Westerns

I prepared this list of the most remarkable westerns for a lecture series.

B.P.

    A History of the Cowboy Movie : Barrie Pattison.

Selected Titles.

Tom Mix

Cripple Creek Ballroom Wm. Dickson 1898, The Great Train Robbery - Porter for Edison with W.S. Anderson 1903, Broncho Bill & the Baby W.S. Anderson (series begins) 1908, Le Railway de la mort Jean Durand with Joë Hamman 1912,  The Battle of Elderbush Gulch D.W. Griffith with Lillian Gish 1913, The Squaw Man Cecil B. de Mille & Oscar Apfel with Dustin Farnham 1914, Birth of a Nation D.W. Griffith, The Virginian Cecil B. De Mille with Farnham 1915, Hell's Hinges William S. Hart, Charles Swickard & Clifford Smith for Ince 1916, The Narrow Trail Wm. S. Hart 1917, The Lady of the Dugout W.S. Van Dyke with Al Jennings, 1918, The Last & the Mohicans Maurice Tourneur & Clarence L. Brown 1920, Sky High Lynn Reynolds with Tom Mix 1922, Wild Bill Hickock Smith with Hart 1923, To the Last Man Victor Fleming with Richard Dix, Covered Wagon 1923 with J. Warren Kerrigan & The Pony Express with Ricardo Cortez, James Cruze 1925, Tumbleweeds Clarence Badger with Hart 1925, The Vanishing American George B. Seitz with Dix 1925, 3 Bad Men John Ford with George O'Brien 1926, The Great K & A Train Robbery Lew Seiler with Mix 1926, Whispering Smith George Melford with H.B. Warner 1927, The Virginian Fleming with Gary Cooper 1929, Big Trail Raoul Walsh with John Wayne 1930, Cimarron Wesley Ruggles with Dix 1930,

Cimarron : Irene Dunne & Dix

  Branded  D. Ross Lederman with Buck Jones 1931, Law & Order Edward L. Cahn with Walter Huston 1933, Massacre Alan Crosland snr. with Richard Barthelmess 1934, Hop-a-long Cassidy for Harry Sherman with William Boyd, (series begins), 1935, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Henry Hathaway with Henry Fonda, 1936, Sergeant Berry Herbert Selpin with Hans Albers 1938, Stagecoach John Ford with John Wayne 1939, Destry Rides Again George Marshall with James Stewart 1939, Union Pacific Cecil B. De Mille with Joel McCrea 1939, Jesse James Henry King with Tyrone Power, Fonda 1939,  North West Mounted Police De Mille with Cooper 1940, Northwest Passage King Vidor with Spencer Tracy 1940, When the Daltons Rode George Marshall with Broderick Crawford 1940, Dodge City & Virginia City 1940 & Santa Fe Trail 1941 Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn, Western Union Fritz Lang with Randolph Scott 1941, Texas Marshall with Wm. Holden, Glenn Ford 1941, The Spoilers Ray Enright for Frank Lloyd with Scott & Wayne, Apache Trail Richard Thorpe & Richard Rosson with Lloyd Nolan 1942. The Oxbow Incident William A. Wellman with Fonda 1942, San Antonio David Butler (& Robert Flory & Walsh) with Flynn 1945, California 1946 & Copper Canyon 1950 John Farrow with Ray Milland, My Darling Clemantine Ford with Fonda 1946, Canyon Passage Jacques Tourneur with Dana Andrews 1946, Under the Tonto Rim Lew Landers with Tim Holt 1947, Pursued Walsh with Robert Mitchum 1947, Whispering Smith Leslie Fenton with Alan Ladd 1947, Ramrod André De Toth with McCrea 1947, The Plunderers Joseph Kane with Rod Cameron 1948, Aizona Ranger John Rawlins Tim Holt 1948, Relentless George Sherman with Robert Young 1948, Albuquerque (Silver City) Ray Enright with Scott 1948, Ambush Sam Wood with Robert Taylor 1949, Fighting Man of the Plains Edwin L. Marin with Scott 1949,The Furies Anthony Mann with Walter Huston 1950, The Outriders Roy Roland with McCrea 1950, The Gunfighter King with Gregory Peck 1950, Stars in My Crown Tourneur with McCrea 1950, Broken Arrow Delmer Daves with Stewart 1950, Bend of the River (Where the River Bends) Mann with Stewart 1950, Apache Drums Hugo Fregonese with Stephen McNally 1951, Only the Valiant - Gordon Douglas with Gregory Peck 1951, The Big Sky Howard Hawks 1952, Distant Drums Walsh with Cooper 1951, The Iron Mistress Douglas with Ladd 1952, Naked Spur Mann with Stewart 1953, Shane George Stevens with Ladd 1953, Thunder Over the Plains De Toth with Scott 1953, Vera Cruz Robert Aldrich with Burt Lancaster & Cooper 1954, The Raid Fregonese with Van Heflin 1954, Drum Beat Daves with Ladd 1954, Bad Day at Black Rock John Sturges with Tracy 1954, Wichita Tourneur with McCrea 1954, The Man from Laramie Mann with Stewart 1955, The Last Frontier Mann with Victor Mature 1955, Gunsmoke TV series with James Arness begins, Seven Men from Now Bud Boetticher with Scott 1956 Last Wagon Daves with Richard Widmark l956, Searchers Ford with Wayne 1956, Gunfight at the OK Corral Sturges with Lancaster & Kirk Doulas 1957, Three Ten to Yuma Daves with Ford 1957, The Tin Star Mann with Fonda 1957, Cowboy Daves with Ford & Jack Lemmon 1958, The Big Country William Wyler with Peck & Charlton Heston 1958, Man of the West Mann with Cooper, 1958, The Law and Jake Wade Sturges with Taylor & Widmark 1958, From Hell to Texas (Manhunt) Henry Hathaway with Don Murray 1958, Gunman’s Walk Phil Karlson with Heflin 1958, Terror in a Texas Town Joseph H. Lewis with Sterling Hayden 1958, Rio Bravo Howard Hawks with Wayne 1959, No Name on the Bullet Jack Arnold with Audie Murphy, Ride Lonesome 1959 & Comanche Station 1960 Boetticher with Scott, The Magnificent Seven Sturges with Yul Brynner 1960, The Unforgiven John Huston with Burt Lancaster, Flaming Star Don Seigle with Elvis Presley, A Thunder of Drums Joseph M. Newman with George Hamilton  1961,  The Posse from Hell  Herbert Coleman with Murphy 1961, Ride

