Western

• The King of Texas | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Modern interpretation of the William Shakespeare play 'King Lear' starring Patrick Stewart and Colm Meaney. Set in 19th century Texas, John Lear (Stewart) is a wealthy cattle baron with three daughters. In his later years Lear decides to divide his land up between his daughters resulting in disastrous consequences. Marcia Gay Harden, Lauren Holly and Roy Scheider also star.

• Drums Across the River | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Gary Brannon (Audie Murphy) lives quietly with his father Sam (Walter Brennan), an honest homesteader, in the failing gold town of Crown City. While Sam works hard to maintain peace between the local populace and the neighboring Indian Ute tribe, Gary is consumed with hate for them ever since one of their number killed his mother. The Ute's mineral rich territory has become the region's only remaining exploitable resource, and local crook Frank Walker is determined to gain control of the la...

• The John Wayne Cavalry Trilogy | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fort Apache (1948) : After a distinguished military career in the east a rigid and domineering colonel is assigned to the remote western cavalry post of Fort Apache. Viewing this assignment as a demotion he resists the advice of his more experienced captains and learns the hard way that if he doesn't listen his ignorance of the territory will lead to tragedy. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949): As an army captain who's just one campaign away from retirement readies his troops for battle against an Indian tribe his soldiers become involved in a series of more personal confrontations--especially when a lovely lady visits the fort capturing the attention of more than one man. Rio Grande (1950): Lt Col. Yorke (Wayne) heads to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. But Yorke faces his toughest battle when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war he must fight to redeem his honour and save his family.

• Deadly Assassin | DVD | (23/12/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One man fighting machine and guardian of justice Elijah Kane is a force to be reckoned with. But he's also a man desperately trying to put the past behind him after his elite team of crime fighters - The Special Investigations Unit - have been disbanded. That is until the C.I.A manage to persuade him to reprise his role as one of the world's best long-range snipers and to take on one of his deadliest missions yet. A mission that may bring him face to face with his arch nemesis the mysterious public enemy and feared criminal known only as The Ghost. But the more he fits together the pieces of the puzzle and the closer he gets to revealing the true identity of The Ghost the more apparent it is that Elijah Kane has a few lethal secrets of his own.

• The Kentuckian | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Burt Lancaster's one and only feature as star and director, The Kentuckian, has a bedrock American folk tale at its core, but scarcely a clue how to tell it. For all his balletic control as an actor-athlete, Lancaster shows no sense of how a film should move and breathe over an hour and a half, or how to make the characters' growth or changes of mind credible. It's the early 18th century--Monroe is president--and buckskin-clad Lancaster and his son (Donald MacDonald) are lighting out for Texas. "It ain't we don't like people--we like room more." They plan briefly to visit Lancaster's tobacco-dealer brother (John McIntire) in the river town of Humility, and then move on. But there are complications from a long-running feud, and some nasty baiting from a whip-cracking storekeeper (Walter Matthau in his film debut); the need to replace their "Texas money" after buying freedom for a bondservant (Dianne Foster); also the matter of deciding who's prettier, her or the local schoolmarm (Diana Lynn). Lancaster aims for some quaint Americana--a sing-along to the tinkling of a pianoforte, a jaw-dropping riverside production number--and there's one nifty bit of action based on how long it took to reload a flintlock rifle. But mostly this film just lies there in overlit CinemaScope. --Richard T Jameson

• Death Drums Along The River | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £7.00   |  Saving you £5.99 (85.57%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on an Edgar Wallace’s novel ‘Death Drums along the River’ was made on location in Africa and contains some outstanding filming of both scenery and wildlife. While investigating the murder of a fellow police officer in the British West African colony of Gambia ex-patriot Inspector Harry Sanders (Richard Todd) discovers links to a sinister diamond smuggling operation working further up the River Gambia. The evidence points to a clinic run by Dr Schneider (Walter Rilla) and his assistant director Dr Weiss (Albert Lieven). At first Inspector Sanders suspects that a local businessman Jack Pearson is behind the crimes. But when Pearson together with American journalist Jim Hunter are murdered Sanders realises he was mistaken and begins to suspect that the clinic may be the centre of a diamond smuggling ring. Can the Inspector solve both the murder and the centre of the smuggling activity before the River resonates once more to the funeral beat of the ‘Death Drums’?

• Tin Star | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A rugged bounty hunter. A tenderfoot sheriff. Unlikely partners in the Old West. Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins headline The Tin Star a tough-minded character-driven western nominated for an Oscar for its story and screenplay. Perkins plays Ben Ownens a greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long... and who won't live to wear it much longer unless he gets some savvy help. Fonda bringing to this role the presence and plain speaking that made him an icon of the cinematic West

• Peckinpah's West | Blu Ray | (27/02/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alvarez Kelly | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £6.78   |  Saving you £6.21 (91.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alvarez Kelly (1966) doesn't really justify the description of "Western Classic" which Columbia Tristar attach to it, but it's a pleasant enough Western directed by Edward Dmytryk. The rather convoluted plot (adventurer plays one side off against the other on a cattle drive from Mexico during the Civil War) relies heavily on the charm of the two stars, William Holden and Richard Widmark, but the two prove as reliable as ever. There are some so-so action scenes, but it's the battle of wits between the two principals that supplies all the fireworks. By contrast Janice Rule is just adequate as the love interest. On the DVD: It's a good-looking DVD transfer, with a 1:2.35 aspect ratio and Dolby Digital sound. Subtitles are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch and Polish with dubbing into French, German, Italian and Spanish. For extras there are trailers and some filmographies, so partial as to be not much use. --Ed Buscombe

• A Gunfight | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash star as Will and Abe two long-in-tooth gunfighters with nary a dime between them. Although Will and Abe are fast friends they agree to a winner-takeall showdown selling tickets to the momentous event. The townspeople are certain that Will is going to win the shootout but he knows that it would be a fatal mistake to underestimate Abe. Standing on the sidelines is Will's wife Nora who seems curiously disinterested in the outcome even though she may become a widow before the day is over.

