List of films based on western fiction

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A list of films that are based on western fiction .

Geographically, this page encompasses the frontiers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Australia and South America.
At present, South Africa and Siberia are not included.

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17th and 18th centuries

Missionaries

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Black Robe 1991 Bruce Beresford Canada & Australia Black Robe Brian Moore 1985Novel

Settlers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Penn of Pennsylvania 1942 Lance Comfort UK William Penn C. E. Vulliamy 1933 [1] Biography

19th century

(and the Edwardian age)

Unclassified

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
n Monte Walsh 1970 William A. Fraker USA Monte Walsh Jack Schaefer 1963Novel
n Monte Walsh *2003 Simon Wincer USA Monte Walsh Jack Schaefer 1963Novel
n Shane [2] 1953 George Stevens USA Shane Jack Schaefer 1949Novel
n The Searchers [3] 1956 John Ford USAThe Searchers Alan Le May 1954Novel
n The Avenging Texans Alan Le May 1954 Serial
n Warlock 1959 Edward Dmytryk USA Warlock Oakley Hall 1958Novel
n Valdez Is Coming 1971 Edwin Sherin USA Valdez Is Coming Elmore Leonard 1970Novel
n The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel USA The Shootist Glendon Swarthout 1975Novel
n Stagecoach [4] 1939 John Ford USA"The Stage to Lordsburg" Ernest Haycox 1937Story
n Red River [5] 1948 Howard Hawks USA"Chisholm Trail" Borden Chase 193?Story
n The Cowboys 1972 Mark Rydell USAThe Cowboys William Dale Jennings 1971 [1] Novel
n Shalako 1968 Edward Dmytryk USA Shalako Louis L'Amour 1962Novel
n The Jack Bull *1999 John Badham USA Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist 1811Novella
n Broken Lance 1954 Edward Dmytryk USA I'll Never Go There Any More Jerome Weidman 1941 [1] Novel
n The Bravados 1958 Henry King USA The Bravados Frank O'Rourke 1957Novel
n Breakheart Pass 1975 Tom Gries USA Breakheart Pass Alistair MacLean 1974Novel

Frequently filmed: Riders of the Purple Sage

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Riders of the Purple Sage 1931 Hamilton MacFadden USA Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1912Novel

Bushrangers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Ned Kelly 2003 Gregor Jordan Australia Our Sunshine Robert Drewe 1991Novel

Cavalrymen

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Hallelujah Trail 1965 John Sturges USA Hallelujah Train William Gulick 1963 [1] Novel

Cowboys

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Four Faces West 1948 Alfred E. Green USA Pasó por aquí (?) Eugene Manlove Rhodes 193?Novel

Entertainers and mythmakers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney USA Annie Get Your Gun Herbert Fields & Dorothy Fields (book),
Irving Berlin (lyrics)		1946Musical---
2 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson 1976 Robert Altman USA Indians Arthur Kopit 1969Play---

Explorers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Far Horizons 1955 Rudolph Maté USA Sacajawea of the Shoshones Della Gould Emmons 1943 [1] Novel
2 Passage †2008 John Walker Canada Fatal Passage Ken McGoogan 2001Non-fiction

Forty-niners and goldseekers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Hanging Tree 1959 Delmer Daves & Karl Malden (uncredited)USAThe Hanging Tree Dorothy M. Johnson 1957Stories (?)

California Gold Rush

1848–1855

Gauchos, charros y vaqueros

Frequently filmed: Martín Fierro

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Nobleza gaucha 1915 Humberto Cairo, Ernesto Gunche,
Eduardo Martinez de la Pera 		Argentina Martín Fierro José Hernández 1872–1879Poem
1 Santos Vega Rafael Obligado 188?Poem
2 Martín Fierro 1968 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Argentina Martín Fierro José Hernández 1872–1879Poem

Gunfighters

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
Open Range 2003 Kevin Costner USA The Open Range Men Lauran Paine 1990Novel

Hunters

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Last Hunt 1956 Richard Brooks USA The Last Hunt Milton Lott 1954Novel

Indians

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves USA Blood Brother Elliott Arnold 1947 [1] Novel
2 Ishi: The Last of His Tribe *1978 Robert Ellis Miller USA Ishi in Two Worlds: a Biography
of the Last Wild Indian in North America 		Theodora Kroeber 1961 [1] Biography
3 The Last of His Tribe *1992 Harry Hook USA Ishi in Two Worlds: a Biography
of the Last Wild Indian in North America 		Theodora Kroeber 1961 [6] Biography

Frequently filmed: "A Man Called Horse"

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 A Man Called Horse 1970 Elliot Silverstein USA"A Man Called Horse (short story)"
from Indian Country 		Dorothy M. Johnson 1950–1968Story

Lawmen

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 High Noon [3] 1952 Fred Zinnemann USA"The Tin Star" John W. Cunningham 1947Story
2 Wild Bill 1995 Walter Hill USA Deadwood Peter Dexter 1986Novel
2 Fathers and Sons Thomas Babe 1978Play

Frequently filmed: Destry Rides Again

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Destry Rides Again [7] 1939 George Marshall USA Destry Rides Again "Max Brand"1930 [1] Novel

