The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch,... Learn More
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How did this guy ever act, such bad acting...UGH! I just can't stand to watch a John Wayne movie! More Info About This DVD Director(s): Don Siegel - Henry Hathaway DVD Release Date: Released the 14 May 2002 Usually ships in 6 to 11 days
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This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Paul Newman - Robert Redford Director(s): George Roy Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 16 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I give the makers of this film credit for attempting a literate and ambitious western, however, the pacing of this film is so meandering that it caused me to drift off on occasion. The basic premise of a horse baron hiring a sadistic regulator to rid himself of pesky horse thieves is a good one, however,it fails in execution. I have nothing against films that deliberately pace themselves but Arthur Penn's direction here is downright snooze inducing. Even Marlon Brando's method account as the regulator, though amusing at times, cannot save the picture. Jack Nicholson gives a solid turn here as the horse thief but there's nothing special about his performance. The promised sparks between Brando and Nicholson don't even materialize with the possible exception of a bathroom... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Marlon Brando - Jack Nicholson Director(s): Arthur Penn DVD Release Date: Released the 08 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and... More Info About This DVD Director(s): George Roy Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 06 June 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This Western has become a modest cult favorite since its release in 1993, when the film was met with mixed reviews but the performances of Kurt Russell (as Wyatt Earp) and especially Val Kilmer, for his memorably eccentric performance as the dying gunslinger Doc Holliday, garnered high praise. The movie opens with Wyatt Earp trying to put his violent past behind him, living happily in Tombstone with his brothers and the woman (Dana Delany) who puts his soul at ease. But a murderous gang called the Cowboys has burst on the scene, and Earp can't keep his gun belt off any longer. The plot sounds routine, and in many ways it is, but Western buffs won't mind a bit thanks to a fine cast and some well-handled action on the part of Rambo director George P. Cosmatos, who has yet to make a... More Info About This DVD Director(s): George P. Cosmatos DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 1997 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis in Sergio Leone's magnificently mythic (and utterly outlandish) Once upon a Time in the West. After a series of international hits starring Clint Eastwood (from A Fistful of Dollars to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), Leone outdid himself with this spectacular, larger-than-life, horse-operatic epic about how the West was won. (And make no mistake: this is the wide, wide West, folks--so the widescreen/letterboxed version is strongly recommended.) The unholy trinity of Italian cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed, black-hearted killer... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Henry Fonda - Charles Bronson Director(s): Sergio Leone DVD Release Date: Released the 18 November 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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