Your Favorite Westerns

[Logan]

What are your favorite westerns? I gotta go with these as my top three:

Unforgiven
Lonesome Dove
True Grit

[Bailey Guns]

Original True Grit or remake?

[Logan]

Good catch. The original hands down. "Fill your hand you....." [AR15]

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

3:10 to Yuma
true grit(remake)

[missionxo]

Tombstone ....... "I'm your Huckleberry"

[Aloha_Shooter]

Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
Original True Grit
The Magnificent Seven
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[Colorado Osprey]

Connager (Sam Elliott- filmed here in Colorado), Sackets and Young Guns (have a friend that was in Young Guns)
The Val Kilmer-Kurt Russel Tombstone is a great classic. Another is 1958 Glenn Ford's "The Sheepman" aka Stranger with a Gun

[obisean68]

Pale Rider

[StagLefty]

Shane !!!

[GilpinGuy]

All things Eastwood. Huge Clint fan here...

[whitbaby]

I was always partial to Once Upon a Time in the West

[missionxo]

Lets not forget Blazing Saddles...lol

[ray1970]

Anything with Clint Eastwood. And, personally, I liked Young Guns and Tombstone.

[Mtn.man]

Pretty much all of em.

And The Duke died in The Cowboys.

[Squeeze]

All things Eastwood. Huge Clint fan here...

+1

[BushMasterBoy]

High Plains Drifter...http://www.furiouscinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/high_plains_drifter_07.jpg

[buffalobo]

Pretty much all of em.

And The Duke died in The Cowboys.

+1, damn few I don't like.

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[roberth]

I like the Clint Eastwood films. The original True Grit and Rooster Cogburn, Rio Bravo, The Cowboys and most of the rest of the John Wayne movies. Tombstone is great. Jeremiah Johnson is fantastic with all the scenery, just beautiful, I enjoyed Will Geer's character but I would have let those tourons freeze to death.


JJ - I can skin most anything, WG - Cocky for a starving pilgrim.
I hunt griz, I had one ready to shake hands til you come along
Pilgrim, I been hearing you for 20 days and smelling you for 3 :):)

[KestrelBike]

It sounds cliche, but The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly stands out for me because of Ennio Morricone's score. La Storia Di Un Soldato is my favorite. It's in english (and obviously sung by italians) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LLVJBVufM
In the movie it's played at the union POW camp (so confederate prisoners) when they're interrogating prisoners. The bridge fighting between the Union & Confederate troops with the Union Captain was just beautifully done.

http://upload.moldova.org/movie/movies/g/good_the_bad_and_the_ugly/thumbnails/tn2_good_bad_ugly_4.jpg


A cool villain in another film was Gauche in Red Sun.

[Logan]

Maybe not quite a western, per say, but I"m gonna throw out The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams as an honorable mention.

[asmo]

Paint Your Wagon.

What??

[centrarchidae]

The original True Grit,
A Fistful of Dollars,
and if Firefly doesn't count as a western, dang it, it should.

[Double00]

El Dorado

[Bailey Guns]

No particular order:

True Grits
Unforgiven
Open Range
Lonesome Dove (pretty much any western with Duvall)

[dwalker460]

The Outlaw Josey Wales reigns supreme
Open Range
Tombstone
Unforgiven

[GilpinGuy]

"Unforgiven"...man, that might have to be my #1 choice of all time. Yup. It is.

[TheGrey]

There are so many good westerns. John Wayne, Sam Elliott, Clint Eastwood... I also liked any Western with Yul Brynnyr in it.
Tombstone was great, and I really enjoy Silverado, and Open Range.

How could i forget? Quigley Down Under!

[LippCJ7]

I'm a huge fan of the Duke so in addition to those already mentioned,

Chisum
The Sons of Katie Elder

And my all time Favorites
Big Jake
The Shootist

But to be honest I love Westerns and I am a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, Sam Elliot, Tom Selleck, Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall as well, all of them, spaghetti westerns what ever I love Westerns, I mean who doesn't have to watch Dances with Wolves, I loved Tombstone but I also loved Wyatt Earp.

