Ogandydancer
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Fast becoming my all time favorite is The Cowboys then any other J.W western and by all means Open Range. About the only Clint Eastwood I care for is Hane-Em High.
What are your 3 favorite western movies?
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The Searchers- The movie for which John Wayne deserved the Oscar.
The Outlaw Josie Wales (Tie)- most quotable movie ever!
Lonesome Dove (tie)-great story, well acted.
Tombstone - "Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens" " Your men might get me in a rush but not before I turn your head into a canoe"
"Maybe you should try a game at which you are better. I know, how about a spelling bee." "En Vino Veritas" "My hippocarcy goes only so far." "You're no daisy at all."
The Outlaw Josie Wales (Tie)- most quotable movie ever!
Lonesome Dove (tie)-great story, well acted.
Tombstone - "Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens" " Your men might get me in a rush but not before I turn your head into a canoe"
"Maybe you should try a game at which you are better. I know, how about a spelling bee." "En Vino Veritas" "My hippocarcy goes only so far." "You're no daisy at all."
mjr
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I think that was Hanes-em High. It was about giving the bad guys wedgies, right?
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Steely Dan
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"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."
357-RevolverGuy
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These are more modern westerns, but I like them.
1. Tombstone
2. 3:10 to Yuma
3. Unforgiven
1. Tombstone
2. 3:10 to Yuma
3. Unforgiven
Always a Clint Eastwood fan, so I'd have to go with...
1) The Outlaw Josey Wales
2) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3) Unforgiven
I really enjoy Pale Rider, but it wasn't nearly as great as these movies. But it was on par with A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More.
1) The Outlaw Josey Wales
2) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3) Unforgiven
I really enjoy Pale Rider, but it wasn't nearly as great as these movies. But it was on par with A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More.
s1mp13m4n
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Vegas - (tv series) western/drama
DWalt
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Not that anyone here really cares, but, in order:
1. The Wild Bunch (really more of a Mexican western)
2. The Searchers (JW's best)
3. The Fastest Gun Alive (remember that one with Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford? Superb, especially the background music)
Lots of runners-up, many starring John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Jimmy Stewart. I can't say that I idolized Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue, Hopalong Cassidy, etc.
1. The Wild Bunch (really more of a Mexican western)
2. The Searchers (JW's best)
3. The Fastest Gun Alive (remember that one with Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford? Superb, especially the background music)
Lots of runners-up, many starring John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Jimmy Stewart. I can't say that I idolized Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue, Hopalong Cassidy, etc.
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Steely Dan
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Glenn Ford had some great cowboy characters
Is the Fastest Gun Alive the one where he was a sheep farmer?
Edit.........no, that was The Sheepman
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mjr
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A favorite of mine, as well. I first saw it at age seven at the drive-in. I wondered at the time why Noah Beery Jr. or John Dehner was razzing the other one about the time one of them stole three sacks of pennies during a previous bank robbery. At age seven that sounded like loot well worth taking. My sophisticated 10-year-old brother enlightened me as to why making off with bags of pennies was a major bank robbery faux pas.
The last time I saw it I wondered why Russ Tamblyn and his bizarre dance number was even in the movie. To increase the running time?
Glen, John, Clint
In that order for best westerns ever.
Then, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and most anything with (can't think of his name) "Stumpy" in Rio Diablo.
In that order for best westerns ever.
Then, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and most anything with (can't think of his name) "Stumpy" in Rio Diablo.
MI-LPTroll
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Hang em High
Good bad ugly
True Grit
Three of my favorites. so many good ones its hard to choose though
Good bad ugly
True Grit
Three of my favorites. so many good ones its hard to choose though
Spininprop
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The Searchers
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Big Country
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Big Country
Spininprop
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Walter Brennan...
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Steely Dan
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Wasn't he in The Real McCoys? (TV Series)
DWalt
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re: The Fastest Gun Alive "The last time I saw it I wondered why Russ Tamblyn and his bizarre dance number was even in the movie. To increase the running time?"
I've often wondered the same thing. Maybe the producer was just trying to promote the dancing acumen of Russ Tamblyn for another of his future projects. Whatever the reason, the dance number didn't fit into the plot in any way. I just ignore that it happened.
I've often wondered the same thing. Maybe the producer was just trying to promote the dancing acumen of Russ Tamblyn for another of his future projects. Whatever the reason, the dance number didn't fit into the plot in any way. I just ignore that it happened.
Any except the Itailian ones
