10 Awesome B-Western Movies That Are Worth Your Time According to Screen Rant

Before the Golden Age of the Western genre, the B-Western reigned supreme. While there were always cheap, campy horror movies and trashy low-budget comedies, the B-Western was the archetypical B-movie. Produced on a minuscule budget with an audience of children in mind, B-Westerns were short, cheap Western adventures that played after an A-feature in early theatrical double bills. While A-features had expensive, purpose-built sets and recognizable stars, B-Westerns relied on stock characters, familiar tropes, and sometimes even reused stock footage.
While all of this makes the B-Western sound like a blip in the history of cinema, these cheaply produced curios actually helped shape the future of the genre. Some of the best Western directors of all time got their start working on B-Westerns and the tropes popularized by these profitable releases went on to appear in many more prestigious Westerns.