Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Westerns/2024/January

Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger is a 1948 film that is set in early America (post Revolutionary war) in the Northwest Territory. For you who don't know what that is, it is a territory that existed from 1787-1803 and became the states of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. The reason I am mentioning it here is the article calls it a western. I don't think a film that takes place that early and is set east of the Mississippi, albeit in what was then a frontier, should be labeled as a western. I just thought I would throw this out to get a second (and maybe third) opinion before I changed it. Thanks. rogerd (talk) 17:37, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I'd think you could harmonize it with The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film) (both versions, actually). They're classed as action drama or historical action drama. Just my thought. Intothatdarkness 17:42, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

While "frontier" films often find themselves dumped into the Westerns bucket for lack of a better genre categorization, it should be noted that the Western genre is not specifically limited to cowboy films. Yes, there is the classic Western, but the Western genre has specific themes and tropes that define the genre outside of the traditional setting of the Western US. That being said, I'm not familiar with the specific film in question. What does the AFI say about it? ButlerBlog (talk) 19:54, 24 January 2024 (UTC)