Don’t worry, there’s plenty of John Ford and Sergio Leone and the spaghetti western-so don’t go gettin’ your chaps all in a bunch. Instead, we’re gonna mix things up a bit and try and sample some variety. Thus our current selection.Īnd yeah, yeah, yeah, we could go down the list of Clint Eastwood’s (or John Wayne's) filmography, and after Pale Rider, and Hang ’Em High, and Higher Plains Drifter, hell, just about half this list will have Eastwood’s mug on it. Still, the western / cowboy film remains a genre close to the American’s heart and always in our adventure-loving imagination.

Plus, the genre’s most famous director grew up in Rome. And how the ground on which Clint Eastwood and others shot was by the Mediterranean, not beneath the American blood meridian.

Like how many of the genre’s ancestors were wielding samurai swords, not colt revolvers. The lone no-named figure venturing forth into the wild, into the frontier, into the lawless unknown regions of a country still unearthing its identity. The western-and by extension, cowboy-may be the only cinematic genre that, on first glance, feels uniquely American.

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