I mean just a plain old knock down, drag out slug-fest. I'm not counting karate or kung fu or any of that stuff. I wasn't really counting Boxing movies either but if you want to throw in one or two of your favorites feel free.

I thought about making this a poll but there are just too many and we only have 10 spaces on the list so just toss em out.

As far as boxing goes all the Rocky movies were good with lots of slow mo shots of blood and mouth pieces flying but the one that really stands out for me was The Raging Bull with Robert De Nero. That was a brutal film.

But as for just plain old unskilled hand to hand brawls one of the first that really stood out for me was the fight in Giant between Rock Hudson and the cafe owner that didn't want to serve his Mexican daughter in law.

The there was the fight in Columbiana between the lead female and her nemisis. Lawdy Miss Clawdy! that was horrific.

The fights in Clint Eastwoods Any Which Way You Can movies were a lot of fun and Charles Bronsons Hard Times had a lot of tough stuff in it too.

And one of the best of all times was John Wayne fighting the big irishman in The Quiet Man

I would list the scene in Lonesome Dove where Woodrow wore out that Army drover for quirting Newt but that wan't a fight. I think the current vernacular for a thing like that would be a "beat down" Still it was fun to watch.

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Sean Connery and Robert Shaw in the confines of a train compartment in From Russia with Love. That's a no-holds barred brawl.

I like the old Western Saloon bar fights. Duke and Leo Gordons bar fight in: Hondo. From this scene:

His first encounter w/ Ed Lowe (Leo Gordon)


Just before his final encounter w/ Ed Lowe:

Mongo punching the horse in Blazing Saddles?

Or maybe John Wayne and his brother-in-law in The Quiet Man.

It appears we've completely run out of inane topics...best fistfight,best sword fight .....what's next,best cat fight?
Ohhh wait I want to post that one.....

Blood in the Moon - 1948 western - Robert Mitchum has a fight in a bar with another guy and its the most realistic one I've ever seen in the movies.

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Last week's fight on Boardwalk Empire was pretty full on...And the Bourne movies always have good ones,.

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I have to say that the fight between Karl Urban and Bruce Willis in RED, was pretty entertaining.

I liked the ones with John Wayne and Lee Marvin in Donovan's Reef.

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with a smile.

A#1 (Lee Marvin) vs. Shack (Ernest Borgnine) in "Emperor of the North Pole" re released as "Emperor of the North"
The best 'Bo riding the rails challenges the toughest yard bull, and the epic scuffle takes place on a high-balling flatcar wailing up the west coast through Big Sur.

If it sounds like I'm harping on this, I am. Not enough people have seen this great movie starring Big Lee, Ernest B. And Keith Carradine.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTHJpm8lt0Y

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Hard Times.

"Somebody oughta belt you in the mouth.
But I won't, I won't, the hell I won't."
The Duke in McLintock

That really was a great movie! I'd never seen Borgnine play a ruthless character before, it showed he really had the skill!

Best fist fight? Blazing Saddles....blasting through another movie set and ending in a pie fight!

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Dodge city with Errol Flynn.

I liked the fight in the Kirk Douglas movie The Lonely Are The Brave.

1963 "Soldier in the Rain"

Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason's bar fight against the two MP's

Goldie Hawn and Merrill Streep in "Death Becomes Her".

All the fight scenes were great in John Carpenter's "The Thing".

Especially since the film was made before the introduction of CGI.

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007 and the Russian moose in the train in "From Russia with Love."

this one.....
Best Fight Scene - Team America - YouTube

Didn't that russian guy go on to captain a ship in some movie about a shark??

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Like your reference to Robert Shaw.

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick *** ... and I'm all out of bubblegum.

They Live has the best, most ridiculous fist fight scene ever, taking place next to a dumpster and a Camaro. It could be the best setting ever for two meatheads to duke it out.

Alan Ladd and Van Heflin duking it out with the BGs in "Shane" was worth the price of admission.