[mikedubs]

The Wild Bunch
The Magnificent Seven

[Dryfli]

A lot of the movies I like have been mentioned but ill throw in a couple tv shows. I really like gun smoke and have gun will travel. The western channel on starz show a couple episodes every day and I almost never see a rerun.

[Logan]

The Wild Bunch


I was WAITING for the first person to mention this one!!! Great movie.

[CO Hugh]

John Wayne "Red River"

[Ah Pook]

Original True Grit or remake?
Neither.

Appaloosa
My Name is Nobody
Death Rides a Horse
Cat Ballou
High Noon
Hidalgo
Wyatt Earp
Giant

Another Clint fan.

[UncleDave]

The Professionals with Lee Marvin and Jack Palance.
Any John Wayne, Clint, or Robert Duvall movie. Hombre with Paul Neuman,Jeremiah Johnson, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. Just to name a few.

[Marlin]

Paint Your Wagon.

What??

Never would have guessed that Lee Marvin would sing better than Clint.


[LOL]

[n8tive97]

Pretty much all of em.

And The Duke died in The Cowboys.


The Cowboys, best one of all time.

[Dave]

Tombstone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3:10 to yuma
Deadwood

Used to watch Gunsmoke, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will travel with my dad when I was little.

[fitz19d]

Django Unchained count? :)

[hatidua]

Anything Clint.

[ghettodub]

The Gunfighter
Tombstone
Magnificent Seven
Wild Bunch
True Grit
Unforgiven
Fistfull of Dollars, and Few Dollars More

Just a few

[Ronin13]

and if Firefly doesn't count as a western, dang it, it should.
Hell yes! I love Firefly... I've been pondering even nerding out next month and going to the Denver Comic Con dressed as Mal.

Mine would be (sorry for the length, but I do love westerns):
Original True Grit
Unforgiven
Wyatt Earp (but gotta take all day to watch it, it's so damn long!)
Tombstone
McClintock (Best line: "hey, I'm not drunk! ...yet.")
The Searchers
The Man With No Name series
3:10 to Yuma (remake, never saw the original)
Rio Bravo
Open Range
about 99.9% of the Duke films (too many to name one by one besides what I named above)
Blazing Saddles
City Slickers (yes, many consider this a western)
Maverick
Seraphim Falls
The Quick and The Dead
Young Guns (I always crack up at the Peyote scene)
[Beer]

[Rucker61]

The Terror of Tiny Town

[Mtn.man]

On Sunday May 26, Encore channel will play John Wayne flicks 24 hours in honor of his birthday.

[fj605]

Jeremiah Jonhson

.....Cowboys and Aliens?

[coyote3]

I was always partial to Once Upon a Time in the West

Bronson,Fonda,Robards,Elam,Claudia Cardinal,oh my my.You bet.The opening scene at the station,classic.Did you bring a horse for me.NO,seems like we are shy one horse, no you you brought 2 too many.Now you'll tell me what your hear for...only at the point of dying.

[Ah Pook]

The Terror of Tiny Town
I loved that movie!

[polski]

Jeremiah Johnson
The Outlaw Josey Wales

[wctriumph]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Searchers
True Grit
Red River
Shane
White Buffalo
Winchester 73

to name a few

[baglock1]

The Cowboys, best one of all time.

Agreed. Not only a great western, but a great boys transforming to men story as well. Absolutely awesome movie. "Forgive me for the men I've killed... and for those I'm about to..."


Hell yes! I love Firefly... I've been pondering even nerding out next month and going to the Denver Comic Con dressed as Mal.

Yeah, Firefly counts, and it's awesome. "Time for some thrilling heroics!"


Seraphim Falls

Alright, you lost me there. That movie was terrible.


