1940s westerns

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🎬 100 Westerns of the 1940s

1940–1941

  • 20 Mule Team (1940) – Wallace Beery mining Western.

  • Adventures of Red Ryder (1940) – Serial starring Don “Red” Barry.

  • Arizona (1940) – William Holden & Jean Arthur.

  • Dark Command (1940) – John Wayne vs. Walter Pidgeon.

  • Go West (1940) – Marx Brothers comedy Western.

  • The Westerner (1940) – Gary Cooper & Walter Brennan.

  • North West Mounted Police (1940) – Cecil B. DeMille epic.

  • Santa Fe Trail (1940) – Errol Flynn as J.E.B. Stuart.

  • Virginia City (1940) – Flynn again, Civil War setting.

  • Western Union (1941) – Fritz Lang directs Randolph Scott.

1942–1943

  • The Spoilers (1942) – John Wayne & Marlene Dietrich.

  • In Old California (1942) – Wayne in Gold Rush era.

  • The Desperadoes (1943) – Randolph Scott in Technicolor.

  • The Ox‑Bow Incident (1943) – Henry Fonda in lynching drama.

  • Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943) – B‑Western staple.

  • Silver Spurs (1943) – Roy Rogers musical Western.

  • Hands Across the Border (1944) – Roy Rogers.

  • San Fernando Valley (1944) – Gene Autry.

  • Tall in the Saddle (1944) – Wayne romantic Western.

  • Song of Nevada (1944) – Roy Rogers.

1945–1946

  • Along Came Jones (1945) – Gary Cooper spoof.

  • Dakota (1945) – John Wayne.

  • Don’t Fence Me In (1945) – Roy Rogers.

  • Utah (1945) – Roy Rogers.

  • My Darling Clementine (1946) – John Ford’s Wyatt Earp tale.

  • California (1946) – Barbara Stanwyck & Ray Milland.

  • Home on the Range (1946) – Monte Hale.

  • Rainbow Over Texas (1946) – Roy Rogers.

  • Roll on Texas Moon (1946) – Roy Rogers.

  • Trail to San Antone (1946) – Roy Rogers.

1947–1948

  • Angel and the Badman (1947) – Wayne & Gail Russell.

  • Gunfighters (1947) – Randolph Scott.

  • Springtime in the Rockies (1947) – Roy Rogers.

  • Apache Rose (1947) – Roy Rogers.

  • On the Old Spanish Trail (1947) – Roy Rogers.

  • The Fabulous Texan (1947) – William Elliott.

  • The Last Round‑Up (1947) – Gene Autry.

  • Red River (1948) – Howard Hawks epic with Wayne.

  • Fort Apache (1948) – John Ford cavalry classic.

  • Yellow Sky (1948) – Gregory Peck noir‑Western.

1949

  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) – Ford’s cavalry trilogy.

  • Colorado Territory (1949) – Raoul Walsh remake of High Sierra.

  • The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) – Wayne with Oliver Hardy.

  • Canadian Pacific (1949) – Randolph Scott.

  • The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949) – Scott outlaw tale.

  • Streets of Laredo (1949) – William Holden.

  • Lust for Gold (1949) – Glenn Ford.

  • The Walking Hills (1949) – John Sturges directs treasure hunt.

  • Riders in the Sky (1949) – Gene Autry.

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