Documentary
A Navajo boy stoically endures hardship, hunger and the death of his family. He is taken away to attend a white man boarding school and escapes but is pursued to the ancient Navajo caves. Filmed at majestic Canyon de Chelly and Nominated for two Academy Awards®.
Westerns
6 movies/2 DVDs
- Massacre
- Shotgun
- Four Fast Guns
- Three Desperate Men
- Outlaw Women
- Deputy Marshal
The Great Jesse James Raid: Jesse James, retired and living under a different name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests of his wife to join Bob Ford and Sam Wells in a Colorado gold raid.
Renegade Girl: Jean Shelby (Ann Savage), is a member of a family of Confederate sympathizers in Missouri during the Civil War. The family has been providing valuable information about the Union Army to Confederate Raiders, so the Union is trying to capture the Shelby Family, with the help of an outcast Indian who has his own grudge against the Shelby’s.
Little Big Horn is the story of a Cavalry patrol that discovers a horde of Indians ready to ambush Custer’s 7th Cavalry. They set out to warn Gen. Custer that he is about to embark on a mission of virtual suicide. Gritty and extremely well-acted character studies set this version apart from the familiar telling of a tragedy from U.S. history.
Rimfire: The western setting is incidental in this unglamorous, well-written, tale of mystery and suspense. The story involves the death by hanging of The Abilene Kid, who is innocent of all charges. After death “the Kid” returns to kill off all of those who sentenced him to be hanged.
Westerns
Groups of desperate travelers journey together throughout the Southwest and soon find trouble when they all get gold fever. The action and drama are heightened when they discover gold…on an Indian burial ground!
Westerns
McCrea portrays a circuit judge Richard Thorne, who comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds. There he finds the town and surrounding area under the feudal thumb of an old-line family headed by Josiah Bannerman (John McIntire). Despite wholehearted opposition and obstacles, Thorne fingers Bannerman’s spoiled son, Tom (Kevin McCarthy) for murder and smokes out the necessary frightened witnesses and defies the whole clan by seeing that justice is done.
Westerns
Sterling Hayden challenges the fury of the untamed west with a SHOTGUN in this gritty outdoor drama. He’s a deputy who vows to avenge the murder of a marshal and hits the vengeance trail, encountering half-breed Yvonne DeCarlo and bounty hunter Zachary Scott. Tracking the killer leads into Indian country, where they are captured by redmen who pit Hayden and his quarry against each other in a shotgun duel.
Four exciting “4-reel featurettes” (short features) that feature the exploits of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police all based on Stories by James Oliver Curwood:
- ‘Neath Canadian Skies
- North Of The Border
- Trail Of The Mounties
- Where The North Begins
The Lonesome Trail: Slow with a gun after being injured by a land-grabbing outlaw gang, Army veteran John Agar remains determined to reclaim his ranch. , and his neighbors’, from the badmen. He finds that he is proficient with bow and arrow and is soon matching the badmen arrow for bullet in the battle to give the land back to its rightful owners.
The Silver Star: A man whose father and grandfather both died while wearing a sheriff’s badge, has just been reluctantly elected lawman, but refuses to fight! even when challenged by sidewinder Richard Bartlett. Will retired sheriff have to strap his guns back on to pick up Lyon’s slack?
Film Noir
The story of a Cavalry patrol that discovers a horde of Indians ready to ambush Custer’s 7th Cavalry. They set out to warn Gen. Custer that he is about to embark on a mission of virtual suicide. Gritty and extremely well-acted character studies set this version apart from the familiar telling of a tragedy from U.S. history
The Dalton Gang: Deputy Marshal West (Don Barry) arrives in Rincon to investigate the murders of several ranchers. Blackie Mullet, the leader of a gang working for the local land-and-water company; tries to convince Marshal West that Indians are responsible for the killings.
I Shot Billy the Kid: Recounts Garrett and Billy’s explosive relationship, and the events leading up to their final, fatal confrontation.
The Return of Jesse James: Johnny is a spitting image of the real Jesse, unfortunately for him; he is mistaken for him by a grizzled old member of the now deceased James gang. Johnny is convinced into leading a new gang to rob banks using the same infamous method as the famed outlaw.
