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Last of the Dogmen (1995)

Actors: Michael Barnes (miscellaneous crew), Humberto Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Barbara Hershey (actress), Tom Berenger (actor), Richard Halsey (editor), David Arnold (composer), Mario Kassar (producer), Kurtwood Smith (actor), Mark Boone Junior (actor), Graham Jarvis (actor), Wilford Brimley (actor), Molly Parker (actress), Parley Baer (actor), Mario Kassar (miscellaneous crew), Miguel Gurza (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.

Keywords: archaeologist, bar, black-comedy, bounty-hunter, bow-and-arrow, cabin, campfire, chase, dog, drunkenness
Genres: Adventure, Western,
Taglines: A journey of the heart. The adventure of their lives. A secret lost in time for over 130 years is about to be discovered. A People Lost In Time. An Adventure They Will Never Forget. Two People. One Mystery... Hidden For A Hundred Years.

Quotes:

Professor Lillian Stone: Look, Elvis is dead, the government is not hiding UFOs, and there are no Indians in the Oxbow.

Tracker Lewis Gates: I've seen this place reduce grown men to tears. It ain't no place for a woman.

Narrator: I'd say most of what I'm telling you is true. And the rest... well, the rest is the West.

Professor Lillian Sloan: It's a little disconcerting to realize that the smartest member of our expedition's the dog.

Tracker Lewis Gates: I told you to watch your step! You're not in a classroom! Out here one little mistake will get you killed.

Tracker Lewis Gates: You wanna go back?::Professor Lillian Sloan: Yes. I'm an anthropologist, not Daniel Boone.

Professor Lillian Stone: What happened was inevitable. The way it happened was unconscionable.

Tracker Lewis Gates: Dynamite? It's like wine, it only gets better with age.

Professor Lillian Sloan: [after Tracker Lewis Gates hands her an arrow] So, where'd you find this?::Tracker Lewis Gates: In the Oxbow.::Professor Lillian Sloan: The Oxbow. Wasn't that just in the news? Something about convicts?::Tracker Lewis Gates: Yeah, I'm the guy they hired to find them.::Professor Lillian Sloan: Bounty hunter?::Tracker Lewis Gates: Please, civil servant. It sounds a little less...::Professor Lillian Sloan: Barbaric?

Professor Lillian Sloan: You know what this is?::Tracker Lewis Gates: Well, call it a wild guess. An arrow?::Professor Lillian Sloan: A Cheyenne arrow, Dog Soldier to be exact.::Tracker Lewis Gates: Dog Soldier?::Professor Lillian Sloan: Within the Cheyenne tribe there used to be a military society made up of the strongest and bravest men. They were fierce fighters - unyielding. They called themselves Chotometnea - dogmen.

Breaking Home Ties (1987)

Actors: Eva Marie Saint (actress), Claire Trevor (actress), Erin Gray (actress), Jason Robards (actor), Parley Baer (actor), Jerry Haynes (actor), Kenneth Kaufman (producer), Jerrold Immel (composer), Gary Griffin (editor), Amy Krell (miscellaneous crew), John Wilder (producer), John Wilder (director), John Wilder (writer), Doug McKeon (actor), Norman Bennett (actor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Leaving is never easy. Coming home can be even harder.

Poker Alice (1987)

Actors: Nolan Miller (costume designer), Pat Corley (actor), Tom Skerritt (actor), Arthur Allan Seidelman (director), Susan Tyrrell (actress), Billy Goldenberg (composer), Elizabeth Taylor (actress), Gary Grubbs (actor), George Hamilton (actor), David Wayne (actor), Liz Torres (actress), Richard Mulligan (actor), Chris Swinney (miscellaneous crew), Millie Moore (editor), John Bennett Perry (actor),

Plot: Alice Moffit, 'Poker Alice', has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. She is travelling the West with her cousin, John, when she wins a house in a poker game on a train. The 'house' turns out to be a bordello, which she decides to run until she can sell it. She falls for a bounty hunter, Jeremy Collins, who is about to settle down in California. Marrying him would mean ending the life-long relationship between the two cousins.

Keywords: assertive-woman, bordello, bouffant-hairstyle, buggy, cardsharp, compulsive-gambler, poker-game, pretty-woman, saloon, train
Genres: Romance, Western,
Taglines: The Wild West is about to get wilder!

Quotes:

Alice Moffitt: Where is she...your woman?::Amos: I buried her. Had to...she was dead. Yeah, I come here one day and she was sittin' at the table deader than a can of corned beef. The poor old woman didn't even have a chance to finish her bowl of prunes. It hit me plenty hard, ma'am. But what come close to shakin' me was after I done finished diggin' her grave. I come in here to get her and she was all stiffen up...harder than a railroad tie. I had to bury her sittin' up! The poor old woman has to sit up straight and proper until judgment day.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

Actors: Dale Wilson (actor), Julie Christie (actress), Wayne Robson (actor), Keith Carradine (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), Jack Riley (actor), Terence Kelly (actor), Don Francks (actor), William Devane (actor), Alex Diakun (actor), Warren Beatty (actor), Rene Auberjonois (actor), Bert Remsen (actor), David Foster (producer), Shelley Duvall (actress),

Plot: Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.

Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, african-american, american-indian, ampersand-in-title, anti-western, banjo, bar, bar-keeper
Genres: Drama, Western,
Taglines: Purveyors of Paradise. Name Your Poison.

