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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Destry Rides Again
Destry Rides Again (1939) is a Universal comic Western directed by George Marshall, starring James Stewart as a gunless deputy and Marlene Dietrich as saloon singer Frenchy, based on Max Brand's 1930 novel.
Dodge City (1939 film)
Dodge City (1939) is a Warner Bros. Technicolor Western directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Bruce Cabot; Flynn's first Western, premiered in Dodge City, Kansas, April 1, 1939.
Duel in the Sun (film)
Duel in the Sun, 1946 Technicolor Western by King Vidor, produced by David O. Selznick from Niven Busch's novel, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, and Joseph Cotten in a fatal Texas love triangle; notorious for its budget, censorship battles, and later critical re-evaluation.
Escape from Fort Bravo
Escape from Fort Bravo is a 1953 MGM Western directed by John Sturges, starring William Holden and Eleanor Parker, set in 1863 at a Union prison camp in Arizona Territory; the first film in MGM's own widescreen process (1.66:1), shot in Ansco Color in Death Valley and Gallup, New Mexico.
Fort Apache (film)
Fort Apache (1948), John Ford's Western with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Temple, first of his Cavalry trilogy; based on Bellah's "Massacre," shot in Monument Valley, notable for portraying whites, not Apaches, as villains.
Forty Guns
Forty Guns (1957), also known by its working title Woman with a Whip, is a Samuel Fuller black-and-white CinemaScope Western starring Barbara Stanwyck as rancher Jessica Drummond, who rules Cochise County with forty hired guns, and Barry Sullivan as marshal Griff Bonnell.
Garden of Evil
Garden of Evil (1954) is a Henry Hathaway CinemaScope Western starring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, and Richard Widmark, produced by Charles Brackett from a Frank Fenton screenplay, shot on Mexican locations including Parícutin, with a Bernard Herrmann score.
Giant (1956 film)
Giant (1956) is George Stevens's epic drama adapted from Edna Ferber's Texas novel, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean in his final role; ten Oscar nominations, one win for Best Director, National Film Registry 2005.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 Paramount Western directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, written by Leon Uris from George Scullin's article "The Killer," shot in VistaVision, with a Dimitri Tiomkin score and Frankie Laine title song.
High Noon
High Noon (1952) is Fred Zinnemann's Western starring Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane, Grace Kelly in her first starring role, written by blacklisted Carl Foreman, four Oscars, National Film Registry 1989.
Hondo (film)
Hondo (1953) is a John Farrow Western starring John Wayne as cavalry scout Hondo Lane, based on Louis L'Amour's "The Gift of Cochise," shot in stereoscopic 3-D, released November 27, 1953 by Warner Bros., with Geraldine Page's film debut and Oscar-nominated performance.
Jesse James (1939 film)
Jesse James (1939) is a Henry King Technicolor Western from Twentieth Century-Fox starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Nancy Kelly; Fox's top 1939 hit and the first true Western in three-color Technicolor.
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar (1954) is a Nicholas Ray Western starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, and Mercedes McCambridge, made by Republic Pictures in Trucolor; a cult, feminist, anti-McCarthyism reading of the genre.
Jubal
Jubal (1956) is a Delmer Daves Western starring Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger, adapted from Paul I. Wellman's novel Jubal Troop and loosely based on Othello; shot in Technicolor CinemaScope in Wyoming's Grand Tetons and released by Columbia in May 1956.