Power Rankings: Best Westerns
Outlaws, duels, saloons, poker games, life on the prairie, and lots and lots of chewing tobacco. Is there a movie genre that is more overdone, but ruled the industry at its peak while also still having a great influence on countless films today than the western? Today, we pay tribute to the "most wanted" of these films in this list of the Best Westerns of all time.
#10
Title: Jeremiah Johnson
Release Date: September 10, 1962
Trailer:
Plot: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
#9
Title: High Noon
Release Date: July 30, 1952
Trailer:
Plot: A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.
#8
Title: Once Upon A Time in the West
Release Date: July 4, 1969
Trailer:
Plot: A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
#7
Title: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Release Date: September 24, 1969
Trailer:
Plot: Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
#6
Title: The Magnificent Seven
Release Date: October 12, 1960
Trailer:
Plot: Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
#5
Title: True Grit
Release Date: June 21, 1969
Trailer:
Plot: A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
#4
Title: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Release Date: August 7, 1976
Trailer:
Plot: Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
#3
Title: Tombstone
Release Date: December 25, 1993
Trailer:
Plot: A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
#2
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Release Date: December 29, 1967
Trailer:
Plot: A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
#1
Title: Unforgiven
Release Date: August 7, 1992
Trailer:
Plot: Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and a young man, The "Schofield Kid" (Jaimz Woolvett).
