The 10 Best B-Westerns of All-Time According to Collider

The term "B-movie" is now generally used to refer to any film made on a low budget and with reduced production value, but originally, it referred specifically to the cheap second films that were included in double features. They were like the B-side of a record. One of the key early genres for B-movies was Westerns, which were relatively easy to cobble together in a short span of time and with limited resources. B-Westerns tended to be under an hour long and very straightforward in their plots and themes: good versus evil, lone cowboys saving the day, climactic shootouts taking down the villain. Many of them were actually aimed at children, so they were tame in terms of violence and gore. Nevertheless, many of these B-Westerns were popular, and some actually left a lasting imprint on the genre as a whole. Here are Collider's picks of the ten best.