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Western Movies
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Starring Tommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh Brolin
By Ethan Coen, 2007.
A hunter (Josh Brolin) who stumbles upon a dead body, $2 million and a stash of heroin in a Texas desert absconds with the cash. But brutal thief Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) comes looking for it, with a local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) hot on his trail.
- Brokeback Mountain
Starring Jake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle Williams
By Ang Lee, 2005.
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 romantic drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983.The film was directed by Taiwanese American director Ang Lee from a screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry, which they adapted...
- Blazing Saddles
Starring Cleavon LittleGene WilderSlim Pickens
By Mel Brooks, 1974.
Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Blazing Saddles basically broke a lot...
- Unforgiven
Starring Clint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan Freeman
By Clint Eastwood, 1992.
Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel , Clint Eastwood 's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past.
- Tombstone
Starring Kurt RussellVal KilmerBill Paxton
By George P. Cosmatos, 1993.
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan (Bill Paxton) and Virgil (Sam Elliott) as they pursue their fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to again don a badge and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday (Val...
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Starring Paul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine Ross
By George Roy Hill, 1969.
Legendary outlaws Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) display perfect comedic timing and charisma as they pull off heist after heist in this Oscar-winning film from director George Roy Hill. To evade a relentless posse, the boys flee to Bolivia, thinking they'll find...
- The Magnificent Seven
Starring Yul BrynnerEli WallachSteve McQueen
By John Sturges, 1960.
Fed up with being brutalized and impoverished because of outlaw raids led by a merciless brigand (Eli Wallach), the besieged citizens of a small Mexican town hire seven American gunslingers to stave off the marauders once and for all. Badass Yul Brynner heads the band of mercenaries, which includes...
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Starring Brad PittCasey AffleckTed Levine
By Andrew Dominik, 2007.
After Robert Ford (Casey Affleck, in an Oscar-nominated role) joins the most notorious gang in the West, he grows tired of the charismatic Jesse James (Brad Pitt) and begins to resent his widespread fame. But by hatching a scheme to gun down James, Ford risks forever being branded a coward.
- Once Upon a Time in the West
Starring Henry FondaClaudia CardinaleJason Robards
By Sergio Leone, 1968.
This Sergio Leone classic, a tribute to Hollywood Westerns, stars Henry Fonda as Frank, a gunslinger hired by the powerful owner of a railroad conglomerate to kill anyone who derails the project. But Frank contends with the wrong person when he murders Brett (Frank Wolff), a landowner; after his...
- High Plains Drifter
Starring Clint EastwoodVerna BloomMariana Hill
By Clint Eastwood, 1973.
Amid shoot-outs and existentialism, a mysterious stranger (Clint Eastwood, who also directs) is hired to protect a small town from outlaws. But his recipe for defense could be a deal with the devil, and soon, even the enigmatic gunslinger's supporters -- including Mordecai (Billy Curtis) and Sarah...
- High Noon
Starring Gary CooperGrace KellyThomas Mitchell
By Fred Zinnemann, 1952.
Retiring Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) insists on defending his town from a gang of hooligans who are due on the noon train -- but he faces the task alone as the cowardly townspeople flee like rats from a sinking ship. Director Fred Zinnemann creates an incredibly tense Western (rightly...
- Rio Bravo
Starring Dean MartinJohn WayneRicky Nelson
By Howard Hawks, 1959.
Sheriff John Wayne has a problem: He must keep killer Claude Akins from escaping the town lockup (with outside help from his brother and a cadre of hired guns). The only people Wayne can call on for support are an alcoholic Dean Martin, a well-meaning Angie Dickinson, a crippled Walter Brennan and...
- The Searchers
Starring Ward BondJeffrey HunterVera Miles
By John Ford, 1956.
After his entire family is viciously wiped out, hardened war veteran Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) embarks on a long journey to find his only surviving niece, Debbie (Natalie Wood), who has been captured by hostile Comanche Indians. Director John Ford's richly scenic -- and controversial -- Western...
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Starring Humphrey BogartWalter HustonTim Holt
By John Huston, 1948.
Wrapped in a classic tale of adventure, this Academy Award winner helmed by John Huston follows a trio of gold prospectors who set out to strike it rich and agree to split the take … until paranoia and greed consumes one of them. Delivering superb performances as the three miners are Humphrey...
- Giant
Starring Elizabeth TaylorRock HudsonJames Dean
By George Stevens, 1956.
In Oscar-winning director George Stevens's sprawling epic, Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) journeys to Virginia in the early 1920s, falls in love with aristocratic, independent-minded Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her back to his ranch -- setting the stage for an...
- Stagecoach
Starring John WayneAndy DevineClaire Trevor
By John Ford, 1939.
With rumors buzzing about a potential Indian raid, a mélange of troubled passengers climbs aboard the Overland Stage headed for Lordsburg. En route they run into the Ringo Kid (John Wayne), a notorious outlaw who's bolted from jail seeking vengeance on the men who framed him for murder.
- Red River
Starring John WayneMontgomery CliftJoanne Dru
By Howard Hawks, 1948.
It's mutiny on the cattle drive when irascible, ironfisted trail boss Tom Dunson (John Wayne) relentlessly brutalizes his drovers, causing adopted son Matt Garth (Montgomery Clift, in his first film appearance) to intercede and take charge. Tom vows vengeance for Matt's unpardonable offense...
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Starring James CoburnKris KristoffersonBob Dylan
By Sam Peckinpah, 1973.
Charged with the task of wiping the Old West clean and making way for a new one, reluctant Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) must betray his former cronies -- among them, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson). But as the ways of the West die off, the characters find their own identities fading into...
- Johnny Guitar
Starring Joan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridge
By Nicholas Ray, 1954.
One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and Krafft-Ebbing. The title character, played by Sterling Hayden, is a guitar-strumming drifter who was once the lover of Arizona saloon-owner Vienna (Joan Crawford).
