 The Cowboys 1972  PG, 128 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Lonny Chapman, A Martinez, Allyn Ann McLerie, Robert Carradine, Matt Clark, Nicolas Beauvy, Sean Kelly, Charles Tyner, Jerry Gatlin, Walter Scott
When a cattleman, Wil Anderson (John Wayne), loses his experienced drovers to the lure of the gold rush, he is forced to hire raw recruits in the form of teenagers to get the cattle to market. When Wil is slain by a psychopath Long Hair (Bruce Dern) during the cattle drive, the boys become killers in their attempt at revenge.
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Friendly Persuasion 1975  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Except for Me and Thee
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight, Clifton James, Michael O'Keefe, Kevin O'Keefe, Sparky Marcus, Tracie Savage, Paul Benjamin, Erik Holland, Bob Minor, Gus Peters, Twila Pollard, Walter Scott
In this well made, well acted, remake of the 1956 classic, Richard Kiley and Shirley Knight play the Quaker couple who helps two runaway slaves during the Civil War.
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Summer of '42 1971 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gary Grimes, Jennifer O'Neill, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell, Walter Scott, Robert Mulligan, Maureen Stapleton, Katherine Allentuck
Coming of age amid the backdrop of World War II is handled tenderly in this film. It is the story of a sexually inexperienced teenage boy who falls in love, from afar, with a young bride whose husband has left for the war.
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Thief 1981 R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Tom Signorelli, Dennis Farina, Walter Scott, Del Close, Bruce A. Young
After his release from jail, the ex-convict (James Caan) sets out with plans to get rich–by any means.
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| 1. The Cowboys (1972)
2. Friendly Persuasion (1975)
aka: Except for Me and Thee
3. Summer of '42 (1971)
4. Thief (1981)
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