Ben Johnson
3) Shane
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
While playing on his Wyoming homestead, young Joey Starrett spies a lone rider approaching his house, then listens with great curiosity as Shane, the buckskin clad stranger, reveals to his father Joe that he is heading north, toward home. When Joey cocks the rifle he has been toting, Shane, startled by the noise, draws his gun with the speed of a gunslinger. Joe is disturbed by Shane's behavior and, as a group of men ride up, sends him on his way....
4) Dillinger
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through all their outrageous escapades, the Dillinger gang maintained a certain mystique in the eyes of the American public. To a citizenry in the depths of the depression, the gang seemed almost like heroes, who enlivened their days with fabulous feats of crime. This glimpse of the lives of those involved in the most interesting crime saga in American history.
5) The getaway
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star in this update of the 1972 film about a convict who makes a deal to split his bank-heist loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison. Once free, the convict tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns he can trust no one as he tries to get to the Mexican border alive in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
John Deakin is a secret agent posing as a thief on his way to jail. Boarding a special government train in handcuffs, he begins a terrifying journey that brings him face-to-face with death. Various passengers on an 1873 train across the frozen west to Fort Humboldt turn out to have smuggling and murder in mind.
10) Mighty Joe Young
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mighty Joe Young is a 15-foot African gorilla. His best friend and protector is Jill Young. Against her better judgment, Jill allows Joe to be brought to the States as a nightclub attraction. He later breaks loose and goes on a rampage.
11) Red dawn
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field. The invasion of the United States has begun. As their town is overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage an unremitting guerrilla action in defense of their parents, their friends and their country.
12) Will Penny
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Will Penny, an aging, out of work cowboy, is left in the desert to die by a ruthless gang of outlaws. A beautiful young woman and her son, on her way to join her husband, stops to help him and nurses him back to health. Suddenly, Will sees a lifestyle he's never known as he falls in love with her, but the gang is on its way to finish him off.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mac and Dal, two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, return home to Texas to discover that their sisters and Dal's sweetheart have been kidnapped by rampaging Rebel guerrillas refusing to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. With the help of their notorious uncle, Mac and Dal must rescue the women before they can be sold into a Mexican brothel.
14) Breakheart pass
Author
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a military outpost has a severe outbreak of diphtheria, a medical train is sent to help, but before it can arrive, several of its passengers are murdered.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fugitive bank robbers care for the newborn of the woman they just buried, knowing it ruins any chance of escape. Director John Ford's western retelling of the Bibilical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and thematic masterpiece.
17) Cherry 2000
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When Sam Treadwell permanently short circuits his Cherry 2000 on a wet kitchen floor, he promptly sets out to find replacement parts to reincarnate his perfect man-made woman. Enlisting the aid of a strong-willed, red-headed female tracker, E. Johnson, the two set off for the feared "lawless zone"--The only place where Cherry 2000 parts still exist.
Series
Criterion collection volume 544 - 550
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
[Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
[Easy rider] Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America, encountering along the way its big cities and small towns, a hippie commune, and drugs and sex in New Orleans.
[Five easy pieces] Character...
19) Wagonmaster
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A Mormon wagon train headed for Utah hooks up with two horse traders, the members of a traveling medicine show, and a tribe of Navajo Indians. The group is threatened by a gang of outlaws who use the wagon train as a hideout.