How the West Was Shot: The Evolution of the Western Genre

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This list is a chronological look at the western as a genre. A genre as old as movies themselves, it has gone through many transformations and evolutions.

It aspires to showcase these many variations, starting from the silent era and ending with the Neo-Western, by choosing key films for each venture: Singing Cowboy, Acid Westerns, Ostern, Spaghetti Westerns, Meat Pie Westerns, Revisionist Westerns, Hybrid Westerns, Western Comedies, Superwesterns, etc...

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  1. 33 new

    Scarlet Days

    1919, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 34 new

    The Last of the Mohicans

    1920, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 36 new

    The Mark of Zorro

    1920, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 41 new

    The Covered Wagon

    1923, in 4 top lists Check
  5. 47 new

    Clash of the Wolves

    1925, in 1 top list Check
  6. 48 new

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 30 top lists Check
  7. 62 new

    The Trail of '98

    1928, in 1 top list Check
  8. 64 new

    Redskin

    1929, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 68 new

    The Big Trail

    1930, in 4 top lists Check
  10. 79 new

    The Call of the Wild

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 83 new

    The Last of the Mohicans

    1936, in 1 top list Check
  12. 92 new

    Under Western Stars

    1938, in 1 top list Check
  13. 98 new

    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
  14. 109 new

    'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers)

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 111 new

    North West Mounted Police

    1940 — a.k.a. Northwest Mounted Police, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 112 new

    Santa Fe Trail

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 116 new

    The Mark of Zorro

    1940, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 130 new

    The Return of the Durango Kid

    1945 — a.k.a. Stolen Time, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 134 new

    The Overlanders

    1946, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 136 new

    Unconquered

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 145 new

    Red River

    1948, in 16 top lists Check
  22. 147 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  23. 158 new

    The Golden Stallion

    1949, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 161 new

    Lust for Gold

    1949, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 175 new

    Rocky Mountain

    1950, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 179 new

    Across the Wide Missouri

    1951, in 1 top list Check
  27. 182 new

    Along the Great Divide

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 188 new

    Bend of the River

    1952 — a.k.a. Where the River Bends, in 3 top lists Check
  29. 192 new

    The Iron Mistress

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 209 new

    The Far Country

    1954, in 1 top list Check
  31. 210 new

    River of No Return

    1954, in 1 top list Check
  32. 212 new

    Drum Beat

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 214 new

    Vera Cruz

    1954, in 2 top lists Check
  34. 217 new

    Garden of Evil

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 223 new

    Saskatchewan

    1954 — a.k.a. O'Rourke of the Royal Mounted, in 0 top lists Check
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    Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 233 new

    The Tall Men

    1955, in 1 top list Check
  38. 247 new

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  39. 251 new

    The Last Wagon

    1956, in 1 top list Check
  40. 253 new

    The Lone Ranger

    1956, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 254 new

    The King and Four Queens

    1956, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 264 new

    Old Yeller

    1957, in 2 top lists Check
  43. 292 new

    Zorro: Shadow of Doubt

    1958, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 296 new

    The Horse Soldiers

    1959, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 314 new

    The Alamo

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  46. 322 new

    Heller in Pink Tights

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  47. 323 new

    The Comancheros

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 333 new

    Ride the High Country

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  49. 336 new

    Der Schatz im Silbersee

    1962 — a.k.a. The Treasure of the Silver Lake, in 0 top lists Check
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    Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol

    1964 — a.k.a. Black God, White Devil, in 10 top lists Check
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