Colin Farrell does an absolutely brilliant job of playing Jessee James. This was done early in his career before he was known in the USA.

Mel Brooks's hilarious satire of the Old West starring Gene Wilder, Clevon Little and Madeline Kahn. A black sheriff is sent to run a town and finds unexpected support from the fastest gun in the West, Wilder, and love with a show girl, Kahn (satirizing Dietrich in DESTRY).

Robert Altman's film stars Paul Newman as Wild Bill putting on his Wild West show with full cynicism and the potential to exploit.

Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin in a western which is notable for its Oscar winning performance by Marvin as an alcoholic gunman, who used to be the best in the West, who now can barely stay seated on a horse. He is hilarious.

Kevin Costner directs and stars in this western set in the Dakotas about a cavalry officer who gets to see the Indian side of the battle for the West.

Jim Jarmusch's film stars Johnny Depp as an accountant on the run in the Old West after murdering a man. He is spirtually transformed along the way by an Indian named Nobody.

Sydney Pollack's 1979 romance between Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Redford's cowboy is about to shoot a commercial when he finds out they plan to drug the horse. He rides the horse off into the desert.

Jack Nicholson directs and stars in a this romance western where he is saved from the gallows by Mary Steenburgen's opting to marry him. Town custom allows a woman to claim a man from the gallows. She's got plans for him.

Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly get prepared for Cooper to possibly lose his life as he stands ready to fight as the sheriff against a showdown set for noon. Oscar winner.

3 sons and their father living on their ranch in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA. Although the story is ostensibly about all of them Brad Pitt eclipses everyone, becoming a legend all on his own.

Arthur Penn's 1970 western stars Dustin Hoffman as an extremely old man looking back on his life in the Old West which involved gunslinging, General Custer and living with the Indians.

Robert Altman's most realistic of Westerns set the gold standard for what Westerns should thereafter look like on the silver screen. Warren Beatty and Julie Christie survive in the lawless, rugged and primitive Old West.

Arthur Penn's western stars Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson (life long neighbors in real life) about a regulator (killer), Brando, hired to eliminate Nicholson and other men. Set in Montana in the 1880s among the tributary streams that eventually flow together into the Missouri River.

Burt Lancaster is the rainmaker, supposedly capable of bringing rain to the West as it is dying in a drought. Katherin Hepburn is the woman he tangles with as he tries to call the rain.

Brad Pitt as the younger, charismatic brother who seems on a collision course with fate in Robert Redford's western set drama in the early part of the twentieth century.

Clint Eastwood made and stars in the ultimate western as a retired gunslinger going back out to find out what happened to an old friend in the Old West. Very realistic with excellent script. Oscar winner.