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Lonely Are the Brave
Lonely Are the Brave: 1962 American Western directed by David Miller, Kirk Douglas as cowboy Jack Burns, Dalton Trumbo screenplay from Edward Abbey's The Brave Cowboy, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, Jerry Goldsmith score, Douglas's favorite film.
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif in a hunt for a lost canyon of gold.
Major Dundee
Major Dundee is Sam Peckinpah's 1965 Civil War Western starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris, a Union officer leading Confederate prisoners into Mexico against Apaches; famously cut from about 164 to 124 minutes and partially restored in 2005.
Man in the Wilderness
Man in the Wilderness (1971) is a Richard C. Sarafian Western starring Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, a trapper left for dead after a bear mauling; a loose retelling of the Hugh Glass legend later filmed as The Revenant.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) is Robert Altman's anti-western starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as brothel partners in the mining town Presbyterian Church, filmed in British Columbia with Vilmos Zsigmond's flashed photography and Leonard Cohen songs.
McLintock!
McLintock! is a 1963 comedy Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, produced by Batjac for United Artists, loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew.
Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh (1970) is a Western directed by William A. Fraker, starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance, adapted from Jack Schaefer's 1963 novel about aging cowboys at the end of the open-range era; remade for television in 2003 with Tom Selleck.
My Name Is Nobody
My Name Is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno) is a 1973 Italian-French-German comedy Western directed by Tonino Valerii from Sergio Leone's idea, starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda, with Morricone music and a 150-man Wild Bunch showdown.
Nevada Smith
Nevada Smith is a 1966 Henry Hathaway Western starring Steve McQueen as Max Sand, a prequel to The Carpetbaggers, tracking three killers of his parents; 128 min, Paramount.
Old Shatterhand (1964 film)
Old Shatterhand (1964) is a West German-French-Italian-Yugoslav Karl May western directed by Hugo Fregonese for Artur Brauner's CCC, starring Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, and Daliah Lavi, with an original screenplay and a Goldene Leinwand award.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), Sergio Leone's 1968 epic spaghetti Western with Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and an Ennio Morricone score played on set.
One-Eyed Jacks
One-Eyed Jacks (1961) is Marlon Brando's only film as director, a 141-minute Paramount Western adapted from Charles Neider's novel, shot in VistaVision, starring Brando and Karl Malden, restored in 4K in 2016.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is Sam Peckinpah's 1973 MGM Western starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan, who wrote "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"; it exists in multiple cuts after MGM reedited Peckinpah's 121-minute version to 106 minutes.
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country (1962), Sam Peckinpah's second feature, a Western starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott as aging lawmen guarding a gold shipment; Scott's final film, Metascore 92.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo (1970) is Howard Hawks's final Western, starring John Wayne as Union Col. Cord McNally hunting Civil War traitors in a corrupt Texas town, the third variation on Rio Bravo after El Dorado, with Jorge Rivero and Jennifer O'Neill.
Rooster Cogburn (film)
Rooster Cogburn (1975), a Universal Western directed by Stuart Millar and produced by Hal B. Wallis, is the True Grit sequel starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn as Cogburn and Eula Goodnight; 50% Tomatometer, $8 million domestic gross.
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Support Your Local Sheriff! is a 1969 American comedy Western directed by Burt Kennedy, written and produced by William Bowers, starring James Garner as a drifter sheriff in a gold-rush town, Cherokee Productions' first independent film.
The Appaloosa
The Appaloosa (1966) is a Universal border Western directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Marlon Brando as buffalo hunter Matt Fletcher, whose stallion is stolen by John Saxon's bandit Chuy Medina; based on Robert MacLeod's 1963 novel, 98 minutes, released 14 September 1966.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Ballad of Cable Hogue is Sam Peckinpah's 1970 Western comedy starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, and David Warner, about a prospector who builds a desert way station on a discovered spring, a box-office flop later ranked among the greatest Westerns.
The Comancheros
The Comancheros is a 1961 Twentieth Century-Fox Western directed by Michael Curtiz, starring John Wayne as Texas Ranger Jake Cutter and Stuart Whitman, based on Paul I. Wellman's 1952 novel; Curtiz's final film, partly directed by Wayne, released 1 November 1961.
The Cowboys
The Cowboys is a 1972 American Western directed by Mark Rydell, starring John Wayne, Bruce Dern, and Roscoe Lee Browne, about a rancher who hires schoolboys to drive his herd.
The Frisco Kid
The Frisco Kid (1979), aka No Knife, is Robert Aldrich's comedy Western starring Gene Wilder as Polish rabbi Avram Belinski and Harrison Ford as outlaw Tommy Lillard, a Warner Bros. production with mixed reviews.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo), Sergio Leone's 1966 spaghetti western closing the Dollars Trilogy: Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef hunt $200,000 in Confederate gold amid the Civil War, with Ennio Morricone's iconic score.
The Hallelujah Trail
The Hallelujah Trail (1965) is a John Sturges Western comedy, from Bill Gulick's novel Hallelujah Train, starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick; a whiskey wagon train to Denver is fought over by temperance women, cavalry, and Sioux.
The Last Sunset
The Last Sunset (1961) is a Robert Aldrich Western starring Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, and Dorothy Malone, written by Dalton Trumbo from Howard Rigsby's novel Sundown at Crazy Horse, filmed in Mexico, and noted for its incest plot and Sirkian melodrama.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford's 1962 black-and-white Paramount Western starring James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, and Lee Marvin, adapted from Dorothy M. Johnson's short story, famous for the line "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
The Misfits (1961 film)
The Misfits (1961) is John Huston's Nevada desert drama, written by Arthur Miller, starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift; the final completed film of Monroe and Gable, a box-office disappointment that later became regarded as a classic.
The Missouri Breaks
The Missouri Breaks is Arthur Penn's 1976 Western starring Marlon Brando as regulator Robert E. Lee Clayton and Jack Nicholson as rustler Tom Logan, written by Thomas McGuane; a failure on release, later a cult favorite, named for Montana's Missouri Breaks badlands.
The Night of the Grizzly
The Night of the Grizzly is a 1966 Paramount Western directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Clint Walker as ex-sheriff Jim Cole, with Martha Hyer and Keenan Wynn; originally titled Clementine, filmed in San Bernardino National Forest.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Outlaw Josey Wales is Clint Eastwood's 1976 Western about a Missouri farmer turned fugitive after Union guerrillas kill his family, based on Forrest Carter's novel Gone to Texas, directed by Eastwood after Philip Kaufman's dismissal.