Summary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: When famed frontier lawman and Montana's first elected senator Eddie Johnson is brutally murdered, his longtime sidekick and friend, Lefty Brown, will stop at nothing to avenge his death, in an ode to the traditional revenge western set in the vast, desolate plains of Montana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ballad 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BALSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007