

Sergio Leone – For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).Henry King – The Gunfighter (1950), The Bravados (1958).George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).


Porter's film starring Broncho Billy Anderson, is often erroneously cited as the first Western, though George N.

The Great Train Robbery (1903, based on the earlier British film A Daring Daylight Burglary), Edwin S. The earliest known Western narrative film is the British short Kidnapping by Indians, made by Mitchell and Kenyon in Blackburn, England, in 1899. These featured veterans of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show exhibiting skills acquired by living in the Old West – they included Annie Oakley (shooting) and members of the Sioux (dancing). The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. 5.2.17 Martial arts Western (Wuxia Western).5.2.6 Contemporary Western or neo-Western.5.2.4 Charro, cabrito, or chili Westerns.5.2.2 Australian Western or Meat pie western.
