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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last Train from Gun Hill
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) is a John Sturges Western starring Kirk Douglas as a marshal and Anthony Quinn as the cattle baron father of his wife's killer, climaxing at the 9 o'clock train.