🏜️ FILMS - WESTERNS
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❗= letterbox ⓒ = criterion 🔪 = horror 🌏= foreign ♻️ = rewatch
🎄= holiday ⭐= priority 🤪= psychotronic ❤️ = liked
Westerns Round #2
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- [x] The Great Train Robbery (1903) 12m kan 7.3 ⭐ kan YouTube
- [x] Go West (1925) 69m 7.1 ⭐
- [x] The Frozen North (1922) 18m 6.5
- [x] Day of the Outlaw (1959) 92m 7.3 youtube ⭐
- [x] The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) 83m 6.9 ⭐
- [x] Track of the Cat (1954) 104m 6.4 - dvd? Dl 🎄⭐
- [x] Jeremiah Johnson (1972) 108m 7.6 Zion - dvd? Dl ⭐ ❤️
- [x] The Big Trees (1952) 82m 5.7 ⭐ YouTube
- [x] Valley of the Giants (1938) 6.2 79m ⭐ dl
- [x] The Gunfighter (1950) 85m ⓒ 7.7 Death Valley ⭐ dl dvd
- [x] The Far Country (1954) 97m 7.1 dl
- [x] Bend of the River (1952) 91m 7.2 ⭐
- [x] Day of Anger (1967) 113m 7.1 ⭐
- [x] Death Rides a Horse (1967) 114m 7.1 ⭐
- [x] The Tin Star (1957) 7.3 93m ⭐ kan ❤️
- [x] Hang 'Em High (1968) - 7.0 114m white sands ⭐
- [x] My Name Is Nobody (1973) 7.5 1h 56 comedy ⭐❤️
- [x] Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) 92m 7.4 prime/tubi
- [x] Ride Lonesome (1959) 73m 7.1 ⓒ ❗⭐
- [x] Jubal (1956) 100m 7.1 dvd ⓒ ❤️
- [x] Massacre (1934) 70m 6.9 ❤️
- [x] Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) 116m 7.2 ⓒ❗⭐
- [x] Yellow Sky (1948) 98m 7.4 ⭐
- [x] Lonely Are the Brave (1962) 107m 7.6 ⭐ dvd
- [x] Dust Devil (1992) 103m 6.2 ⭐
- [x] Goin’ South (1978) 109m 6.2
- [x] Zachariah (1971) 93m 5.8 ⭐ dvd
- [x] A Fistful of Fingers (1995) 5.8 78m YouTube
- [x] Walker (1987) 94m 6.6 ⭐ ⓒ ❤️
- [x] Bacurau (2019) 131m 7.3 🌏⭐ kan
- [x] The Terror of Tiny Town (1938) 61m
- [x] West and Soda (1965) 88m 7.0
- [x] Lemonade Joe (1964) 99m 7.4 ❤️
- [x] Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) 110m 6.9
- [x] Blood on the Moon (1948) 88m 6.9 ⭐
- [x] Man of the West (1958) 100m ❗7.0
- [x] 7 Men from Now (1956) 78m
- [x] Hell’s Heroes (1929) 6.8 72m
- [x] A Pistol for Ringo (1965) - 98m 6.5 die hard before die hard
- [x] Union Pacific (1939) 135m 7.0 ❗
- [x] The Furies (1950) 109m 7.3 ⓒ ⭐ YouTube Anthony Mann
- [x] Broken Arrow (1950) 93m 7.1 jimmy Stewart
- [x] Little Big Man (1970) 139m 7.5 ❗
- [x] The Paleface (1948) 91m 6.6 ❗
- [x] Devil’s Doorway (1950) 84m 7.2 - Anthony Mann ❤️
- [x] Cimarron (1931) 123m ❗5.8 - oscar
- [x] Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) 122m 7.1 ❗prim
- [x] The Good, the Bad & the Weird (2008) 130m 7.3 - kan Korean
- [x] Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) 91m 6.7 Roku English - baguette western
- [x] Silver Lode (1954) 81m 6.8❗
- [x] Way Out West (1937) 64m 7.6
- [x] Johnny Guitar (1954) ♻️ 110m 7.6 ⭐ kan
- [x] The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) ♻️ 75m 8.0 ⭐ YouTube
- [x] The Hired Hand (1971) 91m 6.9 ❗🤪
- [x] Comanche Station (1960) 7.0 73m ⓒ
- [x] Blazing Saddles (1974) ♻️ 93m 7.7
- [x] Hundreds of Beavers (2023) 108m 7.7 kan ♻️
Rewatches
- [x] Johnny Guitar (1954) ♻️ 110m 7.6 ⭐ kan
- [x] The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) ♻️ 75m 8.0 ⭐ YouTube
- [x] Hundreds of Beavers (2023) 108m 7.7 kan ♻️
- [x] Blazing Saddles (1974) ♻️ 93m 7.7
- [ ] The Hateful Eight (2015) ♻️ 168m 7.8
- [ ] No Country for Old Men (2007) 128m 8.2
