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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
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 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.
The Outrage
The Outrage (1964) is Martin Ritt's Western remake of Kurosawa's Rashomon, starring Paul Newman as bandit Juan Carrasco, with conflicting testimonies about a rape and murder in the 1880s Southwest; released October 1964 by MGM, poorly received.
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 Professionals (1966 film)
The Professionals is a 1966 American Western directed by Richard Brooks, starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin as soldiers of fortune hired to rescue a kidnapped woman.
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 Rare Breed
The Rare Breed is a 1966 Universal Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, and Juliet Mills, about an English widow bringing a Hereford bull to Texas.
The Rounders
The Rounders is a 1965 American comedy Western directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda as two wranglers battling an unbreakable horse, adapted from Max Evans's novel.
The Scalphunters
The Scalphunters is a 1968 Sydney Pollack Western comedy starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, and Shelley Winters, in which a trapper chases his stolen furs through Kiowa and scalphunter hands.
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 Shootist
The Shootist (1976) is Don Siegel's Western, John Wayne's final film, adapted from Glendon Swarthout's 1975 novel about dying gunfighter J.B. Books in Carson City, with Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, and Ron Howard.
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder: 1965 Henry Hathaway Western starring John Wayne and Dean Martin as Elder brothers avenging their father's murder in Clearwater, Texas; loosely based on the 1888 Marlow Brothers case.
The Stalking Moon
The Stalking Moon (1968) is Robert Mulligan's Western starring Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, and Robert Forster, adapted from Theodore V. Olsen's novel, produced by Alan J. Pakula, about an Army scout pursued by an Apache renegade.
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 Train Robbers
The Train Robbers is a 1973 John Wayne Western, also starring Ann-Margret and Rod Taylor, written and directed by Burt Kennedy and produced by Michael Wayne for Batjac. A widow hires gunman Lane to recover gold her husband stole; shot in Durango, Mexico, released February 7, 1973 by Warner Bros.
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 Valley of Gwangi
The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 Ray Harryhausen stop-motion fantasy film, also known as Gwangi or The Lost Valley, in which cowboys capture an allosaur in a Mexican lost world; based on Willis O'Brien's unmade 1942 RKO project and a box-office failure.
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 War Wagon
The War Wagon is a 1967 American Western heist film directed by Burt Kennedy, starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas as rival gunmen robbing an armored stagecoach.
The Way West
The Way West (1967) is a 122-minute Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark, adapted from A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s Pulitzer-winning novel, filmed in Oregon, and panned by critics.
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.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch (1969) is Sam Peckinpah's revisionist Western, also called Grupo Salvaje, about aging outlaws led by William Holden's Pike Bishop fleeing into Mexico in 1913, famous for slow-motion multi-camera violence and repeated censorship cuts.
They Call Me Trinity
They Call Me Trinity (Lo chiamavano Trinità..., 1970) is an Italian comedy spaghetti western by Enzo Barboni starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as outlaw brothers defending Mormon settlers, which launched the fagioli western subgenre.
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.
True Grit (1969 film)
True Grit (1969) is Henry Hathaway's Western starring John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, adapted from Charles Portis's 1968 novel; it won Wayne his only Best Actor Oscar and was re-adapted by the Coen brothers in 2010.