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[IMG] Titles: A | B | C | D | E-F | G | H | I-J | K-L | M | N-O | P-R | S | T | U-Z [IMG] [IMG] Movies, Race & Ethnicity: Native Americans [IMG] [IMG] Bibliography of works on John Ford [IMG] Images of Native Americans bibliography [IMG] [IMG] The Alamo (1960) Directed by John Wayne. Cast: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Richard Boone, Linda Cristal, Joan O'BrienFilm depicts a pivotal event in American history - the battle of the Alamo when 185 "Texans" stood against a 7,000-man Mexican army. The battle ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas. 202 min. DVD X1033; vhs 999:921:1&2 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Andreychuk, Ed. American frontiersmen on film and television : Boone, Crockett, Bowie, Houston, Bridger, and Carson Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005. (MAIN: PN1995.9.P487 A53 2005) Farnsworth, Rodney. "John Wayne's epic of contradictions." Film Quarterly; Winter98/99, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p24, 11p [IMG]UC users only Thompson, Frank. "Reprinting the Legend: The Alamo on Film." Film & History May2006, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p20-25, 6p[IMG]UC users only The Alamo (2004) Directed by John Lee Hancock. Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Jordi Molla, Emilio Echevarria, Marc Blucas, Leon Rippy. Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie - retreat within the walls of the Alamo, a Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort. Once inside, the men prepare themselves for what will be a bloody battle to the death. U.S. General Sam Houston leads the charge from the outside. The Texans held the fort for 13 days under siege by General Santa Anna. 136 min. DVD 3008 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Movie Review Query Engine Andreychuk, Ed. American frontiersmen on film and television : Boone, Crockett, Bowie, Houston, Bridger, and Carson Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005. (MAIN: PN1995.9.P487 A53 2005) Corkin, Stanley. "The Alamo." Journal of American History; Dec2005, Vol. 92 Issue 3, p1086-1088, 3p[IMG]UC users only Miller, Randall M. "The Alamo/Remember The Alamo." American Historical Review; Apr2005, Vol. 110 Issue 2, p485-486, 2p[IMG]UC users only Niemi, Robert. "The Alamo (2004)" In: History in the media : film and television Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2006. (MAIN: PN1995.9.H5 N54 2006) Thompson, Frank. "Reprinting the Legend: The Alamo on Film." Film & History May2006, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p20-25, 6p[IMG]UC users only The American Cinema: The Western Cast: clips and critical commentary on films from John Ford's seminal Stagecoach (1939), Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992) through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, and other important directors, the program traces the aesthetic evolution of the Western film as well as the sociological importance of the genre. 1994. 55 min. DVD 371; vhs Video/C 3712 The American West of John Ford . John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda offer personal anecdotes from their experiences working with director John Ford. Includes interviews with Ford, as well as lengthy clips from his classic westerns and a discussion of his various works. Features Andy Devine in a special cameo role. 1971. 60 min. Video/C MM532 Annie Oakley (The Golden Years of Television) Cast: Gail Davis, Jimmy Hawkins, Kenneth MacDonald, Brad Johnson, Robert B. Williams. Contents: Sharpshooting Annie (28 min.) -- Hardrock Trail (26 min.) Two episodes from the 1950's television adventure series about the legendary sharpshooter, Annie Oakley. In the first program Annie solves a robbery of money raised for charity taken by the manager of "Bill's Wonder Show." In the second program Vic Carver escapes jail and sets out to get revenge on the man who got him locked up, Annie's Uncle Luke, but Annie hatches a plot to send Uncle Luke out of town and away from trouble ... she thinks. Program originally telecast the 1950's. 55 min. Video/C 6786 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Directed by Andrew Dominik. Cast: Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooklynn Proulx, Dustin Bollinger, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Sam Shepard, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Schneider. Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal and is being hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. No one knows of Robert Ford, at least not yet. But the ambitious 19-year-old aims to change that. He befriends Jesse and rides with his gang. And if that doesn't bring Ford fame, he will have to find a deadlier way. Friendship becomes rivalry and the quest for fame becomes obsession. Based on the novel by Ron Hansen. 