How the West Was Shot: The Evolution of the Western Genre

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This list is a chronological look at the western as a genre. A genre as old as movies themselves, it has gone through many transformations and evolutions.

It aspires to showcase these many variations, starting from the silent era and ending with the Neo-Western, by choosing key films for each venture: Singing Cowboy, Acid Westerns, Ostern, Spaghetti Westerns, Meat Pie Westerns, Revisionist Westerns, Hybrid Westerns, Western Comedies, Superwesterns, etc...

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    An Eastern Westerner

    1920, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 59 new

    The Kid Brother

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
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    Two-Gun Mickey

    1934, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Shooting of Dan McGoo

    1945, in 0 top lists Check
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    Stars in My Crown

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
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    Texas Tom

    1950, in 0 top lists Check
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    Drip-Along Daffy

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
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    Drag-A-Long Droopy

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
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    Homesteader Droopy

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
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    Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
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    Old Yeller

    1957, in 2 top lists Check
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    Zorro: Shadow of Doubt

    1958, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Rifleman: The Deadly Wait

    1959, in 0 top lists Check
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    Wild and Woolly Hare

    1959, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Man from Button Willow

    1965, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Man from Snowy River

    1982, in 2 top lists Check
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