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- The Outlaw Josey Wales. Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke. 387 votes. Directed by Clint Eastwood, this film follows the tale of a Missouri farmer who seeks vengeance on the Union soldiers that murdered his family and burned his home during the Civil War.
- Jeremiah Johnson. Robert Redford, Will Geer, Stefan Gierasch. 338 votes. This epic adventure follows the life of a rugged mountain man, played by Robert Redford, who has turned away from civilization to live in the wilderness.
- High Plains Drifter. Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill. 324 votes. Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this enigmatic tale about a mysterious stranger who arrives in the desolate town of Lago, where he is promptly hired to protect the townspeople from three gunfighters seeking retribution.
- The Shootist. John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart. 327 votes. John Wayne delivers a poignant final performance as a terminally ill gunfighter who sets out to secure a quiet retirement.
Top 25 1970's Westerns. by the_beer_hunter • Created 12 years ago • Modified 6 years ago. List activity. 21K views. 47 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 25 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Hired Hand. 1971 1h 30m R. 6.9 (3.9K) Rate.
- 13 The Ballad of Cable Hogue
- 12 Blazing Saddles
- 11 Dirty Little Billy
- 10 Big Jake
- 9 Chisum
- 8 Keoma
- 7 Red Sun
- 6 My Name Is Nobody
- 5 Duck, You Sucker!
- 4 They Call Me Trinity
Jason Robards is the titular prospector Cable Hogue in this unconventional Western set in 1905 and directed by Sam Peckinpah. Hogue turned a desert-watering hole into an enterprise, in honor of the Wild West of the past. He represented the arbitrary selfish side of the untamed frontier through humorous antics. The satirical irony of expanding the W...
Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder (who also starred in the 1979 Western The Frisco Kid with Harrison Ford) comedic dynamic made Blazing Saddlesa witty and timeless classic. Little plays a new sheriff named Bart who is appointed by attorney general Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). His job is to persuade the local townsfolk to migrate elsewhere so that a ...
Michael J. Pollard (Bonnie and Clyde) plays the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid in the revisionist Western Dirty Little Billy, directed by Stan Dragoti. It was also the film debut of Nick Nolte in his uncredited role as the town gang leader. Veering from the grandiose scope of traditional Western fare, Dirty Little Billy focuses on the darker elemen...
The Fain Gang of brother bandits terrorized the ranch of Martha McCandles at the Mexico-United States border in 1971's Big Jake. They rode off with her son, Jacob McCandles Jr., and held him hostage for a $1 million ransom. Texas Rangers and the United States Army offered to intervene, but she instead enlisted her estranged husband, Jacob "Big Jake...
Andrew McLaglen's Chisumis loosely based on the 1878 Lincoln County War between territorial factions instigated by Billy the Kid. John Wayne plays the historical figure John Chisum, a wealthy cattle baron who is caught up in the turf war in the New Mexico Territory. The atmosphere and action are close at hand in this western which is sure to appeal...
Franco Nero, the star of Django andDjango Strikes Again,portrayed Keoma Shannon, a biracial ex-Union soldier returning from the Civil War in this memorable Spaghetti Western directed by Enzo G. Castellari. When his half-brothers joined gang ruler Caldwell and overrun his hometown, he recruited his father and his friend to restore order in the postw...
Red Sun united the cinematic talents of The Magnificent Seven's Charles Bronson and one of the Seven Samurai Toshirō Mifune under the direction of Terence Young, who adapted the first of the James Bond films as well as classic hits like Wait Until Dark. In a clash between East and West, this Franco-Italian, multicultural production focused on a dou...
Directed by Tonino Valerii and co-written by the iconic Sergio Leone, My Name Is Nobody starred Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, and Jean Martin. The film followedan aspiring young shootist who idolized a retiring legendary gunslinger. He pushed his idol into a face-off with a posse of rough and gruff 150 fighters, collectively known as The Wild Horde....
Also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time... The Revolution, Leone's underrated and lesser-known Western Duck, You Sucker! features Rod Steiger, James Coburn, and Romolo Valli. Set in the midst of the Mexican Revolution, Duck, You Sucker! is raw, emotional, stylish, and thought-provoking. The film follows two unlikely allies: a brute...
Hill and Bud Spencer made a lot of iconic movies together, especially in the Western and police comedy genres. Enzo Barboni's entertaining They Call Me Trinity followed two peculiar brothers as they ran into each other in a Western town. One brother is an extremely nonchalant young man who happens to be a remarkable gunslinger, and the other is a r...
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1. Once Upon a Time in the West. 1968 2h 46m PG-13. 8.5 (354K) Rate. 82 Metascore. A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. Director Sergio Leone Stars Henry Fonda Charles Bronson Claudia Cardinale. 2. The Searchers.
- 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948) Director: John Huston. It's a big call considering he also made The Maltese Falcon, but the 1948 Western adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre could be John Huston's greatest picture.
- 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965) Director: Sergio Leone. The second film of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More sees Clint Eastwood reprising his role as the poncho-wearing Man with No Name, while Lee Van Cleef entered the fray as his unlikely ally.
- 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' (1962) Director: John Ford. The notion of Western heroes and quick-drawing cowboys has become something of a modern American myth.
- 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1969) Director: George Roy Hill. One of the best aspects of the Western genre is the interesting and complex characters it creates, whether they are fictional or, in the case of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, mythicized versions of actual people.
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1. Unforgiven. 1992 2h 10m R. 8.2 (442K) Rate. 85 Metascore. Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a newer outlaw known simply as The Schofield Kid. Director Clint Eastwood Stars Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman. 2.
