List of films based on western fiction
Introduction A '''list of films that are based on western fiction'''.Geographically, this page encompasses the frontiers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Australia and South America.At present, South Africa and Siberia are not included.First Story based movie is Cindrella in 1899 which is based on Charles Perrault folk Story Cindrella. Written in 1697 and Second is Frankestien on 1910 based on Shakespeare Rpmio Juliet.
17th and 18th centuries ===Missionaries=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Black Robe''  1991  Bruce Beresford Canada & Australia ''Black Robe''  Brian Moore  1985  '''Novel'''===Settlers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Penn of Pennsylvania''  1942  Lance Comfort UK ''William Penn''  C. E. Vulliamy  1933  '''Biography'''
19th century (and the Edwardian age)===Unclassified=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  n  ''Monte Walsh''  1970  William A. Fraker USA ''Monte Walsh''  Jack Schaefer  1963  '''Novel'''  n  ''Monte Walsh'' *  2003  Simon Wincer USA ''Monte Walsh''  Jack Schaefer  1963  '''Novel'''  n  ''Shane''  1953  George Stevens USA ''Shane''  Jack Schaefer  1949  '''Novel'''  n  ''The Searchers''  1956  John Ford USA ''The Searchers''  Alan Le May  1954  '''Novel'''  n     ''The Avenging Texans''  Alan Le May  1954  Serial  n  ''Warlock''  1959  Edward Dmytryk USA ''Warlock''  Oakley Hall  1958  '''Novel'''  n  ''Valdez Is Coming''  1971  Edwin Sherin USA ''Valdez Is Coming''  Elmore Leonard  1970  '''Novel'''  n  ''The Shootist''  1976  Don Siegel USA ''The Shootist''  Glendon Swarthout  1975  '''Novel'''  n  ''Stagecoach''  1939  John Ford USA "The Stage to Lordsburg"  Ernest Haycox  1937  '''Story'''  n  ''Red River''  1948  Howard Hawks USA "Chisholm Trail"  Borden Chase  193? '''Story'''  n  ''The Cowboys''  1972  Mark Rydell USA  ''The Cowboys''  William Dale Jennings  1971  '''Novel'''  n  ''Shalako''  1968  Edward Dmytryk  USA ''Shalako''  Louis L'Amour  1962  '''Novel'''  n  ''The Jack Bull'' *  1999  John Badham  USA ''Michael Kohlhaas''  Heinrich von Kleist  1811  '''Novella'''  n  ''Broken Lance''  1954  Edward Dmytryk USA ''I'll Never Go There Any More''  Jerome Weidman  1941  '''Novel'''  n  ''The Bravados''  1958  Henry King USA ''The Bravados''  Frank O'Rourke  1957  '''Novel'''  n  ''Breakheart Pass''  1975  Tom Gries USA ''Breakheart Pass''  Alistair MacLean  1974  '''Novel'''* * television film.====Frequently filmed: ''Riders of the Purple Sage''==== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Riders of the Purple Sage''  1931  Hamilton MacFadden USA ''Riders of the Purple Sage''  Zane Grey  1912  '''Novel'''===Bushrangers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Ned Kelly''  2003  Gregor Jordan Australia ''Our Sunshine''  Robert Drewe  1991  '''Novel'''===Cavalrymen=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Hallelujah Trail''  1965  John Sturges USA ''Hallelujah Train''  William Gulick  1963  '''Novel'''===Cowboys=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Four Faces West''  1948  Alfred E. Green USA ''Pasó por aquí'' (?) Eugene Manlove Rhodes  193? '''Novel'''===Entertainers and mythmakers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  TV  Date  Country  1  ''Annie Get Your Gun'' 1950  George Sidney USA ''Annie Get Your Gun''  Herbert Fields & Dorothy Fields (book),Irving Berlin (lyrics)  1946   2  ''Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson'' 1976  Robert Altman USA ''Indians''  Arthur Kopit  1969 ===Explorers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Far Horizons''  1955  Rudolph Maté USA ''Sacajawea of the Shoshones''  Della Gould Emmons  1943  '''Novel'''  2  ''Passage'' †  2008  John Walker  Canada ''Fatal Passage''  Ken McGoogan  2001   '''Non-fiction'''* † Dramatized documentary.