In my film class, our next paper will be on a western from 1940 - 1960. I'd prefer to do Mark of Zorro, but I'm not not sure if it would be considered a western. Yes, it's the west, it's the US in the 1800s... Perhaps I shouldn't do this favorite classic for the paper.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Jesse
Yeah, I'd call it a Western, with a bit of swashbuckling thrown in. I'd forgotten how good it was until I saw it on TV again.
shareWaaaayyy after the fact, but great westerns 1940-1960
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Fort Apache (1948)
Red River (1948)
Apache (1954)
The Kentuckian (1954)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
And anything Roy Rogers did in that time.
Give Blood Today
God Bless!
The term "western" typically applies to stories set in the American southwest from the close of the Civil War up until the turn of the century. In some cases, leeway is alotted for films taking place during the Civil War. (Example: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
Zorro, I would argue, is more of a period piece than anything else.
The list by clh-1 omits many of the greatest westerns of the period (all better than anything in the Roy Rogers oeuvre):
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Gunfighter
Winchester '73
High Noon
The Searchers
This is way to late, but no - Zorro isn't a western. And it's not in the US. California wasn't part of the US until the 1840s.
Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!
When I was in middle school circa 1975, we had a "Cowboy Day" and I went as Zorro! There is a comic series out that had a team up between Zorro and the Lone Ranger-- so I'd count it as a "western."
Thread_Killer_of_IMDb is out there. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until your post is dead.
"Zorro" takes place in the North American far west during the early 19th century, so, broadly speaking, it qualifies as a western. However, the genre usually comprises movies about the mid- to late-19th century colonization of the United States' territorial frontier in the Southwest and Great Plains regions.
shareIt's a Southwestern. :)
sharegood movie but not a western
share