5 Star Westerns

Director

Rio Bravo Howard Hanks, Howard Hawks The Wild Bunch John Ford Sam Peckinpah The Searchers

Classification

18

Genres

Drama, Comedy, Wester

Description

Rio Bravo There's a showdown at Rio Bravo when courageous Sheriff John T. Chance throws the brother of evil cattle baron Nathan Burdette in jail for murder. When Burdette's men lay seige to his jailhouse, Chance holds on until the arrival of a U.S. Marshal with the help of his drunken deputy, Dude, cranky old man Stumpy, and a beautiful long-legged Feathers. The Wild Bunch By any standard, director Sam Peckinpah's film THE WILD BUNCH, a powerful tale of hangdog desperados bound by a code of honour, rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns. This digitally remastered anamorphic transfer showcases it to renewed blood-and-thunder effect. The old and the new West clash in Peckinpah's unflinchingly violent masterpiece as a band of outlaws, led by an aging gunfighter, ride into a Texas border town to rob a local railroad office--only to find that they came too late and stayed too long in this groundbreaking Western. The Searchers Working together for the 12th time, John Wayne and director John Ford forged The Searchers into a landmark Western offering an indelible image of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays an ex-Confederate soldier seeking his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his five-year search, he encounters something unexpected: his own humanity. Beautifully shot by Winton C. Hoch, thrillingly scored by Max Steiner and memorably acted by a wonderful ensemble including Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood and Ward Bond, The Searchers endures as "a great film of enormous scope and breathtaking physical beauty" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic).

Cast

Rio Bravo John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan The Wild Bunch William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson, Edmond O'Brien The Searchers John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

Fun Film Info

The Wild Bunch Body count: 145 Ernest Borgnine's limp wasn't acting. He broke his foot while filming The Split (1968) and had to wear a cast throughout the Mexican location shoot. This film was adapted from a short story written by Roy N. Sickner, an actor and stuntman. Writer Walon Green wrote the script, which was then rewritten by Sam Peckinpah.

Quotes

Rio Bravo John T. Chance: You're not as smart as your brother, Joe. He sees Stumpy here sittin' around the corner locked in with you... and if that isn't plain enough, I'll tell you why. If any trouble starts around this jail, before anybody can get to you you're gonna get accidentally shot. The Wild Bunch Pike Bishop: We're not gonna get rid of anybody. We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be. When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished. We're finished. All of us. The Searchers Ethan: Our turnin' back don't mean nothin', not in the long run. She's alive, she's safe... for a while. They'll keep her to raise her as one of their own till, until she's of an age to... Martin: Don't you think there's a chance we still might find her? Ethan: Injun will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as the turnin' of the earth. Ben Edwards: Uncle Ethan, will you tell us about the war? Ethan: Oh, the war ended three years ago, boy. Ben Edwards: It has? Then why didn't you come home before now?

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