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Western Films: 1940-1949

In 1939, while John Ford's Stagecoach was a critically respectable Western, Henry King's Jesse James was the most influential, leading to numerous outlaw biopics, which, along with World War II, inspired epic Westerns as well. B Westerns like Cowboy Commandos showed direct conflict with Nazis. This list is derived from The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: The Western. edited by Phil Hardy. Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1995. Hardy notes that most of the B Westerns were little different from those of the 1930s, although Roy Rogers films became more violent than they had been previously. William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident questioned the glamorization of the outlaw as well as the means of taming the frontier. Noir influenced such Westerns as Raoul Walsh's Pursued. Hardy tells us that even Howard Hawks's Red River had a much darker tone than Cecil B. De Mille's Union Pacific. For Hardy, the genre was in "an uncharactersitc mood of introspection" as the 1950s loomed and as TV embraced it.
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Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)
Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)
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Arizona (1940)
Arizona (1940)
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Beyond the Sacramento (1940)
Beyond the Sacramento (1940)
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Blazing Six Shooters (1940)
Blazing Six Shooters (1940)
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West of the Badlands (1940)
West of the Badlands (1940)
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Brigham Young (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
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Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
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Bullet Code (1940)
Bullet Code (1940)
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939)
The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939)
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Covered Wagon Days (1940)
Covered Wagon Days (1940)
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Dark Command (1940)
Dark Command (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Durango Kid (1940)
The Durango Kid (1940)
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Frontier Crusader (1940)
Frontier Crusader (1940)
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The Gay Caballero (1940)
The Gay Caballero (1940)
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Geronimo (1939)
Geronimo (1939)
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Go West (1940)
Go West (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
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Heroes of the Saddle (1940)
Heroes of the Saddle (1940)
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Kit Carson (1940)
Kit Carson (1940)
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Knights of the Range (1940)
Knights of the Range (1940)
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Law and Order (1940)
Law and Order (1940)
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The Light of Western Stars (1940)
The Light of Western Stars (1940)
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The Man From Dakota (1940)
The Man From Dakota (1940)
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The Man From Tumbleweeds (1940)
The Man From Tumbleweeds (1940)
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The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
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Melody Ranch (1940)
Melody Ranch (1940)
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My Little Chickadee (1940)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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North West Mounted Police (1940)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
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Northwest Passage (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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One Man's Law (1940)
One Man's Law (1940)
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Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)
Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)
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Ragtime Cowboy Joe (1940)
Ragtime Cowboy Joe (1940)
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The Range Busters (1940)
The Range Busters (1940)
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Rangers of Fortune (1940)
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
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The Return of Frank James (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
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The Return of Wild Bill (1940)
The Return of Wild Bill (1940)
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940)
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940)
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River's End (1940)
River's End (1940)
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Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   63%
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Shooting High (1940)
Shooting High (1940)
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The Showdown (1940)
The Showdown (1940)
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