Union Pacific (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

[8] Director Cecil B. DeMille sets a love triangle against America's efforts to create the trans-continental railroad in Union Pacific. Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity) gets top billing as the Irish daughter of the engineer in charge of building the railroad.…
Maverick (1994)

Maverick (1994)

[8] This comedic western from director Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, The Goonies) succeeds largely on the charm of stars Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner, as well as a clever script by William Goldman (The Ghost and the Darkness,…
Wild Rovers (1971)

Wild Rovers (1971)

[5] William Holden and Ryan O'Neal co-star as Montana ranch hands who rob a bank and flee to Mexico in this leisurely-paced 'hangout' western from writer/director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Victor/Victoria). Holden plays the elder cowboy who wonders how…
Tombstone (1993)

Tombstone (1993)

[7] Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer lead an all-star ensemble in this true story of 1881's infamous showdown between reluctant lawmen and a gang of criminal cowboys previously depicted in 1957's Gunfight at the OK Corral and told again in…
Shane (1953)

Shane (1953)

[8] George Stevens (A Place in the Sun, Gunga Din) directs this Western morality tale based on the novel by Jack Schaefer. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a drifting cowboy who wanders into a sprawling Wyoming valley in the…
Silver River (1948)

Silver River (1948)

[7] Errol Flynn reteams with his Edge of Darkness co-star Ann Sheridan for this western drama directed by the prolific Raoul Walsh (High Sierra, Montana). Flynn plays a wrongly disgraced Union officer who builds a gambling empire that puts Silver…
Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

[7] Writer/director S. Craig Zahler presents a western horror film about a small town sheriff (Kurt Russell) who leads three other men in search of two townspeople who were kidnapped in the middle of the night. The kidnappers aren't just…
Silverado (1985)

Silverado (1985)

[7] Writer/director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, Grand Canyon) takes a stab at the American western with Silverado. His ensemble cast includes Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and Kevin Costner as misfit cowboys who end up riding together against…
The Quick and the Dead (1995)

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

[7] Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman star in this stylized western revenge tale from director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Darkman). Stone plays a gunslinger who enters a ramshackle frontier town's dueling tournament where she hopes to slay Hackman's character,…
The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

[8] In this American western adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, seven gunslingers are hired to protect a small Mexican village from a posse of relentless bandits who steal all their food and goods. The motley 'seven' teach the…