The Searchers (1956)
"That'll be the day." Of all genres of film, Westerns have generally been most susceptible to the capricious nature of the film-going public. While film-noir, for example, has maintained its consistent popularity for over half a century, certainly from the 1980s onwards there's been a lot of negativity towards Westerns - not helped by the changing view of America at this period in their history which, due to accusations of racism and suchlike, is subject to far more negativity that it used to be. Though films like the Coen brothers' well-received remake of True Grit (2010) show that there is still a market for a well-made Western, the lines between the 'good guys' and the 'bad guys' are a lot more blurred - a trend that was kickstarted in 1990 with Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves. So with such mixed opinion over Westerns, it takes a particularly good one to have increased in popularity over the last 50 years. Indeed, in the 2012 Sight...