My Top Ten Westerns

Great lists. I catch any of these on cable when I can.
Never get tired of
Unforgiven,
Good, Bad, Ugly
Once upon a time in the west
Original Stagecoach
Shane and it is to watch the scenes by Jack Palance, he embodied evil.
The Outlaw Josey Wales and my wife will watch this one over and over too.

Today Hollywood twists the old heros of our youth like Superman and Batman into some evil side.

Are you listening Hollywood? I'd like to see a young Jack Palance take his Shane Character, heal up, see the error of his ways, go back to Texas to be with his brothers, and become a Texas Ranger to in part make up some of his wild side. He and his brothers who are Rangers too are ambushed and all but Jack are killed. Jack becomes the new darkside Lone Ranger and his hunt for revenge. And no dang silver bullets for good.

Ok, maybe the man with no name, a young Clint, as the Ranger and Jack Palance as Tonto. Grab the pop corn and rye whisky. This is gonna be a shoot em up.




For comedy and to watch Lee Marvin I would add Cat Ballou before that Jane girl was radicalized. Fishslayers pic on his post made me laugh all over again.
 
flaco40 said:
I love westerns. Does anyone remember a movie called the cowboy. With Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon?
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You bet! That's a good one.
I was just looking at the cast.
I see that Strother Martin plays an uncredited cowboy who gets bit by a rattlesnake.
I guess he had a failure to communicate with the snake.
He had one later with another guy, what was his name?
 
Sorry pilgrim I cant think of who Strother Martin is right now but I remember watching this movie on the table. V.with my dad..That was a good time
 
flaco40 said:
Sorry pilgrim I cant think of who Strother Martin is right now but I remember watching this movie on the table. V.with my dad..That was a good time
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He was the warden in Cool Hand Luke.
Said - What we have here is a failure to communicate.
He was also the South American mine manager in Butch and Sunset.
They were hired to guard the payroll, Strother got shot.
 
I can't believe it took 12 posts to finally get to "Blazing Saddles". You guys are slipping.

I'll add:
Maverick
Support Your local Sheriff
Support Your Local Gunfighter
The Apple Dumplin Gang Rides Again
and a new favorite I just discovered.....
The Ridiculous Six
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The Original Bad Bob, the albino.

I love Westerns. My favorite is Josey Wales. This one was pretty good too.


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Thanks again pilgrim I learned something today Strother Martin I'll try to remember that I think the western that took the most courage to make had to be paint your wagon lee Marvin and clint Eastwood singing a duet?like a concrete mixer and a gravel truck rolling down the road
 
Yes indeed Clint and Lee singing is not something we'll ever see again.
Once was plently!
One of my favorite actors is Sam Elliot.
I would like to meet him.
If I ever did, I would tell him that I have seen just about everything he ever made.
But those truck ads- some of them sound like dialog from a really bad movie.
Would I do those ads? For half what Sam gets paid? Absolutely!
Would they still be bad?
Absolutely! Twice as bad for half the money.
 
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THE PILGRIM said:
I see that Strother Martin plays an uncredited cowboy who gets bit by a rattlesnake.
I guess he had a failure to communicate with the snake.
He had one later with another guy, what was his name?
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Oh, you know who that guy was. But before that, Strother Martin was with THIS guy, Lee Marvin, in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. (Liberty's other "Myrmidon" was played by Lee Van Cleef.)
 

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The Searchers has to be one of the best classic Westerns ever and one of the top 2 or 3 John Wayne movies, which includes The Shootist, his last. The Searchers is dated today, but at the time it was Wayne at his best.

Lonesome Dove must be on the list of the best Westerns.
I wonder how many people realize that Larry McMurtry, who wrote Lonesome Dove, intended it to be an anti Western and that he has spent many years telling people that Westerners are and have always been racist and sexist. He is from a ranching family and seems to hate his roots. When asked by a reporter if he had relatives who still ranched, he answered, "Yes, unfortunately. They stayed with it simply out of tradition." When he was interviewed by a woman reporter who asked him if he meant Lonesome Dove to be an anti Western, he asked her, "Would you want to be involved with any of the men in the story?" He says he has never seen the TV mini series. In his novel, Call is even less human than in the TV mini series. When he tells the cowboys about the death of Gus, he mentions it in a very off-hand casual way. Gus's death does bother him inside, but he never shows it.
 
hangnoose said:
The long riders & the professionals, for more trivia, who was the "gifted" Mexican actress that Burt Lancaster had the hots for in the Professionals, & wasn't she also in the wild bunch? (another great one) . All good choices! Ben Johnson was the Reb actor in yellow ribbon, if I was able to remember his characters name I might get some sleep tonight.
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I do believe it was Sgt. Tyree, formerly a cavalry officer for the CSA.
 
Outlaw Josey Wales
Quigley Down Under
Open Range

Rewind and repeat, LOL!
 
1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. Rough Riders
3. Tombstone
4. Lonesome Dove
5. Hombre
6. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
7. The Magnificent Seven
8. Red River
9. The Sacketts
10. Valdez is Coming
 
MORE?

Best poker game: a big hand for the little lady. ( Henry Fonda)
more good ones, Will Penny (Charlton Heston).
there was a crooked man ( Kirk Douglas & Henry Fonda).
The one where Jimmy Stewart inherits a house of ill repute, with Henry Fonda.
The one with Glen Ford & a very talkative Henry Fonda as Howdy, a couple of "modern times" bronc busters.
Anthony Quinn & Henry Fonda as hired lawman to clean up the town? Henry Fonda was superb in every thing he did.
 
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