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1) True grit
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Language
English
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
2) McLintock!
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Language
English
Description
In this westernized version of The taming of the shrew, John Wayne stars as cattle baron George McLintock and Maureen O'Hara assumes the role of his estranged wife. In an effort to get on with his life, McLintock saves a beautiful but impoverished widow from resettlement and hires her as his cook, welcoming both her and her two children into his home. Sparks begin to fly and McLintock's simple and serene lifestyle comes to halt as an unexpected turn...
3) Rio Bravo
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Language
English
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Description
In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner Nathan Burdette. Nathan assembles a force of hired guns to...
4) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Hondo Lane is a despatch rider for the cavalry who encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. Vittorio captures Hondo and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
El Dorado: Set in post-Civil War Texas, this film is about an alcoholic sheriff who fights greedy cattlemen and empire builders as he tries almost single-handedly to tame the West.
Hatari: Big game hunters in Africa use ropes and cameras to to capture animals for zoos and circuses. Hatari means danger in Swahili.
Series
Publisher
Republic Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The Duke leads a regiment of Kentucky riflemen through a French settlement, falls in love with a general's lovely daughter, and locks horns with a rival suitor who has a nefarious land-grabbing scheme up his sleeve. The courtship battle escalates into a full-scale frontier war.
10) The searchers
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Language
English
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Description
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Series
Publisher
Republic Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A tough civilian construction man and a navy officer organize a work force to repair installations close to Japanese lines in World War II. The story of the formation of the U.S. Navy's construction corps--the Seabees.
14) Big Jake
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Big Jake McCandles, is a husband who hasn't seen his wife in over 18 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout and a box of money-- even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake plans to exact good old frontier justice.
17) Hatari!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa capture big game for zoos and circus attractions.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
America's Revolutionary War is more than a decade away, but storm clouds of rebellion are gathering in Pennsylvania. There, colonial man of action James Smith does what England's provincial command won't: stop the trading of weapons to Indian tribes. Joined by like-minded frontiersmen, Smith intercepts trade shipments, besieges forts and risks the certain-death charge of treason against the king.
19) Stagecoach
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Language
English
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Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common are stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
20) The Green Berets
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
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