Greatest 19 Western Movies Award-Winning Released in 1961

A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically-independent lifestyle. Check out The Misfits / IMDB / YouTube

After they rob a bank in Mexico, Dad Longworth absconds with the loot leaving his partner, Rio, to be captured by the Rurales. 5 years later, Rio escapes from prison and seeks revenge on Longworth, but falls in love with his step-daughter. Find out about One-Eyed Jacks / IMDB / YouTube

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros. Find out about The Comancheros / IMDB / YouTube

A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences. Find out about Two Rode Together / IMDB / YouTube

In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home. Details on Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / IMDB / YouTube

When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the flaming star of death pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence. Look into Flaming Star / IMDB / YouTube

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things. Info on The Last Sunset / IMDB / YouTube

The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier adventurer, his wife and family and their friends. Find out about Cimarron / IMDB / YouTube

Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind. See more about Posse from Hell / IMDB / YouTube

The trials and tribulations of bitter veteran Captain Maddocks and argumentative rookie Lieutenant McQuade at a cavalry desert outpost. See more about A Thunder of Drums / IMDB / YouTube

In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections. Read about The Second Time Around / IMDB / YouTube

In Seven Saints, Utah, McCracken's outlaw gang is vying for fur trappers Jim Rainbolt and Shaun Garrett's gold nugget fortune that also catches the eye of Mexican bandit Gondora and his caballeros. Read about Gold of the Seven Saints / IMDB / YouTube

Reynaldo and Martín Del Hierro are witnesses of the murder of their father by Pascual Velazco, as they grow up they're poisoned by the desire of vengeance by their mother, but once they get it it'll change their lifes forever. See more about My Son, the Hero / IMDB / YouTube

A gambler tries to help track down the men who hanged a rancher when he tried to thwart their cattle rustling operations by selling his ranch. Look into The Gambler Wore a Gun / IMDB / YouTube

This European western by Robert Hossein (screenwriter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. A revolution is underway, or at least there is a strong guerrilla movement here. The leader of the guerrillas manages to capture the daughter of the dictator, and then, has to take her as a captive back to the revolutiona. Get info on The Taste of Violence / IMDB / YouTube

On the stagecoach to Laramie, Wayne Santley rescues singer Nora Brown from the advances of gambler Cole Fender. In Laramie, Wayne discovers his brother Brad is an outlaw, but he refuses to join the gang of rustlers and sets up a homestead. He and Nora are married. Later Brad repents and joins his brother, but Brad's former partner Pawnee organizes an attack on the bro. Get info on Gun Fight / IMDB / YouTube

Matt Wade escapes from prison and tries to persuade his brother Bill, a reformed gunslinger, to participate in a hold-up. Bill, now a struggling rancher, refuses but Matt frames him and he is forced to ride off with the gang. Get info on Five Guns to Tombstone / IMDB / YouTube

A trail guide leading a wagon train to the West in the 1840s discovers that the U.S. and Mexico are at war. Find out about Frontier Uprising / IMDB / YouTube

Luke Billings and his four reprobate sons ride into a small South African settlement in search of revenge on Police Sergeant Sam Hargis who knows he cannot outgun the five outlaws and turns to the townspeople for help. But he gets no help except from a most unexpected source. Ultimately, Hargis must face Billings on his own. Details on The Hellions / IMDB / YouTube