Western movies have long been built on repeated tropes that define the genre. As the exciting stories of how cowboys, bandits ...

The Western genre likes to demonstrate the dangers and violence of its setting by killing off the main characters, ... Like with many genres that follow a clear-cut good versus evil dynamic, ...

10. The Misfits (1961) Image via United Artists. Ironically, one of the all-time best Western movies is also one of the most atypical. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift star in ...