The Good, the Bad and the Naive: nice political Westerns
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- DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRod SteigerJames CoburnRomolo ValliA low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.Both the Mexican Revolution and the Irish resistance against British rule are the background of this brilliant Zapata Western by Sergio Leone.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroTomas MilianFernando ReyA Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.Not all revolutions are revolutionary. Sometimes they only mean a "circulation of elite", such as the theorization of Vilfredo Pareto. The film also shows one of the most important values in American politics: oil.
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.This beautiful film shows who were the assassins in Old West.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsDustin HoffmanFaye DunawayChief Dan GeorgeJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.Nice comparison between the Cheyenne and the Anglo-Saxon society. Social and economic inequalities, selfishness, greed, alcoholism, lack of human rights...
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroTony MusanteFranco GiacobiniA greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodSondra LockeChief Dan GeorgeMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodMichael MoriartyCarrie SnodgressA mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
- DirectorGregor JordanStarsHeath LedgerOrlando BloomGeoffrey RushAn innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.The British opression in Australia. It reminds other excelent films about the same problem, but in Ireland, such as Michael Collins and The Boxer.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsPaul NewmanFredric MarchRichard BooneJohn Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.The businessman's greed and the indians' social problem.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJames StewartJohn WayneVera MilesA senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.The issues of fair elections and the freedom of the press are present in this classical Western.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsCleavon LittleGene WilderSlim PickensIn order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.Laughing, we watch a movie about the serious racial issue in the United States.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJoan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridgeAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsClint EastwoodShirley MacLaineManolo FábregasWhen a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.The resistance against the second French intervention in México.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGiuliano GemmaIda GalliPierre CressoyAfter the Civil War, ex-Confederate officer returns home where he gets embroiled in local feuds involving an unscrupulous strongman and his hired henchmen.Who told you that banks are nice?
- DirectorTonino ValeriiStarsGiuliano GemmaWarren VandersMaría CuadraIn Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners who murdered his father, his friend and the President.The blacks question in the United States and the assassination of presidente Garfield presented as the way presidente Kennedy has been murdered.
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsPenélope CruzSalma HayekSteve ZahnIn turn-of-the-century Mexico, two very different women become a bank-robbing duo in an effort to combat a ruthless enforcer terrorizing their town.It's unpretentious, but there is a political issue (quite common in Westerns) in the movie: bankers are not our friends...
- DirectorWalter HillStarsJason PatricGene HackmanRobert DuvallThe story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people.The rules which apply to native people do not apply to white people. No honor in US "animal farm" history.
- DirectorOldrich LipskýStarsKarel FialaRudolf DeylMilos KopeckýStraight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka lemonade as the refresher that assures deadly aim, convinces the Arizona sin-town to abstain from alcohol. But Trigger Whiskey maker Duke Badman's brother the devious gunslinger Hogofogo, comes to save his sibling's saloon from Joe's allies, father and daughter temperance revivalists, the Goodmans. Based on famous Czech parody novel from the 1940s and its various stage adaptations.Profit is always the goal, everything is a commodity.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperJean ArthurJames EllisonWild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.This is an idealized and compressed version of the conquest of Old West. Some historical characters appear, such as president Lincoln, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. As it is an old Western, indians are shown as stupid and brutal and their killers are portrayed as heroes who are proteting the pioneers.