Howard Hawks Westerns
AMC Movie List

Howard Hawks Westerns

Saddle up! Which of the great director's all-too-rare oaters is his finest?

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1 Rio Bravo
This on-the-trails version of Frank Lloyd's Mutiny on the Bounty pairs John Wayne with a motley crew of outlaws bent on justice. 262 360
2 El Dorado
John Wayne and Robert Mitchum team up for this remake of Rio Bravo, with Mitchum playing the drunk deputy to Wayne's gunslinger. 241 333
3 Red River
John Wayne's gruff rancher and his adoptive son (Montgomery Clift) butt heads on a cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail. 240 338
4 Rio Lobo
Hawks's final movie stars John Wayne as a determined Union colonel who vows revenge on the Confederates who hijack his train. 182 264
5 The Big Sky
This 1952 trek flick stars Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin as a pair of frontiersmen battling for survival in hostile Indian territory. 50 184
6 The Outlaw
Jane Russell's decolletage is the true star of this steamy 1943 Western about a love triangle involving Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid. -3 179
7 The Barbary Coast
A genre-bending oddity, this 1935 period pic stars Miriam Hopkins in a tale that's a romance, crime caper, and Western all in one. -30 170
8 Viva Villa!
Hawks both wrote and pitched in as director on this Oscar-nominated 1934 flick, which starred Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa. -43 167