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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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).