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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Der Schatz im Silbersee
Der Schatz im Silbersee (The Treasure of Silver Lake; Blago u srebrnom jezeru) is Harald Reinl's 1962 Karl May Western with Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand and Pierre Brice as Winnetou, the first and most successful Karl-May film, grossing 6.4 million DM.
Django (1966 film)
Django (1966), Sergio Corbucci's Italian-Spanish spaghetti western starring Franco Nero as a coffin-dragging gunslinger with a machine gun, released 6 April 1966, spawning 30-plus unofficial sequels and inspiring Tarantino's Django Unchained.
Duck, You Sucker!
Duck, You Sucker! (Giù la testa, A Fistful of Dynamite) is Sergio Leone's 1971 Mexican Revolution epic starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn, his penultimate film and last western.
Duel at Diablo
Duel at Diablo (1966) is a Ralph Nelson Western starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier, based on Marvin H. Albert's novel Apache Rising, about a cavalry ammunition convoy attacked by Apaches in Utah.
El Dorado (1966 film)
El Dorado (1966) is a Howard Hawks Western starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan, adapted by Leigh Brackett from Harry Brown's novel The Stars in Their Courses as a reworking of Rio Bravo, released by Paramount in 1967.
Firecreek
Firecreek (1968) is a Warner Bros. Western directed by Vincent McEveety, starring James Stewart as part-time sheriff Johnny Cobb and Henry Fonda as outlaw leader Larkin; premiered 24 January 1968 in El Paso, Texas.
For a Few Dollars More
For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più) is Sergio Leone's 1965 spaghetti western, second in the Dollars trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters pursuing El Indio, with an Ennio Morricone score built on pocket-watch chimes.
Hang 'Em High
Hang 'Em High, 1968 Western directed by Ted Post, Clint Eastwood's first Hollywood Western and first Malpaso production, about Jed Cooper surviving a lynching; loosely based on Homer Croy's He Hanged Them High.
High Plains Drifter
High Plains Drifter is Clint Eastwood's 1973 Western, his second film as director and first Western, in which a nameless Stranger avenges a murdered marshal in the town of Lago, painting it red as "Hell".
Hombre (film)
Hombre (1967) is a Martin Ritt Western starring Paul Newman as John Russell, a white man raised by Apaches, adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1961 novel, with Richard Boone, Fredric March, and James Wong Howe cinematography.
Hour of the Gun
Hour of the Gun (1967) is John Sturges's Western sequel to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, starring James Garner as Wyatt Earp, Jason Robards as Doc Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Ike Clanton, dramatizing the Earp vendetta after the 1881 Tombstone shootout.
How the West Was Won (film)
How the West Was Won (1962) is an MGM-Cinerama epic Western, the first narrative feature in three-strip Cinerama, directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall, following the Prescott family westward from 1839, winning three Oscars.
Hud (1963 film)
Hud (1963) is Martin Ritt's Western drama starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, and Patricia Neal, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel Horseman, Pass By; it won three Oscars and entered the National Film Registry in 2018.
Jeremiah Johnson (film)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) is a Sydney Pollack Western starring Robert Redford as a mountain man based on Liver-Eating Johnson, adapted from Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man and Crow Killer, shot in Zion National Park, Utah.
Joe Kidd
Joe Kidd (1972) is a revisionist Western directed by John Sturges, written by Elmore Leonard, starring Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and John Saxon; a Malpaso/Universal land-dispute Western that grossed $6,330,000 domestically.
Little Big Man (film)
Little Big Man (1970), Arthur Penn's revisionist Western adapted from Thomas Berger's novel, stars Dustin Hoffman as 121-year-old Jack Crabb, raised by the Cheyenne and claiming to be the sole white survivor of the Little Bighorn.