Quotes:

John McCabe: If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass so much, follow me?

Constance Miller: Look, Mr. McCabe, I'm a whore!

Constance Miller: It's not so bad. You might even like it! You did just fine with Bart.::Ida: But with him I had to. It was my duty.

John McCabe: You boys gotta make up your minds if you want to get your cookies. Cause if you want to get your cookies, I've got girls up here that'll do more tricks than a goddamn monkey on a hundred yards of grapevine.

John McCabe: Well, you'll have to forgive me, my kitchen ain't in operation yet, but I could take you up to the restaurant up there if you're hungry enough.::Constance Miller: I'm hungry enough I could eat a bloody horse.::John McCabe: Well, at Sheehan's place you probably will.::Constance Miller: Ah, the frontier wit, I see.

John McCabe: All you've cost me so far is money and pain...::John McCabe: Pain, pain, pain...

John McCabe: I got poetry in me!

John McCabe: Hey pard, you know how to square a circle? Shove a four-by-four up a mule's ass.

John McCabe: You ain't shittin' me, is you?

John McCabe: I feel sorry for 'em, I do!

Red Canyon (1949)

Actors: George Brent (actor), Hank Patterson (actor), Edgar Buchanan (actor), Johnny Carpenter (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), John McIntire (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Howard Duff (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), David Clarke (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Denver Pyle (actor),

Genres: Western,

Deadwood Dick (1940)

Actors: Roy Barcroft (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Edward Cecil (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Bert Dillard (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Victor Adamson (actor),

Plot: Columbia's 11th serial (between "Terry and the Pirates" and "The Green Archer") and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed. The standard one-man-to-a-hoss and nobody walks rule of Westerns tended to cramp Horne's usual style of directing, in that he wasn't able to pour six or seven henchies into a four-door sedan and have them come tumbling out like the clowns at a circus, and the surprise with those familiar with his serials is that he didn't have all the henchmen riding around in a stagecoach or wagon. And, since they usually stayed on their horse, he was unable to have them rounding a corner on foot at an angle, freeze in surprise with their arms thrust over their heads, do a couple of takes and hot-foot it stage left for an alarmed feet-do-your-stuff exit. The character of "Deadwood Dick" in this serial is just a name that had a ring to it, was not intended to be based on the real-life "Deadwood Dick" in any manner, and those who delight in pointing out that the real "Deadwood Dick" was a black man and Columbia didn't know what they were doing miss an obvious point; the Columbia writers most likely knew that, but they weren't writing a factual history of the West and their fictional character could be what they wanted him to be. And was. That he ended up being played by the dullest actor (Don Douglas) ever to essay the lead role in a serial (at least until Republic came up with the likes of Bill Henry and Harry Lauter as serial leads) probably wasn't something they planned. This one had a little promise with veteran western actor Lane Chandler as "Wild Bill Hickok" but that promise soon faded with Hickok's demise in chapter one of this 15-chapter serial, where a renegade band led by a mysterious, masked character known as "The Skull" is terrorizing the town of Deadwood in the territory of Dakota. Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of the Statehood For Dakota committee, is, unknown to his fellow townsmen and committee members, the equally mysterious Deadwood Dick, who is fighting The Skull and his gang. This makes everything about even as, unknown to Stanley, fellow-committeeman banker Transon Drew is The Skull. Well, actually, The Skull is a bit ahead as his "speaking voice" in costume is that of Forrest Taylor, who is nowhere in sight among the suspected citizens. Frank Butler, Stanley's "star' reporter is killed when he discovers that The Skull has plans to build an mpire of his own, and this also raises the possibility that Butler's sister, Anne, is also in danger. Chapter One ends with Deadwood Dick involved in a fight on a railroad handcar (filled with dynamite, naturally) with Jack McCall, the slayer of Wild Bill Hickok, and the handcar crashes to the bottom of a deep gorge and crashes... and explodes. Stanley/Deadwood Dick faces 13 more cliffhangers (mainly because he keeps letting Drew in on his plans to capture The Skull),before he unmasks The Skull in Chapter 15, "The Deadwood Express," Most of the action footage involving the Deadwood Dick character shows up again in 1954's "Riding With Buffalo Bill", where Marshall Reed as Buffalo Bill sans goatee, rides around in Deadwood Dick's costume.

Keywords: 1890s, ambush, arsenal, barfly, bartender, blacksmith, cattle-rustling, cattle-stampede, character-name-in-title, cliffhanger
Genres: Western,
Taglines: Most Colorful Character of the Old West! (original poster) STALKING THE MASKED TERROR OF THE PLAINS TO HIS DOOM! (original poster-all caps) The old West's hero of heroes...in the most blood-chilling Chapter-Play ever to thunder out of the bullet-streaked past! (original poster) The Most Colorful Character of the Old Lawless West Blazes to Life! (original print ad) Shooting his way through the season's most adventure-crammed Chapter Play! (original print ad)

Love in the Desert (1929)

Actors: Noah Beery (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Hilliard Karr (actor), Frank Leigh (actor), Alan Roscoe (actor), William H. Tooker (actor), Ida Darling (actress), Harvey F. Thew (writer), Harvey F. Thew (writer), Walter Plunkett (costume designer), George Melford (director), Randolph Bartlett (writer), Olive Borden (actress), Louis Sarecky (writer), Hugh Trevor (actor),

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