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High Plains Drifter
»rank: 6579
: :Eastwood plays the man with no name the mysterious stranger who emerges out of the desert and rides into a guilt-ridden midwestern town saving it from three gunmen or does he? Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Clint Eastwood Verna Bloom Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R essential video:Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the 'man with no name' theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as 'the ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
»rank: 7116
:Description:By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the 'Man With No Name,' this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold,hard close-ups, exceptional ...
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The Quick and the Dead
»rank: 5000
: :Herod is the undisputed ruler of redemption a haven for miscreants of every type and the fastest killer in the west. 0n one day a mysterious young woman rides into town a six-shooter strapped to her hip and revenge burning in her heart. Shes come to kill herod but she finds that she is paralyzed by her past. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Sharon Stone Leonardo Di Caprio Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Sam Raimi ...
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For A Few Dollars More
»rank: 10818
:Description:'The leading icon of a generation' (Roger Ebert), Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* Clint Eastwood continues his trademark role as the legendary 'Man With No Name' in this second installment of the famous Sergio Leone trilogy. Scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni and featuring Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score, For A Few Dollars More is a modern classicone of the greatest Westerns evermade. Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of lndio, the territory's most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer ...
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Rancho Deluxe
»rank: 22896
:Description:Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston star as an oddball team of modern-day cattle rustlers in this quirky, inventive portrait of the no longer wild West (Newsweek). lf you're ready for a little not-so-innocent frontier fun, for 'some desire under the elms...some smoldering glances at the 0K Corral, then head straight for Rancho Deluxe. Montana's Big Sky country is the setting for this whacked-out western that literally litters the landscape with the crazed descendants of those hardy pioneers whose covered wagons have been replaced ...
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A Fistful of Dollars
»rank: 19620
:Description:Clint Eastwood's legendary 'Man With No Name' makes his powerful debut in this thrilling, action-packed 'new breed of western' (Motion Picture Herald) from the acclaimed director of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More. Exploding with blistering shootouts, dynamic performances and atmospheric cinematography, it's an undisputed classic of the genre. A mysterious gunman (Eastwood) has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A ...
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From Dusk Till Dawn
»rank: 42591
: :From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi, Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their bloody wake. ...
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
»rank: 43191
:Description:Get ready for nonstop action when a bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist! But when one of the key crooks wanders into the wrong bar ... and crosses the wrong vampire ... the thieving cohorts one by one develop a thirst for blood to match their hunger for money! Ultimately, the last fully human burglar (Robert Patrick -- THE FACULTY, STRlPTEASE, TERMlNAT0R 2) is forced to join with his arch rival, a Texas sheriff ...
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Duel in the Sun
»rank: 48853
: :Legendary producer David 0. Selznick dreamed of another magnum opus like his 1939 production of Gone with the Wind; he also purposed to make Jennifer Jones, his ladylove and eventually second Mrs. Selznick, a megastar. Accordingly, he micromanaged the making of Duel in the Sun (Lust in the Dust to some), an extravagant Technicolor epic about the collision of the old West with the new, wide-open spaces with railroads and barbed wire, and hot-blooded outlaws with civilized folk, often wimpy or unwell. Beginning among ...
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The Shooting
»rank: 122307
: :The Shooting, perhaps the most famous Western hardly anybody ever saw, takes deadpan survey of the fallout from a casual atrocity, or perhaps only a ludicrous accident, in a nameless town. We never see the atrocity/accident, or even the town. Word simply reaches a prospector's camp, a wood-and-canvas pimple on the blankness of the wasteland, that someone 'rode down a man and a little person... maybe a child.' Was the someone Willett Gashade's brother Coin, who has gone missing? Was it Leland Drum, ...
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