The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Plot summary

Senator Ranse Stoddard returns to the city of Shinbone in the Wild West, to go to the funeral of his friend, Tom Doniphon. To a journalist, who's wondering what the senator is doing in Shinbone, he tells how his career started as "the man who shot Liberty Valance". As a lawyer he came to Shinbone to bring law and order to the west by means of law books. When the stagecoach is held up by outlaws, he is savagely beaten by Liberty Valance. He survives the attack and is nursed by his future wife, Hallie. Hallie is being wooed by a local rancher, Tom Doniphon. Ranse teaches the people of Shinbone to read and write, all the while trying to find a way of bringing Valance to justice. He finally takes up a gun and faces Valance in a menacing shootout... Written by Tony Kessen {rhkessen@cs.vu.nl}

Cast of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

	John Wayne	...	Tom Doniphon
	James Stewart	...	Ransom Stoddard
	Vera Miles	...	Hallie Stoddard
	Lee Marvin	...	Liberty Valance
	Edmond O'Brien	...	Dutton Peabody
	Andy Devine	...	Marshal Link Appleyard
	Ken Murray	...	Doc Willoughby
	John Carradine	...	Maj. Cassius Starbuckle
	Jeanette Nolan	...	Nora Ericson
	John Qualen	...	Peter Ericson
	Willis Bouchey	...	Jason Tully (conductor)
	Carleton Young	...	Maxwell Scott
	Woody Strode	...	Pompey
	Denver Pyle	...	Amos Carruthers
	Strother Martin	...	Floyd

The Wild Bunch

Plot summary

Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. army train. No one is innocent in this gritty tale of of desperation against changing times. Pump shotguns, machine guns and automobiles mix with horses and winchesters in this ultraviolent western. Written by Keith Loh {loh@sfu.ca}

A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop's reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop's gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General "Mapache" Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them. Written by Ronos

Cast of The Wild Bunch

	William Holden	...	Pike Bishop
	Ernest Borgnine	...	Dutch Engstrom
	Robert Ryan	...	Deke Thornton
	Edmond O'Brien	...	Freddie Sykes
	Warren Oates	...	Lyle Gorch
	Jaime Sánchez	...	Angel (as Jaime Sanchez)
	Ben Johnson	...	Tector Gorch
	Emilio Fernández	...	Gen. Mapache (as Emilio Fernandez)
	Strother Martin	...	Coffer
	L.Q. Jones	...	T.C
	Albert Dekker	...	Pat Harrigan
	Bo Hopkins	...	Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
	Dub Taylor	...	Rev. Wainscoat
	Paul Harper	...	Ross
	Jorge Russek	...	Maj. Zamorra

Unforgiven

Plot summary

The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth. Written by Charlie Ness
Cast of Unforgiven

	Clint Eastwood	...	William 'Bill' Munny
	Gene Hackman	...	Little Bill Daggett
	Morgan Freeman	...	Ned Logan
	Richard Harris	...	English Bob
	Jaimz Woolvett	...	The Schofield Kid
	Saul Rubinek	...	W.W. Beauchamp
	Frances Fisher	...	Strawberry Alice
	Anna Levine	...	Delilah Fitzgerald (as Anna Thomson)
	David Mucci	...	Quick Mike
	Rob Campbell	...	Davey Bunting
	Anthony James	...	Skinny Dubois
	Tara Frederick	...	Little Sue (as Tara Dawn Frederick)
	Beverley Elliott	...	Silky
	Liisa Repo-Martell	...	Faith
	Josie Smith	...	Crow Creek Kate