Young Guns (I always crack up at the Peyote scene)

"Hey dog, did you see the size of that chicken!?! BOOM!"

[Great-Kazoo]

Bronson,Fonda,Robards,Elam,Claudia Cardinal,oh my my.You bet.The opening scene at the station,classic.Did you bring a horse for me.NO,seems like we are shy one horse, no you you brought 2 too many.Now you'll tell me what your hear for...only at the point of dying.

The Boot with gun in the train window. Charles Bronson flashing back to His brother? father? standing on his shoulders while he kneels and plays the harmonica stuffed in his mouth.
Fonda as the bad guy and jason Robards as CHEYENNE!
Woody Strode

Just too many to mention.



Saturday was western movies at the Dyker in Brooklyn and Friday at the Hamilton.

How the West Was Won

in CINEMASCOPE or was it Cinerama, or panorama? The style was always flashed across the screen along with




The War Wagon

THE WILD BUNCH

Ride the Whirlwind

Joe Kidd (Don't forget john Saxon)

North to Alaska (Stewart Grainger and ERNIE KOVACS!)

The Searchers

My Darling Clementine (One of the Original Shootout at the OK Corral pieces 1946)

Gunfight at the OK Corral (Burt Lancaster and KIRK DOUGLAS 1957).

Vera Cruz

Valdez is Coming ( I just want my Money)

Duel at Diablo

100 Rifles


HOW CAN ANYONE FORGET JAMES STEWART???

WINCHESTER 73

Destry

Broken Arrow

NOT A WESTERN BUT WORTH MENTIONING

CARBINE WILLIAMS!!

[TDYRanger]

Magnificent Seven: "We deal in lead" (so bad ass)

Tombstone: "I'm your huckleberry"

He Searchers: it's the Duke

Wild Bunch: "kill em all!"

The Long Riders

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[TDYRanger]

Kind of more of a southern movie, rather hat western

[Blockhead]

One I loved as a kid, but haven't seen in years: Fort Apache. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and directed by John Ford. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is another Ford classic.

[wctriumph]

Paint Your Wagon.

What??

Paint your Wagon is one of my favorites, I sing along with all the songs, the wife and I watch it whenever it is on.

[jmg8550]

Another vote for anything Eastwood

[wctriumph]

I just keep watching this one every time it is on: Sgt Rutledge.

Also, would not The Outlaw Josey Wales also qualify as a war movie?

[Irving]

I've never really seen any westerns except for ones made after 1990. The last two years I've gone hunting with my uncle and we basically drink beer and watch a few westerns every night since he has the Encore channel. I browsed through this whole thread looking for titles I recognized, but Westerns as a genre are so out of context for me that they are difficult to remember.

I saw all of Winchester 73, some of Warlock, loved Support Your Local Sheriff, and saw parts of many others, including the very end of McCellin's Gold.

There are two movies that I saw a lot of but don't remember the titles and was hoping you guys might help me out.
One was where there is a rich family with the last name of Stewart, where the rancher invites his brother out from the big city to be the town lawyer. Meanwhile, a local that Stewart helped bring up in the world is obsessed with a young Mexican girl and is basically keeping her hostage until she run's away with the main protagonist's nephew.

EDIT: This one is Rio Conchos (1964). The second opens on a scene of gathering Apaches (?) that are gunned down by a rifleman hiding in the trees. The next scene is some army guys waking up a drunk to arrest him for the crime and finding in his possession a rifle that had been from a missing shipment of army rifles. The guy says he bought it and they concoct a plan to take a wagon full of gun powder to Mexico as bait or something. Also, the drunk guy gets thrown in jail and meets a trusted ally and demands that he be released for the mission down to Mexico, so it is two army guys, and the two guys from jail traveling together with the wagon full of powder. I started watching this one and wanted to finish it but fell asleep. Ring any bells?

