Greatest Gregory Peck Westerns
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Greatest Gregory Peck Westerns

Although best known as honorable lawyer Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck could also play a cowboy. Which of his Westerns is your favorite?

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1 The Big Country
This rousing tale of revenge and romance stars Peck as a pacifist forced into violence, with a fantastic shoot-out against Charlton Heston. 264 364
2 The Gunfighter
Peck is perfectly cast in this movie, about an aging gunslinger who faces off against the cowboys who would take his place. 222 294
3 The Bravados
Peck is at his most obsessive in this compelling examination of violence, in which his character sets out to get revenge for his wife's death. 147 267
4 How the West Was Won
Peck displays his comic chops in this flick, which boasts three directors and a truly all-star cast (Henry Fonda, Karl Malden). 136 256
5 MacKenna's Gold
In this pic with Telly Savalas and Omar Sharif, Peck stars as the one lucky man who knows where an Apache fortune is buried. 114 270
6 Yellow Sky
Gold fever forms the basis of this taut, suspenseful Western, in which Peck plays a bank robber in one of his best performances. 106 214
7 Duel in the Sun
Peck holds his own as the strangely magnetic bad boy at the heart of King Vidor's sexed-up Technicolor tale. 96 242
8 Only the Valiant
Peck's performance as a stoic Army captain strikes all the right notes in this war flick about a battalion of soldiers deep in Apache country. 34 174
9 Shoot Out
Peck portrays an aging outlaw out to settle an old score -- until he finds himself saddled with a precocious 6-year-old. 33 193
10 Billy Two Hats
This Israel-filmed cinematic oddity, a heist flick, gets points for its innovative casting of Peck opposite Desi Arnaz Jr. -30 178