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Title Director Cast Release date Country Subgenre/notes 2020: Call of the Wild: Chris Sanders: Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Cara Gee: United States Northern Western High Ground: Stephen Johnson
Non-traditional Westerns. This section is for Western games that have non-traditional themes or hybrid genres such as Space Western, Sci-fi West, Fantasy Western, Hybrid Western (e.g. Horror Western, Film noir, Martial arts (genre), anthropomorphic animal characters), neo-Western (Contemporary settings/times), Post-apocalyptic West, Weird West (Also can have supernatural, steampunk, superhero ...
Westerns. The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier ." [1] Generally set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, [2] : 557 the genre ...
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1960: 13 Fighting Men: Harry W. Gerstad: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews: United States: B Western The Alamo: John Wayne: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Chuck Roberson, Guinn Williams, Richard Boone, "Big" John Hamilton
One reason the genre became so prevalent was because of its deep ties to American culture and the stories that were already being told for years through books and serialized stories in magazine.
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/Notes 1920: The Big Catch: Leo D. Maloney: Hoot Gibson, Jim Corey, Chick Morrison: United States: Western short Blue Streak McCoy: B. Reeves Eason ...
Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. Dick Lowry. Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Harold Gould, Clu Gulager, Lance LeGault, Lee Purcell, Ronnie Scribner, Noble Willingham, Christine Belford. United States. Made for television Western. The Legend of Alfred Packer. Jim Roberson. Patrick Dray, Ronald Haines. United States.
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.