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The Best 100 Westerns Ever Made Having grown up in Arizona, my wife has seen a lot more westerns than I have. I hope to catch on the right ones through a list compiled by Cowboys & Indians magazine and entitled The 100 Best Westerns Ever Made. Some are television shows but most are movies. The original page is no longer online, so here's a copy maintained, appropriately enough, at the Original John Wayne Message Board (dukewayne.com). The List # Title Year Director IMDb 1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford IMDb 2 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford IMDb 3 Shane 1953 George Stevens IMDb 4 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford IMDb 5 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges IMDb 6 Lonesome Dove 1989 Simon Wincer IMDb 7 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann IMDb 8 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill IMDb 9 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner IMDb 10 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood IMDb 11 Gunsmoke 1955-1975 IMDb 12 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall IMDb 13 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks IMDb 14 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King IMDb 15 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks IMDb 16 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1967 Sergio Leone IMDb 17 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando IMDb 18 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah IMDb 19 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford IMDb 20 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S Porter IMDb 21 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel IMDb 22 Once Upon a Time in the West 1969 Sergio Leone IMDb 23 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford IMDb 24 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood IMDb 25 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos IMDb 26 The Lone Ranger 1949-1957 IMDb 27 The Virginian 1929 Victor Fleming IMDb 28 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann IMDb 29 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks IMDb 30 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford IMDb 31 Angel and the Badman 1947 James Edward Grant IMDb 32 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood IMDb 33 Dallas 1978-1991 IMDb 34 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann IMDb 35 The Big Trail 1930 Raoul Walsh IMDb 36 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann IMDb 37 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone IMDb 38 The Wild, Wild West 1965-1969 IMDb 39 The Man from Snowy River 1982 George Miller IMDb 40 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman IMDb 41 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann IMDb 42 Blood on the Moon 1948 Robert Wise IMDb 43 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor IMDb 44 Will Penny 1968 Tom Gries IMDb 45 3:10 to Yuma 1957 Delmer Daves IMDb 46 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford IMDb 47 Bonanza 1959-1973 IMDb 48 Gunfight at the OK Corral 1957 John Sturges IMDb 49 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks IMDb 50 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood IMDb 51 Support Your Local Sheriff! 1969 Burt Kennedy IMDb 52 Have Gun - Will Travel 1957-1963 IMDb 53 Cowboy 1958 Delmer Daves IMDb 54 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone IMDb 55 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney IMDb 56 Comes a Horseman 1978 Alan J. Pakula IMDb 57 The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 Henry Hathaway IMDb 58 Tumbleweeds 1925 King Baggot IMDb 59 Maverick 1957-1962 IMDb 60 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway IMDb 61 Giant 1956 George Stevens IMDb 62 The Plainsman 1936 Cecil B. De Mille IMDb 63 Dodge City 1939 Michael Curtiz IMDb 64 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah IMDb 65 Wagon Train 1957-1965 IMDb 66 Alias Jesse James 1959 Norman Z. McLeod IMDb 67 The Tin Star 1957 Anthony Mann IMDb 68 Rawhide 1959-1965 IMDb 69 Silverado 1985 Lawrence Kasdan IMDb 70 Cheyenne Autumn 1964 John Ford IMDb 71 3 Godfathers 1948 John Ford IMDb 72 Lonely are the Brave 1962 David Miller IMDb 73 Jesse James 1939 Henry King IMDb 74 Warlock 1959 Edward Dmytryk IMDb 75 The Good Old Boys 1995 Tommy Lee Jones IMDb 76 Arizona 1940 Wesley Ruggles IMDb 77 McLintock! 1963 Andrew V. McLaglen IMDb 78 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein IMDb 79 McCloud 1970-1977 IMDb 80 The Grey Fox 1982 Phillip Borsos IMDb 81 The Alamo 1960 John Wayne IMDb 82 Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970 Don Siegel IMDb 83 Union Pacific 1939 Cecil B. De Mille IMDb 84 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt IMDb 85 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp 1955-1961 IMDb 86 A Big Hand for the Little Lady 1966 Fielder Cook IMDb 87 Barbarosa 1982 Fred Schepisi IMDb 88 Trail of Robin Hood 1950 William Witney IMDb 89 Man without a Star 1955 King Vidor IMDb 90 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler IMDb 91 Geronimo: An American Legend 1993 Walter Hill IMDb 92 The Cisco Kid 1950-1956 IMDb 93 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford & Henry Hathaway IMDb 94 The High Chaparral 1967-1971 IMDb 95 Cimarron 1931 Wesley Ruggles IMDb 96 Junior Bonner 1972 Sam Peckinpah IMDb 97 The Big Valley 1965-1969 IMDb 98 The Phantom Empire 1935 Otto Brower & B. Reeves Eason IMDb 99 Hang 'Em High 1967 Ted Post IMDb 100 The Unforgiven 1960 John Huston IMDb

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