Top 35 Comedy/Western
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1.
Companeros
(1970)
A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way. (118 mins.)
Director: Sergio Corbucci
2.
The Mercenary
(1968)
A greedy Polish mercenary aids a mine worker and a peasent girl as they lead a revolution against the opressive Mexican Government and Army, while being pursued by an American rival. (110 mins.)
Director: Sergio Corbucci
3.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
(1970)
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert. (121 mins.)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
4.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
(1966)
Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow. (95 mins.)
Director: Fielder Cook
5.
Support Your Local Sheriff!
(1969)
In the old west, a man becomes a sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead. (92 mins.)
Director: Burt Kennedy
6.
McLintock!
(1963)
George Washington McLintock, "GW" to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory... (127 mins.)
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
7.
My Name Is Nobody
(1973)
A young, easygoing gunman (Hill) worships and competes with an old gunfighter (Fonda) who only wants to retire. (116 mins.)
Director: Tonino Valerii
8.
Blazing Saddles
(1974)
To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. (93 mins.)
Director: Mel Brooks
9.
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
(1972)
A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western... (120 mins.)
Director: John Huston
10.
They Call Me Trinity
(1970)
A drifter comes to town where his brother is sheriff. His brother is actually a robber who broke the real sheriff's leg and left him for dead... (113 mins.)
Director: E.B. Clucher
11.
Canyon Passage
(1946)
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line. (92 mins.)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
12.
Way Out West
(1937)
Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector... (64 mins.)
Director: James W. Horne
13.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
(1970)
Nun Sara is on the run in Mexico and is saved from cowboys by Hogan, who is preparing for a future mission to capture a French fort. The pair become good friends, but Sara never does tell him the true reason behind her being outlawed. (116 mins.)
Director: Don Siegel
14.
Hannie Caulder
(1971)
After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws responsible. (85 mins.)
Director: Burt Kennedy
15.
Tears of the Black Tiger
(2000)
With its loud acting style, exuberant sets and stunning shots in pastel colours, this Thai cult film is as much a parody as an homage to the Western and the romantic tearjerker. (110 mins.)
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
16.
North to Alaska
(1960)
During the Alaska gold rush, prospector George sends partner Sam to Seattle to bring his fiancée but when it turns out that she married another man, Sam returns with a pretty substitute, the hostess of the Henhouse dance hall. (122 mins.)
Director: Henry Hathaway
17.
Run, Man, Run
(1968)
Several competing groups and mavericks (including the lead character Cuchillo) are hunting a gold treasure of $3,000,000. The gold was reserved for the Mexican revolution. (120 mins.)
Director: Sergio Sollima
18.
The Sheepman
(1958)
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with... (85 mins.)
Director: George Marshall
19.
There Was a Crooked Man...
(1970)
A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot. (126 mins.)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
20.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
(1976)
A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show. (123 mins.)
Director: Robert Altman
21.
The Scalphunters
(1968)
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them. (102 mins.)
Director: Sydney Pollack
22.
The Hallelujah Trail
(1965)
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League... (165 mins.)
Director: John Sturges
23.
City Slickers
(1991)
On the verge of turning 40, an unhappy Manhattan yuppie is roped into joining his two friends on a cattle drive in the southwest. (113 mins.)
Director: Ron Underwood
25.
Ace High
(1968)
After Cacopoulos (Eli Wallach) saves himself from being hanged on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens... (132 mins.)
Director: Giuseppe Colizzi
26.
Zorro
(1975)
In the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragón under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger. (124 mins.)
Director: Duccio Tessari
27.
Junior Bonner
(1972)
Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts. (100 mins.)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
28.
Goin' South
(1978)
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico... (105 mins.)
Director: Jack Nicholson
29.
Shanghai Noon
(2000)
A Chinese man who travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss. (110 mins.)
Director: Tom Dey
30.
Bad Day to Go Fishing
(2009)
Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man on earth, and his manager Orsini, who calls himself "the Prince"... (110 mins.)
Director: Álvaro Brechner
32.
Amigo, Stay Away
(1972)
When, after serving a three-year sentence, Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is waiting for him... (109 mins.)
Director: Michele Lupo
33.
Cat Ballou
(1965)
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects. (97 mins.)
Director: Elliot Silverstein
34.
¡Three Amigos!
(1986)
Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing. (104 mins.)
Director: John Landis
35.
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
(1973)
This is a buddy film with a small-time thug (Victor Lobianco) meeting a high-profile gangster (Lee Van Cleef) while in prison. The pair team up to attempt a prison breakout. (85 mins.)
Director: Michele Lupo
36.
Viva Maria!
(1965)
Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death... (120 mins.)
Director: Louis Malle
37.
Hearts of the West
(1975)
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west... (102 mins.)
Director: Howard Zieff