• Cowboy | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cowboy is both a sturdy Delmer Daves picture--his third with Glenn Ford, following Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma--and also one of the most offbeat Westerns ever. It must be the most true to form too, with Frank Harris's memoirs as the source and a picaresque screenplay by Edmund H. North and Dalton Trumbo (a blacklistee, credited only posthumously). There's a pileup of oddities and complications at the outset, with Chicago hotel clerk Harris (Jack Lemmon) already in mid-romance with a daughter of the Mexican aristocracy (Anna Kashfi--Mrs Marlon Brando at the time), and Texas cattleman Tom Reese (Ford) storming in to commandeer an entire floor of the hotel for him and his drovers so they can party 'till, well, the cows come home. Partying is curtailed when Reese loses big at cards; Harris bails him out with his savings, and Reese finds he's taken on not only an unwanted partner but a tenderfoot besides. Soon everyone is headed south. Cowboy merits its bedrock title. This is a rare Western in which the job of breaking horses, trail herding, and so on, figures as a dynamic aspect of the storytelling. The film also has a blunt and original way of looking at death, not as a genre convention but as something abrupt, ungainly, and often absurd, in both senses of the word. (This applies equally to men and cattle, by the way.) The camerawork is trim, angular, and somehow precarious, and the jagged editing hustles the very eventful proceedings to a close in barely an hour and a half. Saddle up. --Richard T. Jameson, Amazon.com

• Dances With Wolves (Limited Edition Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (13/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Maya Fiennes - Yoga for Real Beauty | DVD | (07/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  New beginning - new story. This story is one of beauty - ready to ignite. Through the use of powerful asanas, pranyama and mantras, learn how to release negative thoughts and beliefs and watch this beauty rise. Real beauty lies within, you just have to believe in it and yourself. Maya's yoga will take you there and your inner beauty will come alive, leaving you feeling stronger and looking younger. The asanas on this dvd are anti-ageing and will give you a new lease of life. From classical pianist to transformational guru. Maya's revolutionary style of yoga is based on the Kundalini Yoga tradition. Her visible philosophy of good health and living with inner peace and confidence, have made her one of the most in-demand yoga instructors in Europe. Her classes are fun, uplifting and above all inspirational. Maya has grown far beyond the yoga studio, taking her teachings across various mediums, including TV, DVD, CD, events, workshops, retreats and merchandise. Maya is featured daily on TV in several countries around the world, and her first book, Yoga for Real Life, has been translated into several languages and has already sold several tens of thousands copies worldwide.

• Rose Hill - Der Traum vom Wilden Westen | DVD | (12/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Spaghetti Western Collection - A Fistful Of Dollars/The Good, The Bad And The Ugly/For A Few Dollars More | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• 9 Movie Western Collection - Vol. 2 | Blu Ray | (26/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Time for Dying (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The final western from one of the genre's greatest directors, Budd Boetticher (Ride Lonesome), and the last screen appearance of war hero-turned-movie star Audie Murphy (To Hell and Back), A Time for Dying is an offbeat, elegiac look at the Old West, prefiguring Don Siegel's classic western, and John Wayne's final picture, The Shootist. Richard Lapp stars as a young man with fine shooting skills who crosses paths with real-life figures, such as Jesse James (played by Murphy) and Judge Roy Bean (Victor Jory), only to discover the true violence of the West. Beset by post-production and distribution problems, A Time for Dying is overdue the recognition it deserves.

• Tulsa | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  At the start of the oil boom Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power...

• Texas Rising | Blu Ray | (04/04/2016) from £16.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (51.55%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An all-star cast including Bill Paxton, Brendan Fraser, Ray Liotta, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Olivier Martinez, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Chad Michael Murray and Kris Kristofferson bring to life the thrilling, gut-wrenching and inspiring true story of how the state of Texas fought for its freedom from the commanding rule of Mexican General Santa Anna and the formation of America's oldest and most legendary law enforcement agency - The Texas Rangers. Texas 1836, crushed from the outside by Mexican armadas and attacked from within by ferocious Comanche tribes - no one was safe. But this was a time of bravery, a time to die for what you believed in and a time to stand tall against the cruel rule of the Mexican General Santa Anna (Olivier Martinez). The heroic General Sam Houston (Bill Paxton), the rag-tag Rangers and the legendary Yellow Rose of Texas lead this story of the human will to win against insurmountable odds. At the end, the Texas flag stood tall and victorious, claiming a piece of history for all eternity. This is a story of the human spirit rising in the face of insurmountable odds and claiming a piece of history for themselves. There are times in the building of civilisations that men must stand and be counted, or fall and be forgotten. Texas is Rising.

• The Indian Fighter | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Showing why he will forever rank among Hollywood's most virile leading men Kirk Douglas gallops fights and woos his way across the danger-filled prairie in this Western from director Andre DeToth. Douglas plays a frontier scout responsible for a wagon train of settlers headed for Oregon Territory. Though known as an Indian fighter he falls head over moccasins for a proud young Sioux girl. Thus sidetracked he's unaware of the bad blood caused by two gold hungry crooks who trade wh