What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let’s just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
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Western
Seven Men from Now (1956) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Action, Western
Ex-sheriff Ben Stride tracks the seven men who held up a Wells Fargo office and killed his wife. Stride is tormented by the fact that his own failure to keep his job was the cause of his wife’s working in the express office and thus he is partly responsible for her death.
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The Second Time Around (1961) Vincent Sherman, Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Family, Western
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
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Yellow Rock (2011) Nick Vallelonga, Michael Biehn, James Russo, Lenore Andriel, Western
Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy.
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976) Don Taylor, Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Comedy, Western
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be whore named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby’s wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam’s old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.
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Frontier Gambler (1956) Sam Newfield, John Bromfield, Coleen Gray, Kent Taylor, Western
A marshal investigating the death of a woman who owned a gambling house finds that he’s developing an attraction to the image of the dead woman, and then she shows up very much alive.
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout (1956) Lesley Selander, Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield, Western, Action, Romance
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
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The Gold Ghost (1934) Charles Lamont, Buster Keaton, Warren Hymer, Dorothy Dix, Western, Comedy, Short
Dumped by his fiancé, a young man (Buster Keaton) drives from Boston out West determined to start a new life. He winds up in the middle of Nevada in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
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The Hunting Party (1971) Don Medford, Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Action, Drama, Western
The rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she’s kidnapped by the famous outlaw Frank Calder – just to teach him reading, so he tells her. Calder doesn’t know or care who’s wife she is. He takes care of her well, and eventually Melissa falls in love with him. But Ruger feels humiliated. Full of hate, he sets out to kill him – and Melissa too, if necessary. Together with his friends and the newest technology in guns, which carry 800 yards, he initiates a battue on Calder and his gang.
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Il Mercenario (1968) Sergio Corbucci, Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Eduardo Fajardo, Comedy, Western
On the northern side of the Mexico–United States border, Sergei “Polack” Kowalski, a well-groomed, greedy mercenary, attends a circus performance where he recognizes the show’s lead rodeo clown as Paco Roman. During the performance, Kowalski reminisces on how he and Paco fought together as revolutionaries against the Mexican Government…
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