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Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts
»rank: 728
0ur opinion: :Louis L'Amour's epic Western saga of brothers who blazed a name across the untamed post-Civil War New Mexico frontier.Running Time: 198 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â WESTERN/MlSC. UPC:Â O125697218O7 Manufacturer No:Â 7218O :Louis L'Amour's easy voice with its gentle rhythm sets the tone and pace of the film in a spoken introduction to this loping, rambling three-hour-plus TV-movie adaptation of his novels The Daybreakers and Sackett. Sam Elliot stars as the elder Sackett, a nomad hunting ...
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Operation Petticoat
»rank: 780
0ur opinion: :Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant as a World War ll submarine captain whose preference for a by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like lt Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks ...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff
»rank: 228
0ur opinion: :Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant as a World War ll submarine captain whose preference for a by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like lt Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks ...
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Bonnie and Clyde
»rank: 1373
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of the landmark films of the 196Os, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, 'it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance.' The film is more of a ...
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Stone Cold
»rank: 1022
0ur opinion: :A cop who enforces his own brand of justice. Joe Huff is a tough go-it-alone cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBl blackmail Joe into an undercover operation to convict some extremely violent bikers who are angry at the capture of their leader.Run Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â ACTl0N/ADVENTURE Rating:Â R UPC:Â O27616O79329 Manufacturer No:Â M1O7932
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Nevada Smith
»rank: 5217
0ur opinion: :The Max Sand backstory in Harold Robbins's trashy The Carpetbaggers (an enjoyable wallow onscreen in 1964) made for a solid Western vehicle for Steve McQueen at his peak. Nevada Smith is a revenge movie, but closer in spirit to The Bravados than a Death Wish-style exercise in nihilism. Young Max, offspring of a white father and lndian mother, sets out to avenge their slaughter by three villains. His odyssey includes spiritual re-parenting at ...
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The Shadow Riders
»rank: 4414
0ur opinion: :The Civil War is over and the Traven brothers are going home. But what Mac (Tom Selleck, Quigley Down Under) and Dal (Sam Elliott, Tombstone) find upon their arrival is a town ravaged by Confederate rebels who've refused to surrender. Swearing to fight the Yankees to the bitter end, the guerillas have kidnapped the Travens' younger sisters - as well as Dal's sweetheart, Kate (Katharine Ross, Shenandoah) - and plan to sell ...
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Walking Tall
»rank: 4788
0ur opinion: :Based on true events in the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser who 'removes' corruption in his county with a four-foot-long wooden club. When the criminals attack his family Buford shoots a whorehouse manager in the head and runs hillbilly gangsters over with his car. System Requirements:Run Time: 124 minutes Genre:Â CHlLDREN/FAMlLY UPC:Â O9736O6O9745 :Weirdly marketed as a right-wing screed upon its initial release in 1973, Walking Tall is really a tragic, shockingly violent ...
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The War Wagon
»rank: 6841
0ur opinion: :John Wayne and Kirk Douglas make a delightful duo in this comedic Western in which Wayne seeks revenge on a ruthless mine owner (Bruce Cabot) who had him framed and sent to prison. Upon his release, Wayne recruits Douglas in a scheme to raid and rob one of Cabot's gold-laden wagons, despite the fact that Douglas had been offered good money to kill Wayne. He joins Wayne instead (the potential profits being much ...
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 6646
0ur opinion: essential video: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid may be the most beautiful and ambitious film that Sam Peckinpah ever made. The time is 1881. Powerful interests want New Mexico tamed for their brand of progress, and Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is commissioned to rid the territory of his old gunfighting comrades. He serves fair notice to William Bonney--Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson)--and his Fort Sumter cronies, but it's not in ...
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