What are your 3 favorite western movies?

[kozmic]

The Searchers
Outlaw Josie Wales
Blazing Saddles

Runners up:
The Quick And The Dead
Unforgiven
The Good The Bad and The Ugly

 

[DR505]

Too many to list...can't pick three.

Anyone remember "Lawman" with Burt Lancaster from 1971 or so? That movie stuck in my head since I was a kid and saw it back then.

 

[carpriver]

I like most all westerns, Magnificent Seven in my all time favorite, Hang em High, The Good the Bad and the Ulgy, Fist full of Dollars, The Great Train Robbery.

 

[vigil617]

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales ("Hell with them fellers. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.")

2. The Outlaw Josey Wales ("Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy.")

3. The Outlaw Josey Wales ("You gonna draw them pistols, or whistle 'Dixie'?")

4. Everything else ("I reckon so.")

 

[Mike McLellan]

Blazing Saddles
Little Big Man
Dances With Wolves

 

[walkin jack]

True Grit
Lonesome Dove (the original)
Open Range

Honorable mention to: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Unforgiven, The War Wagon, The Outlaw Jose Wales.

 

[GKC]

There's only one way I can list my three favorites:

1) John Wayne westerns
2) Clint Eastwood westerns (except for Beguiled)
3) Robert Duvall westerns (Open Range, Lonesome Dove)

There are a couple of movies with Tommy Lee Jones that aren't exactly westerns, but where he plays a sheriff or Texas type character (and he is a genuine, native born Texan): No Country for Old Men, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and of course he was excellent in Lonesome Dove. (He did a great comic turn in Man of the House, as a Texas Ranger protecting a sorority of college girls - tough duty that!)

Then there are many runners-up, that I can't categorize by an actor, but a few are:

Tombstone/Wyatt Earp, The Wild Bunch, The Professionals, Dances with Wolves, Tom Horn, and The Magnificent Seven.

 

[doublesharp]

1. Lonesome Dove
2. Open Range
3. Tombstone

Works for me but I like about all westerns. These 3 are top shelf.

3 more quick picks are Silverado, The Proposition and Man From Snowy River.

 

[PortRoyalDad]

My TOP Three Westerns...

• Blaze'n Saddles
• F-Troop
• Hang'em High

r/Mike

 

[williamlayton]

Lordy
I liked Lash LaRue a whole bunch---that give you a starting point.
Blessings

 

[rburg]

Finally we start to get mention of Blazing Saddles. It could never be produced today, with all the political correctness nonsense.

Yes, anything with the Duke in it is elevated to the status of religious programming.

 

[puckforbrains]

Rooster Cogburn
Silverado
Chisum

 

[steveno]

I believe that even Mel Brooks said Blazing Saddles could never be made in todays PC climate

 

[bpeddicord]

#1 Shane (will they every remake this movie)
#2 Outlaw Josey Wales
#3 The Shootist

 

[Marshwheeling]

The Outlaw Josey Wales (best movie, ever)

"Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes" - Capt Terrell


"When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long." -- Josey Wales

"I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither" -- Lone Watie

"endeavor to persevere"

man i could go on

P

"Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click."

I still never get tired of watching that movie. The Josey Wales books by Forrest Carter are pretty good reading, too.

Still, my all-time favorite (and the best Jeff Bridges western ever) is Rancho Deluxe.

For number three, I would have to select one of the following:
1. Unforgiven
2. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
3. Lonesome Dove
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. One Eyed Jacks
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Blazing Saddles
8. The Professionals
9. The Magnificent Seven
10. True Grit
11. The Shootist
12. The Sheepman

 

[mtgianni]

Rio Bravo, Good, Bad, Ugly and Jerimiah Johnson for a non traditional Mountain Man western.

 

[tyusclan]

1) Lonesome Dove---'Y God, Woodrow! You jes' don't never git t' point! It ain't dyin' I'm talkin' about! It's livin'!

2) The Cowboys---'Well, I have the inclination, the maturity, and the wherewithal. But unfortunately, I don't have the time.'

3) Tombstone---'You're not as dumb as you look, Ike.'

Honorable mention:

Dances with Wolves
Dead Man's Walk
Comanche Moon
Streets of Laredo
Big Jake
The Shootist
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Searchers
McClintock!

 

[LMWIS]

3 new ones

A number of great selections already listed. Let me add
3:10 to Yuma (2007).

But here are three that you may have missed.

Appaloosa (2008)
Open Range (2003)
The Journeyman (2001)

 

[Deuce Caboose]

The Searchers
Unforgiven
High Noon

 

[Professor Cassidy]

The Searchers
Tombstone
Open Range
Shane

Opps! That's four