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17) 3/31/25 In a Valley of Violence (2016) iTunes HD Digital 2/5 I got this film for free from the Universal Rewards program when the studio canceled the program and I had to use up my points. I am glad I didn't pay anything for it, as neither my wife nor I really cared for the movie. Ethan...

16) 3/30/25 Old Henry (2021) iTunes 4K Digital 3.5/5 This was my first time viewing this film. Tim Blake Nelson is Henry, a widowed farmer. He and his son take in an injured man with a satchel full of cash who is being hunted by a posse of three men claiming to be the law. When the posse...

A couple of recent watches that are borderline westerns, but I am counting them as such. 14) 3/27/25 Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) Fandango @ Home 4K Digital 5/5 This may be a stretch as a western, but I am still counting it. I picked up the 4K digital codes recently from a generous HTF member north...

13) 3/23/25 True Grit (2010) iTunes HD Digital 4.5/5 The Coen Brothers remake of the 1969 classic that won John Wayne his only Oscar. In this version, Jeff Bridges plays the role of one-eyed drunk Marshall Rooster Cogburn, hired by 14 year old Mattie Ross (played by Hailee Steinfeld) to hunt...

12) 3/21/25 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) iTunes 4K digital 5/5 I am back after a week-long hiatus. This film has always been a favorite. Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy) and Robert Redford (The Sundance Kid) team up in probably the greatest western "buddy movie" ever. The film loosely...

10) 3/13/25 Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) Twilight Time Blu-Ray 4.5/5 After a bunch of "serious" westerns, I decided to take a break and go the comedy route this evening. James Garner plays a man drifting into a gold rush boom town on his way to Australia. He needs a job, and the town needs...

Ward Bond in charge of a wagon train? That would have made a good TV series! ;)

9) 3/12/25 High Plains Drifter (1973) Kino Lorber 4K UHD 4.5/5 As I mentioned earlier, I decided to forgo the spaghetti western genre for this challenge, as that was pretty much all I watched for last year's event. Technically, this is not a spaghetti western, as it wasn't from an Italian...

8) 3/11/25 Tombstone (1993) Blu-Ray 4.5/5 Another film in my quest to re-visit old favorites that I have not seen in awhile as part of this challenge. Tombstone is another of many, many films to tell the story of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and does this by following the...

7) 3/10/25 The Professionals (1966) Blu-Ray 5/5 I have been using this year's challenge to watch some favorites that I haven't seen in awhile. The Professionals is an excellent film with a great ensemble cast. An American oil baron (Ralph Bellamy) hires a group of professional guns for hire...

6) 3/9/25 The Wild Bunch (1969) Original Director's Cut Blu-Ray 5/5 This extraordinary film has been a favorite of mine since I first saw it in a college film class. This is Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece -- a bloody, violent western with a unique style. The cast is superb, with William Holden...

5) 3/6/25 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 4K UHD 5/5 I am a big fan of the spaghetti western -- for last year's western challenge, almost all the films I watched were from that genre. So, I was going to avoid the genre this year, but I just picked up one of my two favorites on sale and...

4) 3/5/25 The Shootist (1976) Arrow Video Blu-Ray 4.5/5 John Wayne's final film, but certainly not his typical western. This is more of a personal, character piece, based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout. Wayne plays J.B. Books, a legendary gunman, or shootist, who learns he is dying of cancer...

3) 3/4/25 The Searchers (1956) 4K UHD 5/5 A John Ford and John Wayne classic. Wayne plays the complex character Ethan Edwards, a former Confederate soldier who the film hints has been up to some less than savory deeds since the war. Edwards also has a very strong hatred for the native Americans...

2) 3/2/25 Unforgiven (1992) 4K UHD 5/5 I decided to watch this movie again in memory of Gene Hackman. This is such a powerful film, lead by the amazing cast of Clint Eastwood, Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris. It's a western with no "good guys" -- just different kinds of bad people...

1) 3/2/25 The Gunfighter (1950) Criterion Blu-Ray 4.5/5 This was my first time viewing the film. I picked it up after reading a side conversation in another thread about the film, and I've held off on watching it until this challenge. This is a theme we've seen before -- an older gunfighter...