John Wayne Signature Collection - The Searchers/Chisum/Rio Bravo/The Cowboys/Cahill U.S. Marshal (Box Set)
For a flavour of the Old West, look no further than this superlative collection of films, with Wayne delivering the goods in the movies that made his name. John Ford’s classic, genre-defining Western THE SEARCHERS stars Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a case-hardened Civil War vet on a vigilante mission to rescue his kidnapped niece from the very same Comanches who slaughtered his family. There’s a classic showdown of good versus evil in Andrew Mc Laglen’s CHISUM, when a corrupt official starts to exert…
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Western Collection - Lawmen And Outlaws (Box Set)(3 Disc)
Collection of three rootin-tootin westerns. Includes I MARRIED WYATT EARP, THE AVENGING and A MAN FOR HANGING….
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I Married Wyatt Earp
The story of Wyatt Earp told through the memoirs of his wife Josephine….
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The Guns Of Navarone
One of the great war movies of all time, with an all start cast, and a gripping plot–based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team is sent to a Greek Island to destroy the giant guns of World War II Germany which are controlling a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea. This was a groundbreaker in the Special Effects department, too. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Special Effects….
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Gun Fury
A Civil War veteran becomes a pacifist and plans for a peaceful future out West. But when his future bride is kidnapped from a stagecoach he seeks bloody revenge….
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Bitter Victory
Nicholas Ray’s (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) masterpiece of anti-war sentiment is one of his lesser-known films, but it is nonetheless possessed of a subtle complexity and existential ambiguity that render it one of his most poignant. Set during WWII and unfolding mostly in the deserts of Libya, the film establishes a rivalry between its two main characters from the very beginning. The charismatic Captain James Leith (Richard Burton, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF) and his cowardly superior, Major Dav…
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The Way To The Stars
Anthony Asquith’s THE WAY TO THE STARS is an outstanding drama set during the Second World War. When a deserted airfield in rural England becomes a bustling fighter command base, Americans arrive to join the Royal Air Force and help turn the tide of war. Various conflicts and relationships arise from this combination of Yanks and Brits, as the friendship of British pilots David Archdale (Michael Redgrave) and Peter Penrose (John Mills) is threatened by American flying ace Johnny Hollis (Douglas…
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Battle Of Britain/The Train (2 Disc)
Double bill bring together two quintessential war movie favourites. Features BATTLE OF BRITAIN and THE TRAIN….
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The Great Escape/Attack (2 Disc)
Two of the finest World War II films come together for this exciting double bill ? ATTACK and THE GREAT ESCAPE….
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The Cowboys (Deluxe Edition)
After his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush, aging, leather-tough rancher Will Anderson (John Wayne) resorts to hiring 11 schoolboys to help him on a 400-mile cattle run. Setting off with the boys and an eloquent but equally tough black cook (Roscoe Lee Browne), Anderson must get his cattle to their destination while contending with the wilderness and a psychotic, vengeful ex-con (Bruce Dern) who is out to get him. With an amazingly natural performance by Wayne, this stylized, action-pa…
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Rooster Cogburn/Tall In The Saddle/The War Wagon (Box Set)(3 Disc)
Features the westerns ROOSTER COGBURN, TALL IN THE SADDLE, and THE WAR WAGON….
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Winchester ‘73
In the old west, cowboy Lin McAdam (James Stewart) wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest–which his brother(Stephen McNally)instantly steals. This leads to a rousing series of adventures for McAdam, as he attempts to track down the weapon, which passes through the hands of a number of dangerous people. Meanwhile, Lin must also deal with the cold-blooded murder of his father. Seeking vengeance, the cowboy sets out to find the killer. When he does, the two men match…
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The Far Country
One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the ’50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his pay-off for his trouble is double-cross and violence….
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Joe Kidd
Clint Eastwood stars as the title character in this low-key, moderately politicised variation of his spaghetti westerns. In New Mexico in the late 1890s, the fiery Louis Chama (John Saxon) leads a group of Mexican-American peasants in a fight for their land after the evidence of their ownership has been destroyed in a questionable courthouse fire. The wealthy Frank Harlan (Robert Duvall), who also lays claim to the disputed land, has decided to bypass the legal system and hires a group of killer…
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Two Mules For Sister Sara
Starring Clint Eastwood as mercenary gunfighter Hogan, TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA opens with its star saving a naked women from being gang-raped. He’s more than a little surprised when the attractive woman, Sister Sara (Shirley McLaine), dons a habit. It seems she’s deeply committed to a group of Mexican revolutionaries fighting against the French. Hogan agrees to escort her to the camp, since he’s interested in helping them attack the French garrison, if the money is right. As they travel, Hogan…
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Destry Rides Again
A town deputy who dislikes guns is asked to sort out the unrest in a ‘frontier town’ called Bottle Neck. A saloon girl called Frenchy soon takes his fancy….
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Shenandoah
A principled Virginia farmer tries to keep his family safe from the tumult of the Civil War by withdrawing into pacifism and isolation. Though strongly opposed to slavery, his reluctance to fight keeps him from joining forces with Union soldiers. But when his youngest son is kidnapped by the Union soldiers, the landsman is finally pulled into the bloody conflict….
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Black Brigade
Captain Carter (Stephen Boyd) is an officer in World War II who must lead a troop on a suicide mission into Nazi territory. Carter is white, and the unit he is assigned is Company B, an all-Black unit that has seen no action other than digging graves and latrines. Carter has two days to get the unit into shape for Operation London Bridge. Among the cast are early performances by Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams and Rosie Grier….
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The Eagle Has Landed (Special Edition)
John Sturges’s adaptation of Jack Higgins’s best-selling suspense novel stars Michael Caine as Nazi Col. Kurt Steiner. When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Der Fuhrer. Heinrich Himmler (Donald Pleasence) assigns Col. Max Radl (Robert Duvall) to mastermind the operaton. He enlists the aid of Stei…
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Hondo (Special Edition)
John Wayne takes the title role as half-Indian US Cavalry despatch rider Hondo Lane who must fight his own brethren when he goes to the aid of a young widow and her son living alone in Apache territory….
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