159 min. DVD 9280 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Combs, Richard. "Broken Trail Super-Westerns: New Whiskey in Old Bottles." Film Comment; Jan/Feb2009, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p45-47, 3p [IMG]UC users only To the top The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1969) Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Peter Whitney, R.G. Armstrong. Left to die by his two prospecting partners, Cable Hogue starts his long walk across the parched Arizona landscape. After a few dry days, he can barely crawl but then he finds something more precious than gold: a water hole. Hogue settles in and makes his fortune selling water to thirsty travelers, and patiently waits for the desert rats who betrayed him to drop by for a drink. 122 min. DVD 5015; vhs 999:916 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914) Directed by D.W. Griffith. Cast: Blanche Sweet, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Lionel Barrymore. Mae Marsh and her little sister meet Lillian Gish and her family on the stagecoach bound for the frontier settlement of Elderbush Gulch. The girls' arrival is welcomed with enthusiasm until the ranch foreman for their uncle, with whom they've come to live, refuses to let them keep their puppies in the house. Left outside, the pups run away and fall into the hands of two young Indians who, amazed at their good fortune, prepare to eat them. Marsh's screams alert her uncle, who comes running with his gun and shoots one of the braves. Unfortunately, the victim turns out to be the son of the chief. To avenge the death of his son, the chief organizes an attack on Elderbush Gulch. 29 min. DVD 1545; DVD 1399; VHS 999:568, 999:569; 999:604 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Bend of the River (1952) Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julia Adams, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson, Jay C. Flippen. Glyn McLyntock has taken a job leading settlers west. He is helped by Emerson Cole, a man with a shady past whom McLyntock saves from a lynching. The homesteaders set up home a few days from Portland, but when McLyntock goes to collect their winter supplies he finds a town gone gold crazy. Can he get the food back to the settlers, and can he still count on Cole? 92 min. DVD 9919 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Basinger, Jeanine. "Mann of the West." In: Anthony Mann Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2007. (PFA : PN1998.3.M36 B37 2007) Boyer, Jay. "The Collapse of Fantasy: Masculinity in the Westerns of Anthony Mann." In: The book of westerns / edited by Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. New York : Continuum, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996) Kitses, Demetrius John. Horizons West; Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: studies of authorship within the western Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1970, c1969] (MOFF: PN1995.9.W4 K5; PFA : PN1995.9.W4 K5 1970) Pye, Douglas. "The Collapse of fantasy: masculinity in the westerns of Anthony Mann." In: The book of westerns / edited by Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. New York : Continuum, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Bancroft PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996) The Big Country (1958) Directed by William Wyler. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors, Alfonso Bedoya. A sea captain trades the expanse of the oceans for the open range of the West and grows to regret his choice as he and his neighbor feud over water rights. Peace is achieved only after the deaths of both family heads. 168 min. 999:766:1&2 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] Blazing Saddles (1974) Directed by Mel Brooks. Cast: Mel Brooks, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Claude Ennis Starrett Jr., Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman. In this spoof on western films the new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town. DVD includes a new, exclusive 55-minute interview with Mel Brooks. 148 min. DVD 891 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Crick, Robert Alan. The big screen comedies of Mel Brooks Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2002. (MAIN: PN2287.B695 C75 2002) Gehring, Wes D. "Everyone's Going West." In: Parody as film genre "never give a saga an even break". Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999. (Available online - UCB users only; also MAIN: PN1995.9.C55 G426 1999; MOFF: PN1995.9.C55 G426 1999) Golden, Daniel. "Blazing Saddles: Heading 'Em Off at the Cliche." Jump Cut, no. 3, pp. 3-4, Sept 1974 Turner, Matthew R. "Cowboys and Comedy: The Simultaneous Deconstruction and Reinforcement of Generic Conventions in the Western Parody." Film & History; Sep2003, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p48-54, 7p [IMG]UC users only Winchell, Mark Royden. "God, man, and Hollywood : politically incorrect cinema from "The birth of a nation" to "The Passion of the Christ"." Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2008. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S6.W53 2008; PFA PN1995.9.S6.W53 2008) Yacowar, Maurice. Method in madness : the comic art of Mel Brooks New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981 (MAIN: PN2287.B695 .Y3) Broken Arrow (1950) Directed by Delmer Daves. Cast: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer. Amidst the bitter struggle between white men and Apache Indians Calvary scout, Tom Jeffords, believes the Indians are treated unfairly. He befriends Cochise, the leader of the Apaches, and arranges a truce but is then called upon by a U.S. Army general to negotiate a peace treaty. After fulfilling his mission however, he, his Indian wife and Cochise are targets of a renegade ambush. Special features: Fox Movietonenews "Stars see 'new' 50-star flag, Broken arrow ceremony;" interactive pressbook gallery; exclusive poster gallery; original theatrical trailer. 93 min. DVD 8475; vhs 999:1444 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] Broncho Billy's Sentence (1915) Directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson. Cast: "Bronco Billy" Anderson, True Boardman, Ernest Van Pelt, Carl Stockdale, Evelyn Selbie, Harry Todd. The sixth in a series of rare silent films from the early film-making period of 1911-1915. In this one-reeler Western a wounded robber is taken in by a preacher and his wife, repents, and returns the money he stole. Special feature: Broncho Billy's NIles, California: then and now: Views of Niles as it was in Broncho Billy's day and in our own, set to the tune of Nell Wright Slaughter's "The Broncho Billy rag" (1914). DVD 8450 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Bronz Buckeroo (1939) Directed by Richard C. Kahn. Cast: Herbert Jeffrey, Lucius Brooks, Artie Young, F.E. Miller, Spencer Williams, Jr., Clarence Brooks. Bob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson's ranch to find him missing. While Slim cheats Dusty out of his money using ventriloquism and marked cards, Blake tries to find Jackson. Learning that Thorne and his gang are holding him prisoner, he and his men trail them. When Thorne's gang gets the drop on them, Slim puts his ventriloquism to work. Filmed with an all Black cast and crew. 56 min. DVD 4995; vhs 999:2211 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Leyda, Julia. "Black-Audience Westerns and the Politics of Cultural Identification in the 1930s." Cinema Journal. 42(1):46-70. 2002 [IMG]UC users only Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) Directed by Budd Boetticher. Cast: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley, Jennifer Holden. On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of them, Buchanan finds himself against the whole family. 79 min. DVD X572 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dibb, Mike. "A Time and a place: Budd Boetticher and the western." In: The book of westerns / edited by Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. New York : Continuum, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Bancroft PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996) Kitses, Demetrius John. Horizons West; Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: studies of authorship within the western Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1970, c1969] (MOFF: PN1995.9.W4 K5; PFA : PN1995.9.W4 K5 1970) Wicking, Christopher. "Budd Boetticher." Screen 1969 10: 9-31 [IMG]UC users only Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or, Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) Directed by Robert Altman. Cast: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Geraldine Chaplin, Burt Lancaster, Frank Kaquitts. Chronicles the travels and adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody, the legendary Western adventurer. Although Buffalo Bill had fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing could prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His "Wild West Show" was hugely popular, Cast: stunt-riders, battle recreations and a beautiful sharpshooter, Annie Oakley. But when Bill signed a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role in the show, a clash of cultures reverberated far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. 123 min. DVD 4269; vhs 999:1641 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Directed by George Roy Hill. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, Henry Jones. One of the most successful Westerns ever made, this film captures the legend of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and their bandit companions known as "the hole-in-the-wall" gang. 110 min. DVD 7833; vhs 999:918 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Movie Review Query Engine To the top By the Sun's Rays (1914) Directed by Tod Browning. Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon. DVD 2214 Cat Ballou(1965) Director Elliot Silverstein. Cast:Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat King Cole, Stubby Kaye. Cat(herine) Balou's family farm is being threatened by the railroad. She hires a has-been gunfighter Kid Shelleen, but finds him to be the drunkest gunfighter in the West. When her father is killed by the railroad magnate's gunman, she vowes to fight on. 96 min. DVD X857 Credits and information from the Internet Movie Database Chato's Land (1971) Directed by Michael Winner. Cast: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Ralph Waite, Richard Jordan, Victor French, Richard Basehart. Chato, a half-breed Apache, kills a vicious sheriff in self defense and then finds himself on the run from a posse, but the odds shift in Chato's favor when he leads his pursuers into Apache territory, where the harsh, cruel land can kill as surely as a gunman's bullet. Using his sharp wits, raw courage and ferocious determination, Chato exacts his brutal revenge, as the hunters become the hunted. 93 min. 999:1959 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cheyenne Autumn (1964) Directed by John Ford. Cast: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban, Dolores Del Rio, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Kennedy, James Stewart. True life story of three hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, who set out in the Autumn of 1878 on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. 158 min. DVD 5658; vhs 999:459 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) Directed by Gene Kelly. Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Elaine Devry. Saddle-weary Texan cowboys are surprised to find they've inherited a Wyoming brothel and must defend it against a gun-wieding gang. 102 min. DVD 6171 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cimarron (1931) Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Cast: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier, Jr., Rosco Ates, George E. Stone, Stanley Fields, Robert McWade, Edna May Oliver, Nancy Dover, Eugene Jackson. Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie, opening with the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice. 123 min. DVD 5091 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Smyth, J. E. "The New Western History in 1931: RKO and the Challenge of Cimarron." In: Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2005. (MAIN: PN1995.9.W4 H58 2005; BANC: PN1995.9.W4 H58 2005) The Cisco Kid. Vol. 1, Quarterhorse (TV, 1950). The Postmaster (1956). (195?) "Here's adventure! Here's romance! Here's O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the Old West." Here's typical, sappy, "Frito Bandito" stereotyping from 1950's TV! Starring Duncan Ronaldo and Leo Carillo (as befuddled sidekick Pancho). In this first television series to be produced in color, The Cisco Kid as the "Robin Hood of the Old West", stops treachery with incredible stunts and ingenuity with help from his sidekick, Pancho. In Quarterhouse Cisco recovers a valuable stolen racing horse. In The Postmaster a U.S. postal inspector who is investigating robberies is murdered and Cisco must unravel a mystery to apprehend the killer. Starring Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Virginia Herrick, Tris Coffin (1st work). Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Maris Wrixon, Edward Keane (2nd work). 999:1354 The Cisco Kid Cast: Duncan Renaldo (Cisco Kid), Leo Carrillo. The Cisco Kid was well known to audiences from numerous films long before the television series. The Cisco Kid and his English-mangling sidekick Pancho traveled the old west in the grand tradition of righting wrongs and fighting injustice wherever they found it, ending each episode with the exclamations, "Hey, Poncho, Hey, Cisco!". Segment from a television program originally produced 1950-1956. DVD 9645 Comanche Station (1960) Directed by Budd Boetticher. Cast: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier. Loner Cody trades with the Comanches to get a white girl released. He is joined on his way back to the girl's husband by an outlaw and his sidekicks. It turns out there is a large reward for the return of the girl, and with the Indians on the warpath and the outlaw being an old enemy of Cody's, things are set for several showdowns. 73 min. DVD X572 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kitses, Demetrius John. Horizons West; Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: studies of authorship within the western Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1970, c1969] (MOFF: PN1995.9.W4 K5; PFA : PN1995.9.W4 K5 1970) Wicking, Christopher. "Budd Boetticher." Screen 1969 10: 9-31 [IMG]UC users only Cowboy (1958) Directed by Delmer Daves. Cast: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York, Victor Manuel Mendosa, Richard Jaeckel, James Westerfield. Tempers flare and fists fly in this action-packed sagebrush classic based on the real-life adventures of a tenderfoot turned tough cattleman. Based on the book "My reminiscences as a cowboy" by Frank Harris. 