Walter Brennan
1) Gary Cooper
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Fighting caravans: A young frontiersman and his 'wife' join a wagon train headed West where he becomes the sole trail guide as they battle Indians and a villainous gun-runner. Adapted from a Zane Grey novel.
Meet John Doe : In order to keep her job, a reporter concocts the sensational story of an unemployed middle class worker who plans to strike a blow against society and big government.
A farewell to arms: An American ambulance driver and English...
Description
Ex-cavalry scout and gunfighter Will Sonnett and his grandson, Jeff, search the West for Will's son (and Jeff's father) Jim Sonnett, a former lawman and gunslinger, who has avoided seeing his son in order to keep him away from the assortment of killers and bounty hunters who are after him
Description
Traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball Hall of Fame player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his athletic childhood in New York to his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.
Description
Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...
6) Rio Bravo
Series
Description
In the dusty town of Rio Bravo, Sheriff Chance arrests Joe Burdette for a brutal murder and must fight off ruthless gunmen to keep him in custody until the state marshal arrives.
Pub. Date
2006
Description
When a flood of lawless gunmen invades his once peaceful town, Marshal Cass Silver knows it's up to him to force them out. But the only chance he might have is to gain the help of a gunslinger named Thad, who wrongly believes the marshal is responsible for his father's death. To save the town, Silver will have to earn the aid, and trust, of a man sworn to send him to his grave!
8) Red river
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010,1956]
Description
Story of a young boy who finds a most unusual dog in the Mississippi swamp. She's a Basenji, and boy and dog immediately fall in love. But when the dog's real owners advertise to find her, the boy is torn between his love for the dog, and what his conscience tells him he should do.
12) Those Calloways
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Presents a story about a man whose private dream of establishing a bird sanctuary interferes with commercial development of a hunting resort. Shows the conflict that arises when he takes the law into his own hands. Designed to motivate students to assess their own feelings of responsibility to the environment and to other people.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Feature 1. When a small Texas town is besieged by political corruption, several elderly ex-Rangers reunite to stem the crooked tide. Feature 2. The legendary Baltimore Kid has been wrongly accused of a crime. Only four men are brave enough to clear his name and clean up the town.
15) The westerner
Description
Walter Brennan's Academy Award winning portrayal of "Judge" Roy Bean, along with the Academy Award-nominated story. William Wyler's expert direction and Gary Cooper's excellent performance make The Westerner one of the best adventures you'll ever see.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Description
The adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn are always getting into trouble, but when they witness a murder, they take a vow of silence and head down river on a raft. The whole town thinks they're dead, so when they return, they are in even more trouble--and not only with their families. The trial for the murder begins, and the killer needs to make sure they don't tell what they know.
Lil' treasure hunters: Nine-year-old Molly...
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Description
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are boatmen available for hire based on the island of Martinique. With World War II raging, Harry prefers to remain neutral. However, with his business failing, he agrees to aid the French resistance. Alongside this plot is Harry's relationship with Marie, a resistance sympathizer who sings at one of Harry's hangouts.
19) The Over-the-hill gang and The Over-the-Hill Gang rides rides again : 2 full-lenth feature movies
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Four retired Texas Rangers take down a crooked Nevada mayor and in the second movie come to the aid of the legendary Baltimore Kid.
20) Meet John Doe
Pub. Date
2001, c1941
Description
"Gary Cooper portrays a former baseball player whose misfortunes have changed his life. Barbara Stanwyck, a news reporter, interviews "John Doe" (Cooper). Her report falls into the hands of a crooked politician who exploits "John Doe" by making him a good will ambassador in a phony political drive, leaving Cooper on the brink of suicide. This film represents director Frank Capra at his best."--Container.