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1. 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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2. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Hoot GibsonBased on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General Grant to take three ... More
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3. True Grit (2010)
directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
featuring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry PepperFourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's ... More
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4. Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
directed by Jon Favreau
featuring Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell, Paul DanoBased on the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens is set in 1800s Arizona, where the local cowboys, headed by gunslinger Jake ... More
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5. 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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6. Calamity Jane (1953)
directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick WessonDoris Day looks no more like the real Calamity Jane than you or I do, but this 1953 film is intended as a lighthearted musical, not a historical ... More
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7. Lonesome Dove (1989)
directed by Simon Wincer
featuring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica HustonThis six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of ... More
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8. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
directed by Don Siegel
featuring Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin, Armando SilvestreDirector Budd Boetticher wrote the story upon which this comic Western was based. Clint Eastwood stars as Hogan, a tough cowboy who rescues a woman, ... More
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9. Blazing Saddles (1974)
directed by Mel Brooks
featuring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Alex Karras, Madeline KahnVulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features ... More
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10. Priest (2011)
directed by Scott Stewart
featuring Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily CollinsIn a world ravaged by wars between humans and vampires, a renegade priest fights to rescue his niece from the legions of bloodsuckers who seek to ... More
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11. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Robert Redford, Will Geer, Stefan Gierasch, Allyn Ann McLerie, Delle Bolton, Charles Tyner, Josh AlbeeList of all editionsYears before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. ... More
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12. Giant (1956)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane WithersList of all editionsGeorge Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and serious drama for its ... More
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13. The Comancheros (1961)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee MarvinList of all editionsMichael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character development seen in a ... More
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14. Dances With Wolves (1990)
directed by Kevin Costner
featuring Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd "Red Crow" WestermanList of all editionsA historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians, Kevin Costner's directorial debut was also a ... More
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15. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
directed by Ang Lee
featuring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Linda CardelliniList of all editionsAng Lee's adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's story Brokeback Mountain stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as young cowboys named Jack Twist and Ennis ... More
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16. Rango (2011)
directed by Gore Verbinski
featuring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy OlyphantList of all editionsA pet chameleon who has lived his entire life in the confines of a cozy glass terrarium discovers adventure beyond his wildest imagination in this ... More
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17. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James CoburnList of all editionsJapanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to ... More
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18. Appaloosa (2008)
directed by Ed Harris
featuring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance HenriksenList of all editionsUpon drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering that the helpless locals are being terrorized by a ruthless rancher and his brutish ... More
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19. Silverado (1985)
directed by Lawrence Kasdan
featuring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John CleeseList of all editionsLawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the ... More
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20. 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 BregaList of all editionsIn 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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21. Broken Arrow (1950)
directed by Delmer Daves
featuring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will GeerList of all editionsIndian scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns (through an ... More
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22. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglenList of all editionsThe second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in Technicolor. In an Oscar-calibre ... More
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23. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
directed by Joshua Logan
featuring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, Harve PresnellList of all editionsAfter a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner and Loewe musical. With ... More
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24. Streets of Laredo (1995)
directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring James Garner, Alexis Cruz, Sam Shepard, Sissy SpacekList of all editionsThis miniseries follows the original Lonesome Dove miniseries, and both are based on the characters created by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry ... More
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25. Hondo (1953)
directed by John Farrow
featuring John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James ArnessList of all editionsHondo is so "perfect" a John Ford western that many people assume it was directed by John Ford--or at the very least, Andrew McLaglen. Actually the ... More







