Wichita - DVD

Joel McCrea stars as former buffalo hunter and Western entrepreneur Wyatt Earp in this CinemaScope oater directed by the great Jacques Tourneur. When he arrives the wild frontier town of Wichita, Earp is reluctant to accept the lawman job offered to him, but when he does, his first action is to confiscate all firearms within his jurisdiction, forcing a confrontation between the lone marshal and all the gunslingers in the violent Western outpost. Co-starring Vera Miles and Lloyd Bridges, Wichita is a supreme action-packed Western classic.

Western movie icon Randolph Scott is Ned Britt, a reformed gunfighter trying to reinvent himself as a newspaperman in director Edwin L. Marin's (Johnny Angel, Raton Pass) final feature, written by John Twist. While setting up shop as the publisher of the Fort Worth Star, Britt crosses paths with corrupt cattle baron Gabe Clevenger (Ray Teal), who terrorizes the frontier town and tests Britt's vow of pacifism with further violence. Britt

One of Joel McCrea's personal favorites, CATTLE DRIVE is an atmospheric frontier tale variation on the adventure story, Captains Courageous. Chester Graham, Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled teenage son of a railroad tycoon, gets lost in the desert but is rescued by Dan Matthews (McCrea), a cattle herder on his way to San Diego. As they head toward civilization together, the young greenhorn soon gets an education in the value of hard wo