Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale star in Sergio Leone’s loving tribute to the myth of the American West, which features Henry Fonda in a rare role as a cold-blooded villain.
Category: western
‘Blazing Saddles’ – Mel Brooks spoofs the western on HBO Max
More than simply a loving spoof of Hollywood westerns, this is one of the funniest movies ever made and one of the most audacious satires of racism to come out of Hollywood.
Tommy Lee Jones in ‘The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’ on Amazon Prime
The directorial of Tommy Lee Jones is an odyssey of a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate.
‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ on HBO Max
Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s classic Civil War epic, arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
What to stream: ‘News of the World’ on HBO Max, the women of ‘Kate’ and ‘On the Verge’ on Netflix, a new ‘Doogie’ on Disney+
Plus ‘Come From Away’ on Apple TV+, ‘LuLaRich’ on Amazon, ‘The Father’ on Starz, ‘Malignant’ on HBO Max, the final season of ‘Lucifer’ on Netflix, and more…
John Wayne is ‘Hondo’ in the classic Louis L’Amour western on Hulu and Paramount+
The leathery frontier drama costars Geraldine Page as a lonely homesteader left alone with her son in the midst of war between the Apaches and the Cavalry.
Clint Eastwood is ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ on Netflix
Eastwood brings warmth and low key humor to his previously cold-blooded revenge-seeking persona in this post-war western, his fifth film as a director.
Jamie Foxx is ‘Django Unchained’ on Netflix and Peacock
In Django Unchained (2012), Quentin Tarantino takes on one of his favorite genres: the spaghetti western, with all its extreme violence, operatic drama, eccentric characters, and brutal portrait of frontier existence. But Tarantino being Tarantino, he doesn’t just make a big, violent, sprawling western filled gunfights and clever talk and driven by revenge and Old […]
Randolph Scott is ‘Seven Men from Now’ on Criterion Channel
Director Budd Boetticher launched a magnificent series of lean, tough westerns with this 1956 classic, a revenge drama costarring a charmingly dangerous Lee Marvin.
‘Drums Along the Mohawk’ – John Ford’s Colonial America on Criterion Channel
John Ford made his Technicolor debut with Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), a stunning pre-western about young settlers in the rich forest lands of the Mohawk Valley during the Colonial era. Claudette Colbert takes top billing as the cultured wife and Henry Fonda is her salt-of-the-Earth husband who takes her out of the city and […]