[rondog]

Never seen this thread before. I pretty much like most westerns too, except for musicals and corny ones. Anybody mention Barbarosa, with Willie Nelson? I could watch that one again.

[Great-Kazoo]

Never seen this thread before. I pretty much like most westerns too, except for musicals and corny ones. Anybody mention Barbarosa, with Willie Nelson? I could watch that one again.

It's BARBAROSA


How The West Was Won

The War Wagon

Winchester 73

North To Alaska

Red River

The MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

One Eyed Jacks

Two Rode Together

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

McClintok

Broken Arrow

A Fistful of Dollars

For a few Dollars More

Hang em High

Two Mules for Sister Sara

The Good, The Bast, The Ugly

The Glory Guys

Major Dundee

Shenandoah (EXCELLENT, MUST SEE)

Duel at Diablo

Joe Kidd

El Dorado

Once Upon a Time in The West

NEVADA SMITH

THE PROFESSIONALS.

Ride in The Whirlwind

THE SHOOTIST

Stagecoach

Hombre

Rough Night in Jericho

Waterhole #3

Fire Creek

Guns for San Sebastian

THE SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST !

Villa Rides

WILL PENNY

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

100 Rifles

THE OVER THE HILL GANG

Support Your Local Sheriff

TRUE GRIT

The Undefeated

THE WILD BUNCH


That's a partial list of movies . There's more but the minds a little foggy this a.m.

[BlasterBob]

Shane and The Wild Bunch.

[ACE2GOOD]

Rio Bravo
El Dorado
McLintock!
War Wagon
Wyatt Earp

[rondog]

It's BARBAROSA
Uh, isn't that what I said??

[Zundfolge]

Firefly.


(and what's with all the thread necromancy lately?)

[Irving]

Firefly.


(and what's with all the thread necromancy lately?)

If you don't like this, I'll wait three years and then address it.

[Great-Kazoo]

Uh, isn't that what I said??

SPOILER ALERT

I posted that BECAUSE After Willie has been killed Gary rides in to that dinner dressed as Barbarosa, thus continuing the Myth. Hence the folks eating saying / exclaiming IT'S BARBAROSA.

https://sp.yimg.com/xj/th?id=JN.V9waY5rUa1o%2fDVWyD1keMw&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300

Which BTW. Obviously my list of westerns was TL/DR since the next 2 replies said what i did. BUT...................


IT'S BARBAROSA. ;)

[roberth]

Firefly.


(and what's with all the thread necromancy lately?)

We have a necrothreadniac on the board.

[Great-Kazoo]

We have a necrothreadniac on the board.

Really. i wouldn't be caught dead in one of those threads.

[zteknik]

Really. i wouldn't be caught dead in one of those threads.
Now that just kills me...[ROFL2]

[earplug]

VALDEZ IS COMING with Burt Lancaster.
LITTLE BIG MAN with Dustin Hoffman
TRUE GRIT with Jeff Bridges

[speedysst]

Open Range
Unforgiven
3:10 to Yuma (newer version)
The Good, The Bad & the Ugly.

[Ah Pook]

Open Range
Unforgiven
3:10 to Yuma (newer version)
The Good, The Bad & the Ugly.


Yes
Yes
No
Yes

Sorry but 3:10 to Yuma was a bad movie all the way around.

[speedysst]

Oh Id never put 3:10 to Yuma against the all time great westerns but I did enjoy it.

[sniper7]

Jeremiah johnson
butch Cassidy and the sun dance kid
new 3:10 to yuma
maverick
the quick and the dead
good bad and the ugly
both true grit
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
Lonesome dove

almost any Eastwood or Duvall movie

and while I wouldn't classify it as a western I love No country for old men, ranks towards the top of my favorite movies all time.

[Great-Kazoo]

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.

The 60's and early 70's of my ute were spent at 1 of 2 movie theaters back east. Watching them in CINEMASCOPE OR PANAVISION. Craziest thing, i was allowed to [panic] WALK to the movies an easy 15 City Blocks from my folks apartment.

