Best Western movies of 1960s

The Sons of Katie Elder(1965)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.



One-Eyed Jacks(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.



Support Your Local Sheriff!(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In the old west, a man becomes a sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead.



Lonely Are the Brave(1962)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.



McLintock!(1963)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Wealthy rancher G.W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials.



Lo chiamavano Trinità...(1970)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major and his henchmen.



A Man Called Horse(1970)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.



The War Wagon(1967)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The story of a man who was shot, robbed and imprisoned who returns to steal a large gold shipment from the man who wronged him. The gold is transported in an armored stage coach, the War Wagon.



Cheyenne Autumn(1964)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.



Nevada Smith(1966)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A naive half-Indian, half-white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.



Il grande silenzio(1968)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.



Chisum(1970)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.



North to Alaska(1960)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 6

During the Alaska gold rush, prospector George sends partner Sam to Seattle to bring his fiancée but when it turns out that she married another man, Sam returns with a pretty substitute, the hostess of the Henhouse dance hall.



The Comancheros(1961)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.



Shenandoah(1965)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 4

During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.



Will Penny(1967)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by a husbandless woman and her young son.



Soldier Blue(1970)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 6

After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.



The Unforgiven(1960)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.



Sergeant Rutledge(1960)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.



Two Rode Together(1961)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.




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