===Forty-niners and goldseekers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Hanging Tree''  1959  Delmer Daves & Karl Malden (uncredited) USA ''The Hanging Tree''  Dorothy M. Johnson  1957  '''Stories''' (? )====California Gold Rush====1848–1855===''Gauchos, charros y vaqueros''=======Frequently filmed: ''Martín Fierro''==== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Nobleza gaucha''  1915  Humberto Cairo, Ernesto Gunche,Eduardo Martinez de la Pera  Argentina ''Martín Fierro''  José Hernández  1872–1879  '''Poem'''  1     ''Santos Vega''  Rafael Obligado  188? '''Poem'''  2  ''Martín Fierro''  1968  Leopoldo Torre Nilsson  Argentina ''Martín Fierro''  José Hernández  1872–1879  '''Poem'''===Gunfighters=== Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type ''Open Range''  2003  Kevin Costner USA ''The Open Range Men''  Lauran Paine  1990  '''Novel'''===Hunters=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Last Hunt''  1956  Richard Brooks  USA ''The Last Hunt''  Milton Lott  1954  '''Novel'''===Indians=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Broken Arrow''  1950  Delmer Daves USA ''Blood Brother''  Elliott Arnold   1947  '''Novel'''  2  ''Ishi: The Last of His Tribe'' *  1978  Robert Ellis Miller USA ''Ishi in Two Worlds: a Biographyof the Last Wild Indian in North America''  Theodora Kroeber  1961  '''Biography'''  3  ''The Last of His Tribe'' *  1992  Harry Hook     USA  ''Ishi in Two Worlds: a Biographyof the Last Wild Indian in North America''   Theodora Kroeber    1961  '''Biography'''         * * television film.====Frequently filmed: "A Man Called Horse"==== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''A Man Called Horse''  1970  Elliot Silverstein USA "A Man Called Horse (short story)"'''from''' ''Indian Country''  Dorothy M. Johnson  1950–1968  '''Story'''===Lawmen=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''High Noon''  1952  Fred Zinnemann USA "The Tin Star"  John W. Cunningham  1947  '''Story'''  2  ''Wild Bill''  1995  Walter Hill USA ''Deadwood''  Peter Dexter  1986  '''Novel'''  2     ''Fathers and Sons''  Thomas Babe  1978  '''Play'''====Frequently filmed: ''Destry Rides Again''==== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Destry Rides Again''  1939  George Marshall USA ''Destry Rides Again''  "Max Brand"   1930  '''Novel'''===Lumberjacks=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers''  1954  Stanley Donen USA "The Sobbin' Women"  Stephen Vincent Benét  195? '''Story'''===Missionaries=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Hawaii''  1966  George Roy Hill USA ''Hawaii''  James Michener  1959  '''Novel'''===Mountain men=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Jeremiah Johnson''  1972  Sydney Pollack USA ''Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson'' (uncredited)  Raymond Thorp &Robert Bunker  1969Source:  Library of Congress Online Catalog.¤  '''Non-fiction'''  1     ''Mountain Man'' (uncredited)  Vardis Fisher  1965  '''Novel'''===Mounties=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Clancy of the Mounted''  1933  Ray Taylor USA "Clancy of the Mounted Police"'''from''' ''Ballads of a Cheechako''  Robert W. Service  1909  '''Poem'''  2  ''Fighting Trooper''  1934  Ray Taylor USA ''?'' James Oliver Curwood  19?? '''Novel'''  3  ''Susannah of the Mounties''  1939  William A. Seiter USA ''Susannah of the Mounties''  Muriel Denison  1936  '''Novel'''  n  ''Jesuit Joe''  1991  Olivier Austen France ''Jesuit Joe''''Jésuite Joe''  Hugo Pratt  1980  ''Bande dessinée''====Twice filmed: ''Tiger Rose''==== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Tiger Rose''  1923  Sidney Franklin USA  ''Tiger Rose''  Willard Mack & David Belasco  191? '''Play'''===Outlaws=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Great Train Robbery''  1903  Edwin S. Porter USA ''The Great Train Robbery''  Scott Marble  1896  '''Play'''  2  ''3:10 to Yuma''  1957  Delmer Daves USA "Three-Ten to Yuma"  Elmore Leonard  1953  '''Story'''  3  ''Catlow''  1971  Sam Wanamaker USA ''Catlow''  Louis L'Amour  1963  '''Novel'''===Railroaders and railwaymen===(The USA has railroads. Canada has railways, as did the rest of the British Empire.) #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Union Pacific''  1939  Cecil B. DeMille USA ''Trouble Shooter''  Ernest Haycox  1936  '''Novel'''  2  ''The National Dream'' *  1974  Eric Till & James Murray Canada ''The National Dream''  Pierre Berton  1970  '''Non-fiction'''  2     ''The Last Spike''  Pierre Berton  1971  '''Non-fiction'''* * TV miniseries.