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True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 1820
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: G essential video: A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line 'Ride, boldly ride' being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into 'Ride, baldy, ride.' Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining actor, and Hollywood ...
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Rio Bravo (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 2426
: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 247 minutes essential video:When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: John Ford's The Searchers, Howard Hawks's Red River, and Hawks's Rio Bravo. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River is a sweeping cattle-drive drama ('Take 'em ...
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Maverick
»rank: 3438
: :This fun-filled western romp about a charming con-man is based on the classic tv series. Features scene access and production notes. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005 Starring: Mel Gibson Jodie Foster Run time: 127 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:lnspired by the 1960s TV series that starred James Garner in the title role, this lightweight Western from 1994 proved to be a surprising box-office hit. Well, maybe not such a big surprise, since it's from the star and director of ...
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McLintock! (Authentic Collector's Edition)
»rank: 3957
: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/11/2005 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: Nr :John Wayne's most popular vehicle of the 1960s is a broad, boisterous comedy-Western and a family movie in every sense--in subject matter, casting, personnel, and the audience it aims to bear-hug. Wayne and his Quiet Man partner Maureen 0'Hara reprise their large-boned lovers' quarrel in a Wild West variation on The Taming of the Shrew, while a cast of familiar supporting players do their best to avoid becoming collateral ...
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Cat Ballou
»rank: 3158
: :Classic western spoof about a notorious female outlaw and her devoted gang of followers. Highlighted by lee marvins oscar winning performance as the legendary gunslinger and town drunk kid shelleen. Special features: talent files interactive menus production notes scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/15/2005 Starring: Jane Fonda Lee Marvin Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Elliott Silverstein :Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in ...
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The Apple Dumpling Gang (Special Edition)
»rank: 6146
:Description:Head for cover! Don Knotts and Tim Conway are Wild West outlaws who can't hit the broad side of a barn -- but never miss when it comes to rounding up laughs! The hilarity begins when a roving bachelor (Bill Bixby) inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the youngsters stumble upon a huge golden nugget, they must fend off the greedy townspeople. So the kids join forces with the bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold. Little ...
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My Name Is Nobody
»rank: 4608
:Description:Young, ambitious gunman Nobody (Terence Hill) sets his eye on his idol, gunslinger Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda), who's intent on sailing off into retirement. : My Name is Nobody is a spoof of spaghetti Westerns, but it's also a legitimate, highly regarded entry in the genre. lts pedigree is purebred, as it was executive produced by the maestro of spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone, as a personal farewell to the genre that he helped to create. lt's a transitional film, cheekily acknowledging the impact ...
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The Villain
»rank: 4009
: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/27/2008 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg :This curiosity from the mid-1970s is breathtaking in its dreadfulness. Directed by Hal Needham, this was an attempt at creating a Roadrunner cartoon with live actors--except that instead of a live actor they got Arnold Schwarzenegger, before Hollywood smoothed his rough edges (and his Austrian accent). He plays the invulnerable sheriff who rides blithely through life, unaware that the evil Kirk Douglas wants to kill him and kidnap ...
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She Done Him Wrong (Universal Cinema Classics)
»rank: 13335
:Description:'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' Screen legends Mae West and Cary Grant heat up the screen in the racy comedy She Done Him Wrong! Nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award®, this classic from the pre-code Hollywood era follows a brash saloon singer (West) with a penchant for troubled men - especially the mission director (Grant) who wants to reform her. The unabashed queen of the double-entendre shines in her first starring role, in what has been called 'Mae ...
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The Frisco Kid
»rank: 9819
:Description:lt's 1850 and new rabbi Avram Belinski sets out from Philadelphia toward San Francisco. Cowpoke bandit Tom Lillard hasn't seen a rabbi before. But he knows when one needs a heap of help. And getting this tenderfoot to Frisco in one piece will cause a heap of trouble - with the law, Native Americans and a bunch of killers. Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford are one feisty team as rabbi and rescuer in this rough-'n'-ready romp that rivals Wilder's earlier Blazing Saddles in ...
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