1. The Wild Bunch: By the late 1960s, studios had somewhat begun to cool on Westerns as a profitable genre.
2. The Searchers: Based on the 1954 novel of the same name, The Searchers proved to be a massive hit for Warner Brothers.
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: There are fewer Westerns more notorious than 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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4. Stagecoach: It may be hard to imagine it now, but in 1939 John Wayne was still relatively unknown.
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5. Rio Bravo: 1959’s Rio Bravo is the Western that just keeps on giving. Producers were able to bring John Wanye together with 1950s.
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6. High Noon: This 1952 feature was released to much fanfare, largely because it starred a plethora of names like Gary Cooper.
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7. McCabe and Mrs. Miller: McCabe and Mrs. Miller is largely regarded as a Western that isn’t really a Western at all.
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8. Unforgiven: Riding the financial success of 1990’s Dances With Wolves, Clint Eastwood further resurrected the Western with 1992’s.
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9. How the West Was Won: How the West Was Won marked an end of an era for MGM as one of the last profitable epics of its kind.
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10. The Big Country: Though the majority of its commercial and film library now belongs to Comcast, United Artists took great pride.
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11. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: An early hit that put the Viacom-owned Paramount Studios on the map, 1962’s.
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12. Fort Apache: John Ford created a ton of Westerns in his time, but Fort Apache is worth a special mention.
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13. Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks certainly hit the right chord with Blazing Saddles, which went down in history as one of the 1970s most financially lucrative.