| AMS 105 - American West : Images and Identities |
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Western Films: selected examples
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Year |
Film |
Leading Roles |
Director |
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1903 |
The Great Train Robbery | Broncho Billy Anderson | E. S. Porter |
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1913 |
The Battle of Elderbush Gulch | Mae Marsh, Harry Carey | D. W. Griffith |
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1923 |
The Covered Wagon | J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson | James Cruze |
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1924 |
The Iron Horse | George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy | John Ford |
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1925 |
Riders of the Purple Sage | Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham | Lynn Reynolds |
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1925 |
The Vanishing American | Richard Dix, Lois Wilson | George B. Seitz |
| 1929 | In Old Arizona | Warren Baxter (Best Actor *AA 1929) | Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh |
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1929 |
The Virginian | Gary Cooper, Walter Huston | Victor Fleming |
| 1933 | Cimarron (Best Picture *AA, 1931) | Richard Dix, Irene Dunne | Wesley Ruggles |
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1935 |
Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Gene Autry | Joseph Kane |
| 1939 | Destry Rides Again | James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich | George Marshall |
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1939 |
Stagecoach | John Wayne | John Ford |
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1942 |
They Died With Their Boots On | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland | Raoul Walsh |
| 1943 | King of the Cowboys | Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette | Joseph Kane |
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1943 |
The Ox-Bow Incident | Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews | William A. Wellman |
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1946 |
My Darling Clementine | Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell | John Ford |
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1948 |
Red River | John Wayne, Montgomery Cliff | H. Hawks/A. Rosson |
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1948 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston | John Huston |
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1949 |
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | John Wayne, Joanne Dru | John Ford |
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1950 |
Broken Arrow | James Stewart, Jeff Chandler | Delmer Daves |
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1952 |
High Noon | Gary Cooper (Best Actor *AA 1952) | Fred Zinnemann |
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1953 |
Shane | Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur | George Stevens |
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1955 |
Bad Day at Black Rock | Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan | John Sturges |
| 1955 | Oklahoma | Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame | Fred Zinneman |
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1956 |
The Searchers | John Wayne, Natalie Wood | John Ford |
| 1956 | Giant | Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean | George Stevens |
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1957 |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas | John Sturges |
| 1957 | 3:10 To Yuma | Glenn Ford, Van Heflin | Delmer Daves |
| 1958 | The Big Country | Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons | William Wyler |
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1960 |
The Magnificent Seven | Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen | John Sturges |
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1961 |
The Misfits | Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe | John Huston |
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1962 |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Wayne, James Stewart | John Ford |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | (everybody) | John Ford, Henry Hathaway |
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1963 |
Hud | Paul Newman, Patricia Neal (Best Actress *AA 1963) | Martin Ritt |
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1964 |
A Fistful of Dollars | Clint Eastwood ;"Man With no Name" Trilogy I | Sergio Leone |
| 1965 | For A Few Dollars More | Clint Eastwood; Trilogy II | Sergio Leone |
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1965 |
Cat Ballou | Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin (Best Actor*AA 1965) | Elliot Silverstein |
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1966 |
The Professionals | Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance | Richard Brooks |
| 1966 | The Good, Bad, and the Ugly | Clint Eastwood; Trilogy III | Sergio Leone |
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1967 |
Hombre | Paul Newman | Martin Ritt |
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1969 |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Katherine Ross | George Roy Hill |
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1969 |
Once Upon a Time in the West | Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale | Sergio Leone |
| 1969 | Paint Your Wagon | Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seaberg | Joshua Logan |
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1969 |
True Grit | John Wayne (Best Actor *AA, 1969) | Henry Hathaway |
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1969 |
Wild Bunch | William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan | Sam Peckinpah |
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1970 |
Little Big Man | Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George | Arthur Penn |
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1971 |
McCabe and Mrs. Miller | Warren Beatty, Julie Christie | Robert Altman |
| 1972 | Jeremiah Johnson | Robert Redford, Will Geer | Sidney Pollack |
| 1972 | The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid | Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall | Paul Kaufman |
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1973 |
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson | Sam Peckinpah |
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1973 |
Westworld | Yul Brynner | Michael Crichton |
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1974 |
Blazing Saddles | Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder | Mel Brooks |
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1976 |
Buffalo Bill and the Indians | Paul Newman, Will Sampson | Robert Altman |
| 1976 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | Clint Eastwood, Dan George | Clint Eastwood |
| 1976 | The Shootist | John Wayne, Lauren Bacall | Don Siegel |
| 1979 | Electric Horseman | Robert Redford, Jane Fonda | Sidney Pollack |
| 1980 | The Long Riders | Keach, Carradine, Quaid, Guest brothers | Walter Hill |
| 1980 | Tom Horn | Steve McQueen | William Wiard |
| 1980 | Bronco Billy | Clint Eastwood, Sandra Locke | Clint Eastwood |
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1985 |
Silverado | Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1988 | Young Guns | Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland | Christopher Cain |
| 1989 | Lonesome Dove | Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Danny Glover | Simon Wincer |
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1990 |
Dances With Wolves (Best Picture *AA, 1990) | Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Rodney Grant, Mary McDonnell | Kevin Costner (Best Director *AA, 1990) |
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1991 |
City Slickers | Billy Crystal, Jack Palance | Ron Underwood |
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1992 |
Unforgiven (Best Picture *AA, 1992) | Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman (Best S. Actor *AA, 1992) | Clint Eastwood (Best Director *AA, 1992) |
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1994 |
Maverick | Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner | Richard Donner |
| 1996 | Dead Man | Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer | Jim Jarmusch |
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta Jones | Martin Campbell |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid | Ang Lee (Best Director *AA,2005) |
| 2005 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Tommy Lee Jones, Julio Cedillo, Barry Pepper | Tommy Lee Jones |
| 2007 | Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee | Adam Beach, plus ... | Yves Simoneau |
| 2007 | 3:10 To Yuma | Russel Crowe, Christian Bale | James Mangold |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Brad Pitt, Casey Affeck | Andrew Dominik |
* AA= Academy Award (US)