insert.
16) The big trees
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Unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwoods, but much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony. An expert at manipulating others, Fallon suddenly finds that the love of a pretty Quaker girl is tempering his greed, and forcing him to stand on the side of the Quakers against other men who also want the giant trees.
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Sabata: Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.
Adios, Sabata: Steely eyed gunslinger Sabata is hired by some Mexican revolutionaries to steal a wagonload of gold.
Return of Sabata: The McClintocks "own" the town of Hobsonville, but Sabata refuses to pay their outrageous taxes and seeks...