The Best Western Films of All Time

Published on November 23, 2017
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For A Few Dollars More (1965)

Now this was just one of the western films that Clint Eastwood starred in that launched him into stardom. The violence in this film is raw and unbridled, in fact, director Alex Cox considers the church scene to be “the most horrible deaths” of any Western film. The plot features an ongoing battle with the bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer and the Man With No Main must join forces with his enemy in order to to capture the homicidal bandit, Indio.

For A Few Dollars More (1965)

For A Few Dollars More (1965)

Fort Apache (1948)

Fort Apache one of the first films that presented an authentic and sympathetic view of the Native Americans involved in the battle – the screenplay was actually inspired by James Warner Bellah’s short story “Massacre,” and stars John Wayne and Henry Fonda. The justice, heroism, and honor presented in this film is electric.

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Fort Apache (1948)

Fort Apache (1948)