Vengeance valley

March 23, 2011
Vengeance Valley
Call Number: VHS01558
by: Burt Lancaster; Joanne Dru; Robert Walker; Viking Video Classics (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA., Viking Video Classics ©1986
Notes: Released in 1951. Running Time Aprox 83 mins. 
Summary: Burt Lancaster stars as a rugged cattle ranch overseer charged with keeping an eye on his boss’s wayward son.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: March 23, 2011
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Comes a Horseman

Comes a Horseman

 
Call Number: DVD00739
by: James Caan; Jane Fonda; Jason Robards; Dennis Lynton Clark; Gene Kirkwood; Dan Paulson; Alan J Pakula;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001]
Notes: Originally released in 1978 (118 min.);  Nominated for one 1979 Academy Award;

Summary: A World War II veteran and a woman rancher team up to fight for their land when both are threatened by a greedy cattle baron.
OCLC #: 47933986
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS001325
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Call Number: DVD00706
by: George Roy Hill; Paul Newman; Robert Redford; Katharine Ross; Strother Martin; Jeff Corey; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2000]
Notes: Originally released in 1969 (111 mins); Nominated for seven Academy Awards;
Summary: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West’s most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.
OCLC #: 44096427
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: Available on VHs at VHS00013
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Young Guns II

Young Guns 2

Call Number: DVD00608

by: James G Robinson; Geoff Murphy; John Fusco; Paul Schiff; Irby Smith; Emilio Estevez; Kiefer Sutherland; Lou Diamond Phillips; Christian Slater; William L Petersen; Alan Ruck; Balthazar Getty; Dean Semler; Bruce Green; Alan Silvestri; Jon Bon Jovi; Morgan Creek Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009].
Notes:  Originally released in 1990 (105 mins.); Nominated for one 1991 Academy Award; Special features: Featurette, theatrical trailer
Summary: Billy the Kid and his gang have escaped the hangman, and are on the run to the Mexican border and safety, but must elude pursuing sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy’s one-time friend.
OCLC #: 606626503
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: available on VHS at VHS00867
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Train of Life

March 20, 2011
Train of Life
Call Number: VHS01522
by:  Radu Mihaileanu; Lionel Abelanski; Rufus.; Noe Productions.; Paramount Pictures Corporation;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, ©2000.
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (103 mins).In French with English subtitles.
Summary:The year is 1941, and a tiny Jewish community in France is faced with some shocking news: the Nazis are coming. But Shlomo, the not-so-foolish village idiot, has a plan–before the Germans can dispatch them to camps, the townspeople will “deport” themselves, to freedom.
OCLC #: 44118672
Added: March 20, 2011
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Red River

Red River
Call Number: VHS01515
by:  Howard Hawks; John Wayne; Montgomery Clift; Walter Brennan; Joanne Dru; Coleen Gray; John Ireland; Noah Beery; Harry Carey; Borden Chase; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Monterey Productions.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Culver City, CA] : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Released in 1948(133 mins.) Black and White. Nominated for one 1949 Academy Award.
Summary:With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
OCLC #: 37022554
Added: March 20, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – Western Adventures

March 18, 2011
Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection –Western Adventures
Call Number: DVD00894
by: Robert Redford; John Wayne; Ann-Margret; Rod Taylor; John Rubinstein; Tim McIntire; Dominic Frontiere; William Holden; Ernest Borgnine; Robert Ryan; Edmond O’Brien; Warren Oates; Warren Beatty; Julie Christie; Jerry Fielding; Edmund Naughton; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009];
Notes:  Films Released between 1969 and 1972, (711 mins.) Special features: Disc 1, Side A: “The saga of Jeremiah Johnson” vintage featurette; theatrical trailer. Side B: “Working with a Western legend” featurette; “The Wayne train” featurette; John Wayne movie trailer gallery. — Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by Peckinpah biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; Sam Peckinpah movie trailer gallery. Side B: Commentary by director Robert Altman and producer David Foster; vintage featurette; theatrical trailer.
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Films:
Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
 
The Train Robbers: Mrs. Lowe is a beautiful widow who wants to clear her family’s name by finding and returning the gold her husband stole. Three cowboy buddies sign on to help her. But where there’s gold, there’s sure to be trouble.
 
