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Chino
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten
Director: John Sturges
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In New Mexico, circa 1880, a lonesome rancher named Chino decides he's ready to have a family. First he adopts a teenage boy, then goes searching for a spouse. But when Chino meets the love of his life, there's no fairy tale ending. That's because the woman's brother is willing to do anything to ..read more »
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Joe Kidd
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon
Director: John Sturges
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Clint Eastwood stars as the title character in this low-key, moderately politicised variation of his spaghetti westerns. In New Mexico in the late 1890s, the fiery Louis Chama (John Saxon) leads a group of Mexican-American peasants in a fight for their land after the evidence of their ownership has ..read more »
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Marooned
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen
Director: John Sturges
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Gregory Peck stars as Charles Keith, the ground-based supervisor of a crew of astronauts led by mission commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna) conducting a series of endurance tests while in space. When Keith orders the ship to reenter earth's atmosphere, their craft experiences a mechanical problem,..read more »
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Hour Of The Gun
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan
Director: John Sturges
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Marshall Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshall's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
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The Hallelujah Trail
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Martin Landau
Director: John Sturges
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THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL is a slapstick comedy starring Burt Lancaster as cavalry officer Col. Thadeus Gearhart, set just before the winter of 1867, when the boomtown of Denver realizes it's almost run out of whiskey. The perenially drunken Oracle Jones (Donald Pleasence) hatches a plan to bring a ..read more »
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The Great Escape
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Garner
Director: John Sturges
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Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts. The ..read more »
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The Magnificent Seven
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn
Director: John Sturges
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John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach) decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, ..read more »
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Never So Few
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Steve McQueen
Director: John Sturges
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Captain Tom Reynolds (Frank Sinatra) and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in World War II Burma to train the Kachin natives in modern warfare. But jungle combat is more gruelling than Reynolds ever imagined, and after Chinese rebels cross the border to loot and murder American soldiers, ..read more »
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The Old Man and the Sea
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver
Director: John Sturges
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The classic adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel starring Spencer Tracy. Simple and allegorical film tells of a fisherman who catches a magnificent marlin and must defy the sea and its dangers to bring his catch home safely.
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Gunfight At The OK Corral
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Rhonda Fleming
Director: John Sturges
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Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient. Focusing on the friendship between the forthright, responsible sheriff and the risk-taking, consumptive gambler, it ..read more »
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Last Train From Gun Hill
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(1959)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones
Director: John Sturges
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Run time: 94 minutes
The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. Belden is sympathetic, until it transpires that one of the murderers is his own son ..read more »
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Missfire Western 10 September 2004
...Considering the talent involved - Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall and director John Sturges (Magnificent 7 & Great Escape) this should be a secure bet. But it plods, amblin a...
You say Zebra, I say Zeebra 4 June 2005
Classic Western 8 September 2005
