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100 Rifles
100 Rifles is a 1969 Tom Gries Western starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, and Burt Reynolds, based on Robert MacLeod's novel The Californio, shot in Spain, and noted for its pioneering interracial love scene.
3 Godfathers
3 Godfathers (1948) is John Ford's Technicolor Western starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, and Harry Carey Jr. as outlaws who carry a dying woman's baby to New Jerusalem, adapted from Peter B. Kyne's 1913 novel and dedicated to Harry Carey.
3:10 to Yuma (1957 film)
3:10 to Yuma (1957) is a Delmer Daves black-and-white Western from Columbia Pictures, starring Glenn Ford as outlaw Ben Wade and Van Heflin as rancher Dan Evans, adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1953 short story, added to the National Film Registry in 2012 and remade in 2007.
5 Card Stud
5 Card Stud (Five Card Stud) is a 1968 Henry Hathaway Western mystery starring Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum, about murders following a lynched poker cheat, and also the early stud poker variant with one hole card.
A Man Called Horse (film)
A Man Called Horse: 1970 American Western directed by Elliot Silverstein, starring Richard Harris as Lord John Morgan, captured by the Sioux in 1825; adapted from Dorothy M. Johnson's Collier's short story, famous for its invented Sun Vow ritual and disputed authenticity claims.
Abilene Town
Abilene Town (1946) is an American Western directed by Edwin L. Marin, starring Randolph Scott as Marshal Dan Mitchell in 1870 Abilene, Kansas, adapted from Ernest Haycox's novel Trail Town, released 11 January 1946 by United Artists.
Along Came Jones
Along Came Jones is a 1945 comedy Western directed by Stuart Heisler, starring Gary Cooper as cowboy Melody Jones mistaken for outlaw Monte Jarrad, with Loretta Young and Dan Duryea; Cooper's only producing credit.
Alvarez Kelly
Alvarez Kelly (1966) is a Columbia Pictures Civil War Western directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring William Holden and Richard Widmark, loosely based on the 1864 Beefsteak Raid, in which a cattleman is forced to drive a stolen herd to Richmond.
Angel and the Badman
Angel and the Badman is a 1947 American Western written and directed by James Edward Grant, starring John Wayne as wounded gunman Quirt Evans nursed by a Quaker family; the first film from Wayne's Patnel Productions, released by Republic on 15 February 1947, remade by Angel Studios in 2026 with Zachary Levi.
Antônio das Mortes
Antônio das Mortes (O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro) is Glauber Rocha's 1969 Cinema Novo film in which hired killer Antonio, from Black God White Devil, turns against the colonel who hired him; it won Best Director at Cannes 1969.
Bad Day at Black Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is a John Sturges MGM drama starring Spencer Tracy as a one-armed veteran who uncovers the wartime murder of a Japanese American farmer in a hostile desert town; three Oscar nominations, Cannes Best Actor, National Film Registry 2018.
Bandolero!
Bandolero! is a 1968 Twentieth Century-Fox Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, and George Kennedy; outlaws flee a Texas hanging into Mexican bandit country.
Bend of the River
Bend of the River (1952), also known by its working title Bend of the Snake, is an Anthony Mann Technicolor Western starring James Stewart as reformed outlaw Glyn McLyntock guiding settlers to Oregon, with Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, and Rock Hudson; second of five Mann-Stewart Westerns.
Big Jake
Big Jake is a 1971 American Western directed by George Sherman, starring John Wayne as Jacob "Big Jake" McCandles, who rides out with his sons to rescue his kidnapped grandson from the Fain Gang.
Blood on the Moon
Blood on the Moon (1948) is a Robert Wise RKO Western starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Preston, adapted from a Luke Short novel and celebrated as the leading example of the noir Western hybrid.
Broken Arrow (1950 film)
Broken Arrow (1950) is Delmer Daves' Twentieth Century-Fox Western starring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, and Debra Paget, the first major sound-era Hollywood Western to portray Native Americans sympathetically, based on Elliott Arnold's Blood Brother, with three Oscar nominations.
Broken Lance
Broken Lance (折れた槍) is a 1954 Twentieth Century-Fox Western directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Spencer Tracy as cattle baron Matt Devereaux; a western remake of House of Strangers about half-brothers feuding over an Arizona ranch.
Buchanan Rides Alone
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) is a Budd Boetticher Western starring Randolph Scott as Tom Buchanan, framed for murder in the Agry family's corrupt border town; fourth film of the Ranown cycle, from Jonas Ward's novel The Name's Buchanan.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is George Roy Hill's 1969 Western starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross, written by William Goldman with a Burt Bacharach score. Top-grossing film of 1969, four Oscars, National Film Registry 2003.
Cahill U.S. Marshal
Cahill U.S. Marshal, also listed as Cahill: United States Marshal, is a 1973 John Wayne Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, in which a widowed U.S. marshal's neglected sons become involved in a bank robbery he investigates.
Canyon Passage
Canyon Passage (1946) is a Jacques Tourneur Technicolor Western produced by Walter Wanger for Universal, adapted from Ernest Haycox's novel, starring Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy, set in 1856 Oregon.
Cat Ballou
Cat Ballou (1965) is a Columbia Pictures Western comedy directed by Elliot Silverstein, starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, whose dual role as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn won the Best Actor Oscar.
Cheyenne (1947 film)
Cheyenne (1947), later retitled The Wyoming Kid, is a Raoul Walsh Warner Bros. Western starring Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, and Arthur Kennedy, about a gambler hunting the outlaw "the Poet."
Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn is John Ford's 1964 Western, his last in the genre, adapted from Mari Sandoz's 1953 novel about the 1878 Northern Cheyenne exodus from Oklahoma toward their Wyoming homeland, starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, and Ricardo Montalbán.
Chisum
Chisum (1970) is a John Wayne Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, written by Andrew J. Fenady, dramatizing the Lincoln County War; also known as Chisum and the Lincoln County Cattle War, it grossed $6 million in rentals.
Cimarron
Cimarron (1931) is RKO's epic Western directed by Wesley Ruggles, adapted from Edna Ferber's novel, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. First Western to win Best Picture; also the 1960 MGM remake with Glenn Ford.
Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory (1949) is Raoul Walsh's Warner Bros. noir Western remake of his 1941 High Sierra, starring Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, and Dorothy Malone in a doomed train-heist story.
Comanche Station
Comanche Station (1960) is Budd Boetticher's last Western with Randolph Scott, the final Ranown Pictures film, written by Burt Kennedy: Cody rescues captive Nancy Lowe and fights bounty hunters led by Claude Akins.
Custer of the West
Custer of the West (1967), also released as A Good Day for Fighting, is a Robert Siodmak biographical Western starring Robert Shaw as General Custer, shot in Super Technirama 70 in Spain for Cinerama Releasing.
Death of a Gunfighter
Death of a Gunfighter (1969) is a 94-minute Universal Western starring Richard Widmark and Lena Horne, the first film credited to the DGA pseudonym Allen Smithee, standing in for directors Robert Totten and Don Siegel after a production dispute.