Saloon singer Monroe, violence prone farmer Mitchum and the young son he hardly knows, drift down-river by raft from both immediate dangers and their immediate pasts. They must try the impossible, to restart their broken lives and return to being an ideal family. Mitchum's performance is excellent, but the film holds most interest as an early Monroe performance. There really is no return. A tale of betrayal, revenge and love in the wild Wild West. find out more...

Two of the most popular stars in screen history are brought together for the first time in the follow up to True Grit. The film returns John Wayne to the role of the rapscallion, eye-patched, whiskey-guzzling Deputy Marshall that won him an Academy Award. Katharine Hepburn is prim Eula Goodnight, a Bible thumping missionary who teams up with the gun fighter to avenge the death of her father. While in pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough'n' tumble lawman and the flirt find out more...

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California, 1860, and former gold digger Daniel Dillon is now a wealthy man who owns Kingdom Come, a thriving prospecting town in the icy mountain wilderness of post-Gold Rush northern California, but to expand his burgeoning empire Dillon needs the Central Pacific Railroad to pass by and he has invited their chief surveyor. This coincides with the arrival of his wife and daughter, whom Daniel has not seen for twenty years, and as he attempts to seek some redemption for his dark past, the empire find out more...

John Ford's 50th and most celebrated silent film demonstrates the ideals of expansion, enterprise and achievement, but condones racism and exploitation. The scale of this film surpassed all of the other silent westerns and put Ford in the history books. Double-dealing, vengeance and romance are all covered with a poetic sense of history as we see the country united by a trans-continental railroad, realized by a great man and brought about through the sweat of the working man. A classic, black an find out more...

The western as myth; hill's story of the James/Younger gang and the violent hunt for them revels in it's connections with the genre as passed down from Ford, Hawks and Ray. The gangsters are revealed as representing a wider community, the defeated Confederacy, small farmers and their extended families in general, with their victims being some combination of class enemies, uncaring, urban and Northern, and hence how they became folk heroes in their home state of Missouri... and all with a great s find out more...

This superb swashbuckling, cleverly choreographed, remake of the silent classic stars Tyrone Power as the dashing masked avenger who must single-handedly save Los Angeles from Spanish despots. Don Diego Vega is summoned home from his elite training corps in Spain to California, where he finds his father, the Alcalde, deposed and the people living in tyranny. Disguised as Zorro, a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black, he works to restore his father to power and return tax money stolen by t find out more...

Epic Hollywood swashbuckler of the old-fashioned kind, relying more on tongue in cheek dramatics and the sizzling chemistry between its two sultry stars (Banderas and Zeta-Jones) than on new-fangled stunts and special effects. Also starring Anthony Hopkins as Zorro mark 1, the story begins with the good samaritan swordsman rescuing a bunch of condemned Spaniards from the evil Don Rafael Montero, only for the power-crazed tyrant to hunt him down, killing his wife and stealing his baby daughter be find out more...

Errol Flynn portrays the iconic/infamous General Custer in this hoof-and-thunder chronicle tracing his career from dandyish West Point plebe to Civil War hero to frontier legend immortalized by the Battle of Little Big Horn. Olivia de Havilland, sharing the marquee with Flynn for the eighth and final time, plays Custer's devoted wife Libby. Not so much a rewriting of history more a ‘whitewash', They Died With Their Boots is still rousing stuff find out more...

Wyatt Earp and his gang are back. Yet another shoot-out at the OK Corral, but this time that's not the end as the film follows the two sides to the death. A well made and gripping film with the show somewhat stolen by Val Kilmer as a dandy Doc Holliday, shooting first, quoting Latin later! Superb rootin' tootin' entertainment . find out more...