Just picture a handsome, scruffy man in classic western films have to be made earlier than the 1980s, maybe even the 1970s. In fact, a large number of classic western films were made between the 1930s and the 1960s. Many consider this time period to be "The Golden Age of the Western." Here's a breakdown of the Classic Western Movie timeline:
* '''1930s''': Stagecoach
* '''1940s''': The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* '''1950s''': High Noon, Shane
* '''1960s''': The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent Seven
