Westerns > Wayne, John Westerns > up to 5 GBP

Advantages: Restored
Disadvantages: None

The Searchers Texas 1868 Ethan Edwards returns to his brothers farm three years after the end of the civil war. While Ethan and his adoptive nephew Martin Pawley join a company of Texas Rangers to track a Commanche raiding party, the renegades double back to attack and burn the Edwards homestead, kidnapping nine year old Debbie. Then begins a five year odyssey. Ethan(John Wayne) and Martin (Jeffrey Hunter) journey from South to North from season ...
...And all the long while Ethans obsessive hatred and lust for revenge grows ever more intense. John Fords film journeys deep into the heart of Ethan Edwards darkness. He emerges from a personally unconceded war and a couple of years of highly questionable wanderings into a settled family home and a community thats moved on. Throughout the film there are resonances from a shared and sometimes secret past. Most poignantly the hopeless, impossible love ... Read review

Advantages: GOOD FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD
Disadvantages: I SUPPOSE LIKEING WESTERNS IS ADVANTAGE

IF YOU LIKE JOHN WAYNE FILMS OR WESTERNS THIS IS A GREAT FILM TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION. U.s. marshal cahill has two sons who are left to there own devises and end up in big trouble with some real bad guys. the marshell is hopeing thay will tell him whats going on. he ends up getting a friend to help him catch the bad guys and to teach them a lesson. and it works .this is the film when john wayne says the famous words ( GET OFF YOUR HORSE AND DRINK ... Read review

Advantages: excellant viewing for a reasonable price
Disadvantages: none

This is well worth the watch. Found plenty action in this film and a few twists along the way which gave you plenty to keep your interest. The plot is portrayed very well. I can honestly say that even though this film has been on television often it was well worth having the DVD as we can watch at our leisure and it will be watched many times. It shows how after the civil war the two opposing sides can get together and help mend bridges the civil ... 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: A true classic of the genre.
Disadvantages: May suffer from old prejudices against westerns but not if given a chance

...nine or ten and at the time thinking this was a really good movie. I can remember finding it really funny at times and my dad telling me to sit down and watch it cause it was one of the best and having to agree. I hadn't caught it on television since then and had begun to wonder over time whether it was as good as I remembered. So having begun watching old westerns again with a friend of mine at college, I was poking around the western section in ...
...They made it plain from the outset that they did not like westerns, hated watching Black and white films in general and had never had liked John Wayne. They were sure that they would be leaving after half an hour and I was sure they would too. I made them promise then that they wouldn't be talking through it if they didn't like it and they respected this and we began to watch. It was pretty much as I remembered it, except I could now appreciate the ... Read review