Westerns
The American West has always fascinated movie goers, even though much of the Old West never was. Russian nobility toured, eccentric Englishwomen toured, and authors wrote wild stories that seeped into the minds of us all. Gunslingers, cattle rustlers and savage Indians are part of the myth. Other iconic elements include the hanging tree, stetsons amd spurs, lassos and Colt 45s, stagecoaches, gamblers, long-horned cattle and cattle drives, prostitutes (or madams) with a heart of gold, and more.
Alice's Westerns, or Cowboy Films are listed alphabetically below, be sure to check out 'Spaghetti Westerns' sub-featured in green on the left, and 'TV Westerns' under 'Television Shows'.
Arizona (1940)
6.7/10
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Starring: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
During the 1860s Tucson, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent loc... Read more
Backlash (1956)
6.6/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Donna Reed, Harry Morgan, Richard Widmark, William Campbell, Barton MacLane
Legendary director John Sturges breathed new life into the western genre in the 1950s and '60s and brings his successful mix of action and drama to th... Read more
Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)
7.8/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Eric...
Spencer Tracy gives one of his greatest performances in this suspenseful, action-packed drama as one-armed war vet John J. McCreedy who stirs up troub... Read more
Bad Girls (1994)
5.1/10
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Andie MacDowell, Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson
It's Thelma and Louise on horseback as the four leads, (Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson and Drew Barrymore) working girls at a... Read more
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
5.9/10
Director: Joseph Kane
Starring: Roy Rogers, George Gabby Hayes
Free enterprise is threatened in the West when a conniving conglomeration of businessmen scheme to drive competition out of town. Leave it to a monopo... Read more
Bad Man's River (1971)
4.6/10
Director: Eugenio Martin
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, James Mason, Gina Lollobrigida
This spaghetti Western has Lee Van Cleef and his cronies offered $1 million to blow up an arsenal by a Mexican revolutionary. The arsenal gets blasted... Read more
Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
5.4/10
Director: Bill Ward
Starring: Marty Robbins, Bob Barron
Country singer Marty Robbins is featured as a Robin Hood of the West who robs stage coaches and gives the loot to the poor. When he and his outlaw bud... Read more
Bandidas (2006)
5.7/10
Director: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Roenning
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Sam Shepard
Latina heartthrobs Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek team up as sisters seeking revenge on the man who killed their daddy, in this comedy western. The ba... Read more
Barbarosa (1981)
6.5/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega
Willie Nelson plays the sensitive outlaw eluding the assassination attempts of his wife's overprotective family in this brilliant, beautifully mounted... Read more
Barquero (1970)
6.3/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: Forrest Tucker, Kerwin Mathews, Lee Van Cleef, Mariette Hartley, Warren Oates
Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local town, rides up with his... Read more