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"They Call Me Trinity" & "Trinity is Still My Name"; Terence Hill never really did launch in the US, but some of the fight scenes in that series of movies were hilarious - - especially his brother Bambino's (Bud Spencer) top-of-the-head poleaxing move.

Even funnier because it's a true "Spaghetti Western."

Hands down Charles Bronson in Hard Times.

Mongo vs. horse.
Big Jake "Have you ever been to Nacogdoches?"
McLintock, big fight scene. "Where the whiskey?"
Four Brothers, on the ice. "Put him in the hole."

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This is slightly off topic. But, I saw a show a long time back about movie making in Hollywood. It had a segment about how important sound effects were and how they were sometimes used to set or change the whole tone of a movie. They showed a great John Wayne saloon brawl from an old black & white western normally, and then they showed the same fight with all of the boinks and bonks and other Stooge sound effects. It was great. I laugh every time I think about it.

Moe, Curly, and Larry did so many good ones it is hard to name the best.

I'll go for Sip's view of Eli and the FBI agent. I guess we won't know for a while but that fight should have killed someone. I Googled the scene and the actors got pretty well bruised up in the three days it took to shoot it.

Borat had an awesome fight scene.lol

I scanned this to add They Live and found someone else has good taste as well.

Good taste.

Marshall Matt Dillon Gun Smoke anyone of his fight' s and yeah Hoss Cartwright could hit hard to .

Best Bronson fight(s) in Hard Times

Best John Wayne vs. Ward Bond in The Quiet Man

Best Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way But Loose.

All good suggestions but I have a very clear vision of George Kennedy opening a BIG can of *** whup on Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke."

I would have liked to have seen all the fights at Wal Mart this past weekend. Of coarse from a distance.

Don

PS Some people sure are stupid.

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Brad Pitt in Snatch when Jason Statham goes to buy a caravan from the gypsies.

vigo mortenson in "eastern promises" good fight scene in the steam room

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In addition to the others above,I nominate the fight in "On the Waterfront" when Brando got the worst of it. Also, the Robert Mitchum version of "Cape Fear".

The fight with Eli and the FBI guy (Knox) was great on Boardwalk Empire.

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Dalton and Jimmy at the end of Road House

Indiana Jones and the big German mechanic

Probably my favorite though would be John Wayne (Sean Thornton) and Victor McLaglen (Squire "Red Will" Danaher)

"Red Will" Danaher: Mind you, I'm fresh as a daisy!

Thornton: You look more like a black-eyed Susan to me.

CW

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I vote for the movie "The Quite Man" with John Wayne.

They Live, "put on the glasses"

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This one of my favorites.
Cinderella Man (7/8) Movie CLIP - Braddock vs. Baer (2005) HD - YouTube

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Fight Club's first fight, and then the fight between Vin Diesel and The Rock in the last Fast and Furious Movie.

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Best movie fight scene ever, period!

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...57155469,d.eW0

The fight between Tony & Ralph (Joe Pantoliano)over the death of the horse in The Sopranos.

FOR COMEDY, when Frank Drebbin (leslie nielson) in the opening of one of the naked gun sequels beats up Saddam Hussein, the Ayatola, Gorbachev, & ossama bin Laden?

How about that fight in "Sheep Man" (I think that was the name of it) where Glen Ford goes in the restaurant and finds "the toughest guy in town" and proceeds to stir his rice with his cigar. Now, that was a class bash.

Here's three great fight scenes to remember.

!) The Devils Brigade. Between the soldiers and the loggers.

2) To Hell and Back. Between the Ar,y Air Corps and the Infantry.

3) The Wings of Eagles. Fight between Army and the Navy.

Cant find a fight scene showing the battle between the brigade and the loggers but here are two pics showing Claude Akins being bested by a Canadian Sergeant (Jeremy Slate) in the Brigades chow hall.




To Hell and Back: Cant find the shots I want but





The Wings of Eagles: post fight images"

Most comical. From 'My Name is Nobody'.

My Name Is Nobody Bar fight Funny Scene - YouTube

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I actually missed the fight................
but I did see the guy that got the whipping, when they pulled
up the back flap on the stage coach on..............

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