Blog Archives

The Searchers

Poster for the movie "The Searchers"
Poster for the movie "The Searchers"

The Searchers (1956)

NR 119 min - Western - 7 May 1956
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Director:  John Ford
Writers:  Frank S. Nugent

Photos

No images were imported for this movie.

Storyline

...
Read More

Stagecoach

Poster for the movie "Stagecoach"
Poster for the movie "Stagecoach"

Stagecoach (1939)

NR 96 min - Western, Adventure, Action, Drama, Romance - 3 March 1939
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

Director:  John Ford
Writers:  Dudley Nichols
Read More

Cahill U.S. Marshal

Poster for the movie "Cahill U.S. Marshal"
Poster for the movie "Cahill U.S. Marshal"

Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)

PG 103 min - Drama, Western - 11 July 1973
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.

Director:  Andrew V. McLaglen
Writers:  Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink
Read More

A Lady Takes a Chance

Poster for the movie "A Lady Takes a Chance"
Poster for the movie "A Lady Takes a Chance"

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

NR 86 min - Comedy, Romance - 19 August 1943
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

Director:  William A. Seiter
Writers:  Robert Ardrey
Read More

Red River

Poster for the movie "Red River"
Poster for the movie "Red River"

Red River (1948)

NR 133 min - Western, Adventure, Drama, Romance - 26 August 1948
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

Director:  Howard Hawks
Writers:  Borden Chase, Charles Schnee
Read More

Fort Apache

Poster for the movie "Fort Apache"
Poster for the movie "Fort Apache"

Fort Apache (1948)

NR 125 min - Western - 14 June 1948
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

Director:  John Ford
Writers:  Frank S. Nugent
Read More

True Grit

Poster for the movie "True Grit"
Poster for the movie "True Grit"

True Grit (1969)

G 128 min - Western - 11 June 1969
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.

Director:  Henry Hathaway
Writers:  Marguerite Roberts
Read More

The Ice Pirates

Poster for the movie "The Ice Pirates"
Poster for the movie "The Ice Pirates"

The Ice Pirates (1984)

PG 91 min - Action, Science Fiction, Comedy - 16 March 1984
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

The time is the distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor (John Carradine) presiding over a trade oligarchy that controls all mining and sale of ice from asteroids and comets.

Director:  Stewart Raffill
Writers:  Stanford Sherman, Stewart Raffill
Read More

McLintock!

Poster for the movie "McLintock!"
Poster for the movie "McLintock!"

McLintock! (1963)

127 min - Comedy, Romance, Western - 13 November 1963
Your rating:
Not rated yet!

George Washington McLintock, "GW" to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also surprised to see that his wife Katherine has also returned. She had left him some years before without really explaining what he done but she does make the point of saying that she's returned to take their daughter back to the State Capitol with her...

Read More