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Best Western Movies of the 1970s

Western films released 1970–1979, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

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   #1 Duck, You Sucker (1971) · ★ 7.7 · 1,224 votes · 2h 37m · western

   At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fa…

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   #2 They Call Me Trinity (1970) · ★ 7.6 · 1,499 votes · 1h 55m · action, comedy, western

   The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Tri…

3. 
   #3 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) · ★ 7.5 · 1,351 votes · 2h 15m · western

   After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself…

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   #4 Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) · ★ 7.4 · 1,035 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, western

   The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.…

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   #5 Little Big Man (1970) · ★ 7.4 · 745 votes · 2h 19m · comedy, adventure, drama

   Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.…

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   #6 High Plains Drifter (1973) · ★ 7.3 · 1,392 votes · 1h 46m · drama, western, mystery

   A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three out…

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   #7 My Name Is Nobody (1973) · ★ 7.3 · 1,096 votes · 1h 57m · comedy, western

   Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go…

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   #8 Jeremiah Johnson (1972) · ★ 7.3 · 728 votes · 1h 48m · action, adventure, drama

   While slowly adapting to the grueling life of a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains, Jeremiah Johnson encounters the Crow and Flathead tribes as well as hunters, trappers and settl…

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   #9 Blazing Saddles (1974) · ★ 7.2 · 2,171 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, western

   Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of…

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    #10 Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) · ★ 7.0 · 709 votes · 1h 54m · adventure, romance, western

    When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himse…

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    #11 El Topo (1970) · ★ 7.0 · 701 votes · 2h 5m · action, adventure, drama

    El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.…

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    #12 Westworld (1973) · ★ 6.8 · 1,528 votes · 1h 29m · adventure, science-fiction, western

    Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the and…

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