It is extremely rare for Western movies to end with their villains victorious, but this has happened on occasion. The Western genre has been through numerous cycles from the B-movies of the 30 and ’40s, to the Golden Age of the ’50s, to the spaghetti Westerns of the ‘60s, to the downbeat revisionist Westerns of the ‘70s. Even now, new post-modern Western movies are being released in the 2020s, with hits like 2021’s The Power of the Dog and The Harder They Fall keeping the genre alive.