Best Movie Western

1968 • 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 • Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale

1953 • A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act • Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin

1939 • A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process • John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine

1966 • A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. • Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

1993 • A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating. • Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott

1992 • 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." • Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman

1969 • Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels • Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Katharine Ross

1952 • A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train • Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell

1948 • Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son • John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru

1956 • An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches. • John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

1969 • An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. • William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan

1946 • The Earps battle the Clantons at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona • Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell

1985 • A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land • Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarity, Carrie Snodgrass

1962 • A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins • James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles

1973 • A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way • Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill

1960 • Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits. • Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson

1969 • A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory. • John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell