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1) True Grit
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
2) The missing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track...
Series
Language
English
Description
The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the kids discover a gold nugget they must fend off the greedy townspeople, so they join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen or standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other. Very violent and drawn out western.
8) Broken arrow
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Texas ranch foreman keeps his honor-bound commitment to return the body of his slain friend, Melquiades, to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness, embarking upon a voyage filled with revenge and redemption.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend them from a ruthless and exploitative group of bandits led by Calvera. As Calvera's next raid approaches, the peasants and the gun fighters work together to prepare to defend the village.
12) Broken trail
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abandoned young Chinese women. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls and force them into prostitution, while the two are delivering a herd of horses.
13) Open range
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen; 2-disc collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
14) Nevada Smith
Language
English
Description
Nevada Smith is a rugged innocent boy born during the 1890s California gold rush to a Native American mother and white father. When he finds his parents murdered by vicious killers, he sets out to track them down.
Series
Language
English
Description
The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The hopes and aspirations for her sons is movingly communicated from beginning to conclusion.
16) Texas
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Language
English
Description
"Sergio Leone's monumental picture, here in its original form, ranks among his most admired achievements. In the dying days of the Old West, a struggle to control water in a dusty desert town embroils three hard-bitten gunmen in an epic clash of greed, honor and revenge. Henry Fonda stars in his most sinister role as Frank, a hired killer who ruthlessly slays an entire family. Jason Robards plays Cheyenne, an infamous bandit framed for the slaughter....
18) The Cowboys
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry, an outlaw cowboy, and put him behind bars. Twenty years later, upon his release, Henry is older but unrepentant."--Container.
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