On iPlayer: Westworld
The original Westworld is available on iPlayer over the festive period, probably because it stars Yul Brynner. This 1973 sci-fi/Western is written and directed by Michael “Jurassic Park” Crichton, a […]
Tag Archives: Western
On iPlayer: Paint Your Wagon
Clint Eastwood heads westward in 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon AKA Purty Harry. In a possible attempt to rebottle the success of Oklahoma!, Lerner and Loewe’s (My Fair Lady) musical […]
No Country for Old Men
Did you know there’s an episode of Tom & Jerry where they both commit suicide at the end? I mention this partly because it’s the darkest thing I’ve ever seen […]
Bad Girls
Four prostitutes (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Drew Barrymore and Andie MacDowell) go on the run after killing an assailant in this 1994 Western AKA Thelma and Louisiana. Bad Girls rounds […]
The River of No Return
In covered wagon days, a newly reunited father and son (Cape Fear‘s Robert Mitchum, Tommy Retig) head to the hills for a simple life of farming. But when a gambler […]
North to Alaska
John Wayne plays Sam, a prospector who discovers he’s literally sitting on a goldmine under some land he’s claimed in America’s northernmost territory. He heads north, collecting his friend’s bride-to-be […]
The Unforgiven
A frontier family must defend their home after their adopted sister (Audrey Hepburn) is revealed to have been stolen from a Native American tribe in 1960’s The Unforgiven, a kind […]
Three Amigos
Three silent film stars (Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short) are mistaken for actual gunslingers capable of saving a Mexican village from a local tyrant and of selling a […]
The Sisters Brothers
The Goss brothers meets the Coen brothers in this Western about bickering siblings (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly) chasing another pair of men (Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal) for […]
The Big Trail
This early John Wayne film from 1931 sees a band of pioneers heading out West to start a new town along the Oregon Trail. Together the families traverse dangerous plains […]
