Best western movie ever?

[mg357]

imho El Dorado with John Wayne was the best western movie ever.

 

[sideways]

The Westerner, High Noon , The Outlaw Josey Wales

 

[Straightshooter2]

Asking the best Western ever is kind of like lining up the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and asking which one is pretty. Tombstone was excellent. For just a pure modern day horse opera I don't think you can top Silverado. Eastwood's spaghetti westerns for the sixties. For a fifties movie, I would have to say High Noon. Stagecoach was so far ahead of it's time for 1939. Remember that Thomas Mitchell won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1940 but not as Gerald Ohara in Gone With The Wind. He won it for his portrayal of Doc Boone in Stagecoach.

CW

 

[therevjay]

It is simply impossible to pick a "best" western movie.

 

[Magnum-Krazy]

Well since i'll never get to see a lining up of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, i'll draw from the hat and say "The Long Riders" !




Ernie

 

[A10]

I scanned through 126 posts and didn't once see anyone mention Little Big Man! I musta missed it though....My fave's also include Quigley, Tombstone, The Shootist, and Silverado.

 

[Out West]

HOMBRE.

"You got a lot of hard bark on you" - Richard Boone

Out
West

 

[wuluf]

This thread has reminded me of good movies I need to see again! I'd have to say Unforgiven is my favorite, but The Grey Fox and Little Big Man are great films, not just Westerns. The Man That Shot Liberty Valance, and The Searchers are American classics as well. Funny how movies are such a reflection of the times in which they were made...

 

[wraco]

If you can watch the same western over and over again, and enjoy it each time, it's gotta be good. I use this reasoning because there a few Westerns made anymore leaving us to re-watch ther same ones over.

All of the Westerns mentioned so far are great. John Wayne and Clint Eastwoods are too many to list . . . but then there's "Open Range", " The Sacketts", " both Wyatt Earps", "Quiggly Down Under" and Gary Cooper's "High Noon". Can't leave out "Shane", just watched it again the other night. "Winchester 73" . . . . . .

The best one, I can't say and wouldn't want to live on the difference.

Rod

 

[A10]

Oh, and I forgot Outlaw Josey Wales and of course anything with Bugs and Yosimite Sam....

 

[chud333]

Outlaw Josey Wales, and also really like the attention given to the revolvers/guns in The Quick and the Dead, with L. Decaprio and Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe etc...
Sharon Stone can draw on me anytime...

 

[JcMack]

How about JW in "Stagecoach" and "Angel and the Badman"

Wayne s wife was convinced he was having an affair with Gail Russel (Angel) The wife took a shot at Wayne when he walked in the door one night because of her fears.

 

[Bullzaye]

My first thought was "Shane". The story, the acting, the fist fight...all top notch.

I'd almost forgotten about "Once Upon A Time In The West". Excellent!

I saw 2 mentions of one of my favorites..."Broken Trail". For any one who has not seen this movie, I can't recommend it highly enough. Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church as uncle and nephew driving a herd of mustangs from Oregon to Wyoming...a great story.

Tim

 

[KJM]

THAT'S a great list of movies right there!

In no particular order:

Eldorado
Big Jake
Rio Lobo
Rio Bravo
The Sons of Katie Elder (yea, you can tell I'm a JW fan)
Josie Wales
True Grit (the very good one, not the one with the *** liberal man-hating bitch who can't act worth a ****)
The three spagetti westerns with Clint
Once Upon a Time in the West (great Fonda movie)
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
High Plains Drifter
Joe Kidd
2 Mules
Hang'em High

 

[CordWood]

I have not read all of the posts, but I have not seen the movie Ride the High Country mentioned. This one had a great cast. It may have been Randolf Scott and Joel McCrea's last movie.
Butch

 

[Have gun-will travel]

The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brenner,Eli Wallach,Steve McQueen,Charles Bronson,Robert Vaugn,James Coburn.gteat movie QUOTE

This to is one of my favorites,but in the cast you left out Brad Dexter as Harry Luck and Horst Buchholz as Chico.This one is truely a CLASSIC..My favorite quote is "We deal in lead friend"Vin (Steve McQueen ) said this at the begining gun fight with Calvera and his band of cut throats.This movie and Tombstone are two of my favorites,plus I like all of John Waynes Westerns."Fill your hands you ***"

 

[smitret]

Best western

The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brenner,Eli Wallach,Steve McQueen,Charles Bronson,Robert Vaugn,James Cobern.Great movie.

Brynner made a lesser known movie called "Invitation To A Gunfighter".

Pretty good in my book.

 

[wraco]

My first thought was "Shane". The story, the acting, the fist fight...all top notch.

I'd almost forgotten about "Once Upon A Time In The West". Excellent!

I saw 2 mentions of one of my favorites..."Broken Trail". For any one who has not seen this movie, I can't recommend it highly enough. Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church as uncle and nephew driving a herd of mustangs from Oregon to Wyoming...a great story.

Tim

Tim: I watched "Broken Trail" the other night and it was excellent, I really enjoyed it . . Thomas Haden Church was a real cowboy. His mannerism was so true to life he put me in mind of a few cowboys I'd met years ago on my cousin's ranch.

Rod

 

[Hondo44]

This is always an impossible task and I can't pick just one. They almost have to be chosen by category or combination thereof;
Most authentic,
most entertaining,
most action,
funniest,
best plot, etc, etc.

I liked every one mentioned and for different reasons.
But some real favorites not mentioned unless I missed them were:

The Professionals; Burt Lanscaster, Woody strode, Lee Marvin and Robert Ryan.

Nevada Smith; Steve McQueen.

Valdez Is Coming; Burt L.

Ulzana's Raid: Burt L.

The Unforgiven Burt L., Audie Murphy.

Vera Cruz: Gary Cooper, Burt L.

 

[Pop's2]

and to add to the mix:

Lonely are the Brave 1962 Kirk Douglas

My Darling Clementine Henry Fonda