Robert J. Wilke

Filmde Meksika'daki bir köyün ahalisinin düzenli olarak ürünlerini yağmalayan haydutlardan korunmak için Amerikalı bir grup silahşörü kiralamaları ve onlarla birlikte haydutlara karşı verdikleri mücadele anlatılmaktadır. Filmin tanıtım sloganı aynı zamanda filmin de bir özeti gibidir; "Yedi kişiydiler ama yediyüz kişi gibi dövüştüler".Tüm zamanların en popüler westernlerinden biri olan Muhteşem Yedili'nin senaryosunu Kurosawa'nın Yedi Samuray filminden William Roberts uyarladı...

Trakyalı bir köle olan Spartaküs'ün asi yaradılışı gladyatör okulu işleten Lentulus Brutus'ün dikkatini çeker. Böylelikle Spartaküs'ün gladyatörlük yaşamı başlar. Eğitim süresi sonunda gladyatörler birer kadınla birlikte olma şansı bulur. Spartaküs kendisine sunulan Varinia'ya dokunmaz. Okulu ziyaret eden senatör Marcus Crassus'un şerefine tertiplenen oyunlarda Spartaküs Romalı politikacının zalim yanını görme fırsatı bulur ve Varinia'nın ona hediye edilmesi üzerine bir isyan başlatır.İsyan kısa sürede tüm bölgeye yayılır. Varinia ve Crassus'un evinden bir başka köle, romantik şair Antonius da sayıları giderek artan isyancılara katılırlar. Karşılarına çıkan bir kaç lejyonu yenilgiye uğratan isyancıların amacı İtalya'nın güney ucuna ulaşıp oradan gemilerle anavatanlarına dönmektir. Oysa Roma'da isyancıların üzerinden büyük politik oyunlar oynanmaktadır ve Crassus da bu oyunun bir parçasıdır.

Hadleyvile kasabasının başarılı şerifi Will Kane, Amy ile evlendikten sonra tehlikeli işini bırakıp, karısıyla kasabadan ayrılmaya karar vermiştir. Aynı gün, yıllar önce hapse attırdığı bir haydut olan Frank Miller'ın hapisten çıktığını ve intikam almak için kasabaya dönmekte olduğunu öğrenir. Kasaba halkının ve karısının ısrarlarına rağmen onunla yüzleşmeye karar verir. Fakat kimse destek olmaz. Bir anda yalnız kalan şerif, Frank ve çetesiyle tek başına yüzleşmek zorunda kalır. Tek yardımcısı eski sevgilisi Helen Ramirez'dir. Son anda karısının desteğine kavuşan Will, dört haydutla savaşır ve kötü anında yalnız bırakan kasabasını onurlu bir şekilde terk eder.

Fransız yazar Jules Verne'in ilk kez 1870 yılında yayımladığı Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers (Denizler Altında Yirmi Bin Fersah) adlı bilimkurgu romanından uyarlanmıştır.

Ağır sanayi işçileri Bill ve Abby güneye doğru daha iyi bir iş bulmak için yola çıkarlar. Yanlarında manevi kardeşleri saydıkları Linda da bulunmaktadır. İki kardeş olduklarını söyleyen Bill ve Abby büyük bir çiftlikte mevsimlik işçi olarak çalışmaya başlarlar. Toprak sahibinin Abby’ye olan duygularının farkında olan ve onun ölümcül bir hastalığa sahip olduğunu şans eseri öğrenen Bill, zengin olmanın yolunu bulduğunu düşünür. Gerçekten de kardeş gibi davranarak çiftlikte kalan ve ardından toprak sahibi ile evlenen Abby, bir süre sonra Bill ve eşi arasında kalmaya başlar. Abby’ye aşık olan Bill ise gün geçtikçe bu evlilikten rahatsızlık duyacak ve olmadık işlere başvuracaktır.