Native Americans
- [ ] Solider Blue (1970) 6.9 112m 🤪⭐
- [ ] A Man Called Horse (1970) 114m 6.8 🤪
- [ ] Navajo Joe (1966) 93m 🤪
- [x] Massacre (1934) 70m 6.9 precode flower of killer moon YouTube
- [x] Broken Arrow (1950) 93m 7.1 jimmy Stewart
- [x] Little Big Man (1970) 139m 7.5 ❗
- [x] Devil’s Doorway (1950) 84m 7.2 - Anthony Mann
Ranown Westerns / Budd Boetticher
- [ ] Decision at Sundown (1957) ⓒ 6.8 77m
- [ ] Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) 80m 6.8 ⓒ
- [x] Comanche Station (1960) 7.0 73m ⓒ
- [x] 7 Men from Now (1956) 78m - batjac
- [x] Ride Lonesome (1959) ⓒ
- [x] Tall T (1957) ⓒ
- [ ] Westbound (1958)
The Ranown Cycle refers to six westerns made between 1956 and 1960, starring Randolph Scott and directed by Budd Boetticher. Ranown was the name of Scott’s production company
Western Noir
- [ ] Colorado Territory (1949) 94m 7.2 ⭐ - mcrea & virginia mayo; Raoul Walsh
- [ ] Canyon Passage (1946) 92m 6.9 ⭐
- [ ] I Shot Jesse James (1949) 81m crit max 6.8
- [ ] Lust for Gold (1949) 90m 6.8 - Ida Lupino
- [ ] Ramrod (1947) 6.8 94m - mcrea & veronica lake
- [ ] Rawhide (1951) 7.1 89m - tyrone power
- [ ] Terror in a Texas Town (1958) 81m 6.8 ⭐
- [ ] Station West (1948) 87m - dick Powell 6.6
- [ ] Rancho Notorious (1952) 86m 6.8 🤪
- [ ] Roughshod (1949) 88m 6.6
- [ ] Man with the Gun (1955) 83m 6.7 - Mitchum
- [ ] Cave of Outlaws (1951) 76m 5.9 - Carlsbad ops
- [ ] Black Patch (1957)
- [x] Comanche Station (1960) 7.0 73m ⓒ
- [x] Silver Lode (1954) 81m 6.8❗
- [x] The Gunfighter (1950) 85m ⓒ 7.7 Death Valley
- [x] Blood on the Moon (1948) 88m 6.9
- [x] Yellow Sky (1948) 98m 7.4
- [x] The Furies (1950) 109m 7.3 ⓒ
Acid / Weird
- [ ] Hud (1963) ❗112m 7.8 kan
- [ ] Black God, White Devil (1964) 120m ⓒ ❗
- [ ] The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) 120m 6.9 ⭐ kan
- [ ] Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) 82m 6.4 ⓒ
- [ ] The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) 121m 7.2
- [ ] Deadlock (1970) 90m 6.5
- [ ] Greaser’s Palace (1972) 🤪
- [ ] Straight to Hell (1987) 86m 🤪
- [ ] The Lusty Men (1952) 113m 7.3
- [x] Bacurau (2019) 131m 7.3 🌏 kan
- [x] Walker (1987) 94m 6.6 ⓒ
- [x] Zachariah (1971) 93m 5.8
- [x] Dust Devil (1992) 103m 6.2
- [x] A Fistful of Fingers (1995) 5.8 78m YouTube
Psychotronic
- [ ] The White Buffalo (1977) 97m 6.1 prime 🤪 ⭐
- [ ] 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) 100m 7.1 🤪
- [ ] Rancho Notorious (1952) 86m 6.8 🤪
- [ ] The Hired Hand (1971) 91m 6.9 ❗🤪
- [ ] White Comanche (1968) 94m 🤪⭐
- [ ] The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1972) 98m 5.7 🤪
- [ ] Straight to Hell (1987) 86m 5.6 🤪
- [ ] Sabata (1969) 6.8 99m 🤪
- [ ] Take a Hard Ride (1975) 103m 5.7 🤪
- [ ] Greaser’s Palace (1972) 🤪
- [ ] The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) 81m 4.1 🤪
- [ ] Navajo Joe (1966) 6.4 🤪
- [ ] The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe (1973) 92m 5.8 🤪
- [ ] Swamp of the Lost Monster (1957) 80m 🤪
- [ ] Django Kill… If You Live Shoot! (1967) 6.4 🤪
- [ ] A Bullet for the General (1966) 118m 7.0 🤪
- [ ] Companeros (1970) 7.4 118m ⭐ 🤪
- [ ] The Mercenary (1970) - 7.2 101m 🤪
- [ ] Keoma (1976) 100m 7.0 🤪
- [ ] They Call Me Trinity (1970) 7.5 115m 🤪
Spaghetti Westerns
- [ ] The Big Gundown (1967) 110m 7.4 ⭐ - lee van
