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Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: Nothing

I first got introduced to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid via my mum, who loved this film and every time it came on the TV we would sit and watch it together. Mostly as a youngster I got bored half way through and went off to play but as I got older I watched it all the way through and soon grew to love the film. I brought it on DVD when I was an adult and have watched it numerous times over the years. The Story~~ Made in 1969 this film is ...
...bring them to justice. Butch and Sundance spend days on the run trying to escape the constant threat of the trailing posse, only to find them right behind every step of the way. Eventually, more through a panicky exit from a mountaintop into a raging river the duo escape and decide to quietly exit from this crazy life to Bolivia with Sundance's girlfriend, Etta Place. Still robbing banks for a living, how long will it be before they are caught ... Read review

Advantages: The more times you watch it the better it gets
Disadvantages: None

...almost all his movies. Valdez is Coming is the story of injustice and how Valdez tries to help the widow of the man he was forced to kill by the local landowner. Burt Lancaster plays the town constable (Bob Valdez) and as the name suggests he is a Mexican, who also fought for the US cavalry. Jon Cypher plays Frank Tanner (the Land Owner) who is responsible for an innocent man being gunned down by Valdez . Tanner has accused the man of murdering ...
...proves his innocence. But before Valdez can get hold of this evidence and display it to Tanner and the observing townspeople, Tanner's slimiest henchman R.L. Davis(Richard Jordan) interferes, and the resulting violence that breaks out includes Valdez being forced to kill the holed-up gunman who starts firing at him. Valdez goes to Tanner to ask for money for the widow as compensation and ofcourse is laughed at and made to look a fool. Valdez is ... Read review

Advantages: Watchable
Disadvantages: A Western!

True Grit is one of the more well know John Wayne films, this is actually one which I have heard of!!! For the second night running my husband got me to sit through one of his films, hope he does not think this is going to be a regular thing as it would take months to get through his collection. This is one of John Wayne's later films where he is playing a character called Rooster Cogburn. THE FILM The film starts by a man called Frank leaving ...
...but when he is away he gets shot by a man called Chaney who also steals his family savings. His daughter Mattie, who is played by Kim Darby, accompanied by her family's servant goes to the town where the shooting happened to sort out the body of her father. When she is in the town she goes to talk to the sheriff to see what is happening about Chaney and to see if he will stand trial for the murder. The Sheriff explains that Chaney is now in the Indian ... Read review

Advantages: See how Westerns should be made
Disadvantages: None at all

El Dorado will appeal to all types - those who like action and gung-ho shooting, to those who like romance and drama. What I am in other words saying is that this film has a bit of everything all blended into one to create, in my opinion, the perfect western. And if that wasn't all it has some superb actors to drive it along - such as the legendary John Wayne and Robert Mitchum who both give heart-wrenching performances. This film is centered around ...
...Wayne) who rejects an offer to be taken on by Bart Jason, who wants him to wage war ,as it were, against the MacDonald family. Thornton then goes in search of another job and teams up with a knife-throwing kid and together, with the help of a drunk sheriff (Mitchum) and another trusty cowboy pit themselves against Bart Jason and his gang who are up to no good. An excellent plot and extremely well executed with some good rootin'-tootin' shootin' alongside ... Read review

Advantages: this dvd shows john wayne at the start of his rise to fame
Disadvantages: the movie is in b/w which will not appeal to everyone

i have watched this film many times and for me it never ages. this story has romance action drama and sadness. although this movie has been remade twice this remains the best of them all. true john wayne fans and those just descovering the duke for the first time will like this movie, to the hardened fans its john wayne at his best for the new comers this will show them why john wayne was and still is the duke. the films climatic ending sees the ... Read review