92 min. DVD 4272 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Walker, Michael. "The Westerns of Delmer Daves." In: The book of westerns / edited by Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. New York : Continuum, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Bancroft PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996) The Cowboy (1968) Directed by Abe Wexler. Cast: Bob Steele, Josie Sedgwick, Carmen Laroux, Julian Rivero, Robert Homans. A spoof produced in 1968 by adding Yiddish dialogue to a shortened version of the film "Son of Oklahama", a 1932 Hollywood western. The plot centers around a cowboy new to town unjustly accused of theft, who helps to solve the crime and discovers the identity of his parents. Dubbed into Yiddish. 12 min. 999:3765 To the top Dances With Wolves (1990) Directed by Kevin Costner. Cast: Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant. Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort, where a sioux tribe is his only neighbor. 181 min. DVD 1693; vhs 999:480 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Movie Review Query Engine [IMG] Dark Command(1940) Director, Raoul Walsh. Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George (Gabby) Hayes, Marjorie Main, Porter Hall, Raymond Walburn. When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas just prior to the civil war he gets the opportunity to run for marshal. Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash. 94 min. vhs 999:3826 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Days of Heaven(1996) Directed by Terrence Malick. Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz. A moving story about two men who love the same woman. A fugitive from the slums of Chicago finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby. 93 min. DVD 7436 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The cinema of Terrence Malick : poetic visions of America / edited by Hannah Patterson.London ; New York : Wallflower, 2003. (MAIN: PN1998.3.M3388 C56 2003; PFA : PN1998.3.M3388 C56 2003) Crofts, Charlotte. "From the 'hegemony of the eye' to the 'hierarchy of perception': The reconfiguration of sound and image in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven." Journal of Media Practice, 2001, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p19, 11p; McGettigan, Joan. "Interpreting a man's world: Female voices in Badlands and Days of Heaven." Journal of Film and Video. Winter 2001. Vol. 52, Iss. 4; p. 33 (11 pages) Mellen, Joan, "Spiraling Downward: America in Days Of Heaven, In the Valley of Elah, and No Country For Old Men." Film Quarterly; Spring2008, Vol. 61 Issue 3, p24-31, 8p, 4 bw[IMG]UC users only Morrison, James. The films of Terrence Malick Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003. (MAIN: PN1998.3.M3388 M67 2003) Wondra, Janet. "Marx in a Texas Love Triangle: "Marrying Up" and the Classed Gaze in Days of Heaven." Journal of Film and Video. Winter 2005. Vol. 57, Iss. 4; pg. 3, 15 pgs [IMG]UC users only Zucker, Carole. "'God don't even hear you,' or paradise lost: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven"" Literature/Film Quarterly. 2001. Vol. 29, Iss. 1; p. 2 (8 pages)[IMG]UC users only Dead Man's Walk(TV, 1996) Cast: David Arquette, Jonny Lee Miller, F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Patricia Childress, Brian Dennehy, Edward James Olmos, Eric Schweig, Harry Dean Stanton. The prequel to Lonesome Dove is set in the Texas Republic in the early 1840s, a time when Anglo, Hispanic, and Commanche cultures were in fierce conflict. Shows Gus and Call on a deadly trail to Santa Fe facing the rigors of nature and the elements, as well as outlaws, bandits, and the notorious Commanche warrior Buffalo Hump. Teleplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana; directed Yves Simoneau. 283 min. DVD 6147 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Deadwood (TV series) Created by David Milch. Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson. SEE TV videography Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Decision at Sundown (1957) Directed by Budd Boetticher. Cast: Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French, Noah Berry. Bart Allison and his pal Sam have come to Sundown seeking vengeance on Tate Kimbrough, who has betrayed Bart's wife. He finds Kimbrough and warns him he is going to kill him but gets pinned down in the livery stable with his friend Sam by Kimbrough's stooge Sheriff and his men. When Sam is shot in the back after being told he could leave safely, some of the townsmen change sides and disarm the Sheriff's men forcing him to face Allison alone. Taking care of the Sheriff, Allison injures his gun hand and must now face Kimbrough left-handed. 