===Schoolmarms=======Frequently filmed: ''The Rainmaker''==== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Rainmaker'' ♠  1956  Joseph Anthony USA ''The Rainmaker''  N. Richard Nash  1954  '''Play'''* ♠ A spinster smart enough to be a schoolmarm falls for a con man.===''Sertanejos, cangaceiros e jagunços''======Settlers and sodbusters=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Cimarron''  1931  Wesley Ruggles USA ''Cimarron''  Edna Ferber  1929  '''Novel'''====Outback====("The Never-Never", "the back of beyond", "the back of Bourke") #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''We of the Never Never''  1982  Igor Auzins Australia ''We of the Never Never''  Mrs Aeneas Gunn  1908  '''Novel'''/'''Memoir'''===Sourdoughs and cheechakos=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Shooting of Dan McGrew''  1924  Clarence G. Badger USA "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"'''from''' ''The Songs of a Sourdough''  Robert W. Service  1907  '''Poem'''  2  ''The Trail of '98''  1928  Clarence Brown USA ''The Trail of Ninety-Eight, A Northland Romance''  Robert W. Service  1910  '''Novel'''  3  ''Klondike Annie''  1936  Raoul Walsh USA ''Frisco Kate''  Mae West  1930  '''Play''' (unproduced)  4  ''Jack London''  1943  Alfred Santell USA ''The Book of Jack London''  Charmian London  1921  '''Biography'''  5  ''North to Alaska''  1960  Henry Hathaway USA ''Birthday Gift''  Ladislas Fodor  195? '''Play'''===Stage drivers======Teamsters and muleskinners======Telegraphers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Western Union''  1941  Fritz Lang USA ''Western Union''  Zane Grey  1939  '''Novel'''===Temperance crusaders and teetotallers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Hallelujah Trail''  1965  John Sturges USA ''Hallelujah Train''  William Gulick  1963  '''Novel'''===Vigilantes=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Ox-Bow Incident''  1943  William A. Wellman USA ''The Ox-Bow Incident''  Walter Van Tilburg Clark  1940  '''Novel'''===Whalers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The White Dawn''  1974  Philip Kaufman USA ''The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga''  James Houston  1971  '''Novel'''
20th century ===Explorers=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Journals of Knud Rasmussen''  2006  Zacharias Kunuk  Canada & Denmark ''Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition''  Knud Rasmussen  1927  '''Memoir'''===Indians=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''Lost in the Barrens'' *  1990  Michael Scott  Canada ''Lost in the Barrens''  Farley Mowat  1956  '''Children's novel'''* * television film.===Individualists=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Mosquito Coast''  1986  Peter Weir  USA ''The Mosquito Coast''  Paul Theroux  1982  '''Novel'''  2  ''At Play in the Fields of the Lord''  1991  Hector Babenco  USA ''At Play in the Fields of the Lord''  Peter Matthiessen  1965  '''Novel'''===Missionaries=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''At Play in the Fields of the Lord''  1991  Hector Babenco  USA ''At Play in the Fields of the Lord''  Peter Matthiessen  1965  '''Novel'''  2  ''The Other Side of Heaven''  2001  Mitch Davis  USA ''In the Eye of the Storm''  John H. Groberg  19?? '''Memoir'''===Prospectors=== #  Film  Date  Director  Country  Sourcework  Author  Date  Type  1  ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''  1948  John Huston  USA ''Der Schatz der Sierra Madre''  "B. Traven"  1927  '''Novel'''
References ===Notes===
See also :'''Pages with the same format'''* List of films based on arts books* List of films based on civics books* List of films based on crime books* List of films based on film books* List of films based on sports books* List of films based on spy books* List of films based on war books   '''''Return to top of page.'''''