Then after moving to "suburbia" i walked to the VFW where they had saturday matinee's. Among them were EVERY Abbott & Costello MEET's (Frankenstein, the Wolfman etc) 3 Stooges. Now a days do kids even go to movies?? How the hell does one watch and appreciate, AGE OF ULTRON, OR UNCOMMON VALOR on a 4" cell phone screen??



I WANT MY MTVEEEEEEE. [LOL]

[Portsider86]

Rio Bravo
Sons of Katie Elder
Open Range

Does Last of the Dogmen count? Version narrated by Wilford Brimley

[UncleDave]

It's BARBAROSA


How The West Was Won

The War Wagon

Winchester 73

North To Alaska

Red River

The MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

One Eyed Jacks

Two Rode Together

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

McClintok

Broken Arrow

A Fistful of Dollars

For a few Dollars More

Hang em High

Two Mules for Sister Sara

The Good, The Bast, The Ugly

The Glory Guys

Major Dundee

Shenandoah (EXCELLENT, MUST SEE)

Duel at Diablo

Joe Kidd

El Dorado

Once Upon a Time in The West

NEVADA SMITH

THE PROFESSIONALS.

Ride in The Whirlwind

THE SHOOTIST

Stagecoach

Hombre

Rough Night in Jericho

Waterhole #3

Fire Creek

Guns for San Sebastian

THE SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST !

Villa Rides

WILL PENNY

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

100 Rifles

THE OVER THE HILL GANG

Support Your Local Sheriff

TRUE GRIT

The Undefeated

THE WILD BUNCH


That's a partial list of movies . There's more but the minds a little foggy this a.m.

That's a good list Jim. A big +1 on Shannondoah, but it tears my heart out every time at the end. Jimmy Stewart was great in westerns. I would add Big Jake and Cahill U.S. Marshall too.

[gnihcraes]

Silverado.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Yes
Yes
No
Yes

Are you auditioning for the part of Empress Nympho now?

[Joe_K]

Sons of Katie Elder
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit


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[BladesNBarrels]

Where is the Remake of Stagecoach? Released in 1966.
Filmed at the Caribou Ranch and the cast stayed in Boulder in the summer of 1965.
The bus would pick up the extras at the Harvest House. Slim Pickens rode a Harley up the Canyon.
Ann Margaret insisted she wanted a motorcycle to ride and the staff got her a small engine Japanese bike.
It was a kick seeing her chase Slim Pickens up the canyon.
A bunch of CU students and locals were hired as extras.
A great summer.

[Alpha2]

Deputy Dawg

[flogger]

Cowboys and Aliens

[Ah Pook]

Cowboys and Aliens

Not a bad western. Better than most recent attempts.

[Ah Pook]

Are you auditioning for the part of Empress Nympho now?

Huh?? I didn't think so.

[Ah Pook]

Where is the Remake of Stagecoach? Released in 1966.
Filmed at the Caribou Ranch and the cast stayed in Boulder in the summer of 1965.
The bus would pick up the extras at the Harvest House. Slim Pickens rode a Harley up the Canyon.
Ann Margaret insisted she wanted a motorcycle to ride and the staff got her a small engine Japanese bike.
It was a kick seeing her chase Slim Pickens up the canyon.
A bunch of CU students and locals were hired as extras.
A great summer.
I know, then young ladies, the would go up and watch the filming. Great local history!

Now check out Switchback, Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and Fishing Naked In Paradise. Check out Discovery Channel or National Geo's Building Wild for a remote bus build.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Huh?? I didn't think so.

I was referring to the string of Nos and Yeses. It's not safe for kids so I won't post the video but look up "History of the World Part I Selecting escorts" ... [LOL]

[ZERO THEORY]

Sorry but 3:10 to Yuma was a bad movie all the way around.

