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Since the horse opera was Hollywood ’s preferred writing style for most of the 20th C , there are a gross ton of classic westerns with star - stud ensemble casts full of screen legends . The western writing style launch the careers of CRT screen caption like John Wayne , Clint Eastwood , and Charles Bronson , and once those vocation had been launched , the studios had fun team up them up in star - stud ensemble plaster cast . Some of the greatest western ever made have taken three or four histrion who were far-famed enough to lead their own movie , like an Eastwood or a Bronson , and put them on - screen together with a captivating cinematic moral force .
Paul Newman and Robert Redford made an A - lean pairing for the ages as the titular pair inButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . John Wayne teamed up with Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson to fend off a ill-famed gang inRio Bravo . The titulary isthmus of gunfighters inThe Wild BunchandThe Magnificent Sevenare jam - pack with celebrated movie star . Quentin Tarantino brought together an octette of screen image to dally the eponymic ensemble inThe Hateful Eight . FromBad Day at Black RocktoHow the West Was Won , the western genre has given room to some of the greatest ensemble casts in cinema history .
10The Hateful Eight
Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern
Quentin Tarantino did n’t want any A - lister plow who were going to hog the spotlight when he assembled the titular supporting players forThe Hateful Eight . Led by a trigger-happy Samuel L. Jackson operation , The mean Eightcast is a healthy mixing ofTarantino regulars like Tim Roth , Michael Madsen , and Kurt Russell , fan - favorite supporting player who needed a bigger movie use , like Walton Goggins and Demián Bichir , and blank out stars who demand a much - deserve rejoinder , like Bruce Dern and Jennifer Jason Leigh . The latter scored a hard - earned Oscar nod for her uncompromising , darkly uproarious portrayal of a wanted grampus .
9The Wild Bunch
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
Sam Peckinpah completely reinvent the westerly genre with a gritty , violent , morally gray-headed characterisation of the Old West in his raunchy , biz - modify masterpieceThe Wild Bunch . Peckinpah made the protagonists accelerator - tally outlaws , and wander hero-worship Hollywood caption to play them . With William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Robert Ryan , Edmond O’Brien , and Ben Johnson in the ensemble , The Wild Bunchhas no dead weight in its shape .
8True Grit
Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin
When the Coen brothers remade the John Wayne vehicleTrue Grit , they refocused the narration on the novel ’s original protagonist , Mattie Ross , a teenaged miss seeking payback for her Fatherhood ’s execution . This role made Hailee Steinfeld one of the youngest ever Oscar nominees , and she fully deserved that nominating speech . At just 13 years onetime , Steinfeld held her own opposite three of Hollywood ’s most prolific maven : Jeff Bridges , taking onWayne ’s role as Rooster Cogburnwith a lot more nuance , Matt Damon , and Josh Brolin .
7Rio Bravo
John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin
There is n’t much of a plot of ground inRio Bravo – it ’s more of a hangout movie as a small - town sheriff and his ragtag team wait for their prisoner ’s gang to arrive – sothe focus is square on the grapheme , and Howard Hawks assembled a cast of picture to bring those characters to lifetime . John Wayne direct the supporting players as the sheriff alongside Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson as his jury-rigged surrogate . The Bond they form along the elbow room are as captivating as any gunplay . Rio Bravois a rarefied western whose female lead , Angie Dickinson ’s Feathers , has real personality and representation .
6Bad Day At Black Rock
Spencer Tracy, Anne Francis, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine
Spencer Tracy arrive in a mystifying town where the locals treat him with hostility inBad Day at Black Rock . All these locals are played by screen legendson equality with Tracy : Robert Ryan , Anne Francis , Walter Brennan , Ernest Borgnine , Lee Marvin . The real star ofBad Day at Black Rockis cinematographer William C. Mellor ’s stunning desert vistas , but the actors ensure the melodramatic mystery surrounding Komoko ’s disappearance is consistently engaging .
5Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Paul Newman and Robert Redford were arguably the two biggest stars in Hollywood when they joined forces to play the eponymic duo inButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . Newman and Redford shared such electrical on - cover chemistrythat they afterward reteamed to star inThe Sting . Katharine Ross gives a stellar supporting turn as their companion , Etta Place , and such icon as Cloris Leachman , Kenneth Mars , and an early - career Sam Elliott appear as minor characters .
4The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin
John Wayne and James Stewart often had the limelight all to themselves , andthey were at the superlative of their popularity when John Ford cast them to apportion the screeninThe humanity Who Shot Liberty Valance . Stewart fiddle a U.S. Senator who gets mystify and gazump by Valance , and Wayne plays the noble gun who pull through him and assist him precise revenge . psychotic person ’s Vera Miles gives a compassionate turn as the romantic involvement caught in a erotic love trilateral between the two , and the legendaryLee Marvin yield an unforgettable performance as the nominal villain .
3Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
Clint Eastwood gave the westerly literary genre the utter bittersweet swansong withUnforgiven , the fib of a notorious killer reluctantly agreeing to avenge a maimed sex activity prole . Eastwood gives a gritty , knock-down performance as William Munny polar Morgan Freeman as his partner - in - crime Ned Logan and Gene Hackman as crooked lawman “ Little Bill ” Daggett . Eastwood and Freeman are a pairing for the old age , and Hackman pay the westerly genre one of its most hateable villains .
2The Magnificent Seven
Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn
John Sturges brought the timeless , action - packed story of Akira Kurosawa’sSeven Samuraiinto a westerly setting inThe Magnificent Seven , andit gave him an exculpation to assemble seven A - list starsto help protect a defenseless town from an at hand attack by bandit . This ensemble includes monumental principal like Yul Brynner , Steve McQueen , Charles Bronson , Robert Vaughn , and James Coburn , as well as lesser - known , equally great actor like Brad Dexter and the “ German James Dean , ” Horst Buchholz . These seven iconic actors play some Hollywood glamor to the classic Kurosawa report .
1How The West Was Won
Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, James Stewart
Henry Hathaway , John Ford , and George Marshall teamed up to create the definitive western epic withHow the West Was Won , chronicle the entire story of the Old West in five chapters . Each of these five chapters has its own star - studded ensemble cast , featuring such G. Stanley Hall - of - famers as Gregory Peck , James Stewart , Debbie Reynolds , and Harry Dean Stanton . This movie ’s mould is a who’s - who of western movie icons : Henry Fonda , John Wayne , Eli Wallach , Lee J. Cobb , Andy Devine , Russ Tamblyn , Lee Van Cleef , and Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln . This cast could n’t possibly be more stacked .