77 min. DVD X572 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Kitses, Demetrius John. Horizons West; Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: studies of authorship within the western Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1970, c1969] (MOFF: PN1995.9.W4 K5; PFA : PN1995.9.W4 K5 1970) Wicking, Christopher. "Budd Boetticher." Screen 1969 10: 9-31 [IMG]UC users only Destry Rides Again (1939) Directed by George Marshall. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Brian Donlevy, Mischa Auer, Una Merkel. A tongue-in-cheek western set in the frontier town of Bottleneck about a lawman with an aversion to guns and a cabaret girl at the Bloody Gulch Saloon. 95 min. DVD 5092; also DVD X2067; vhs 999:914 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jacobowitz, Florence. "The Dietrich Westerns: Destry Rides Again and Rancho Notorious." In: The Book of Westerns / edited by Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. pp: 88-98. New York: Continuum, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Bancroft PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996) Dodge City (1939) Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, John Litel, Henry Travers, Henry O'Neill, Victor Jory, William Lundigan, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams. Dodge City, a wide-open cattle town needs a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won't have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that's the West. 100 min. DVD 4017 Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) Directed by John Ford. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver. A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader, his spirited wife, and their struggles in the backwoods of New York state. 103 min. DVD 4090; vhs 999:699 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] Duel in the Sun (1946) Directed by King Vidor. Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford. The hot-blooded son of a Texas land baron and his clear headed, calm brother become rivals when they meet a beautiful half-breed Indian girl who comes to live on their ranch. 138 min. DVD 6689; vhs 999:1358 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] To the top Early Westerns (silent): Part I (1912-1920) Various directors. Contents: Fatherhood of Buck McKee (1912); Sheriff of Stone Gulch (1913); The Man from Nowhere (1914); Man from Tia Juana (1917); Four Gun Bandits (1919); Fight It Out (1920). Buck McKee, Ruth Roland, J. Warren Kerrigan, Vera Sussan, George Perilet, Jack Hoxie, Pete Morrison, Hoot Gibson, Dorothy Wood. 115 min. 999:542 Early Westerns (silent): Part 2 (1912-1920) Directed by George Holt, William Bertram. Contents: Get Your Man (1927); Battling Archie Travers; Extra Man and Milk Fed Lion; Man with a Punch; The Bashful Whirlwind (1925). Cast: Neal Hart, Dick Hatton, Art Acord, Hoot Gibson, Edmund Cobb. 108 min. 999:533 An Eastern Westerner (1920) Director, Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis. A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her. 24 min. DVD 6208; DVD 3160 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database El Dorado (1967) Director, Howard Hawks. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michelle Carey, R.G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Christopher George. Robert Mitchum is J.P. Harrah, an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked "businessmen". John Wayne is Cole Thornton, the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight. Together they try to bring justice to a rancher and his family. 126 min. DVD 8320 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top The Far Country (1954) Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire, Jay C. Flippen, Henry Morgan, Steve Brodie. In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. He believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home. 97 min. DVD 9920 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Basinger, Jeanine. "Mann of the West." In: Anthony Mann Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2007. (PFA : PN1998.3.M36 B37 2007) Boyer, Jay. "The Collapse of Fantasy: Masculinity in the Westerns of Anthony Mann." In: The book of westerns / edited by Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. New York : Continuum, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996) Kitses, Demetrius John. Horizons West; Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: studies of authorship within the western Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1970, c1969] (MOFF: PN1995.9.W4 K5; PFA : PN1995.9.W4 K5 1970) Pye, Douglas. "The Collapse of fantasy: masculinity in the westerns of Anthony Mann." In: The book of westerns / edited by Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. New York : Continuum, 1996. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Moffitt PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996; Bancroft PN1995.9.W4.B66 1996) Firecreek (1968) Directed by Vincent McEveety. Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gary Lockwood, Dean Jagger, Ed Begley, Jay C. Flippen, Inger Stevens. An outlaw preys on small towns, and a $2-a-month lawman must find the courage to stop him. 104 min. DVD 6171 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fistful of Dollars (1964) Directed by Sergio Leone. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, John Wels, W. Lukschy, S. Rupp, Joe Edger. The first of the "spaghetti westerns" Cast: a lean, cold-eyed, cobra-quick gunslinger, a cynical enigmatic loner, the first of the "anti-heroes." 99 min. DVD 4545; vhs 999:276 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Babiak, Peter E.S. "Icons and subversion in the Westerns of Clint Eastwood." CineAction - Spring 2002 p62(7) [IMG]UC users only Sergio Leone bibliography For a Few Dollars More (1965) Directed by Sergio Leone. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte, Josef Egger, Mara Krup. Western drama in which two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader. 131 min. DVD 4547 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Babiak, Peter E.S. "Icons and subversion in the Westerns of Clint Eastwood." CineAction - Spring 2002 p62(7) [IMG]UC users only Sergio Leone bibliography Fort Apache (1948) Directed by John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond. In this drama of war on the American frontier between the Apache Indians and the U.S. Cavalry, a military martinet assumes command of a desert fort where his rigid leadership creates dissension and conflict among his family and staff. 127 min. DVD 5669; vhs 999:1445 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database [IMG] Forty Guns (1957) Directed by Samuel Fuller. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry. Tougher-than-nails landowner Jessica Drummond has ruled over her county in Arizona with such power that even the local sheriff won't stand up to her. And when gunslinger-turned-U.S. marshal Griff Bonnell and his brothers seek to restore law and order, they meet with harsh resistance, that is until Jessica falls in love with Bonnell. But when the man's brother is murdered and the two families become bitter enemies, Jessica's loyalty is divided, and Bonnell faces his biggest moral dilemma : how to avenge his brother's death and still maintain his vow of non-violence. 79 min. DVD 4036 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 4 for Texas (1963) Directed by Robert Aldrich. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono, The Three Stooges. Two gamblers vie for supremacy at the card tables of 1870s Galveston. Though they'd as soon cut each other's throats than cooperate, Zack and Joe are forced to unite against a pair of common enemies: crooked banker Harvey Burden and cold-blooded outlaw/hired-gun Matson. 116 min. DVD 7901 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Frank Borzage Early Films Presents the first three 1915/16 Western movies by and with Frank Borzage. Contents: The pitch o' chance / cinematographer, L. Guy Wilky ; director/script, Frank Borzage (1915, 25 min.) -- The pilgrim / script, Edward A. Kaufman, Frank Borzage ; cinematographer, L. Guy Wilky ; director, Frank Borzage. (1916, 28 min.) -- Nugget Jim's pardner (aka: The calibre of man ; working title: That good for nothing kid) / cinematographer, L. Guy Wilky ; director/writer, Frank Borzage (1916, 25 min.) DVD X782 The Furies (1950) Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, John Bromfield, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka, Louis Jean Heydt, Frank Ferguson, Charles Evans, Movita Casteneda, Craig Kelly, Myrna Dell. "Vance Jeffords (Barbara Stanwyck) is her father's daughter. And what a father! T.C. Jeffords is a cross between King Lear and Captain Bligh. Walter Huston, in his last role, manages to make this egomaniacal tyrant both frightening and likeable. He handily blows nominal leading man and Noir veteran Wendell Corey off this screen, but Stanwyck, in one of her last great performances, matches him in flamboyance and audacity. When he remarries (jilting daughter for Easterner Judith Anderson's fortune) Stanwyck disfigures his new bride with a well thrown scissors! When he hangs her Mexican lover (Gilbert Roland) she embarks on a relentless campaign to ruin him. The film seems to revel in the mutual ruthlessness of father and daughter. It also boasts a vicious turn by Thomas Gomez as "El Tigre, T.C... Jeffords' chief pistolero who is eager to throw the rope over Gilbert Roland's neck. Gomez was fresh from his greatest role in Abraham Polonsky's "Force of Evil." So in love are father and daughter, that although Stanwyck ultimately gains the upper hand and the ability to crush her father, she can't brin