Best Western Films of 1972
Junior Bonner
Sam Peckinpah eschews his ... opportunity at the town's Fourth of July Rodeo, where he is determined to mount and ride and unrideable bull. [ best western films - 1972 ]
Bad Man's River
A Mexican revolutionary offers ... blasted, but the million bucks doesn't get delivered in this "outsmart the outsmarters" and "double-cross the double-crossers" western saga. [ best western films - 1972 ]
Buck and the Preacher
Sidney Poitier makes his ... against Deshay and his murderous gang of outlaws. Also starring Ruby Dee. Jazz bandleader Benny Carter composed the soundtrack. [ best western films - 1972 ]
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Paul Newman plays the ... a pot, and demanding that an entire horse be cooked for his supper. John Milius (Red Dawn) scripted. [ best western films - 1972 ]
Joe Kidd
In John Sturges' Americanized ... when Kidd captures Luis and delivers him to Sheriff Mitchell (Gregory Walcott), Harlan is in town waiting for him. [ best western films - 1972 ]
The Cowboys
In one of John ... Long Hair, while Roscoe Lee Browne portrays Jebediah, the cattle drive cook, and Colleen Dewhurst is Kate, a madam. [ best western films - 1972 ]
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid
The oft-told story of ... it drags in spots, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid is a superb, iconoclastic reproduction of an era long past. [ best western films - 1972 ]
Molly and Lawless John
After an outlaw (Sam ... begins to work on the sheriff's wife (Vera Miles) and eventually gets her to help him escape from prison. [ best western films - 1972 ]
The Bravos
Filmed in Flagstaff, Arizona, ... the death of their own chief's son. The Bravos was the 90-minute pilot film for a never-sold western series. [ best western films - 1972 ]
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
This is the final ... banditos. To help him, he rallies an eastern journalist and five hardened convicts to ride in and stop them. [ best western films - 1972 ]
Jeremiah Johnson
Years before Kevin Costner ... McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), that condemned civilization for corrupting the wilderness and preventing individuals from going pacifistically native. [ best western films - 1972 ]
Gił la Testa
Originally titled Gił la ... Name" films masterminded by Leone, the distributors of Duck, You Sucker! reissued the film as A Fistful of Dynamite. [ best western films - 1972 ]
The Culpepper Cattle Company
Gary Grimes stars in ... of successful films starring Burt Reynolds, can be spotted in a small role as Burgess, one of the cowboys. [ best western films - 1972 ]