No. The only stupid part was Prince coming out of the blue to shoot Evans on the platform, despite being tied up in the stampede just moments before. Surely Wade or Evans would've noticed him getting out and approaching before he was 10 yards away.

That being said, it was well-acted, the pace kept things in motion, and the characters actually had some life behind them.

[thvigil11]

Evil Roy Slade.

[Kraven251]

Outlaw Josie Wales or Pale Rider

[hobowh]

Pretty much all of them

[Ah Pook]

No. The only stupid part was Prince coming out of the blue to shoot Evans on the platform, despite being tied up in the stampede just moments before. Surely Wade or Evans would've noticed him getting out and approaching before he was 10 yards away.

That being said, it was well-acted, the pace kept things in motion, and the characters actually had some life behind them.
For the sake of friendly banter.

Fails:
Casting Russell Crow (can't stand) as the predictable bad guy.
Casting Christian Bale (actually like) as the predictable reluctant protagonist.
A plot line that was figued out in the first ten minutes.
Lots of predictable events.
Trite ending.

Appaloosa was one of my favorite "pardner" movies.
Death Rides a Horse was a pre Clint spag. western. Had his character pegged. Even had Lee Van Cleaf.

[ZERO THEORY]

For the sake of friendly banter.

Fails:
Casting Russell Crow (can't stand) as the predictable bad guy.
Casting Christian Bale (actually like) as the predictable reluctant protagonist.
A plot line that was figued out in the first ten minutes.
Lots of predictable events.
Trite ending.

Appaloosa was one of my favorite "pardner" movies.
Death Rides a Horse was a pre Clint spag. western. Had his character pegged. Even had Lee Van Cleaf.

Let's be honest, Westerns aren't exactly known for their puzzles and complexity. A predictable plot/sequence of events is nothing to fault it for. I'll agree that the ending was lazy, of course.

[Irving]

Let's be honest, Westerns aren't exactly known for their puzzles and complexity. A predictable plot/sequence of events is nothing to fault it for.


Hey what's that one Western where a town is having a problem with some bad guys, and no one seems to be able to stand up to them, but just in time a new guy/s ride into town who don't want any trouble, but aren't afraid to stand up for what's right, at the same time, the beautiful, and usually unattached girl in town develops a love interest in the brave protagonist?

Oh all of them.

[lex137]

I gotta go with Tombstone since I'm not a big western guy. The original Alamo if that counts as a western?

[Ah Pook]

I gotta go with Tombstone since I'm not a big western guy. The original Alamo if that counts as a western?
i grew up watching the Alamo, with JW. One of the biggest disappointments was actually seeing the Alamo. The walls were 3' high. Were the Mexicans 6" tall? WTF?!

[ray1970]

i grew up watching the Alamo, with JW. One of the biggest disappointments was actually seeing the Alamo. The walls were 3' high. Were the Mexicans 6" tall? WTF?!
I might be mistaken but the Alamo you saw is only part of what used to be standing. There was a larger wall further out. Like a fort. The building in downtown San Antonio is only the actual church that was inside the fort.

I think.

Guess I should have paid more attention during "Texas history month" when I was in school.

[Ah Pook]

Neither the movie nor the building site mentioned that little detail.

Maybe that part of the exhibit was in the Alamo's basement.

[ray1970]

Oh, guess I could mention a few of my favorites. I'm sure they've all been mentioned before in this thread but here they are.

More recent ones....

Unforgiven
Open Range
Tombstone
Silverado
Lonesome Dove (may or may not be considered a movie but a great western none the less)

Older ones....

Anything with Clint Eastwood or John Wayne

[buffalobo]

I pretty much like them all.

Especially The Rifleman on Saturday mornings. Watching it now.

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[2008f450]

Anything John Wayne. But my top picks today are

The Searchers
The Shootist " I wont be wronged..........."
Tombstone "Say when"
Crossfire trail
Monte Walsh