Decision at Sundown (1957)
For a classic western showdown in a small town’s downtown, look no further than Budd Boetticher’s Decision at Sundown (1957). The movie lives up to…
Category: Western
The Outrage (1964)
Martin Ritt and Paul Newman have been a successful team in a number of productions including the westerns Hud (1963) and Hombre (1967). In between…
The Stalking Moon (1968)
Robert Mulligan returned with Gregory Peck to reclaim the magic of their 1962 classic To Kill a Mockingbird, this time in a western searing with…
The Train Robbers (1973)
John Wayne is the man when it comes to westerns, no matter what year, production company, director, or premise; when Duke’s in it, the western…
Hombre (1967)
Martin Ritt’s Hombre (for “man” in Spanish) is a quality western featuring Paul Newman as the titular Hombre, otherwise John Russell – a white man…
The Shooting (1966)
Deviating from the mainstream western storyline, Monte Hellman’s The Shooting (1966) combines the plot of a mystery and the settings and characters of a western…
Bite the Bullet (1975) – Love Poem to America
Horses, train, guns, small town, and the wild –Richard Brooks’ Bite the Bullet got all these essential western ingredients. But it has more as Brooks…