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41) True grit
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In "True Grit," U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party. In "Rio Lobo," a spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's...
42) Wyatt Earp
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After being turned away from the Union Army because of his youth, Wyatt studies law and marries Urilla. But Urilla dies before they can have children. Earp grows despondent and its his father who sets him straight. Wyatt becomes a buffalo hunter and a close companion of Bat Masterson and his brother Ed. With his brothers, Virgil and Morgan, Wyatt sets out to clean up the violence-plagued towns of the old West. In Tombstone, the Earp brothers and their...
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By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
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Apple Dumpling Gang: "A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the youngsters discover a huge golden nugget, they must fend off the greedy townspeople. So the kids join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold. Little do they know a surly gang of sharpshooters plans to beat them to the draw"--Container.
Apple dumpling gang rides again: "There's more trouble afoot as The Apple Dumpling Gang can't...
50) One-eyed Jacks
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Criterion collection volume 844
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"This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including Karl Malden and Pina Pellicer) nuanced depictions of conflicted...
51) Young guns II
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Billy the Kid and his gang have escaped the hangman, and are on the run to the Mexican border and safety, but must elude pursuing sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy's one-time friend.
52) Wild west box
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Four western fims originally released in between 1966 and 1979.
54) Doc West
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After bandits steal his poker winnings, this American legend makes his way to the next town in search of them. Seeking his revenge during a poker game gone bad, Doc West soon finds himself in the local jail. When his past is exposed and a battle among the townsfolk breaks out in gunfire, he will have to choose sides between the outlaws and the law-abiding citizens.
55) High noon
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A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to take up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride, a Quaker who is opposed to violence.
57) Sixgun
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When three cowboys show up dead, Tommy, a hard-drinking retired bounty hunter whose ranch is on the brink of foreclosure, must saddle up one more time to stop the bandit and collect a ransom.
60) Prairie fever
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The Western trail can be a risky one, but it becomes a road to redemption for a destitute lawman, a journey towards hope for three troubled women, and a way to keep running from the law for a sharp but desperate woman.