The Wild Bunch: After a botched robbery attempt in Texas, Pike Bishop and his gang head across the Rio Grande and into Mexico. They are pursued by bounty hunters hired to prevent the gang from robbing the rail depot. Bishop’s gang extend their time in Mexico when they meet a Mexican general who wants them to rob a U.S. train carrying arms.
 
McCabe & Mrs. Miller: John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after and offers to use her experience to help run the business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and mining deposits in the town attract a major corporation wants to buy out McCabe. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for Mrs. Miller, the town, and him.
 
OCLC #: 375581304
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – John Wayne Westerns

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – John Wayne Westerns
Call Number: DVD00892 Copy 1
DVD00892 Copy 2
by: John Wayne; Jeffrey Hunter; Vera Miles; Ward Bond; Natalie Wood; Henry Fonda; Shirley Temple; Pedro Armendáriz; George O’Brien; Victor McLaglen; Anna Lee; Irene Rich; Dick Foran; Guy Kibbee; Grant Withers; Mae Marsh; John Agar; Dean Martin; Rick Nelson; Angie Dickinson; Walter Brennan; John Russell; Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez; Estelita Rodriguez; Roscoe Lee Browne; Bruce Dern; Colleen Dewhurst; Frank S Nugent; John Ford; Jules Furthman; Leigh Brackett; Dimitri Tiomkin; Howard Hawks; John Williams; Irving Ravetch; Harriet Frank; William Dale Jennings; Mark Rydell;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009];
Notes:  Films Released between 1948 and 197, (431 mins.) Special features: disc [1], side A. Commentary by director, Peter Bogdanovich; disc [1], side B. Featurette, Monument Valley: John Ford country; theatrical trailer; disc [2], side A. Director, John Carpenter and historian/critic, Richard Schickel; John Wayne movie trailer gallery; disc [2], side B. Featurettes, The cowboys: together again and The breaking of boys and the making of men; theatrical trailer.
Ride the high country: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Title from container.
Films:
The Searchers – A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother’s daughter.
Fort Apache – A calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
Rio Bravo – A Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
The Cowboys – A rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines.
OCLC #: 327431576
Added: March 18, 2011
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Greatest Classic Films Collection – Westerns

Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection – Westerns   
Call Number: DVD00893
by: Andrew J Fenady; Andrew V McLaglen; John Wayne; Forrest Tucker; Christopher George; Ben Johnson; Alvin Sargent; Wendell Mayes; Alan J Pakula; Robert Mulligan; Theodore V Olsen; Gregory Peck; Eva Marie Saint; Robert Forster; Noland Clay; Sam Peckinpah; Gordon Carroll; Rudolph Wurlitzer; James Coburn; Kris Kristofferson; Bob Dylan; Jason Robards; N B Stone; Richard E Lyons; Randolph Scott; Joel McCrea; Mariette Hartley; Warner Home Video (Firm); Warner Bros.; Batjac Productions.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Pakula-Mulligan Productions.);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010];
Notes:  Films Released between 1962 and 1973, (431 mins.) The stalking moon: From the novel “The Stalking Moon” by Theodore V. Olsen. Special features: Commentary by Peckinpah, biographers/documentarians Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle; featurette “A Justified Life: Sam Peckinpah and the High Country”; Sam Peckinpah trailer gallery; theatrical trailer.
Ride the high country: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
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Films:
Chisum: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war–www.imdb.com.
 
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons–his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid–www.imdb.com.
 
The Stalking Moon: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child’s father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable–www.imdb.com.
 
Ride the High Country: An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn’t realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him–www.imdb.com.
 
