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 |
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| 2 |
Stagecoach |
1939 |
John Ford |
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| 3 |
Shane |
1953 |
George Stevens |
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| 4 |
My Darling Clementine |
1946 |
John Ford |
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| 5 |
The Magnificent Seven |
1960 |
John Sturges |
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| 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 |
|
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| 12 |
Destry Rides Again |
1939 |
George Marshall |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
|
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| 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 |
|
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| 34 |
The Naked Spur |
1953 |
Anthony Mann |
IMDb |
| 35 |
The Big Trail |
1930 |
Raoul Walsh |
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| 36 |
Oklahoma! |
1955 |
Fred Zinnemann |
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| 37 |
A Fistful of Dollars |
1964 |
Sergio Leone |
IMDb |
| 38 |
The Wild, Wild West |
1965-1969 |
|
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| 39 |
The Man from Snowy River |
1982 |
George Miller |
IMDb |
| 40 |
The Ox-Bow Incident |
1943 |
William A. Wellman |
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| 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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