The Train Robbers

The Train Robbers (1973) is a John Wayne western you can watch online on iFILM. A young widow hires gunhand Lane to recover half a million dollars in gold her late husband stole and buried somewhere across the Mexican desert. Her goal, she says, is to hand it back and clear the family name.

Lane rounds up a handful of old Civil War comrades and rides into the heat after the cache. But the widow's story is a little too tidy, and a hard-eyed posse is shadowing the trail — men who want the gold and care nothing for anyone's reputation. Alongside Wayne ride Ann-Margret as the widow, plus Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson and Ricardo Montalbán as a quiet, relentless tracker.

Burt Kennedy, a regular collaborator on Wayne's later westerns, directs. Ninety-odd minutes of dust, gunfire and dry frontier humor, capped by a twist that recasts the whole ride. A solid late-period western for anyone who likes the genre lean and unfussy. Stream The Train Robbers (1973) online on iFILM.