The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Huston's 1948 gold-greed Western. Bogart deteriorating, Walter Huston dancing, Tim Holt holding the moral center.
AdventureHuston's 1948 gold-greed Western. Bogart deteriorating, Walter Huston dancing, Tim Holt holding the moral center.
WesternLeone's 1968 spaghetti western. Bronson, Fonda as the villain, Cardinale.
WesternFred Zinnemann's 1952 western shot in real time. The clock is the antagonist.
WesternWayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.
WesternNine strangers in a coach, each a study in social position. Stagecoach is the John Ford-directed western that revived the genre after a decade of decline and established the template that the next half-century of American westerns would follow.
ActionSerenity is the rare feature film made to give a canceled television series a proper conclusion. Joss Whedon wrote and directed.
ActionSeen it three times across years. The 9 rating is honest evaluation.
WesternThe Man With No Name trilogy is one of the great achievements in commercial cinema and the foundation document of the spaghetti western genre. The trilogy was produced as Italian-Spanish-German co-productions on substantially smaller budgets than American westerns of the…
RevengeClint Eastwood's foundational revisionist Western. Won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.
AmericanaGeorge Stevens's foundational classical Western. Alan Ladd as the title gunfighter.
WesternThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly defined the Western. Eastwood, Wallach, Van Cleef.
ActionCoen Brothers' perfect Best Picture winner. Bardem's Oscar-winning Anton Chigurh.
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