The Missouri Breaks
A gang of rustlers headed by Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) find themselves in conflict with an eccentric ”regulator” (Marlon Brando). Arthur Penn’s Western was considered a bomb by many after…
Comes a Horseman
In the 1940s, Ella Connors (Jane Fonda) is still resisting a rancher (Jason Robards) who wants her land; a recluse, she finds help and company from a war veteran and…
The Ox-Bow Incident: Mob Rule
Dana Andrews. Photo: 20th Century Fox When Henry Fonda was 14, he witnessed something that affected him profoundly. From a nearby building, he and his father saw how a crowd…
Man of the West
Link Jones (Gary Cooper) is on an important mission for his community when he gets caught up in a train robbery in Texas, staged by bandits that he knows all…
Rust
Wyoming, 1882; an aging gunslinger (Alec Baldwin) escapes with his 13-year-old grandson (Patrick Scott McDermott), hunted by a marshal, bounty hunters and Native Americans. A Western that will forever be…
Cimarron
One of the earliest Best Picture winners had the look and feel of an epic, depicting a family over several decades, beginning with the Oklahoma land rush in 1889; the…
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
The first chapter in Kevin Costner’s Western epic, depicting pioneer days in 1860s Arizona; we follow a sprawling cast of characters around Horizon, a new frontier town. Traditional and modern…
Breakheart Pass
In the 1870s, a train is headed for Fort Humboldt in California where diphtheria is raging – but that’s far from the whole truth. The same year as the director…
The Settlers
In 1893, three men are sent out on an expedition to reclaim land for a businessman (Alfredo Castro); they are an indigenous worker (Camilo Arancibia), a British military veteran (Mark…
The Wild Bunch: Escape to Mexico
Photo: Warner Two Westerns made quite a stir in 1969, films that looked different from many of their predecessors. Fox and Warner, the studios behind them, knew early on that…