By Vlad Zakh · August 14, 2026
Edgar Buchanan, a former dentist turned actor, brought folksy, gravel-voiced charm to hundreds of westerns and comedies over three decades. Destry has a gentle, unarmed lawman out-witting a lawless town, Wichita makes a peace-loving gunfighter marshal of a violent cattle town, Rawhide traps two hostages at a seized stagecoach station, and Move Over, Darling has a presumed-dead wife return as her husband remarries. Framed and The Man from Colorado round out the list.
01 A woman presumed dead after years stranded on an island returns just as her husband remarries.
Directed by Michael Gordon · 1h 43m · Rated NR
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02 Edgar Buchanan features in this western about a peace-loving gunfighter who reluctantly becomes marshal of a booming, violence-plagued cattle town.
Directed by Jacques Tourneur · 1h 21m
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03 A gentle, unarmed lawman uses wit instead of guns to clean up a lawless frontier town.
Directed by George Marshall · 1h 35m · Rated NR
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04 A stagecoach station is seized by escaped convicts, trapping an innocent man and woman as hostages.
Directed by Henry Hathaway · 1h 29m · Rated NR
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05 A drifter is manipulated by a scheming embezzler and her lover into taking the fall for a fatal crime.
Directed by Richard Wallace · 1h 22m · Rated NR
Stream: Criterion Channel
06 Edgar Buchanan features in this western about a traumatised Civil War veteran turned judge who descends into tyranny.
Directed by Henry Levin · 1h 40m · Rated NR
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