Elmore Leonard's top 5 Western badasses

Anyone remotely familiar with Elmore Leonard, the one-man literary cannon behind the likes of Get Shorty, Out Of Sight and Rum Punch (remodelled by Tarantino for Jackie Brown), will know he’s more than a crime writer.

“I wrote a lot of Western books in the fifties and sixties because the market was big”, he tells ShortList, when we caught up with him in the library of a London hotel. “And I enjoyed it.” It seems Hollywood did too, going on to bring a good bulk of his Western heroes alive, and here the 85-year-old esteemed author gives his top five cinematic examples of when Hollywood got them right....