Jeymes Samuel wanted to give African American life in the Old West the mythic movie treatment he loved watching white people get as a child in England. His feature-directing debut, "The Harder They Fall," does the trick as John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" did, messing with actual historical figures in the most entertaining and accomplished ways imaginable. This wasn't exactly how the West was won, but the new film is an enjoyable take on how it should have been, informed by both underreported truth and fine, if blinkered, film artistry. In theaters Friday, Oct. 22, and streaming on Netflix starting Nov. 3, "Harder" serves up classic widescreen vistas and cleverly designed takes on what frontier towns can be and represent. Cinematography and editing pay homage to Sergio Leone while establishing slick, modern looks and rhythms of their own (hello, swooping drone shots). The score, by Samuel (who performs music as the Bullitts) and the film's co-producer Jay-Z, similarly grounds its hip-hop, reggae and Afrobeat mix in nods to the master of spaghetti Western noise, Ennio Morricone. (Yes, there is whistling.) Most satisfying, an A-list cast portrays a who's who of mostly real — if quite fictionalized for this project — Black outlaws and lawmen with wit, often nuanced emotions, and always impressive gunslinging. Jonathan Majors, so good in everything from "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" to "Lovecraft Country" and "Loki" and now this, plays the lead antihero, Nat Love. After dispatching a bad guy he has been hunting since childhood inside a high plains church, Love tells the cowering priest to turn in the corpse for a $5,000 reward. Asked why he doesn't go for the money himself, Nat grins and says, "I'm worth 10." That's the first of many cool lines in Samuel and Boaz Yakin's ("Now You See Me") script. Love figures the church killing ends his yearslong quest for revenge on the gang that murdered his parents, since that outfit's leader Rufus Buck (Idris Elba of this year's "The Suicide Squad") is in a federal penitentiary for life. But wouldn't you know, Buck's new crew — under lieutenant/lover "Treacherous Trudy" Smith ("One Night in Miami" director and "Watchmen" star Regina King, striking one iconic pose after another in a black bowler hat) and spiritual/sociopathic fast gun Cherokee Bill ("Sorry to Bother You's" LaKeith Stanfield) — busts him out of a transfer train.