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The Quick and the Dead
: :A mysterious young woman shows up at a fight-to-the-finish gunslinger contest to seek revenge for her father's death years earlier.Genre: WesternsRating: RRelease Date: 2-MAY-2006Media Type: DVD essential video:Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are ...
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High Plains Drifter
: essential video:Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the 'man with no name' theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as 'the Stranger.' He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
: :Clint Eastwood portrays the invincible 'Man With No Name' in a lethal pursuit of $200000 in Confederate money. Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach also star in this renowned western. Year: 1966 Director: Sergio Leone Starring: Clint Eastwood Lee Van Cleef Eli WallachSystem Requirements:Starring: Clint Eastwood Lee Van Cleef Aldo Guiffre and Mario Brega Director: Sergio Leone Produced by Alberto Grimaldi; written by Age Scarpelli Luciano Vincenz; running time of 161 minutes; Closed Captioned. Copyright: 1966 Metro Goldwyn ...
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For A Few Dollars More
: :'The leading icon of a generation' (Roger Ebert) Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood continues his trademark role as the legendary 'Man with No Name' in this second installment of the famous Sergio Leone trilogy. Scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni and featuring Ennio Morricones haunting musical score For A Few Dollars More is a modern classic -- one of the greatest westerns ever made. Eastwood is a keen-eyed quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio the territorys most ...
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Near Dark
: :The word 'vampire' is never mentioned in Near Dark, but that doesn't stop this 1987 cult favorite from being one of the best modern-era vampire films. It put then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow on Hollywood's radar and gave choice roles to Aliens costars favored by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron: Lance Henriksen is the leader of a makeshift family of renegade bloodsuckers, nocturnally seeking victims in rural Oklahoma; his immortal gal pal is Aliens and Terminator 2 alumnus Jenette Goldstein; and ...
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Rancho Deluxe
:Description:Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston star as an oddball team of modern-day cattle rustlers in this quirky, inventive portrait of the no longer wild West (Newsweek). If you're ready for a little not-so-innocent frontier fun, for 'some desire under the elms...some smoldering glances at the OK Corral, then head straight for Rancho Deluxe. Montana's Big Sky country is the setting for this whacked-out western that literally litters the landscape with the crazed descendants of those hardy pioneers whose covered ...
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A Fistful of Dollars
: :A mysterious gunman (Eastwood) has just arrived in San Miguel a grim dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the 'quick-draw' the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs...and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated set-ups showdowns and deadly confrontations.System ...
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Near Dark
: :The word 'vampire' is never mentioned in Near Dark, but that doesn't stop this 1987 cult favorite from being one of the best modern-era vampire films. It put then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow on Hollywood's radar and gave choice roles to Aliens costars favored by Bigelow's ex-husband James Cameron: Lance Henriksen is the leader of a makeshift family of renegade bloodsuckers, nocturnally seeking victims in rural Oklahoma; his immortal gal pal is Aliens and Terminator 2 alumnus Jenette Goldstein; and ...
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
:Description:Get ready for nonstop action when a bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist! But when one of the key crooks wanders into the wrong bar ... and crosses the wrong vampire ... the thieving cohorts one by one develop a thirst for blood to match their hunger for money! Ultimately, the last fully human burglar (Robert Patrick -- THE FACULTY, STRIPTEASE, TERMINATOR 2) is forced to join with his arch ...
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From Dusk Till Dawn
: :From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi, Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded ...
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