Best Western Films

Picture: Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," my No. 1 Western of all time.

So, this is mostly for fun, but some of these titles may work for extra credit write-ups. I have been saying since I was at Colby College and would talk about these films with my friend Jay that I would make this list, well, here is a draft. They are roughly ranked in order of best to less than best, in my humble opinion of course. Please feel free to mention films I may have forgot, or to rip into the ordering.

Best Western Films

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Hud (1963)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
High Noon (1952)

Open Range (2003)
The Proposition (2005)
A Few Dollars More (1965)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Fort Apache (1948)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Unforgiven (1992)
Shane (1953)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

North to Alaska (1960)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
The Getaway (1972)

A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)

A Man Called Horse (1970)
The Searchers (1956)
Hang Em’ High (1968)

The Claim (2000)

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Picnic (1955)
Badlands (1973)
Rio Bravo (1959)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Tombstone (1993)
Giant (1956)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Shootist (1976)
The Big Country (1958)
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
Stagecoach (1939)
Powwow Highway (1989)
Hell Ride (2008)
Joe Kidd (1972)
Junior Bonner (1972)
Days of Heaven (1978)

Ravenous (1999)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Missing (2003)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Major Dundee (1965)
Ned Kelly (2003)

The Jack Bull (1999)

Apaloosa (2008)

Australia (2008)

Wyatt Earp (1994)

100 Rifles (1969)
Dances with Wolves (1990)