Top 50 Western movies at Internet Movie DB

[Silver Creek Slim]

Top 50 Western movies by average vote

Rank      Title
1   Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (aka The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly) (1966) 8.6/10 (21548 votes)
2   C'era una volta il West (aka Once Upon a Time in the West) (1968) 8.6/10 (11943 votes)
3   High Noon (1952) 8.3/10 (10050 votes)
4   Searchers, The (1956) 8.2/10 (8405 votes)
5   Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) 8.1/10 (1524 votes)
6   Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.1/10 (16592 votes)
7   Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) 8.1/10 (5778 votes)
8   Red River (1948) 8.1/10 (3001 votes)
9   Wild Bunch, The (1969) 8.1/10 (8756 votes)
10   My Darling Clementine (1946) 8.0/10 (1938 votes)
11   Stagecoach (1939) 8.0/10 (4512 votes)
12   Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (24985 votes)
13   Rio Bravo (1959) 8.0/10 (5767 votes)
14   Hud (1963) 7.9/10 (1906 votes)
15   Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) 7.9/10 (5963 votes)
16   Winchester '73 (1950) 7.8/10 (1185 votes)
17   Shane (1953) 7.8/10 (4649 votes)
18   Magnificent Seven, The (1960) 7.8/10 (8146 votes)
19   Dances with Wolves (1990) 7.7/10 (23835 votes)
20   Per un pugno di dollari (1964) 7.7/10 (6193 votes)
21   Little Big Man (1970) 7.7/10 (5478 votes)
22   She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 7.6/10 (1757 votes)
23   Blazing Saddles (1974) 7.6/10 (14084 votes)
24   Mark of Zorro, The (1940) 7.6/10 (837 votes)
25   Lonely Are the Brave (1962) 7.6/10 (624 votes)
26   Fort Apache (1948) 7.6/10 (1521 votes)
27   Destry Rides Again (1939) 7.6/10 (1199 votes)
28   Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) 7.6/10 (6034 votes)
29   Way Out West (1937) 7.6/10 (696 votes)
30   Tampopo (1985) 7.5/10 (2426 votes)
31   Ride the High Country (1962) 7.5/10 (1100 votes)
32   Big Country, The (1958) 7.5/10 (1449 votes)
33   Gunfighter, The (1950) 7.5/10 (845 votes)
34   Open Range (2003) 7.5/10 (5429 votes)
35   Johnny Guitar (1954) 7.5/10 (1205 votes)
36   Shootist, The (1976) 7.5/10 (2475 votes)
37   McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) 7.4/10 (1805 votes)
38   El Dorado (1966) 7.4/10 (1954 votes)
39   Rio Grande (1950) 7.4/10 (1307 votes)
40   Dead Man (1995) 7.4/10 (7961 votes)
41   Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) 7.4/10 (12360 votes)
42   Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) 7.4/10 (1208 votes)
43   Naked Spur, The (1953) 7.4/10 (682 votes)
44   Professionals, The (1966) 7.3/10 (820 votes)
45   High Plains Drifter (1973) 7.3/10 (3171 votes)
46   Man from Laramie, The (1955) 7.3/10 (511 votes)
47   Old Yeller (1957) 7.3/10 (1130 votes)
48   Tombstone (1993) 7.3/10 (13765 votes)
49   Giù la testa (1971) 7.3/10 (1218 votes)
50   Shenandoah (1965) 7.3/10 (629 votes)

Slim

[FloraBama Kid]

Now I like this list better than the one I saw here last week. IMO "Tombstone" is a little to low on the list....

Thanks Slim...

[Silver Creek Slim]

Now I like this list better than the one I saw here last week. IMO "Tombstone" is a little to low on the list....

Thanks Slim...

I agree. I would not have had "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" at the top either. Also, where is "Crossfire Trail", "Quigley Down Under", and "True Grit". "Last of the Mohicans, The", "Old Yeller", and "Shenandoah" should not be on a Western list unless "The Alamo" is on it also.

Slim

[Tombstone Runner SASS#54765]

Here....Here..... I agree!!!!
TR

[Will Ketchum]

"Unforgiven" sure should rate higher than Clint's spaghetti Westerns.  "True Grit" or "Rooster Codburn" aren't on there at all 

Will Ketchum

[Caucasian Wingnut]

How about "Winchester 73" Saw that last night and was checking out all the rigs the cowboys had on. They seemed to had it right

Swamp Yankee

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Slim,

Any idea who conducted this here poll?   With the names of some of these in Italian it would appear a eouropean influence.    I kinda like Red River to be higher to along with the Magnificent Seven!

Brazos Bucky

[Tombstone Runner SASS#54765]

I agee with Win 73....except that homo Rock Hudson playing an Indian Warrior ....what a slam to out native american friends!

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim,

Any idea who conducted this here poll?   With the names of some of these in Italian it would appear a eouropean influence.    I kinda like Red River to be higher to along with the Magnificent Seven!

Brazos Bucky

It is conducted by IMDB with users' votes. Here are the formulas it used to calculate the results.

The top movies report uses a weighted rank calculated as follows:

weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C

where:
  R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  m = minimum votes required to be listed in the top 50
      (currently 200)
  C = the mean vote across the whole report
      (currently 6.9)/quote]

Slim

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Thanks for straightening me out on that, Slim.  I get it A=r=m=ahh, Ok, I got it!

BB

Some formula is better than nothing I quess

[Uncle Eph]

Lonely are the Brave ranked 25th? I am very impressed.

[RattlesnakeJack]

Agree with some of the comments already made about films which aren't really "westerns", and also regarding some good 'uns conspicuous by their rather surprising absence. 

Here's another:  I figure "Hang 'Em High" shoulda made the top 50!

[FloraBama Kid]

Was "Shenandoah actually a Western?? I guess it did take place in Western Virginia.

I'm a big fan of "Two Mules for Sister Sara".

[J.D.Cayhill]

It is better than some lists I have seen. The absense of True Grit leaves me scratching my head a little. No Tom Selleck flics is just flat wrong. Some even say he is the John Wayne of the new millenium. I don't know if I agree but he is one class act and cowboy through and through.