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An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
3) The jackals
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With Apaches on the prod, ex-cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, bounty hunter Jed Breen, and ex-Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch take shelter in a West Texas way station-along with a hot-as-a-pistol female bound for the gallows, a spiteful newspaper editor, and a coward with $50,000 who promises them five grand if they'll deliver his blood-soaked stash to his wife.
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1996
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The only eyewitness to the execution of a young couple by drug smugglers is a beautiful young woman whose pursuit of freedom has turned into a death sentence. Now, a Sheriff's lone quest for justice is about to uncover secrets so deadly they will rock this Texas border town to the ground and place him directly in the line of fire.
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1954
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A western melodrama, aided by a university-edrated Indian who is working for a peaceful coexistence with the white settlers. The daughter of a slain cattleman exposes a wealthy cattle owner as the inciter of renegade indians who murdered her father and stole his herd.
7) 3:10 To Yuma
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2007
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APPRX 122 MINUTES. $25.00. TAKING A MAN TO HIS TRIAL CAN BE A TRICKY ADVENTURE. DN
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[2014]
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United States Marshal Matt Dillon and the good citizens of Dodge City breathe new life into the Old West. From train-robbing outlaws and claim jumpers to cattle rustlers and bounty hunters, disorder was the order of the day. But it was business as usual for the Marshal and his loyal crew, including Doc Adams, saloon keeper Miss Kitty and steadfast deputy Festus Haggen. Together, they showed American audiences how the West was run, and how justice...
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