<P> While many of these mash - ups (e.g., Billy Jack (1971) and its sequel The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)) are cheap exploitation films, others are more serious dramas such as the Kung Fu TV series, which ran from 1972 - 1975 . Comedy examples include the Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson collaboration Shanghai Noon (2000). Further sub-divisions of this subgenre include Ninja Westerns and Samurai Westerns (incorporating samurai cinema themes), such as Red Sun (1971) with Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune . </P> <P> The Meat pie Western (also Kangaroo Western) (a slang term which plays on the Italo - western moniker "Spaghetti Western") is an American Western - style movie or TV series set in Australia, especially the Australian Outback or the Australian Bush . Films such as Rangle River (1936), Kangaroo (1952), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), The Man from Snowy River (1982), and Five Mile Creek (1983--85), Quigley Down Under (1991), The Proposition (2005) are all representative of the genre . The term is used to differentiate more Americanized Australian films from those with a more historical basis, such as those about bushrangers . </P> <P> The Northern genre is a subgenre of Westerns taking place in Alaska or Western Canada . Examples include several versions of the Rex Beach novel, The Spoilers (including 1930's The Spoilers, with Gary Cooper, and 1942's The Spoilers, with Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and Wayne); The Far Country (1954) with James Stewart; North to Alaska (1960) with Wayne; Death Hunt (1981) with Charles Bronson; and The Grey Fox (1983) with Richard Farnsworth . </P> <P> Osterns, also known as "Red Western" s, are produced in Eastern Europe . They were popular in Communist Eastern European countries and were a particular favorite of Joseph Stalin, and usually portrayed the American Indians sympathetically, as oppressed people fighting for their rights, in contrast to American Westerns of the time, which frequently portrayed the Indians as villains . Osterns frequently featured Gypsies or Turkic people in the role of the Indians, due to the shortage of authentic Indians in Eastern Europe . </P>

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