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1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
directed by George Roy Hill
featuring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry JonesOpening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale ... More
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2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
directed by Sergio Leone
featuring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffré, Rada Rassimov, Mario BregaIn the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the ... More
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3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'BrienLike Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The ... More
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4. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
directed by James Mangold
featuring Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben FosterRussell Crowe plays a desperado whose accomplices stage an ambush after he is taken into custody by a determined local sheriff in this remake of the ... More
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5. Young Guns II (1990)
directed by Geoff Murphy
featuring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William PetersenOnly three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer ... More
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6. My Name is Nobody (1973)
directed by Tonino Valerii
featuring Terence Hill, Henry FondaSpaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody (Hill) is hired to gun ... More
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7. Jonah Hex (2010)
directed by Jimmy Hayward
featuring Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, John Gallagher, Jr.1970s-era DC antihero Jonah Hex makes his way to the big screen as co-screenwriters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer) team to follow the ... More
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8. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
directed by Sergio Leone
featuring Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy, Mario BregaBy the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled "spaghetti westerns." Leone approached the ... More
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9. Purgatory (1999)
directed by Uli Edel
featuring Eric Roberts, Randy Quaid, Sam ShepardIn this fantasy set in the Old West, Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts) is an outlaw on the run from police after a bank robbery. Britton and his gang ... More
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10. The Shootist (1976)
directed by Don Siegel
featuring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Bill McKinney, James StewartAbout ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), "You have a ... More
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11. The Long Riders (1980)
directed by Walter Hill
featuring David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Dennis QuaidList of all editionsThe hook in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend is in the casting; the James, Younger, Miller, and Ford Brothers are ... More
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12. Django (1966)
directed by Sergio Corbucci
featuring Franco Nero, Loredana Nusciak, Eduardo Fajardo, Jose BodaloList of all editionsSergio Corbucci crafted one of the most popular and widely imitated of the Italian "spaghetti westerns" of the 1960s with this violent but stylish ... More
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13. The Proposition (2006)
directed by John Hillcoat
featuring Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, John HurtList of all editionsAn outlaw is goaded into taking on justice at its most brutal in this hard-edged Western set in rural Australia in the 1880s. Charlie Burns (Guy ... More
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14. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
directed by Sam Peckinpah
featuring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob DylanList of all editionsA former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy ... More
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15. The Professionals (1966)
directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Woody StrodeList of all editionsGrant (Ralph Bellamy) is a wealthy rancher who hires four mercenaries to retrieve his wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), from the clutches of the ... More
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16. High Plains Drifter (1973)
directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring James Gosa, Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack GingList of all editions"Who are you?" the dwarf Mordecai (Billy Curtis) asks Clint Eastwood's Stranger at the end of Eastwood's 1973 western High Plains Drifter. "You know, ... More
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17. Unforgiven (1992)
directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz WoolvettList of all editionsDedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ... More
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18. Vera Cruz (1954)
directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Sarita MontielList of all editionsProduced by Burt Lancaster's own company, Vera Cruz teams Lancaster with the venerable Gary Cooper. The story, set during the Mexican revolution of ... More
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19. Frank and Jesse (1994)
directed by Robert Boris
featuring Rob Lowe, Bill PaxtonList of all editionsRob Lowe and Bill Paxton star as Frank and Jesse James, who, after the defeat of the South in the Civil War and the pointless murder of their younger ... More
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20. American Outlaws (2001)
directed by Les Mayfield
featuring Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht, Gregory Smith, Harris Yulin, Will McCormack, Kathy Bates, Timothy DaltonList of all editionsThis loosely fact-based oater attempts to mimic the youthful heartthrobs in Western garb formula of Young Guns (1988), as well as the cheeky humor ... More
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21. The Outlaw (1943)
directed by Howard R. Hughes
featuring Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi AgugliaList of all editionsPerhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely thanks to the ... More
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22. El Dorado (1967)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Michele Carey, Paul FixList of all editionsHaving struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The first of these rehashes ... More
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23. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
directed by Delmer Daves
featuring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Richard JaeckelList of all editionsDesperate for money, frontier rancher Van Heflin holds outlaw Glenn Ford at gunpoint, intending to collect the $200 reward. While both men await the ... More
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24. Texas Rangers (2002)
directed by Steve Miner
featuring James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, Usher Raymond, Ashton Kutcher, Robert PatrickList of all editionsThe true story of the formation of the Texas Rangers provides the backdrop for this youth-oriented Western. In 1875, after the Civil War, Leander ... More
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25. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John VernonList of all editionsClint Eastwood's fifth film as a director and eighth Western as a star (ninth if you count Paint Your Wagon), The Outlaw Josey Wales chronicles the ... More







