The 50 Best Westerns (The Rough Guide to Westerns)

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The top 50 western canon, as put forth in the book «The Rough Guide to Westerns» by Paul Simpson.

  1. 1.
    Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
    by John Sturges

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  2. 2.
    The Beguiled
    by Don Siegel

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  3. 3.
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  4. 4.
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    by George Roy Hill

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  5. 6.
    Destry Rides Again
    by George Marshall

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  6. 7.
    ?

  7. 8.
    El Dorado
    by Howard Hawks

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  8. 10.
    The Gunfighter (1950)
    by Henry King

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  9. 11.
    Heller in Pink Tights
    by George Cukor

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  10. 12.
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    High Noon (Zinnemann, 1952)

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  11. 13.
    Hud
    by Martin Ritt

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  12. 14.
    Jesse James (1939)
    by Henry King

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  13. 15.
    ?

  14. 16.
    ?

  15. 17.
    Lone Star
    by John Sayles

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  16. 19.
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    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 1971
    by Robert Altman

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  17. 20.
    The Magnificent Seven
    by John Sturges

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  18. 21.
    Man of the West
    by Anthony Mann

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  19. 22.
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    by John Ford

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  20. 23.
    Monte Walsh (1970)
    by William A. Fraker

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  21. 24.
    ?

  22. 25.
    The Naked Spur

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  23. 26.
    ?

  24. 28.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by William A. Wellman

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  25. 30.
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    Pursued (1947)
    by Raoul Walsh

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  26. 31.
    Red River
    by Howard Hawks

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  27. 33.
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    The Searchers - 1956

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  28. 34.
    Shane

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  29. 36.
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    The Shooting

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  30. 37.
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    The Shootist - 1976 - Don Siegel

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  31. 38.
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    Son of Paleface (1952)
    by Frank Tashlin

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  32. 39.
    Stagecoach (1939)
    by John Ford

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  33. 40.
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  34. 41.
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    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
    by Abraham Polonsky

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  35. 42.
    3:10 to Yuma
    by Delmer Daves

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  36. 43.
    El Topo
    by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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  37. 44.
    True Grit (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Henry Hathaway

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  38. 45.
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    Unforgiven - 1992

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  39. 46.
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    Vera Cruz

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  40. 47.
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    The Virginian (1929)

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  41. 48.
    Warlock
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  42. 49.
    The Wild Bunch
    by Sam Peckinpah

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Created by stiaandr on Mar 18, 2009.
 

Comments

49 — 23 weeks ago

I added the others from the amazon.com table of contents, but it seems as though there are only 49 films.


24? — 30 weeks ago

Where are other 26?

Good list so far, going to have to research a couple as I can’t tell from the little info here whether I’ve seen them or not.


24? — 33 weeks ago

I thought there was 50.