Cast: Ben Johnson

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast William Holden · Ernest Borgnine · Robert Ryan · Edmond O'Brien

Synopsis The Wild Bunch (1969) follows a group of aging outlaws in the early 20th century, led by Pike Bishop, as they navigate a changing world. Pursued by a relentless former ally, Deke Thornton, and his posse, the gang plans one...

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Jeff Bridges · Cybill Shepherd · Ben Johnson

Synopsis The Last Picture Show (1971) is a poignant coming-of-age drama set in a dwindling Texas town during the early 1950s. The story follows a group of high school friends navigating love, loneliness, and the harsh realities of adulthood. As their...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Alan Ladd · Jean Arthur · Van Heflin · Brandon De Wilde

Synopsis Shane (1953) follows the story of a mysterious gunslinger, Shane, who arrives in a small Wyoming valley and befriends a homesteader family, the Starretts. As tensions rise between the settlers and a ruthless cattle baron, Shane becomes an unlikely protector,...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Joanne Dru · John Agar · Ben Johnson

Synopsis In She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), aging Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles prepares for retirement amidst rising tensions with Native American tribes. Tasked with one final mission, he must escort his commanding officer's wife and niece to safety while preventing...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Steve McQueen · Ali MacGraw · Ben Johnson · Sally Struthers

Synopsis The Getaway (1972) follows Carter "Doc" McCoy, a convicted robber who is released from prison after his wife arranges a deal with a corrupt official. To secure his freedom, Doc agrees to pull off a high-stakes bank heist. However, the...

Direction John Ford

Cast Richard Widmark · Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Sal Mineo

Synopsis Cheyenne Indians flee their squalid Oklahoma reservation and return to their traditional homeland along the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. A U.S. cavalry officer gets the call to return the tribe to the reservations but begins to question his mission after...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Ben Johnson · Chill Wills

Synopsis The concluding chapter to director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy" that also included "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote Army outpost along the Mexican border faced with two crises:...

Direction Marlon Brando

Cast Marlon Brando · Karl Malden · Pina Pellicer · Katy Jurado

Synopsis Marlon Brando's only directorial effort. It's the Old West of 1880, and Brando stars as Kid Rio, who along with his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers who are caught holding up a Mexican bank. Longworth gets away...

Direction Tom Thurman

Cast Sam Peckinpah · Kris Kristofferson · Fern Lea Peter · Harry Dean Stanton

Direction John Ford

Cast Ben Johnson · Joanne Dru · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond

Synopsis As Mormon settlers head to the promised land at the San Juan river in Utah, they hire horse traders Travis Blue and Sandy as wagon masters. They have to forge a trail across unknown territory and face many hardships along...

Direction Andrew Eaton

Cast Lindsay Anderson · Harry Carey Jr. · Charles B. Fitzsimons · Dan Ford

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Pedro Armendáriz · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond

Synopsis Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Steve McQueen · Robert Preston · Ida Lupino · Joe Don Baker

Synopsis A week with Junior Bonner, a rodeo pro on the wrong side of 40, broke, bruised, and headed into Prescott, his home town, for the annual 4th of July Frontier Days. His dad, Ace, is a dissolute dreamer fixed on...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Charlton Heston · Richard Harris · James Coburn · Jim Hutton

Direction John Milius

Cast Warren Oates · Ben Johnson · Cloris Leachman · Michelle Phillips

Synopsis After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Gene Hackman · Candice Bergen · James Coburn · Ben Johnson

Synopsis At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy,...

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Charlton Heston · Joan Hackett · Donald Pleasence · Lee Majors

Synopsis Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport between stars (Charlton Heston) and (Joan Hackett). Heston plays Will Penny, an aging and impoverished cowboy. With his cohorts Blue...

Direction Ted Post

Cast Clint Eastwood · Inger Stevens · Ed Begley · Arlene Golonka

Synopsis In Hang 'Em High (1968), a rancher named Jed Cooper is wrongfully accused of murder and lynched by a vigilante group. Miraculously surviving, he is rescued and deputized as a marshal. Seeking justice, Cooper hunts down his would-be killers while...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast John Payne · Ruth Roman · J. Carrol Naish · Ben Cooper

Synopsis Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Jason Robards · Olivia de Havilland · Theodore Bikel · Per Oscarsson

Synopsis Jason Robards is rough farmer who makes a mistake and tries to right it. And then there was Olivia de Havilland in one of her last real starring roles, and her first role on television. She is Robard's wife, a...