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  1. Quella Sporca Storia del West (1968 Film)

    aka: Johnny Hamlet

    Director
    Enzo G. Castellari
    Producer
    Elio Scardamaglia; Ugo Guerra
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film. A spaghetti western based loosely on Hamlet but with a happier ending. Johnny Hamilton is a Confederate general in the Civil War and returns to Ranch Elsenor to discover that his father Chester...

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  2. McLintock! (1963 Film)

    Director
    Andrew V. McLaglen
    Producer
    Michael Wayne
    Subject
    Drama

    Western feature film. A cattle rancher (Wayne) finds himself wrangling with both incoming settlers and his headstrong wife, Katherine (Maureen O’Hara). In part a tribute to THE QUIET MAN but closer in...

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  3. Jubal (1955 Film)

    Director
    Delmer Daves
    Producer
    William Fadiman
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film western based loosely on the plot of Othello. Jubal Troop is found injured by rancher Shep Horgan and given a job as a cow-hand. Jubal soon finds himself admired by Mae, Shep’s wife. Mae has...

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  4. Man from Laramie, The (1955 Film)

    Director
    Anthony Mann
    Producer
    William Goetz
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature Western film in which critics have seen the influence of the Gloucester sub-plot in King Lear. The patriach, Donald Crisp, is worried about his kingdom (cattle ranch) and, like Gloucester, he is...

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  5. Broken Lance (1954 Film)

    Director
    Edward Dmytryk
    Producer
    Sol C. Siegel
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...

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  6. Yellow Sky (1948 Film)

    Director
    William A. Wellman
    Producer
    Lamar Trotti
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film post-war western, based on a story by W.R. Burnett and with parallels to The Tempest. Tells the story of an outlaw leader, Stretch (Peck), who takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only...

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  7. My Darling Clementine (1946) (1948 Film)

    Director
    John Ford
    Producer
    Samuel G. Engel
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film Western. The story of marshal Wyatt Earp’s fight against the Clanton gang at Tombstone, ending in the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Alan Mowbray plays an inebriate actor who is forced at gunpoint...

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  8. Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

    Director
    William A. Wellman
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 75 minutes), £14.99

    Western crime drama. As two drifters are passing through a Western town, news arrives that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The drifters quickly join the townspeople in forming a posse...

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  9. Hamlet and Eggs (1937 Film)

    Director
    William Watson
    Producer
    Al Christie

    Comedy short. An exhausted Shakespearean actor, on holiday in an isolated ranch in Arizona, is forced to put on an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet awakens in her tomb and sings ‘O Bury Me...

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  10. Arizonian, The (1935 Film)

    Director
    Charles Vidor
    Producer
    Cliff Reid

    Western feature film. Marshall Tallant is the sheriff protecting Silver City from outlaws. The film opens with a variety show in a saloon bar which features the ‘Ghost scene from Hamlet’ (I iv) with...

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