Destry Rides Again (1939)

True Grit (1969)

Summary: A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.

Release Date: June 21, 1969

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Charles Portis

, Marguerite Roberts

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: G

Production: Wallis-Hazen, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 276,418

Stagecoach (1939)

Summary: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

Release Date: March 03, 1939

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: John Ford

Writers: Ernest Haycox

, Dudley Nichols

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Variety Film Distributors, Masterpiece Productions, Time Life Films, Time-Life Video, RCA (II), Vestron Video, Criterion Pictures, Warner Home Video, UCLA Film and Television Archive

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 392,000

Westward the Women (1951)

Summary: A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.

Release Date: December 31, 1951

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: William A. Wellman

Writers: Charles Schnee

, Frank Capra

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,203,000

The Harvey Girls (1946)

Summary: On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.

Release Date: April 29, 1946

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Western

Director: George Sidney

Writers: Edmund Beloin

, Nathaniel Curtis

, Harry Crane

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Loew's

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,524,315

Johnny Guitar (1954)

Summary: After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.

Release Date: August 23, 1954

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Nicholas Ray

Writers: Philip Yordan

, Roy Chanslor

, Nicholas Ray

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Distributor: Republic Pictures (I), NTA Home Entertainment, Republic Pictures Home Video, Worldvision Enterprises, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Television, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Summary: A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

Release Date: June 09, 1939

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: John Ford

Writers: Lamar Trotti

, Rosemary Benét

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Cosmopolitan Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

High Noon (1952)

Summary: 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 tr...

Release Date: July 30, 1952

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Writers: Carl Foreman

, John W. Cunningham

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Stanley Kramer Productions

Distributor: Republic Pictures Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Republic Pictures (II), Republic Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 730,000

The Man from Laramie (1955)

Summary: Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

Release Date: July 29, 1955

Genre: Western

Director: Anthony Mann

Writers: Philip Yordan

, Frank Burt

, Thomas T. Flynn

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: William Goetz Productions

Distributor: Screen Gems Television, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Summary: Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.

Release Date: November 21, 1947

Genres: Drama, Romance, Western

Directors: King Vidor

, Otto Brower

, William Dieterle

Writers: David O. Selznick

, Niven Busch

, Oliver H.P. Garrett

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Selznick International Pictures, Vanguard Films

Distributor: Selznick Releasing Organization, ABC Video Enterprises, Playhouse Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Buena Vista Television, Anchor Bay Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Viacom International

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 20,408,163

International: $ 20,608

Silver Lode (1954)

Summary: In the western town of Silver Lode, Dan Ballard is arrested for murder and theft by marshals, but he denies the charges and searches for the real culprit as the townsfolk gradually turn against him.

Release Date: July 23, 1954

Genre: Western

Director: Allan Dwan

Writer: Karen DeWolf

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Benedict Bogeaus Production, Pinecrest Productions

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Summary: In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South ...

Release Date: September 24, 1969

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: George Roy Hill

Writer: William Goldman

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Campanile Productions, Campanile Productions, George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production, George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production, Newman-Foreman Company, Newman-Foreman Company

Distributor: Magnetic Video, RCA (II), 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fathom Events, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), American Movie Classics (AMC)

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 102,308,889

International: $ 2,404

Flaming Star (1960)

Summary: When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence.

Release Date: February 06, 1961

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance

Director: Don Siegel

Writers: Clair Huffaker

, Nunnally Johnson

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Key Video, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,962,000

International: $ 2,398,000

El Dorado (1966)

Summary: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher who's trying to steal their water.

Release Date: June 30, 1967

Genres: Drama, Romance, Western

Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: Leigh Brackett

, Harry Brown

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures, Laurel Productions, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,653,000

Shane (1953)

Summary: An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

Release Date: August 14, 1953

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: George Stevens

Writers: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

, Jack Sher

, Jack Schaefer

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,100,000

Rio Bravo (1959)

Summary: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Release Date: April 04, 1959

Genres: Action, Drama, Western

Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: Jules Furthman

, Leigh Brackett

, B.H. McCampbell

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Armada Productions

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)

Summary: When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.

Release Date: May 21, 1943

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: William A. Wellman

Writers: Lamar Trotti

, Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Fox Video, Key Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 565,000

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Summary: After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

Release Date: December 02, 1946

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: John Ford

Writers: Samuel G. Engel

, Winston Miller

, Sam Hellman

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), Key Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Winchester '73 (1950)

Summary: A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.

Release Date: July 12, 1950

Genres: Action, Drama, Western

Director: Anthony Mann

Writers: Robert L. Richards

, Borden Chase

, Stuart N. Lake

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), NBC Universal Television Distribution, Reel Media International, Netflix, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English