Talk:List of Western films of the 1940s

Northwest Passage
How can you call Northwest Passage a "traditional western", when it takes place in Upstate NY, NH and Québec? 84.23.155.84 (talk) 19:23, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely correct about this. In fact, films like Northwest Passage are not even Westerns at all.  They're Colonial American period films.  However, because films set in the Colonial American frontier often had stars who frequently appeared in Westerns, Hollywood insists on calling them "Westerns."  It's often the same with Civil War films.  Films set in the Civil War American South are often called "Westerns" because a Western film star (like Jimmy Stewart) appears, because they ride horses, and because civil war army uniforms look like Western cavalry uniforms -- so in the befuddled Hollywood mind, it's a Western.  Nevertheless, whoever made this initial list was careless and simply called everything a "traditional Western," which simply is not the case.  There are outlaw Westerns, town-tamer Westerns, revenge Westerns, comedy Westerns, noir Westerns, serial Westerns, singing cowboy Westerns, and on and on.  I'm in the process of fixing them all and adding the missing films.  However, rest assured I have already fixed Northwest Passage.  It is now listed as a "Colonial American Frontier" Western, which is a more accurate description.StudierMalMarburg (talk) 23:51, 6 January 2012 (UTC)