OCLC #: 642685539
Added: March 18, 2011
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

March 14, 2011
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Call Number: DVD01191 Copy 1
DVD01191 Copy 2
DVD01191 Copy 3
by: John Huston; Henry Blanke; Humphrey Bogart; Walter Huston; Tim Holt; Bruce Bennett; Barton MacLane; Alfonso Bedoya; Ted McCord; Owen Marks; Max Steiner; B Traven; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment Co. : Warner Home Video, 2010.
Notes: Originally released as motion picture in 1948. Running Time Aprox 126 min. Based on the novel by B. Traven. DVD release date: Nov. 16, 2010. Special features: feature-length commentary by Eric Lax, co-author of Bogart; Warner night at the movies 1948, introduced by Leonard Maltin; Key Largo theatrical trailer, newsreel, comedy short “So you want to be a detective”, Merrie Melodies cartoon “Hot cross bunny”; Humphrey Bogart trailer gallery. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1949.
Summary: Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune.
OCLC #: 681925425, 54505537
Added: March 14, 2011
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You Know My Name

February 2, 2011
You Know My Name
Call Number: DVD00606
by  John Kent Harrison; Andrew Gottlieb; Sam Elliott; Arliss Howard; Carolyn McCormick; Ancient Mariner Films (Firm); Turner Network Television.; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2006.
Notes: Approx. 94 min. Originally released as a TV motion picture in 1999. Special feature: featurette Law makers of the West with writer/director John Kent Harrison. Not Rated.
Summary: Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp, confronts a new era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are as likely to tote a tommy gun as a six-gun.
OCLC #: 69672438
Added: February 2, 2011
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Stagecoach

November 23, 2010
Stagecoach
Call Number: DVD01162
by Walter Wanger; Dudley Nichols; John Ford; Claire Trevor; John Wayne; Andy Devine; John Carradine; Thomas Mitchell; Louise Platt; George Bancroft; Donald Meek; Berton Churchill; Tim Holt; Tom Tyler; Alexander Toluboff; Bert Glennon; Boris Morros; Richard Hageman; W Franke Harling; Louis Gruenberg; John M Leipold; Leo Shuken; Otto Lovering; Dorothy Spencer; Walter Plunkett; Frank Maher; Jim Kitses; Peter Bogdanovich; Dan Ford; H G Bissinger; Vic Armstrong; Tag Gallagher; David Cairns; Ernest Haycox; United Artists Corporation.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010].
Notes:  Originally released as a motion picture in 1939 (96 mins). Based on the original story “Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox. Academy Award, 1940: Best supporting actor (Thomas Mitchell); Best music, scoring. Special features: Disc 1. Commentary with film historian, Jim Kitses; Original theatrical trailer. Disc 2. “Bucking Broadway” John Ford silent film (1917); John Ford interview; “Peter Bogdanovich” offers his thoughts on Stagecoach; “Dreaming of Jeanie” video essay by Tag Gallagher; “John Ford home movies” interview with grandson Dan Ford; “True West” video interview with Buzz Bissinger; “Yakima Canutt” stuntsman Vic Armstrong discusses Camutt’s contributions to filmmaking; “Screen director’s playhouse” radio adaptation of Stagecoach broadcast Jan. 9, 1949 with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Booklet: “Taking the stage” by David Cairns; “Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox.;
Summary: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
OCLC #: 611239815
Added: November 23, 2010
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The Hanged Man

November 9, 2010
The Hanged Man
Call Number: VHS01431
by Steve Forrest; Will Geer; Dean Jagger; Barbara Luna; Andrew J Fenady; Ken Trevey; Questar Productions.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  [S.l.] : Questar Productions, 1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1974 (100 mins.);
Summary: Devlin, the gunfighter that wouldn’t die, comes to the aid of a mining family in a fight against a ruthless mining baron.
OCLC #: 61678420
Added: November 9, 2010
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The Son-of-a-Gun

