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Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffré. Saddle up for Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 75 best-reviewed Western movies of all time, sorted by Adjusted Tomatometer from...
- The Salvation
Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/17/23 Full...
- The Keeping Room
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- The Proposition
I would say anyone who is a hardcore western fan or Guy...
- The Salvation
Top 20 Greatest Western Movies of All Time (The Ultimate List) by ChrisWalczyk55 • Created 11 years ago • Modified 7 years ago. The movies on this list are ranked according to their success (awards & nominations), their popularity, and their true greatness from a directing/writing standpoint.
- ‘The Great Train Robbery’
- ‘Stagecoach’
- ‘Red River’
- ‘Winchester ’73’
- ‘High Noon’
- ‘The Searchers’
- ‘Rio Bravo’
- ‘The Magnificent Seven’
- ‘One-Eyed Jacks’
- ‘Ride The High Country’
In one of the earliest Westerns in American cinema, the film depicts a group of outlaws who rob passengers on a train and threaten the operator. When trying to run away, they shoot a passenger. The sheriff and his men embark on a manhunt of the men.
The two-time Oscar winning film, directed by John Ford, follows a collective group of passengers aboard a stagecoach, including a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who stole his client’s money and escaped outlaw Ringo Kid. As they make their trip across the wild west to New Mexico in the 1880s, they must face the threat of Geronimo in the a...
After working 14 years to build his cattle ranch in Texas, Tom Dunston (John Wayne) is ready to drive them to the market, which is in Missouri. With the help of his trailhand, Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), and protégé, Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift), an orphan who Dunston took under his wing, they head out on their journey. But along the way, in...
Lin McAdam (James Stewart) finds himself chasing after a rifle that he won in a contest, but was stolen by the runner-up, Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally). In the film, directed by Anthony Mann, McAdam pursues all efforts to retrieve the rifle, even ending up in a shoot-out.
The movie, directed by Fred Zinnemann, features Gary Cooper as former marshal Will Kane, who is preparing to leave a small town in New Mexico with his new wife, Amy, played by Grace Kelly. Before heading out, Kane learned the local criminal, Frank Miller, whom he turned in, has been set free and is seeking revenge. The marshal tries to recruit depu...
The film, directed by John Ford, shows how one man will go through great lengths for his family. When Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returned home to Texas after the Civil War, he learns members of his brother’s family have been killed or abducted by Comanches. He then embarks on dangerous mission to save the surviving members, including his neice and ...
When small-town sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) arrests gunslinger Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) for murder, he must face Burdette’s brother Nathan (John Russell) who wants him out of jail. But with the help of an elderly deputy, the town drunk and a young gunfighter, Chance makes a stand against Nathan, in the film directed by Howard Hawks.
When a small Mexican farming village is terrorized by a band of outlaws every year, several of the townspeople hire seven American gunmen to defend them. The film, directed by John Sturges, follows the gunslingers as they train and prepare the village for the outlaws who will be arriving soon.
Following a bank robbery, outlaw Rio (Marlon Brando) and his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are on the run from the law, but Dad has different plans. In the film, directed by Brando, Dad betrays Rio and takes off with the gold as Rio is captured. Years later, when Rio escapes from prison, he hunts down his ex-partner, who is now a sheriff, in...
In the film directed by Sam Peckinpah, retired lawman Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) hires his friend Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) and his young protégé Heck to help transport a gold shipment from a bank through a dangerous area. But Gil and Heck devise a plan to steal the gold. Along the way, the three also get involved with a woman trying to escape her...
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1. Once Upon a Time in the West. 1968 2h 46m PG-13. 8.5 (349K) Rate. 82. 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. 2. The Searchers. 1956 1h 59m Approved. 7.8 (96K) Rate. 94.
- ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly’ (1966) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% This iconic Italian epic spaghetti Western is revered for good reason. As the third and final installment of the Dollars Trilogy, the film follows three gunslingers, The Good (Clint Eastwood), The Bad (Lee Van Cleef), and The Ugly (Eli Wallach) as they search for a buried treasure.
- 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100% The incredible Humphrey Bogart stars as a broke American drifter hired to construct oil rigs, then make their way into trying to strike it rich in the Sierra Madre mountains, prospecting for the riches of gold.
- 'High Noon' (1952) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% This truly phenomenal film soared to the tops of hearts and minds in 1952, earning it seven Academy Award nominations and four wins.
- 'Stagecoach' (1939) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100% Another great John Ford film, Stagecoach takes its rightful place here on the list. And again, another great performance by John Wayne.
50 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Unforgiven. 1992 2h 10m R. 8.2 (437K) Rate. 85 Metascore. Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid." Director Clint Eastwood Stars Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman. 2.
Nov 30, 2021 · AFI's list of the best Westerns of all time features movies led by legends of the genre like John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Redford.
