Westerns
The American West has always fascinated movie goers, even though much of the Old West never was. Russian nobility toured, eccentric Englishwomen toured, and authors wrote wild stories that seeped into the minds of us all. Gunslingers, cattle rustlers and savage Indians are part of the myth. Other iconic elements include the hanging tree, stetsons amd spurs, lassos and Colt 45s, stagecoaches, gamblers, long-horned cattle and cattle drives, prostitutes (or madams) with a heart of gold, and more.
Alice's Westerns, or Cowboy Films are listed alphabetically below, be sure to check out 'Spaghetti Westerns' sub-featured in green on the left, and 'TV Westerns' under 'Television Shows'.
The Cowboys (Blu-ray) (1971)
7.4/10
Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Slim Pickens
John Wayne leads a cattle drive with 11 boys and one black cook. He makes the mistake of insulting Bruce Dern, an unemployed psycho riding the range a... Read more
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
7/10
Director: Dick Richards
Starring: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis
This classic of the nouveau western genre tells of a 16-year-old boy who signs on as a cowhand on a cross-country cattle drive. Out in the unforgiving... Read more
The Deputy (1967)
6.9/10
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Jill Townsend, J D Cannon
Marshall Crown hires a one-handed gunslinger as a deputy, not realizing the man has assumed the identity of a slain lawman and is intent on avenging h... Read more
The Deserter (1971)
7.1/10
Starring: Chuck Connors, John Huston, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Crenna, Slim Pickens, Woo...
AKA "The Devil's Backbone". Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disap... Read more
The Desperadoes (1943)
6.5/10
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes
When Cheyenne Rogers (Glenn Ford), a hunted gunman, rides into Red Valley, he meets and falls in love with Allison MacLeod (Evelyn Keyes). Trying to g... Read more
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
5.6/10
Director: Melvin Frank
Starring: George Segal, Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn and George Segal star in this rough and tumble comedy that bounces from San Francisco's Barbary Coast to the wilderness of Utah. The Dirtw... Read more
The Duel (2016)
5.8/10
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth, Alice Braga, Emory Cohen, William Sadler
A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena. Read more
The Far Country (1955)
7.2/10
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Walter Brennan, Ruth Roman, Harry Morgan
One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a James Stewart vehicle in which he must take on the ruthlessness... Read more
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
7.2/10
Director: Russell Rouse
Starring: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
This gripping western saga has Glenn Ford playing a peace-loving storekeeper trying to live down renown as a gunslinger - but there is always someone... Read more
The Frisco Kid (1979)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George Dicenzo, Leo Fuchs
Gene Wilder saddles up in this kosher comedy western as a Polish rabbi, on his way to the wild west to set up a synagogue in San Francisco. Luckily f... Read more