Top Western Movies


The Top Western Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Western List". Lists are calculated daily.

71. The Man from Laramie

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Jack Elam, Alex Nicol
Plot: In a quest to find out who sold rifles to the Apaches that killed his
brother, Will Lockhart (James Stewart) comes across a cattle baron and his
arrogant son that may hold the key to his search.

72. The Rounders

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Burt Kennedy
Actors: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan

73. Cat Ballou

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Actors: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat 'King' Cole, Stubby Kaye
Plot: Having just returned home from college Cat Ballou finds her father at odds with the towns people. She hires an alcoholic gunfighter to help. But when events take a turn for the worst she turns to a life of crime.
Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye appear as a kind of narrators for the film.

74. The Long Riders

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Walter Hill
Actors: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, James Keach, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid

75. Near the Rainbow's End

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J.P. McGowan
Actors: Bob Steele, Lafe McKee, Al Ferguson, Alfred Hewston, Louise Lorraine

76. The Denver Kid

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Philip Ford
Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, William Henry, Douglas Fowley, Rory Mallinson, Emmett Vogan

77. Windwalker

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kieth Merrill
Actors: Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar, Serene Hedin, Dusty McCrea, Silvana Gallardo

78. Bend of the River

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson, Jay C. Flippen
Plot: Glyn McLyntock and Emerson Cole are two men looking to escape their pasts and lead a group of homesteaders from Missouri to Oregon. They settle just outside Portland and, as winter approaches, they target supplies held by corrupt officials in order to secure their community. Yet once they have the supplies, Cole turns on McLyntock, planning to turn the supplies over the a gold mining camp for a hefty profit.

79. The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Taylor
Actors: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin, Kay Lenz
Plot: Lee Marvin, an ex-trail Scout and Oliver Reed, his half-breed Indian partner decide to settle accounts with a former partner who cheated them out of stolen money.

80. Johnny Guitar

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine

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