{"id":10191,"date":"2020-09-13T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?p=10191"},"modified":"2020-10-01T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:04:12","slug":"top-50-greatest-western-movie-posters-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/movie\/top-50-greatest-western-movie-posters-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Greatest Western Movie Posters of All-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Poster Fans!<\/p>\n

Western movies have been one of the most popular film genres of the 20th century American film industry.\u00a0 One of the first western was the silent film The Great Train Robbery (1903), which set the motif of crime, pursuit, and retribution for Western films as a genre which can be traced throughout the genre included in the 1992 Clint Eastwood masterpiece Unforgiven.\u00a0 Enormously popular in the silent era by the major studios who lost interest in the genre with the advent of sound.\u00a0 Still enormously popular with the public the genre continued to be produced by smaller low budget studios like Monogram and Republic.\u00a0 In the late 30\u2019s several major studio revived the genre with enormously successful films like, Dodge City starring Errol Flynn, Jesse James with Tyrone Power, Union Pacific with Joel McCrea, Destry Rides Again featuring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, and John Ford’s landmark Western adventure Stagecoach, which became one of the biggest hits of 1939 and made John Wayne a bonafide movie star.\u00a0 As author William Indick, noted in The Psychology of the Western, after the Western’s renewed commercial successes in the late 1930s, the popularity of the Western continued to rise until its peak in the 1950s, when the number of Western films produced outnumbered all other genres combined.\u00a0 Westerns gained an enormous resurgence in the 60s with western coming out of Italy. Known as the “Spaghetti Westerns”, these films demythologized the genre when characters often acted out of greed rather than noble deeds and were often more violent and included more action.\u00a0 Spaghetti Westerns rarely portrayed American Indians as the villains, if ever including them at all.\u00a0 Often the villains in these films were the traditional \u201cgood guys\u201d like the sheriff or the lawmen.\u00a0 Italian director Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and the epic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), epitomized this new direction and made an international star of Clint Eastwood.\u00a0 Westerns still hold a place for movie fans and although not as many western are made in the 21st century but when they are, they push the genre often with inventive plot lines and clever dialogue, such as Quentin Tarantino\u2019s 2015 western The Hateful Eight.<\/p>\n

Here we\u2019ve pulled together the 50 greatest western movie posters of all time.\u00a0 As is our custom we judge posters from all over the world to come up with this list.\u00a0 This list mostly contains U.S. posters but does include some international surprises.<\/p>\n

We hope you enjoy these vintage posters and admire the artwork, and if you’re just starting to collect vintage posters, we know you’ll discover some great designs as you countdown the top 50 greatest western movie posters of all-time. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>50. Bandolero! (20th Century Fox, 1968) Czech<\/a>
\nArtist:\u00a0Alexej Jaros<\/p>\n

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\"\"49. In Old Cheyenne (Republic, 1941) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"48. King of the Sierras (Grand National, 1938) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"47. Hell-Fire Austin (Tiffany, 1932) Three Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"46. Rio Bravo (Warner Brothers, 1959) French Grande<\/p>\n

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\"\"45. Sudden Bill Dorn (Universal, 1937) Title Lobby Card<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>44. 100 Rifles (20th Century Fox, 1969) Czech<\/a>
\nArtist:\u00a0Zdenek Ziegler<\/p>\n

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\"\"43. Gold and the Girl (Fox, 1925) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>42. The Naked Spur (MGM, 1953) French Grande<\/a>
\nArtist:\u00a0Roger Soubie<\/p>\n

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\"\"41. The Cactus Kid (William Steiner, 1935) Six Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"40. Ghost City (Monogram, 1932) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"39. Days of Jesse James (Republic, 1939) One Sheet<\/p>\n

\"\"38. Last of the Comanches (Columbia, 1953) Italian 2 – Folio
\nArtist:\u00a0Anselmo Ballester<\/p>\n

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\"\"37. Smoke Tree Range (Universal, 1937) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"36. Trouble in Texas (Grand National, 1937) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"35. Lawless Riders (Columbia, 1935) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"34. Destry Rides Again (Universal, 1932) Three Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"33. Devil’s Canyon (Sunset Productions, 1935) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>32. The Phantom of the West: Chapter 3 “The Horror in the Dark” (Mascot, 1931) One Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"31. Trouble Busters (Majestic, 1933) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"30. Ghost Valley (RKO, 1932) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"29. The Return of the Cisco Kid (20th Century Fox, 1939) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"28. Gunsmoke Ranch (Republic, 1937) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"27. Ned Kelly (United Artists, 1970) International Six Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"26. Somewhere in Sonora (Warner Brothers, 1933) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"25. Gun Fury (Columbia, 1954) Italian 2 – Fogli
\nArtist: Anselmo Ballester<\/p>\n

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\"\"24. The Cattle Thief (Columbia, 1936) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"23. Blood on the Moon (RKO, 1948) Italian 2 – Foglio<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>22. Joe Kidd (Universal Pictures, 1972) Czech A3<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"21. Shine On Harvest Moon (Republic, 1938) Three Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"20. Deadwood Pass (Monarch, 1933) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"19. Riders of the Deadline (United Artists, 1943) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"18. Westbound Mail (Columbia, 1937) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"17. Neath Western Skies (Syndicate Pictures, 1929) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>16. The Lone Rider (Columbia Pictures, 1930) One Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>15. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Warner Brothers, 1976) One Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"14. The Forty-Niners (Freuler Film, 1932) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"13. The Showdown (Paramount, 1940) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"12. The Outlaw (United Artists, 1946) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>11. A Fistful of Dollars (United Artists, 1964) One Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>10. High Noon (United Artists, 1952) Three Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"9. Unforgiven (Warner Brothers, 1992) Advance One Sheet<\/p>\n

\"\"8. Custer’s Last Fight (Quality Amusement Corporation, R-1925) One Sheet<\/p>\n

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\"\"7. Col. Tim McCoy’s Real Wild West (1936) One Sheet, Style D<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>6. The Man From Laramie (Columbia Pictures, 1955) Italian 2-Folio<\/a>
\nArtist:\u00a0Anselmo Ballester<\/p>\n

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\"\"5. The Light of Western Stars (Paramount, 1930) One Sheet, Style A<\/p>\n

\"\"4. The Mysterious Rider (Paramount, 1927) French Grande<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3.\u00a0For a Few Dollars More (United Artists, 1965) Italian 2-Folio<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"2.\u00a0The Oregon Trail (Republic, 1936) One Sheet<\/p>\n

\"\"1. Stagecoach (United Artists, 1939) One Sheet<\/p>\n

See all our list of the best movie posters of all-time:<\/p>\n

The Top 50 Greatest Film Noir Movie Posters Of All-Time<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Top 25 Greatest Prison Movie Posters Of All-Time<\/a>
\nThe Top 50 Greatest Horror Movie Posters Of All-Time<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Top 25 Best Rock Movie Musical Posters Of All-Time<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Top 24 Best Political Movie Posters Of All-Time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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