Mann and Boetticher each made a group of films in the 1950s that set the standard for what critics have called the “psychological” western – a turn toward dark, gloomy, and tormented protagonists and bleak plots that certainly influenced the work of directors like John Ford and helped pave the way for even darker revisionist westerns of the 1960s and 1970s. Here are lists of their films. While Boetticher worked exclusively with Randolph Scott in his “Ranown Cycle,” Mann primarily used James Stewart, but also directed other actors associated with the genre.
Anthony Mann
Winchester ’73 (1950, James Stewart)
The Furies (1950, Barbara Stanwick)
Devil’s Doorway (1950, Robert Taylor)
Bend of the River (1952, James Stewart)
The Naked Spur (1953, James Stewart)
The Far Country (1954, James Stewart)
The Man from Laramie (1955, James Stewart)
The Last Frontier (1955, Victor Mature)
The Tin Star (1957, Henry Fonda)
Man of the West (1958, Gary Cooper)
Budd Boetticher
Seven Men from Now (1956)
The Tall T (1957)
Decision at Sundown (1957)
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Westbound (1958)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Comanche Station (1960)