- [ ] Companeros (1970) 7.4 118m 🤪⭐
- [ ] Face to Face (1967) 7.1 111m
- [ ] Massacre Time (1966) 6.5 92m
- [ ] They Call Me Trinity (1970) 115m 7.5 🤪
- [ ] A Bullet for the General (1966) 118m 7.0 🤪
- [ ] The Mercenary (1970) - 7.2 101m 🤪
- [ ] Sabata (1969) 6.8 99m 🤪
- [ ] Keoma (1976) 100m 7.0 🤪
- [ ] Four of the Apocalypse (1975) 6.3 87m
- [ ] God forgives...I don't (1967) 113m 6.2
- [ ] California (1977) 98m
- [ ] Beyond the Law (1968) - 90m 6.8 lee van
- [x] Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) 91m 6.7 Roku English ⭐
- [x] Day of Anger (1967) 113m 7.1
- [x] Death Rides a Horse (1967) 114m 7.1
- [x] My Name Is Nobody (1973) 7.5 1h 56 comedy
- [x] A Pistol for Ringo (1965) - 98m 6.5 die hard before die hard
Criterion
- [x] Comanche Station (1960) 7.0 73m ⓒ
- [ ] Decision at Sundown (1957) ⓒ 6.8 77m ⓒ
- [ ] Black God, White Devil (1964) 120m ⓒ ❗Brazil
- [ ] The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) 106m 7.0 ⓒ
- [ ] Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) 82m 6.4 ⓒ
- [ ] Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) 80m 6.8 ⓒ
- [ ] Buck and the Preacher (1972) 102m 6.6 ⓒ
- [ ] Ride with the Devil (1999) 138m 6.7
Letterboxd
- [ ] The Westerner (1940) 100m 7.3❗kan prim
- [ ] Rio Grande (1950) 105m 7.0 ❗kan
- [ ] Hud (1963) ❗112m 7.8 kan
- [x] The Hired Hand (1971) 91m 6.9 ❗🤪
John Wayne
- [ ] Rio Grande (1950) 105m 7.0 ❗kan
- [ ] Fort Apache (1948) 7.5 128m
- [ ] El Dorado (1967) 7.6 120m
- [ ] The Big Trail (1930) 7.2 122m
- [ ] Hondo (1953) 84m 7.0
- [ ] The Alamo (1960) 6.8 202m
The Rest
- [ ] The Big Sky (1952) 140m 6.9
- [ ] Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) 7.0 120m
- [ ] Coogan’s Bluff (1968) 93m 🤪
- [ ] The Missouri Breaks (1976) 6.5 126m
- [ ] The Outlaw (1943)
- [ ] Shanghai Noon (2000) 110m 6.6
- [ ] The Professionals (1966) 7.3 120m
- [ ] Let the Corpses Tan (2017)
- [ ] The Nevadan (1950)
- [ ] Hour of the Gun (1967)
- [ ] Chino (1973)
- [x] Hang 'Em High (1968) - 7.0 114m white sands
- [x] The Tin Star (1957) 7.3 93m kan
- [x] Ride Lonesome (1959) 73m 7.1 ⓒ ❗
- [x] Jubal (1956) 100m 7.1 dvd ⓒ
- [x] Bend of the River (1952) 91m 7.2
- [x] Lonely Are the Brave (1962) 107m 7.6
- [x] Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) 116m 7.2 ⓒ❗
- [x] Man of the West (1958) 100m ❗7.0
Ramen Westerns
- [x] Tears of the Black Tiger "Wisit Sasanatieng" (2000) - thai western? 110m 6.9
- [x] The Good, the Bad & the Weird (2008) 130m 7.3 - kan ⭐
- [ ] Sukiyaki Western Django (2008) 121m 6.1- kan
- [ ] Unforgiven (2013) 7.0 135m
- [ ] The Drifting Avenger (1968) - Japanese western
- [ ] East Meets West (1995)
- [ ] Pink Lady no Katsudō Daishashin - act 3 western
- [ ] Man with a Shotgun (1961)
Curry Westerns
- [ ] Sholay (1975) 162m 8.1 - curry western ⭐
Black Westerns
- [ ] Buck and the Preacher (1972) 102m 6.6 ⓒ
- [ ] Take a Hard Ride (1975) 103m 5.7 🤪
Horror Westerns
- [ ] Dead Birds (2004) 90m 5.6
- [ ] The Burrowers (2008) 96m 5.7
Silent / Pre-code
- [ ] Hell’s Hinges (1916) 64m 6.7
- [ ] A Romance of the Redwood (1919) 70m 6.1
- [ ] The Big Trail (1930) 122m 7.2
- [x] The Great Train Robbery (1903) 12m kan 7.3 kan YouTube
- [x] Go West (1925) 69m 7.1
- [x] The Frozen North (1922) 18m 6.5
- [x] Massacre (1934) 70m 6.9 precode flower of killer moon YouTube