Lumberjacks

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen USA"The Sobbin' Women" Stephen Vincent Benét 195?Story

Missionaries

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Hawaii 1966 George Roy Hill USA Hawaii James Michener 1959Novel

Mountain men

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Sydney Pollack USA Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (uncredited) Raymond Thorp &
Robert Bunker		1969 [1] ¤Non-fiction
1 Mountain Man (uncredited) Vardis Fisher 1965Novel

Mounties

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Clancy of the Mounted 1933 Ray Taylor USA"Clancy of the Mounted Police"
from Ballads of a Cheechako 		Robert W. Service 1909Poem
2 Fighting Trooper 1934 Ray Taylor USA? James Oliver Curwood 19??Novel
3 Susannah of the Mounties 1939 William A. Seiter USA Susannah of the Mounties Muriel Denison 1936Novel
n Jesuit Joe 1991 Olivier Austen France Jesuit Joe
Jésuite Joe 		Hugo Pratt 1980 Bande dessinée

Twice filmed: Tiger Rose

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Tiger Rose 1923 Sidney Franklin USATiger Rose Willard Mack & David Belasco 191?Play

Outlaws

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Great Train Robbery [5] 1903 Edwin S. Porter USA The Great Train Robbery Scott Marble 1896Play
2 3:10 to Yuma 1957 Delmer Daves USA"Three-Ten to Yuma" Elmore Leonard 1953Story
3 Catlow 1971 Sam Wanamaker USACatlow Louis L'Amour 1963Novel

Railroaders and railwaymen

(The USA has railroads. Canada has railways, as did the rest of the British Empire.)

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Union Pacific 1939 Cecil B. DeMille USA Trouble Shooter Ernest Haycox 1936Novel
2 The National Dream *1974 Eric Till & James Murray Canada The National Dream Pierre Berton 1970Non-fiction
2 The Last Spike Pierre Berton 1971Non-fiction

Schoolmarms

Frequently filmed: The Rainmaker

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Rainmaker ♠1956 Joseph Anthony USA The Rainmaker N. Richard Nash 1954Play
  • ♠ A spinster smart enough to be a schoolmarm falls for a con man.

Sertanejos, cangaceiros e jagunços

Settlers and sodbusters

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Cimarron 1931 Wesley Ruggles USA Cimarron Edna Ferber 1929Novel

Outback

("The Never-Never", "the back of beyond", "the back of Bourke")

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 We of the Never Never 1982 Igor Auzins Australia We of the Never Never Mrs Aeneas Gunn 1908Novel/Memoir

Sourdoughs and cheechakos

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Shooting of Dan McGrew 1924 Clarence G. Badger USA"The Shooting of Dan McGrew"
from The Songs of a Sourdough 		Robert W. Service 1907Poem
2 The Trail of '98 1928 Clarence Brown USA The Trail of Ninety-Eight, A Northland Romance Robert W. Service 1910Novel
3 Klondike Annie 1936 Raoul Walsh USA Frisco Kate Mae West 1930Play (unproduced)
4 Jack London 1943 Alfred Santell USA The Book of Jack London Charmian London 1921Biography
5 North to Alaska 1960 Henry Hathaway USA Birthday Gift Ladislas Fodor 195?Play

Stage drivers

Teamsters and muleskinners

Telegraphers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Western Union 1941 Fritz Lang USA Western Union Zane Grey 1939Novel

Temperance crusaders and teetotallers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Hallelujah Trail 1965 John Sturges USA Hallelujah Train William Gulick 1963 [1] Novel

Vigilantes

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Ox-Bow Incident [8] 1943 William A. Wellman USA The Ox-Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940Novel

Whalers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The White Dawn 1974 Philip Kaufman USA The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga James Houston 1971Novel

20th century

Explorers

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Journals of Knud Rasmussen 2006 Zacharias Kunuk Canada & Denmark Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition Knud Rasmussen 1927Memoir

Indians

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 Lost in the Barrens *1990 Michael Scott Canada Lost in the Barrens [9] [10] Farley Mowat 1956Children's novel

Individualists

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Mosquito Coast 1986 Peter Weir USA The Mosquito Coast [11] Paul Theroux 1982Novel
2 At Play in the Fields of the Lord 1991 Hector Babenco USA At Play in the Fields of the Lord Peter Matthiessen 1965Novel

Missionaries

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 At Play in the Fields of the Lord 1991 Hector Babenco USA At Play in the Fields of the Lord Peter Matthiessen 1965Novel
2 The Other Side of Heaven 2001 Mitch Davis USA In the Eye of the Storm John H. Groberg 19??Memoir

Prospectors

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work		AuthorDateType
1 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre [5] 1948 John Huston USA Der Schatz der Sierra Madre "B. Traven"1927Novel

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
    Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
  2. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1993.
  3. 1 2 Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1989.
  4. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1995.
  5. 1 2 3 Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1990.
  6. ↑ "The Last of his Tribe". ahafilm. Archived from the original on 1 March 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
  7. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1996.
  8. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1998.
  9. ↑ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1956.
  10. ↑ Recipient of the CLA Book of the Year Award in 1958.
  11. ↑ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981.

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