Lonestar Delivers Back-To-Back Legendary Western Movie Marathons Programming Highlights / Movietime (formey Lonestar) Posted by RAD on Mar 01, 2005 - 03:20 PM Lonestar celebrates the careers of two of Hollywood's renowned actors. Enjoy a weekend with Clint and The Duke in some of their best western adventures. Saturday, March 12 @ 6am ET John Wayne Movie Marathon In more than 200 films made over 50 years, John Wayne saddled up to become the greatest figure of one of America's greatest native art forms, the western. The Big Trail (1930) Breck Coleman leads a wagon train of hundreds of settlers from the Mississippi River to Oregon. They face the hardships of weather, unfriendly strangers and internal strife in this sophisticated film. This is John Wayne's first film in a starring role. Also starring: Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel The Desert Trail (1938) Rodeo performer John Scott is falsely accused of the murder of the rodeo's paymaster. He and his sidekick Kansas Charlie travel the countryside in search of the real killers. Also starring: Mary Kornman, Eddy Chandler Winds of the Wasteland (1936) Two rugged westerners with little business experience buy a stagecoach line only to find out it connects to a nearly abandoned mining town. Also starring: Phyllis Fraser, Yakima Canutt Angel and the Badman (1947) Quirt Evans is a wounded outlaw who is sheltered by a Quaker family and he finds himself attracted to the family's daughter. Although the hard-edged Quirt undergoes a slow and subtle character transformation, he is obsessed with killing the man who murdered his foster father. This is the first film John Wayne produced. Also starring: Gail Russell, Bruce Cabot The Comancheros (1961) A gambler and a Texas Ranger team up in an undercover effort to take down a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros. Starring: Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin Sunday, March 13 @ 6am ET Clint Eastwood Movie Marathon With a career that spans over six decades, from television to blockbuster movies to winning Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood has established himself as one of the greatest and most respected actor/director the world has seen. Unforgiven (1992) The story of a retired gunslinger that takes on one final job in order to avenge a prostitute who was brutally slashed. Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically gripping Westerns ever made. Also starring: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman The Outlaw Josey Wells (1976) Josey Wales is a quiet farmer in the days near the end of the Civil War. After his home is burned and his family murdered, he dedicates himself to getting his revenge from the renegades. He joins a band of unreformed rebel guerilla fighters who continue to fight the Union. Also starring: Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke Pale Rider (1985) A nameless stranger known only as "Preacher" is either an agent of death or an angel of mercy when he comes to the aid of independent miners who are being terrorized by the local tycoon Coy LaHood and his ruthless band of hired guns. Also starring: Moriarty, Carrie Snodgrass This article is from CHANNEL CANADA   http://www.channelcanada.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.channelcanada.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=790