cinemadiso's - Western Collection List
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McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)The Presbyterian Church Wager
1902: John McCabe (Warren Beatty) turns up in a northwest mining town called Presbyterian Church, starts gambling and sets up a successful brothel with his girlfriend Constance Miller (Julie Christie), an opium-addicted madam. They refuse an offer from the mine operators to buy them out, but the mine bosses refuse to take no for an answer. - Director:
- Robert Altman
- Cast:
- Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, Warren Beatty
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In the dusty heat of the American southwest, innocent country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) is seduced by a beautiful girl (Jenny Wright) into joining a roving pack of vicious drifters, lead by the enigmatic Jesse (Lance Henriksen). But this is no ordinary band of outlaws. Caleb is now trapped in a nightmare of soulless evil that waits in the shadows, hellish mayhem that thrives on blood; the horror that begins Near Dark. - Director:
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Cast:
- Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
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Shot and dumped in a shallow grave, when the body of Melquiades Estrada is discovered the local police dismiss the murder as just another Mexican migrant in the wrong place at the wrong time. The corpse is reburied in a pauper's grave. Case closed. But the victim's friend, ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), knows different. He knows the murderer and vows to make him pay for his cold-blooded crime. No matter what it takes, Perkins is also determined he will keep his promise to return Estrada to his Mexican homeland where, at last, he will rest in peace... - Director:
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Cast:
- Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam
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