Ride the High Country - Scott & McCrea

the High Coutry / Guns in the Afternoon Sam Peckinpah with Scott & McCrea 1962, One Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando 1963, Per un pugno di dollari starts Dollars trilogy - Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood, 1964, How the West Was Won  Ford-Hathaway- Marshall 1964, Cheyenne Autumn Ford with Widmark 1964, Cat Ballou Elliot Silverstein with Jane Fonda 1965, The Sons of Katie Elder Hathaway with Wayne 1965, Django Sergio Corbucci with Franco Nero 1966, El Dorado Hawks with Wayne & Mitchum 1966, Duel at Diabolo Ralph Nelson with James Garner, Sidney Poitier 1966, The Professionals Richard Brooks with Lancaster & Lee Marvin 1966, Hombre Martin Ritt with Paul Newman 1967, Oggi a me... domani a te! / Today It's Me... Tomorrow It's You! Tonino Cervi with Budd Spencer 1968, Il Mercenario/ A Professional Gun 1968 & Vamos a matar, compañeros (Companeros) 1970 Corbucci with Nero, Stalking Moon Robert Mulligan with Peck, 1969,

Django - Nero

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid George Roy Hill with Newman & Robert Redford 1969, True Grit Hathaway with Wayne 1969, The Wild Bunch Peckinpah with Holden 1969, Soldier Blue Nelson with Candice Bergen 1970, Ulzana’s Raid Aldrich with Lancaster 1972, Dirty Little Billy Stan Dragoti With Michael J. Pollard 1972, The Shootist Seigle with Wayne 1972, Bite the Bullet Richard Brooks with James Coburn 1975,The Outlaw Josey Wales Eastwood 1976, The Long Riders Walter Hill with the Carradines 1980, Heaven’s Gate Michael Cimino with Chris Kristoferson 1980, The Grey Fox Philip Boros with Richard Farnsworth 1982, Silverado Lawrence Kasdan with Kevin Kline 1986, Sunset Blake Edwards with Garner, Bruce Willis 1988, Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner 1990, Unforgiven Eastwood with Gene Hackman 1992, Wyatt Earp Kasdan with Costner 1994, The Avenging Angel Craig R. Baxley With Tom Berenger 1995, Ochocientas balas / 800 Bullets Álex de la Iglesia with Sancho Gracia 2002, Open Range Costner with Robert Duvall 2003, The Missing Ron Howard with Tommy Lee Jones 2003, 3:10 to Yuma James Mangold with Chrstian Bale 2007, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Andrew Dominik with Brad Pitt 2007, Appaloosa Ed Harris 2008. Blackthorn Mateo Gil 2011, Bone Tomahawk Craig Zahler 2015,  The Sisters Brothers Jacques Audiard 2018.

The Searchers

 

Sergeant Berry - Hans Albers