A bandit leader and a fugative IRA man join together to rob a bank in an explosive spagehtti western set in Mexico in 1913. Having already, in Once Upon a Time in the West, taken energetic liberties with the typical Fordian Western, it's not surprising that Leone should have taken a sideswipe at another of the director's stereotypes, the revolutionary Irishman, in the second part of his trilogy of political fables. But the specific IRA background of Coburn's Sean is as ultimately unimportant as find out more...

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Cable Hogue has made a fortune from selling water to weary travellers, but as the great Western wilderness becomes ever more civilised Hogue himself remains deeply rooted in the harsh day to day living of his past; Counting down the weeks, months and years until the two men who left him to die wander back into his life. Cable Hogue is a gloriously whimsical Western from the master of the genre. Quirky, witty and with a near perfect central performance from Robards, this is an original and unders find out more...

Wayne was perfectly cast as the dying gunfighter disturbed in his dotage by young tyros out to test their mettle against him. Beautifully shot in cold blues and greys, this classic evolves slowly into one of Wayne's finest and, as it turned out, his last role. find out more...

Peckinpah completely rewrites John Ford's Western mythology by looking at the passing of the Old West from the point of view of marginalised outlaws rather than law-abiding settlers. While never ignoring their brutality he contrasts their code of loyalty with that of the corrupt railroad magnates. In purely cinematic terms, the film is a savagely beautiful spectacle, Lucien Ballard's superb cinematography complementing Peckinpah's darkly elegiac vision. find out more...

Much vaunted tale of mens' greed; sacrificing family, friends and principles to gain profit in the early years of the 20th Century. Danny Day Lewis is superb, as always, as the sinister Daniel Plainview. find out more...