3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Dan Evans (Heflin) is a struggling, drought-stricken rancher desperate for money who agrees to help escort Ben Wade (Ford), the leader of a band of outlaws, at gunpoint to take the train to Yuma where,...
Category: Western
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Introductions are hardly necessary for Sergio Leone’s grand epic western, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, the greatest of the spaghetti westerns. Though Leone had directed two very impressive entries already in in the...
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Although not the creator of the sub-genre of film known as the “Spaghetti Western” (Westerns produced primarily in Italy), Sergio Leone made (arguably) the best three of them, collectively known as the “Dollars trilogy”,...
Unforgiven (1992)
Unforgiven is one of the rare films where I agree with the Academy Award voters, who proclaimed it the Best Picture of 1992. It ranks among the best Westerns of all time, almost a...
Joe Kidd (1972)
A stateside Clint Eastwood vehicle that definitely emulates his spaghetti western days, Joe Kidd isn’t quite as entertaining as the Sergio Leone masterworks, but it does deliver the goods for those hungry for more. Unlike the other...
Silverado (1985)
Silverado is a throwback Western that doesn’t bother trying to reinvent the genre into a new form. It embraces all of the old clichés and formulas of the olden days, rehashing them with popular stars...
Goin’ South (1978)
Jack Nicholson stars as a horse thief, Henry Moon, who’s rounded up by the local posse of a small Texas town and sentenced to hang. Due to the lack of men coming back from...
The Trackers (1971)
Ernest Borgnine plays Sam Paxton, a Texas rancher who comes home one day to find his son dead and his daughter missing, and the only clue as to the perpetrator comes in the form...
Dead Man (1995)
Jim Jarmusch’s films are a definite acquired taste, speaking volumes to a small, but very loyal following of fans, while seeming too surreal and quirky to most everyone else. My personal feeling towards his...
The Missing (2003)
Hey, it’s Tommy Lee Jones doing what he does best: tracking down people. Films like The Fugitive, U.S. Marshals, Double Jeopardy, and The Hunted are just some of the films where he has had to be on the elusive...