Best Western films
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| Best Western films |
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| Best Western films |
'Stagecoach'
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| 'Stagecoach' |
Year released: 1939
The plot: Passengers take a cross-country trek during an Apache uprising. There's some terrific action, but the real thrill is in the interplay of the characters.'My Darling Clementine'
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| 'My Darling Clementine' |
Year released: 1946
The plot: A chronicle of the friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and the famous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
'Shane'
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| 'Shane' |
Year released: 1953
The plot: When local farmers are persecuted by a ruthless cattle baron, a former gunfighter must once again strap on his weapons.
'The Searchers'
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| 'The Searchers' |
Year released: 1956
The plot: A racist Civil War veteran mounts a years-long search to find the tribe who killed his brother's family and kidnapped a young girl. This was director John Ford's letter of apology to American Indians.
'The Wild Bunch'
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| 'The Wild Bunch' |
Year released: 1969
The plot: Running out of lawless frontier, a bank-robbing gang flees to Mexico and gets involved in the 1917 revolution on behalf of a despicable general with the federales.
'McCabe & Mrs. Miller'
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| 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' |
Year released: 1971
The plot: A bumbling gambler decides to build a sporting house in a Northwest mining town. With a professional madam, he creates such a going enterprise that soon thugs representing big business show up to take over.
'Dances With Wolves
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| 'Dances With Wolves' |
Year released: 1990
The plot: In the last days of the Civil War, a Union officer is sent to a remote post on the prairie and is adopted by a band of Lakota Indians.
'Unforgiven'
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| 'Unforgiven' |
Year released: 1992
The plot: An apparently irredeemable bad man comes out of retirement to collect a reward offered by a maimed prostitute for the murder of her attackers.
'Open Range'
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| 'Open Range' |
Year released: 2003
The plot: Cattle drivers run into trouble when they try to graze on ground claimed (illegally) by a powerful landowner.
'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'
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| 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' |
Year released: 2007
The plot: This morally vexing yarn depicts Jesse James as an increasingly paranoid killer who's a danger to everyone.
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