41. The Sons of Katie Elder
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Dennis Hopper, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Holliman
Plot: With their mother gone, the Elder brothers return to Clearwater, TX for the funeral. The eldest boy, a gunfighter, has trouble follow wherever he goes. Yet the boys have a mission - to get back the family farm their father lost in card game (and shortly after, wound up murdered). But the troubles that come with the Elder name are certain to complicate things.
42. Sergeant Rutledge
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Juano Hernandez, Willis Bouchey
43. Big Jake
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Sherman
Actors: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bruce Cabot, Bobby Vinton
Plot: The McCandles ranch is run over by a gang of cutthroats led by the evil John Fain. They kidnap little Jacob McCandles and hold him for a million dollar ransom. There is only one man who is brave enough and smart enough to bring him back, and that man is Big Jake.
44. Winchester '73
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Stephen McNally
Plot: In two parallel stories - a man is on the trail of a stolen rifle he won
in a contest while we follow the story of the rifle itself as it switches
many hands.
45. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, Shelley Duvall, Corey Fischer
Plot: John McCabe is charismatic but thick-headed and his plans to set up a whorehouse in a newly-minted Pacific Northwest town seem doomed, until the shrewd madame, Mrs. Miller, shows up and takes charge. The two form a lucrative partnership - and maybe something more - until the town attracts the attention of a major corporation who wants to buy things out.
46. 3:10 to Yuma
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Delmer Daves
Actors: Van Heflin, Glenn Ford, Henry Jones, Robert Emhardt, Richard Jaeckel, Felicia Farr
Plot: The leader of a western gang is finally captured and held at a volunteers
farm house while his gang ruthlessly tries to get their leader back to
reek more havoc.
47. Lonely Are the Brave
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane, Carroll O'Connor, William Schallert
48. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, David Krumholtz, Brendan Gleeson, Zoe Kazan
49. The Professionals
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Woody Strode, Claudia Cardinale
Plot: A rich Texan hires a band of four men to rescue his wife from Mexican revolutionaries. The men accept the job but learn the "victim" may not be so innocent.
50. Hang 'em High
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Ben Johnson, Dennis Hopper
Plot: An innocent man is prosecuted and hung, but he doesn't die. Instead he comes back as a lawman and vigilante trying to bring justice to the town.