November 4, 2010
The Son-of-a-Gun
Call Number: DVD00497
by “Broncho Billy” Anderson; A.E. Whiting; Mrs. A.E. Whiting; Joy Lewis; Paul Willis & Fred Church Director: Jesse J. Robbins
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   Alpha Video, 2010
Notes: Originally released in 1919 (51 Minutes)
Summary: A young man is lured into a cardgame by a crooked dealer. He is about to lose all the money that was given to him to get medicine for his mother when a local cowboy comes to his rescue.
OCLC #: 089218641694
Added: November 4, 2010
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Abilene Town

Abilene Town
Call Number: DVD00626
by Randolph Scott; Ann Dvorak; Edgar Buchanan; Rhonda Fleming; Lloyd Bridges; Edwin L. Marin
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   Alpha Video, 2010
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (1 Hour, 29 Minutes)
Summary: A range war erupts between homesteaders and cattlemen in this all star western classic.
OCLC #: 426062838
Added: November 4, 2010
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The Toll Gate

The Toll Gate
Call Number: DVD00540
by William S. Hart; Lambert Hillyer
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   Alpha Video, 2010
Notes: Originally released in 1934 (1 Hour, 10 Minutes)
Summary: A noble desperado seeks revenge when he is betrayed by a former gang-member in this classic silent Western.
OCLC #: 173698339
Added: November 4, 2010
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The Gatling Gun

The Gatling Gun
Call Number: DVD00863
by Guy Stockwell; Robert Fuller; John Carradine Barbara Luna; Woody Strode; Patrick Wayne; Robert Gordon
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:   Alpha Video, 2010
Notes: Originally released in 1973 (1 Hour, 26 Minutes)
Summary: When the cavalry tries to transport their prize weapon–a powerful, new gun called the Gatling–to their fort, they find themselves at odds with a local Apache tribe who wants the gun to protect their land.
OCLC #: 54938723
Added: November 4, 2010
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Rooster Cogburn

November 2, 2010
Rooster Cogburn … and the Lady
Call Number: DVD00441
by John Wayne; Katharine Hepburn; Stuart Millar; Richard Jordan; Anthony Zerbe; John McIntire; Paul Koslo; Richard Romancito; Tommy Lee; Strother Martin; Martin Julien; Laurence Rosenthal; Paul Nathan; Hal B Wallis; Charles Portis; Universal Pictures Corporation.; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher:  Universal City, Calif. : MCA Universal Home Video, ©1998.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975 (108 mins). Suggested by the character ‘Rooster Cogburn’ from the novel ‘True Grit’ by Charles Portis
Summary: A rough-edged deputy marshall teams up with a strait-laced missionary to track down a band of murdering bank robbers. During the pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty reverend’s daughter.
OCLC #: 45656579
Added: November 2, 2010
Also: see the original “True Grit” at VHS00965
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Lone Star

November 1, 2010
Lone Star
Call Number: DVD01009
by John Sayles; R Paul Miller; Maggie Renzi; Mason Daring; Ron Canada; Chris Cooper; Clifton James; Kris Kristofferson; Matthew McConaughey; Frances McDormand; Joe Morton; Elizabeth Peña; Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm); Rio Dulce, Inc.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, ©1999.
Notes: Orignally released Motion Picture 1996 (135 mins). Includes original theatrical trailer.
Summary: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
OCLC #: 43186091
Added: November 1, 2010
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Heaven’s Gate

October 28, 2010
Heaven’s Gate
Call Number: DVD00909
by Michael Cimino; Joann Carelli; Kris Kristofferson; Christopher Walken; John Hurt; Sam Waterston; Brad Dourif; Isabelle Huppert; Joseph Cotten; Jeff Bridges; United Artists Corporation.; Partisan Productions.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., ©2000.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1980 (209 mins).
Summary: Michael Cimino’s bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love, Ella Watson. Both men find themselves questioning their roles in the furious conflict between wealthy landowners and European immigrants attempting to build new lives on the American frontier, which culminates in a brutal pitched battle.
OCLC #: 44158074
Added: October 28, 2010
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