Classic Western
see all genres ›What genre is more "classic" than the Western? This most purely American of cinematic categories moseys back to a semi-mythological past of rugged individualists, outlaw varmints and wide-open Technicolor spaces.
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Silver Lode
A stranger in town becomes the target of a lynch mob in Allan Dwan's feverish Western noir, made at the height of the nation's "Red Scare" witch hunts and now acclaimed as one of the most concise anti-McCarthy parables ever made by Hollywood. About to marry the lovely Rose (Lizabeth Scott) on the...Watch Movie
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Barbara Stanwyck stars as "a woman of fire… in a land aflame!!!" in Allan Dwan's tough-as-nails 1954 Western, gorgeously shot in Montana’s scenic Glacier National Park. "Stripping off her petticoats and strapping on her guns" (as the original press material screamed),...Watch Movie
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Passion
Set in Old Spanish California of the 1800s, a dashing young rancher (Cornel Wilde) seeks vengeance for the murder of his wife (Yvonne de Carlo). Her identical twin (also played by Yvonne de Carlo) accompanies the rancher on their hunt for outlaw (Rodolfo Acosta) and his gang. Will lawman Castro...Watch Movie
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Tennessee's Partner
"You're rotten Tennessee, dirty. And, what’s more, you like it that way!" cries a local brothel owner to a unrepentant professional gambler in Allan Dwan's surprisingly illicit Western, set "when the West was a shameless young hussy!," as the original poster memorably stated....Watch Movie
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Angel and the Badman
ANGEL AND THE BADMAN was the first film that John Wayne produced and also starred in. Gunman Quint Evans (John Wayne), badly injured, arrives at a farm owned by a Quaker family. With their help he recovers and forms a relationship with Penelope Worth (Gail Russell) who...Watch Movie
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Born to Battle
"Cyclone" Tom Saunders starts a ruckus in a Chinese laundry and has to go before a judge. Unable to pay his fine, he is bailed out by a local cattle rancher and agrees to do 30 days' work for him. It's not too long before he becomes enmeshed in a war between rustlers and outlaws.Watch Movie
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Down the Wyoming Trail
Cinema's second-most-popular singing cowboy (after Roy Rogers) was Texas-bred Tex Ritter, a homely but amiable fella who began his career as a Broadway and radio performer, ending it decades later as a successful country recording artist. In-between, he starred in a slew of...Watch Movie
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Desperadoes of the West
A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B. "Dude" Dawson is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their...Watch Movie
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King of the Bandits
This marked Gilbert Roland’s final turn under the sombrero of the Cisco Kid. U.S. Marshals pursue Cisco when he catches blame for an imposter’s string of stagecoach robberies. Cisco and Pancho elude the law long enough to catch the real robbers in order to clear themselves of...Watch Movie
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Land of Hunted Men
A band of outlaws is terrorizing a town in the West. Leave it to Ray "Crash" Corrigan and his "Range Busters" to ride in and save the day. This film marked the return of Corrigan to the famous series; he had appeared in the first sixteen movies but left for a brief hiatus...Watch Movie