- [x] Cimarron (1931) 123m ❗5.8 - oscar
- [x] Hell’s Heroes (1929) 6.8 72m
Snowy Westerns
- [x] Track of the Cat (1954) 104m 6.4 🎄
- [x] Jeremiah Johnson (1972) 108m 7.6 Zion
- [x] The Far Country (1954) 97m 7.1 dl
- [x] Day of the Outlaw (1959) 92m 7.3 youtube
- [x] The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) 83m 6.9
- [ ] The Wild North (1952) 97m 6.5
Redwoods/Lumbercore
- [x] The Big Trees (1952) 82m 5.7 YouTube
- [x] Valley of the Giants (1938) 6.2 79m
- [ ] Valley of the Redwoods (1960) 5.8 63m - can't find? ⭐
- [ ] A Romance of the Redwood (1919) 70m 6.1
- [ ] Gun Glory (1957) 89m 6.2
- [ ] The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Coyote-Doggirl/TPB-Part-1?id=190435#3
The actual "Western" period was between California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890
The Golden Age of the Western film genre is considered to be the period from the late 1930s to the 1960s.
Westerns Round #1
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- [x] High Noon (1952)
- [x] A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
- [x] For a Few Dollars More (1965)
- [x] The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (1966)
- [x] Johnny Guitar (1954)
- [x] True Grit (2010)
- [x] Rango (2011)
- [x] The Hateful Eight (2015)
- [x] Shane (1953)
- [x] The Wild Bunch (1969)
- [x] McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971)
- [x] Stagecoach (1939)
- [x] Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- [x] The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
- [x] Slow West (2015)
- [x] Cat Ballou (1965)
- [x] Magnificent Seven (1960)
- [x] Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid (1969)
- [x] Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- [x] El Topo (1970)
- [x] Winchester '73 (1950)
- [x] The Tall T (1957)
- [x] My Darling Clementine (1946)
- [x] The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
- [x] Bone Tomahawk (2015)
- [x] The Wind (2018)
- [x] Ravenous (1999)
- [x] Near Dark (1987)
- [x] High Plains Drifter (1973)
- [x] Hell or High Water (2016)
- [x] Rio Bravo (1959)
- [x] The Unforgiven (1992)
- [x] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- [x] The Shootist (1976)
- [x] Red River (1948)
- [x] Dead Man (1995)
- [x] The Great Silence (1968)
- [x] Django (1966)
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- [ ] Open Range (2003) 2h 19m 7.4
- [ ] The Big Gundown (1966) 7.4
- [ ] Annie Get Your Gun (1950) 6.9 1hr 47
- [ ] She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- [ ] Hostiles (2017)
- [ ] The Claim (2000)
- [ ] Wagon Master (1950)
- [ ] McLintock! (1963)
- [ ] The Naked Spur (1953)
- [ ] The Sisters Brothers (2018)
- [ ] The Cowboys (1972)
- [ ] Magnificent Seven (2016)
- [ ] Brimstone (2016)
- [ ] Oklahoma! (1955)
- [ ] Big Jake (1971)
- [ ] The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
- [ ] Wichita (1955)
- [ ] The Sheepman (1958)
- [ ] The Homesman (2014) 122m 6.6
- [ ] Blueberry (aka Renegade) (2004)
- [ ] A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
- [ ] Montana (1950)
- [x] Wyatt Earp (1994)
- [x] Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
- [x] Bacurau (2019)
- [x] Red Sun (1971) - 6.9
- [x] One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
