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Seven Men from Now
Seven Men from Now (7 Men from Now) is a 1956 Budd Boetticher Western starring Randolph Scott as ex-sheriff Ben Stride hunting his wife's killers, written by Burt Kennedy, first of the Ranown cycle, restored by UCLA in 2000.
Shane (film)
Shane (1953), George Stevens's Paramount Western adapted from Jack Schaefer's novel, stars Alan Ladd as a retired gunfighter defending Wyoming homesteaders; six Oscar nominations, won Color Cinematography, National Film Registry 1993.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 John Ford Western, second of his cavalry trilogy and the only one in Technicolor, starring John Wayne as retiring Captain Nathan Brittles in Monument Valley; it won Winton C. Hoch the color cinematography Oscar.
Silver River
Silver River (1948) is a Raoul Walsh Warner Bros. Western starring Errol Flynn as Mike McComb, a dishonorably discharged Union officer who becomes a Nevada silver magnate; his seventh and last film with Walsh, costing $3.2 million.
Stagecoach (1939 film)
Stagecoach (1939) is John Ford's landmark Western, his first sound-era Western, starring John Wayne as the Ringo Kid and Claire Trevor, shot in Monument Valley, based on Haycox's "Stage to Lordsburg," and credited with elevating the Western to A-picture status.
Station West
Station West is a 1948 RKO Western film noir directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Dick Powell, Jane Greer, and Agnes Moorehead, adapted from Luke Short's novel about an undercover Army agent investigating gold-shipment thefts.
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.
Tall in the Saddle
Tall in the Saddle is a 1944 RKO Western directed by Edwin L. Marin, starring John Wayne as Rocklin, a cowboy framed for murder while working for ranch owner Arly Harolday (Ella Raines) against corrupt Judge Garvey (Ward Bond); based on Gordon Ray Young's novel, released 17 October 1944.
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 Big Country
The Big Country is William Wyler's 1958 widescreen Western, co-produced with and starring Gregory Peck as a pacifist Easterner in a water-rights feud, based on Donald Hamilton's "Ambush at Blanco Canyon," with Burl Ives winning Best Supporting Actor and Jerome Moross's score Oscar-nominated.
The Big Trail
The Big Trail (1930) is Raoul Walsh's Fox Western epic on the Oregon Trail, John Wayne's first starring role, shot in 35mm and 70mm Grandeur widescreen, a costly box-office failure later named to the National Film Registry in 2006.
The Bravados
The Bravados is a 1958 American Western directed by Henry King and starring Gregory Peck as a rancher who hunts four outlaws he believes raped and murdered his wife.
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 Far Country
The Far Country is a 1954/1955 Anthony Mann Western starring James Stewart as cattleman Jeff Webster in the Klondike gold rush, the fourth of five Mann-Stewart Universal-International Westerns, filmed at Jasper National Park, Alberta.
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 Gunfighter
The Gunfighter (1950) is Henry King's Twentieth Century-Fox Western starring Gregory Peck as aging gunslinger Jimmy Ringo, an antiheroic, mustachioed forerunner of the psychological Westerns, initially a box-office disappointment but later acclaimed (Metascore 94).
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 Hanging Tree (1959 film)
The Hanging Tree (1959) is a Delmer Daves Western starring Gary Cooper as Doc Frail, based on Dorothy M. Johnson's novelette, filmed near Yakima, Washington; Karl Malden finished directing after Daves fell ill, and the Marty Robbins title song earned an Oscar nomination.
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 Lusty Men
The Lusty Men is a 1952 RKO rodeo drama directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward, and Arthur Kennedy, adapted from Claude Stanush's 1946 Life article about champion Bob Crosby.
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven (1960) is John Sturges' Western remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson, with Elmer Bernstein's famous score; a flop that became a classic.
The Man from Colorado
The Man from Colorado is a 1948 Columbia Western directed by Henry Levin, starring Glenn Ford as a psychologically damaged Civil War veteran turned corrupt judge and William Holden as his marshal friend; a late-1940s noir western.
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 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 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.