Western

7 films

Stagecoach

Western1930s

Nine strangers ride through Apache country, and John Wayne becomes a star with one slow camera turn. Ford shot Monument Valley int...

High Noon

Western1950s

Gary Cooper as a marshal waits for the noon train and the killers, abandoned by the town he served. Real time structure, eighty fi...

The Searchers

Western1950s

The darkest John Ford film interrogates the racism beneath western myth while shooting Monument Valley like scripture. John Wayne ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Western1960s

Three gunmen race for Confederate gold across a Civil War wasteland. Leone extreme closeups and the Ennio Morricone coyote howl th...

Once Upon a Time in the West

Western1960s

Leone went to Monument Valley and out Forded Ford: a widow, a harmonica assassin, a railroad, and Henry Fonda cast against type as...

Unforgiven

Western1990s

A retired pig farmer takes one last bounty and the myth of the west dies with him. Eastwood deconstructed his own archetype: killi...

The Wild Bunch

Western1960s

Aging outlaws ride into 1913 where the railroad hires the killers and the old codes are receipts. The opening shootout and the fin...