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My Darling Clementine (1946)

John Ford’s Western masterpiece dressed the hero in black, stomped on the cliche of the quick draw and made lovable Walter Brennan a chilling villain.


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Little Big Man (1970)

Arthur Penn’s 1970 Revisionist Western stars Dustin Hoffman as a Gump-like figure stumbling through history.


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Barbarosa

An overlooked Western from 1982, “Barbarosa” stars Willie Nelson as an aging bandito actively engaged in fomenting his own legend.


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Once Upon a Time in the West

“Once Upon a Time in the West” was the apex of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, an ode to grim men who kill for money, for justice and some just because they like it.