After the death of John Wayne in the late '70s, the Western genre was never the same. Clint Eastwoodwas moving away from the horse opera himself, only making Pale Rider in the '80s, and with its popularity having waned after the failure of Heaven's Gate, the Western was no longer in the saddle as Hollywood's biggest moneymaker. Nevertheless, the genre persevered throughout the 1980s, and although they've been largely forgotten, there are several Western movies worth revisiting.