NEVADA SMITH / THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE

NEVADA SMITH (1965):
NEVADA SMITH is a rugged innocent boy born in the 1890's during California's gold rush days to a native American mother and white father. When he finds his parents have been murdered by vicious killers, he sets out to track them down. While the film is Western, and has plenty of action, it is also a powerful and revealing study of the regeneration of a man, in this case a lone gunslinger who is so blinded by his compulsion that it obscures any other motive for living. Steve McQueen's dynamic presence as Nevada Smith is memorable.

THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE (1957):
96 minutes
The turbulent atmosphere of post-Civil War Texas is the settling for this sprawling, panoramic Western drama. Charlton Heston plays Colt Saunders, a Civil War vet returning home to his Texas homestead after years spent on the battlefield. But once he arrives at his Bar S Ranch he faces conflicts of a different kind. One is with his brand-new bride, Lorna (Anne Baxter), who is desperate to keep her wild, honky-tonk days in St Louis saloons buried in the past. And a larger threat is a gang of ruthless carpetbaggers and their corrupt provisional government intent on nabbing Colt's impressive, valuable spread and keeping the land for themselves. Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker, Bruce Bennett, Elaine Stritch and a young Robert Blake co-star in a suspense-building story brought to the screen by director Rudolph Mate.

Estimated despatch 5-10 days after ordering.