Gunfire: Bank, train and stagecoach heists, plus plenty of ridin’ and shootin’, pepper this sagebrush saga of a reorganized Jesse James gang, now under the leadership of a man impersonating Jesse’s brother Frank James, terrorizing the Old West.
Westerns
In 1867 Kansas, veterinarian Sterling Hayden treats an injured stranger who turns out to have been a guerrilla raider–and Hayden soon finds himself serving a term in one of the world’s most terrifying prisons under sadistic commandant Ward Bond. Adapted from the story of Dr. Mudd, the physician who attended John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln.
6 movies/3 DVDs
- The Great Jesse James Raid
- Renegade Girl
- Return of Jesse James
- Gunfire
- The Dalton Gang
- I Shot Billy the Kid
Westerns
Returning to his lawless ways, Jesse James (Willard Parker) becomes involved in a plot to rob a Colorado gold mine. But with no honor among the thieves (Parker, Jim Bannon, Tom Neal and Wallace Ford), soon the polecats are fighting (and killing) among themselves. Notorious cult actress Barbara Payton appears, and sings, as Bannon’s girl.
Westerns
6 Westerns on 2 DVD’s
- Hellgate
- Panhandle
- Fangs of the Wild
- Train to Tombstone
- Operation Haylift
- Wildfire: The Story of a Horse
Westerns
6 B-Westerns on 2 DVDs –
- Crooked River
- Colorado Ranger
- Fast On The Draw
- Hostile Country
- Marshall of Heldorado
- West Of The Brazos
Apache Chief – Wounded in an attack on white settlers, a dying Apache chief begs his son Black Wolf (Russell Hayden) to follow in his moccasin-steps and continue striking against the white man. Young Eagle (Alan Curtis), a tribesmen who wants the Apaches to live in peace, and a cavalry lieutenant (Tom Neal) have their hands full contending with Black Wolf and his followers.
The Bandit Queen – In the gold-rich California of the mid-1800s, native Spaniards are preyed upon by ruthless men taking advantage of unjust laws. Vowing to avenge her parents’ murder, Barbara Britton becomes a Robin Hood of the badlands, returning stolen gold to its rightful owners. Philip Reed co-stars as a SECOND masked raider, equally determined to bring justice to the Sierras.
Westerns
Against a backdrop of Arizona landscapes, this offbeat Western spins the yarn of a wanted man (James Craig) who turns unofficial lawman to tame the town of Purgatory–but finds that the main troublemaker is a crippled saloon owner whose infirmity, according to the Western code, keeps him safe from gun justice. Craig becomes the target of a succession of hired leadslingers–including his own brother (Brett Halsey). Who is the FASTEST of the Four Fast Guns?
Documentary
This colorful and exciting 1954 film vividly portrays the life of the real working cowboy, a life that has virtually vanished since this motion picture was made by Elmo Williams, Oscar-winning film editor of “High Noon.” The cowboy’s work is hard, hot and dusty, but it is not without drama and times of humor. Filmed on location in the Southwest, this unique document captures a profession and a place in time that has almost disappeared.
Blu-rays
Part devil, part legend and all man, Boss (former football star Fred Williamson) is an ex-slave who’s “decided to hunt white folks for a change,” becoming a bounty hunter and setting out on the trail of fugitive outlaw Jed Clayton (William Smith). With his comic sidekick Amos (D’Urville Martin), he rides into the town of San Miguel, finds that it has no sheriff and takes the job himself. Boss takes a bite out of local crime, chases women and brings the hammer down on Clayton in this amusing and action-filled parody of the 1970s blaxploitation genre, instituting black man’s law in this white man’s town!
Westerns
Jeff Preston (Audie Murphy), commander of an Arizona cavalry outpost, hates the Apaches and battles them fiercely–until his attitude is softened by romance with part-Indian missionary Linda Lawson (“Night Tide”). But the presence of gold on Indian land and the depredations of greedy settlers, stirs the already boiling pot in this exciting Western from the king of action directors, the legendary William Witney.