52 Westerns 52

Quite a while now, BITS has been reviewing westerns, about one a week. We thought it was time to put together a compendium of the 52 most recent from the past year or so. They range from the 1920s to the 1990s, with examples from the filmographies of John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Clint Eastwood, Tom Mix, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Alan Ladd, and many others. They are listed below in the order in which they were reviewed and posted. You can click through to any you missed.

Sky High (1922)

Comanche Station (1960)

Stranger on Horseback (1955)

Pale Rider (1985)

The Iron Horse (1924)

The Stalking Moon (1968)

Hour of the Gun (1967)

The Man From Colorado (1948)

Whispering Smith (1948)

Day of the Outlaw (1959)

In Old Arizona (1928)

The Lonely Man (1957)

The Sea of Grass (1947)

The Rare Breed (1966)

Texas (1941)

The Hi-Lo Country (1998)

Fort Massacre (1958)

Man in the Saddle (1951)

The Man Behind the Gun (1953)

Thunder Over the Plains (1953)

Riding Shotgun (1954)

When the Daltons Rode (1940)

Duel at Diablo (1966)

The Indian Fighter (1955)

Escape From Fort Bravo (1953)

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Dude Cowboy (1941)

The Kentuckian (1955)

Run For Cover (1955)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

6 Black Horses (1962)

Good Day for a Hanging (1959)

The Man From the Alamo (1953)

The Nevadan (1950)

Buffalo Soldiers (1997)

The Lusty Men (1952)

Young Billy Young (1969)

The Young Land (1959)

El Dorado (1967)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Nevada (1944)

The Red Pony (1949)

River of No Return (1954)

The Deadly Companions (1961)

Major Dundee (1965)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Neveda Smith (1966)

Monte Walsh (1970)

Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

The Bushwhackers (1951)

The Sundowners (1960)

The Sundowners (1950)

Coming up: Dustin Hoffman, Little Big Man (1970)