- [x] The Misfits (1961) - non western western; decline
- [x] Heaven's Gate (1980) - 3h 39 6.8
- [x] True Grit (1969) 128m 7.4
- [x] How The West Was Won (1962) 7.1 2hr 44m
- [x] 3 Godfathers (1948) 106m 7.1
- [x] The Shooting (1968) 78m 6.5
- [x] The Beguiled (1971)
- [x] The Man from Laramie (1955) 103m 7.3
- [x] Duel in the Sun (1946) 144m 6.7
- [x] Pale Rider (1985) 1h 55 - shane remake? 7.3
- [x] Westworld (1973) -7.0
- [x] 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
- [x] City Slickers (1991)
- [x] Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
- [x] Jonah Hex (2010)
- [x] Wild Wild West (1999)
- [x] Tampopo (1985) - ramen western 1hr
- [x] Lone Ranger (2013)
- [x] The Searchers (1956)
- [x] Blazing Saddles (1974)
- [x] The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
- [x] Maverick (1994)
- [x] The Quick and the Dead (1995)
- [x] Tombstone (1993)
- [x] Django Unchained (2012)
- [x] 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- [x] The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
- [x] Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- [x] Quigley Down Under (1990)
- [x] No Country for Old Men (2007)
- [x] Revenant (2015)
- [x] Dancing with Wolves (1990)
- [x] Young Guns (1988)
- [x] Duck, You Sucker! (1971) 7.6
- [x] Giant (1956) 3hr 21 7.6
- [x] Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) - western noir fusion
- [x] Silverado (1985) 7.3
December 2020 - 38 films
Defines Western films as those "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."; Sergio Leone said ("of westerns"), "where life has no value".
Common plots include:
* The construction of a railroad or a telegraph line on the wild frontier.
* Ranchers protecting their family ranch from rustlers or large landowners, or who build a ranch empire.
* Revenge stories, which hinge on the chase and pursuit by someone who has been wronged.
* Stories about cavalry fighting Native Americans.
* Outlaw gang plots.
* Stories about a lawman or bounty hunter tracking down his quarry.
Subgenres:
* Classical Western
* Spaghetti Westerns
* Acid Western
* Contemporary Westerns
* Neo-Westerns
* Revisionist Westerns
* Comedy Westerns
* Horror Westerns
* Sci-fi Westerns
* Space Westerns
* Weird Westerns
* Fantasy Westerns
* Ramen / Asian Westerns
* Charro/Cabrito/Chili Westerns
* Austrialian / Meat pie Westerns
* Ostern / Red Westerns
* Dacoit / Curry Westerns
* Electric Westerns
* Pornographic Westerns
Henry Fonda's commitment to this film was partly due to his having witnessed, at age 14, the lynching of Will Brown in Omaha, NE, on September 28, 1919.
Carpenter has arguably remade Rio Bravo twice – later as the apocalyptic horror thriller Prince of Darkness (1987), but first as 1976’s Assault on Precinct 13.
El Topo (1970) - allegorical cult Western and underground film about the eponymous character, a violent black-clad gunfighter, and his quest for enlightenment.
Japanese / Western Connection - Akira Kurosawa
Yojimbo = A Fistful of Dollars
Seven Samurai = The Magnificent Seven
Yojimbo = Django
Cowboy Bebop - Japanese space western
"oater" - a movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
Sergio Corbucci vs Sergio Leone
Sergio Corbucci "Mud and Blood" trilogy
* The Great Silence
* Django
* The Specialists