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Stagecoach

(1939)

We can argue about whether this is the best Western ever, but I doubt that you could name a more compact and efficient one, finding room in barely 90 minutes as it does for the hero-outlaw, the drunken doctor, the whore with a heart of gold, the soured but noble gambler, the Indian fight, and the climactic shootout. Clichés, you say? OK, if you will; I prefer to call them tropes, the necessary ingredients of a mythic mural.