John askeri eğitim birliğinin lideri seçilir. Onların eğitimlerinden ilk görevlerine kadar ki dönemi ayrıntılarıyla izleyeceksiniz. Aynı zamanda acemi erlerin talimlerini ve sır gibi saklana savaşa hazır eğlence araçları ile birlikte Doğu almanya'ya yaptıkları keşif gezileri sizleri bekliyor.

1941 yılında Hawaii 'de Japonların Pearl Harbor baskınının öncesinde bir Amerikan askeri üssünde geçer. Adaya yeni transfer edilmiş Er Robert Prewitt'in yetenekli bir boksör olduğu için boks takımında dövüşmesi istenir. Vicdani sebeplerden dolayı teklifi reddeden er Prewitt'i zor günler beklemektedir.Kararını değiştirmesi için başta Başçavuş Milton Warden olmak üzere diğer astsubaylar tüm zor görevleri er Prewitt'in üstüne yıkarak hayatı onun için zorlaştırmaya başlarlar.Bu zor zamanlarında derdini kelimelere dökemeyen Prewitt trompetini üfleyerek çıkardığı melodilerle teselli bulmaya çalışır.Tek destekçisi ise disiplinsiz ve şakacı arkadaşı Er Angelo Maggio (Frank Sinatra) 'dır...

Melodramların büyük ustası Douglas Sirk 'in yönettiği 1956 yapımı bir Amerikan filmidir. Robert Wilder 'ın 1946'da yazdığı aynı adlı çok satan romanından sinemaya aktarılmıştır. Romanın o yıllarda ünlü olan melankolik şarkıcı Libby Holman ile bir tütün kralının varisi (Filmde petrol kralı olmuş) Smith Reynolds arasında yaşanmış gerçek bir aşk skandalına dayandırıldığı söylenmektedir.Günümüzün "Dallas" "Hanedan" benzeri TV dizilerinin atası sayılabilecek bu filmde bir petrol kralının oğlu ile aşk yaşayıp evlenen sekreterin (Lauren Bacall) bu garip ve şımarık aile içindeki ilişkileri anlatılmaktadır.

İki yaşlı kovboy, John O'Hanlan (James Stewart) ve Harley Sullivan (Henry Fonda), John'a miras kalan Şayen Sosyal Kulübü adlı bir mülkü görmek için Wyoming'e gider. Buranın saygın bir sosyal kulüp olduğunu sanırlar, ancak gerçekte burası bir genelevdir! John, mülkün sahibi olarak kulübü işletmek zorunda kalır, ancak ahlaki ikilemler yaşar. Harley ise durumdan keyif alır. Kulübün rakipleri ve kasabanın ahlakçıları sorun çıkarınca, iki kafadar kendilerini beklenmedik bir çatışmanın içinde bulur.

Maskeli Süvari ve sadık yardımcısı Tonto, bir grup yerleşimci ile bir Kızılderili kabilesi arasında yaşanan gerilimi azaltmaya çalışır.

Eski kanun kaçağı Link Jones, bir öğretmeni işe almak için trenle giderken, eski Dock Tobin çetesi tarafından yapılan bir tren soygununa karışır. Soygunun ardından Link, şehvetli bar şovmeni Billie Ellis ve talihsiz kumarbaz Sam Beasley, yaşanması zor bir bölgede mahsur kalır.

Kendini beğenmiş bir maceracı, sığırları Dawson'a götürürken dolandırıcı bir kanun adamıyla karşı karşıya gelir.

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

İşten atılan bir demir yolu işçisi, kanun kaçaklarıyla bağlantısı olduğundan şüphelenilmesine rağmen, gizlice on bin dolarlık bir maaş bordrosunu taşımak üzere yeniden işe alınır.

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Madencilere gönderilmek üzere Denver'a doğru yola çıkan viski kargosu, Temperance Birliği, ABD Süvarileri, yerli Kızılderililer ve madenciler tarafından aranır.

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union's presidency.

Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.

An outlaw is left for dead by his gang after being shot. A year later, he is released from jail with one thing on his mind: Revenge.

When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.

During the administration of President Ulysses Grant, Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon solve crimes, protect the President, and foil the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States.

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.