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The Man from Laramie
The Man from Laramie (1955) is Anthony Mann's final Western with James Stewart, the only one in CinemaScope. Stewart plays Will Lockhart, hunting the rifle seller behind his brother's death; Philip Yordan and Frank Burt adapted Thomas T. Flynn's Saturday Evening Post story.
The Naked Spur
The Naked Spur (1953) is Anthony Mann's third Western with James Stewart: bounty hunter Kemp, two greedy helpers, and captive Robert Ryan cross the Colorado Rockies for a $5,000 reward. Oscar-nominated screenplay, National Film Registry 1997.
The Outlaw
The Outlaw (1943) is Howard Hughes's Western about Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, and Pat Garrett, starring Jane Russell; its Production Code censorship battle, 1943 San Francisco opening, and 1946 antitrust suit delayed its wide release for years.
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943 film)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) is William A. Wellman's 75-minute Western, adapted by Lamar Trotti from Walter Van Tilburg Clark's 1940 novel, starring Henry Fonda; it depicts a Nevada lynch mob hanging three innocent men, was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, and joined the National Film Registry in 1998.
The Ox-Bow Incident (1950 film)
The Ox-Bow Incident is William A. Wellman's 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox Western (not a 1950 film), adapted from Walter Van Tilburg Clark's 1940 novel, starring Henry Fonda; a posse lynches three innocent men in 1885 Nevada, and it earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
The Plainsman
The Plainsman is Cecil B. DeMille's 1936 Paramount Western starring Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane, and James Ellison as Buffalo Bill Cody, released January 1, 1937, grossing $2.27 million; distinct from the 1966 Universal remake and the Auburn Plainsman student newspaper.
The Proud Ones
The Proud Ones is a 1956 Twentieth Century-Fox Western directed by Robert D. Webb, starring Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, and Jeffrey Hunter, adapted from Verne Athanas's 1952 novel about a Kansas marshal with failing eyesight.
The Searchers
The Searchers (1956) is John Ford's Western, also known as Ford and Wayne's Monument Valley classic, starring John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a racist ex-Confederate searching years for his kidnapped niece; initially snubbed by the Oscars, it later ranked 12th on AFI's 2007 list.
The Tall T
The Tall T is a 1957 American Western directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott as a rancher taken hostage by stagecoach robbers led by Richard Boone.
The Tin Star
The Tin Star is a 1957 Paramount black-and-white VistaVision Western directed by Anthony Mann, starring Henry Fonda as bounty hunter Morg Hickman and Anthony Perkins as greenhorn sheriff Ben Owens; based on the story The Tin Badge, Oscar-nominated for its screenplay.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), John Huston's Warner Bros. adaptation of B. Traven's novel, stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt as gold prospectors in 1920s Mexico; it won three Oscars.
The Unforgiven (1960 film)
The Unforgiven (1960) is John Huston's Western, from Alan LeMay's novel, starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn as siblings in a Texas family accused of harboring a stolen Kiowa girl; a troubled, commercially failed HHL production.
The Virginian (1946 film)
The Virginian (1946) is a Paramount Technicolor Western directed by Stuart Gilmore, starring Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, and Barbara Britton, adapted from Owen Wister's 1902 novel; released April 5, 1946, it finished 24th at the 1946 box office.
The Westerner
The Westerner (1940) is a William Wyler Western starring Gary Cooper as Cole Harden and Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean; Brennan won his third Best Supporting Actor Oscar for it.
Tonka (1959 film)
Tonka (1959 film) is a Walt Disney western, released December 25, 1958, directed by Lewis R. Foster, starring Sal Mineo as White Bull, based on David Appel's novel Comanche, filmed in Oregon.
Union Pacific
Union Pacific (1939) is Cecil B. DeMille's Paramount Western, from Ernest Haycox's Trouble Shooter, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea as allies defending transcontinental railroad construction from saboteurs; it won the 2002-retroactive 1939 Cannes Palme d'Or.
Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz (1954) is a Robert Aldrich Western starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster as mercenaries escorting a countess and hidden gold across 1866 Mexico; the first SuperScope film and a spaghetti-western influence.
Wagon Master
Wagon Master is John Ford's 1950 black-and-white Western (also styled Wagonmaster) from Argosy Pictures, starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, and Joanne Dru as guides of a Mormon wagon train to Utah, shot near Moab and one of Ford's own favorites.
Warlock (1959 film)
Warlock is a 1959 American Western directed by Edward Dmytryk for Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, and Anthony Quinn as figures brought in to tame a mining town.
Whispering Smith
Whispering Smith is Frank H. Spearman's 1906 railroad-detective character, adapted into films from 1916 (J. P. McGowan, Helen Holmes) through the 1948 Alan Ladd Technicolor Paramount Western, plus a 1952 RKO film and 1961 Audie Murphy NBC series.
Winchester '73
Winchester '73 (1950) is an Anthony Mann Western starring James Stewart as Lin McAdam, who wins a rare Winchester 1873 rifle in a Dodge City contest, loses it to Dutch Henry Brown, his father's killer brother, and pursues it across the West.
Yellow Sky
Yellow Sky is a 1948 American black-and-white Western directed by William A. Wellman, starring Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, and Richard Widmark as outlaws fighting over a prospector's gold.