frontier outpost

His Western films like 'The Searchers' and 'My Darling Clementine' quintessentially explore the frontier outpost as a space of civilization meeting wilderness.

His Spaghetti Westerns transform the frontier outpost into a moral and existential battleground, most notably in 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.'

His films like 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Fitzcarraldo' obsessively examine isolated frontier settlements as sites of human ambition and madness.