DVD Diva: Westerns

Westerns: a genre of novels and short stories, motion pictures, and television and radio shows that are set in the American West, usually in the period from the 1850s to the end of the 19th century. Though basically an American creation, the western had its counterparts in the gaucho literature of Argentina and in tales of the settlement of the Australian outback. The genre reached its greatest popularity in the early and middle decades of the 20th century and declined somewhat thereafter. – from Britannica On-Line

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3:10 To Yuma (1957) As other volunteers quit or are killed, a rancher is left alone to deal with the responsibility of putting a captured outlaw aboard a Fort Yuma-bound train.

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Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader, his spirited wife, and their struggles in the backwoods of New York state.

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The Magnificent Seven (1960) Seven gunmen are hired by a small village to protect them from the bandits destroying their town.

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Tombstone (1993) Western drama about Wyatt Earp and the showdown at the O.K. Corral

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