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- Ballad
of Gregorio Cortez
- On June 12, 1901, Gregorio Cortez , a young Mexican family
man, shoots and kills a sheriff in self-defense. For the next
11 days, he eludes an inflamed posse of 600 Texas Rangers in a
450 mile chase across Texas. His manhunt captures the nation's
interest and his eventual trial is tainted by the extreme emotions
of the country. Directed by Robert M. Young. Starring Edward
James Olmos. Based on the book With
a Pistol in His Hand by Americo Paredes. PG
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- Bonnie
and Clyde
- A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based
on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's,
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Directed by Arthur Penn. Starring
Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway. R
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- The
Comancheros
- A Texas Ranger works undercover to foil a notorious gang of
outlaws. Directed by Michael Curtiz & John Wayne. Starring
John Wayne. Based on the book by Paul I. Wellman. NR
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- Dead
Man's Walk
- Before they tamed Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call
were two brash teenaged Texas Rangers, ready for action as fresh-faced
lawmen battling villains on the frontiers of the Old West. Gus
and Call face the wildest adventures of their young lives on the
deadly trail to Santa Fe. After several hundred miles and countless
lives, their fateful showdown will create two courageous Rangers
and one Old West legend. Directed by Yves Simoneau.
Starring David Arquette & Jonny Lee Miller. Based on
the book Dead
Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry. PG-13
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- Lonesome
Dove
- Two former Texas Rangers leave the South Texas town of Lonesome
Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country
of Montana. Directed by Simon Wincer. Starring Robert Duvall
& Tommy Lee Jones. Based on the book Lonesome
Dove by Larry McMurtry. NR
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- The
Lone Ranger and the Lost City Gold
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto fight an outlaw gang's quest for
a hidden treasure belonging to a peaceful Indian tribe. Directed
by Lesley Selander. Starring Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels.
NR
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- Lone
Wolf McQuade
- The story of a hard-driving, beer-drinking lawman whose unorthodox
methods have helped him remain a successful loner. Combines Western
sytle and the martial arts. Directed by Steve Carver. Starring
Chuck Norris & David Carradine. PG
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- Newton
Boys
- Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s.
The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future
in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers.
Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers, and five
years later execute the greatest train robbery in American history.
Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Matthew McConaughey,
Skeet Ulrich, & Ethan Hawke. PG-13
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- The
Outlaw Josey Wales
- A peaceful farmer turns Confederate renegade to avenge the
deaths of his wife and child at the hands of bandits-turned-Union
sympathizers. Directed by & starring Clint Eastwood. Based
on the book Gone
to Texas by Forrest Carter. PG
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- Return
to Lonesome Dove
- After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow
Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs
2500 miles north to the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy,
triumph, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets
there. From Indian battles and deadly gunfights, to broken hearts
and broken dreams, it's another incredible adventure you'll be
able to treasure time and again. Directed by Mike Robe.
Starring Jon Voight & Barbara Hershey. NR
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- The
Searchers
- Ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards is an Indian-hater who
believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young
niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who
massacred her family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the
elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds
something unexpected: his own humanity. Directed by John Ford.
Starring John Wayne. Based on the book The
Searchers by Alan LeMay. NR
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- Streets
of Laredo
- Legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call is hard on the trail of
murderous young train robber Joey Garza. Joined by his sidekick
Pea Eye, Call will wage the fight of his life as he battles to
bring his quarry to justice - and bring himself and those riding
with him out of the wilderness alive. Directed by Joseph Sargent.
Starring James Garner, Sissy Spacek, & Sam Shepard.
Based on the book Streets
of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. NR
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- Texas
- In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling
in the Mexican province of Mexico. As the years go by, political
conflicts between the settlers and the Mexican government are
escalating which would lead to war and Texan independence. Directed
by Richard Lang. Starring Patrick Duffy, Stacy Keach, &
John Schneider. Based on a book Texas
by James A. Michener. NR
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- Texas
Rangers
- In 1875, after the Civil War, Leander McNelly organizes the
Texas Rangers to battle the outlaws terrorizing Texas , notably
crime kingpin John King Fisher. With a team of experienced gunmen
and enthusiastic but green recruits, McNelly and his Rangers bring
law and order to the wild Texas plains. McNelly must also keep
order among his charges when two rangers fall in love with the
same woman. Directed by Steve Miner. Starring James Van
Der Beek, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher, & Dylan McDermott.
Based on the book Taming
of the Nueces Strip: the story of McNelly's Rangers by George
Durham as told to Clyde Wantland. PG-13
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- The
Town that Dreaded Sundown
- In 1946, the joy and relief over the ending of World War II
and the happiness over the prosperity that followed were destroyed
by five unsolved brutal murders in Texarkana, Texas, by a masked
madman who eluded capture by the Texas Rangers. Directed by Charles
B. Pierce. Starring Ben Johnson & Andrew Pine. R
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- True
Grit
- U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl
to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest
egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on
the reward, and accompanies them on the quest. Directed by Henry
Hathaway. Starring John Wayne, Glen Campbell, & Kim
Darby. Based on the book by Charles Portes. G
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