Reel Connections Roundup
Today is 3/15/2010
Legendary Western Movies at Ames Public Library
Mosey on in to the Library for a series of legendary western movies showing at Ames Public Library this spring.
Wednesday, February 11 at 7pm The Far Country Starring: James Stewart, Walter Brennan. A hard bitten cowboy is determined to make a fortune in beef by driving a cattle herd to remote Alaskan mining camps. (1954, 97 minutes) |
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Tuesday, March 10 at 7pm The Searchers Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood. Directed by John Ford A Civil War veteran spends years relentlessly searching for his niece, who was captured by a Comanche raiding party. (1956, 119 minutes)
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Tuesday, April 7 at 7pm The Magnificent Seven Starring: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughan. Seven gunslingers are hired to protect the oppressed peasants of a Mexican village against bandits. (1960, 128 minutes) |
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Wednesday, May 13 at 7pm True Grit Starring: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell. John Wayne in his Oscar winning role as Rooster Cogburn, a hard drinking, one-eyed lawman who is hired by a determined young woman to track down her father’s murderer in Indian territory. (1969, 128 minutes) |
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