oater
noun [ C ] US informal uk/ˈəʊ.tər/ us/ˈoʊ.t̬ɚ/
（以19世纪后半期美国西部生活为题材的）西部电影
a western (= a film based on stories about life in the west of the US in the past)
This oater is the only movie directed by Burt Lancaster. 本片是伯特 · 兰卡斯特执导的唯一一部电影。
Forty Guns is a 1957 oater about an infamous lawman who takes on a female outlaw and her private army of 40 gunmen. 《四十支枪》是一部1957年的电影，讲述的是一个无耻的执法者对付一个女性反叛者和她带领的40名枪手的故事。
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- Trimble is the female lead in an 1950s oater called "Last Stage to El Paso".
- Fritz Lang's first western is a routine but well-made oater that addresses one of the director's favourite themes: obsessive vengefulness.
- The presence of those two great stars in the same place is the selling point of this otherwise routine oater.