Top 20 Westerns

Top 20 (29) Westerns in chronological order, 1940-1980

1. 1940 Santa Fe Trail d. Michael Curtiz. Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland
2. 1941 They Died With Their Boots On d. Raoul Walsh. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
3. 1943 The Outlaw d. Howard Hughes. Jane Russell
4. 1943 The Ox-Bow Incident d. William Wellman. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn
5. 1946 My Darling Clementine d. John Ford. Henry Fonda, Victor Mature
6. 1948 Ft. Apache d. John Ford. Henry Fonda, John Wayne
7. 1948 Red River d. Howard Hawks. John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
8. 1948 Treasure of the Sierra Madre d. John Huston. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston
9. 1948 Duel in the Sun d. King Vidor. Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones,
10. 1949 I Shot Jesse James d. Sam Fuller. John Ireland
11. 1952 Viva Zapata d. Elia Kazan. Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn
12. 1952 Rancho Notorious d. Fritz Lang. Marlene Dietrich
13. 1952 High Noon d. Fred Zinneman. Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado
14. 1955 Vera Cruz d. Robert Aldrich. Burt Lancaster, Gary Cooper
15. 1956 The Searchers d. John Ford. John Wayne, Natalie Wood
16. 1957 Forty Guns d. Sam Fuller. Barbara Stanwyck
17. 1957 3:10 to Yuma d. Delmer Daves. Glenn Ford, Van Heflin
18. 1960 The Magnificent Seven d. John Sturges. Yul Brenner, James Coburn, Steve McQueen
19. 1961 One-Eyed Jacks d. Marlon Brando (fired Stanley Kubrick). Marlon Brando, Karl Malden
20. 1962 Ride the High Country d. Sam Peckinpah. Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Warren Oates
21. 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance d. John Ford. Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin
22. 1964 A Fistful of Dollars d. Sergio Leone. Clint Eastwood
23. 1966 The Appaloosa d. Sidney Furie. Marlon Brando
24. 1966 The Professionals d. Richard Brooks. Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
    
25. 1969 The Wild Bunch d. Sam Peckinpah. William Holden, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates
26. 1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue d. Sam Peckinpah. Jason Robards
27. 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid d. Sam Peckinpah. James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan
28. 1974 Don't Touch the White Woman d. Marco Ferreri. Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve
29. 1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or, Sitting Bull's History Lesson d. Robert Altman. Paul Newman, Frank Kaquitts, Will Sampson, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Duvall, Harvey Keitel, Geraldine Chaplin,