Genre: Western

Direction Howard Hawks · Arthur Rosson

Cast John Wayne · Montgomery Clift · Walter Brennan · Joanne Dru

Plot Tom Dunson (John Wayne) builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the Missouri railhead....

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Shelley Winters · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally

Plot In the Old West, cowboy Lin McAdam wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest - which the runner-up contestant instantly steals. This leads to a rousing...

Direction David Milch · Ed Bianchi · Daniel Minahan · Davis Guggenheim

Cast Timothy Olyphant · Ian McShane · Molly Parker · John Hawkes

Plot TV Series (2004-2006). 3 Seasons. 36 Episodes. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American History draws a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw...

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · John Wayne · Shirley Temple · Pedro Armendáriz

Plot In John Ford's sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Alan Ladd · Jean Arthur · Van Heflin · Brandon De Wilde

Plot George Stevens' classic Western, adaptated from the Jack Schaefer novel, stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Riding the ranges of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, Shane stops at the farm of...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Randolph Scott · Joel McCrea · Mariette Hartley · Ron Starr

Plot Aging lawman Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) takes a job transporting gold from the Sierra Nevada mining town of Coarsegold, and hires old pal Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) not knowing that...

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Redford · Will Geer · Allyn Ann McLerie · Stefan Gierasch

Plot Sydney Pollack directs this notable picturesque film in which a solitary man named Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) battles ruthless Indians, who use him as the target of a long-awaited vendetta,...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · William Holden · Constance Towers · Althea Gibson

Plot A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail/supply centre. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams

Plot Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast James Coburn · Kris Kristofferson · Jason Robards · L.Q. Jones

Plot 1909. Bushwhackers from the politically corrupt Santa Fe Ring gun down New Mexico rancher Pat Garrett (James Coburn) on his own land. 1881. Pat is a friend to and former...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Gregory Peck · Joseph Cotten · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds kindness in the heart of ex-Dixie Belle...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Marianne Koch · Gian Maria Volonté · Wolfgang Lukschy

Plot A cigarillo smoking stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel, a town in which rival factions are battling for control: there are those employed by Sheriff...

Direction Anthony Asquith · A.V. Bramble

Cast Annette Benson · Brian Aherne · Donald Calthrop · Wally Patch

Plot The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Joel McCrea · Virginia Mayo · Dorothy Malone · Henry Hull

Plot Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gregory Peck · Anne Baxter · Richard Widmark · Robert Arthur

Plot In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Ruth Roman · Corinne Calvet · Walter Brennan

Plot One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his...

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Lee Marvin · Clint Eastwood · Jean Seberg · Harve Presnell

Plot Marvin and Eastwood star as California prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849-50. Eastwood is the calm, restrained one; Marvin is noisy and rambunctious. Marvin buys a wife, Seberg, from...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Donald Crisp · Aline MacMahon

Plot Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec...

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Helen Westcott · Millard Mitchell · Jean Parker

Plot Aging gunslinger, Jimmy Ringo, rides into a strange town where he's immediately recognized. As kids gather at the saloon windows to glimpse the killer and townsfolk gossip about his exploits,...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Preston Foster · Mary Stuart · William Bishop

Plot Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had...