A frontier opportunist stumbles into a small gold-rush town and decides to earn a little extra pocket money by accepting a temporary assignment as their sheriff. Happily applying himself to his new position he manages to turn the town derelict into his deputy, outsmart the dreaded Danby clan and fend off the lusty advances of the mayor's daughter - all without breaking a sweat or dirtying his shiny black boots! 'Support Your Local Sheriff' is a deliciously witty western, which overturns and rein find out more...

From the director of Oscar-nominated The Twilight Samurai. Set in then mid-19th century, at the time when guns are taking over from swords, Yoji Yamada's tale is an exploration of Samurai ethics and forbidden love. find out more...

The western as myth; hill's story of the James/Younger gang and the violent hunt for them revels in it's connections with the genre as passed down from Ford, Hawks and Ray. The gangsters are revealed as representing a wider community, the defeated Confederacy, small farmers and their extended families in general, with their victims being some combination of class enemies, uncaring, urban and Northern, and hence how they became folk heroes in their home state of Missouri... and all with a great s find out more...

One of the finest of the genre, this classic western follows two men whose initial contempt for each other's methods, one a hard man rancher, the other a naively honest lawyer, develops into respect when faced with the the town's local hoodlum. Tense, absorbing and not without wit. Superb. find out more...

Crusading frontier policeman Captain Stanley captures the fugitive Burns brothers, Charley and Mikey, at the scene of a bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur, in order to avoid the execution of Mikey, Stanley retreats to an old jailhouse and awaits the bloody outcome. Director John Hillcoat's second collaboration with Nick Cave (here contributing the film's screenplay and soundtrack), is a taut and often brutal character study of desperation ami find out more...

Wyatt Earp and his gang are back. Yet another shoot-out at the OK Corral, but this time that's not the end as the film follows the two sides to the death. A well made and gripping film with the show somewhat stolen by Val Kilmer as a dandy Doc Holliday, shooting first, quoting Latin later! Superb rootin' tootin' entertainment . find out more...

John Wayne heads the cast as Rooster, a one-eyed, drunken Marshal, a man considerably past his best who'd rather be at home with his cat than risking his neck. Hired by a feisty young girl to avenge the murder of her father, Rooster reluctantly finds himself accompanied both by the girl and a young Texas Ranger on a perilous journey through unconquered territory to get their man. Arguably one of the greatest Westerns ever made and for which Wayne won an Oscar. find out more...

Jimmy Stewart plays the good brother whose sharp shootin' wins him the eponymous, and often fetishised, rifle in a riveting contest. The episodic story that follows tracks the rifle as it changes hands, from brother to brother, arms trader to Indian warrior, encouraging the viewer to realise that the true star of the film (and indeed the battle for the West) is the rifle. The actors, including a young Rock Hudson, seem to play their characters in the knowledge that they are very much in the back find out more...

Six bankrobbers on the run, led by Stetch, discover a ghost town where the only inhabitants are Grandpa and his pretty tomboy granddaughter. When it becomes apparent that Grandpa is sitting on a large amount of gold, Stretch's compadres plot to relieve the old man of his treasure, but Stretch has fallen for the girl, and the scene is set for a deadly show down between the outlaws. Yellow Sky is a hugely entertaining traditional Western, where men are men and girls….well they just have to look mi find out more...