My Top Ten Westerns

My two all time favorite movies, Outlaw Josie Wales, and Jeremiah Johnson. No movie ever made has more great quotes than Josie Wales.
 
No order:
Magnificent Seven
High Noon
The Shootist
Tom Selleck in Westerns,including Monte Walsh--Quigley Downunder
Rio Bravo
True Grit -John Wayne - Secondary the other True Grit
Support Your local Sheriff
Shane
My Darling Clementine- secondary-All the other major Wyatt Earp Films
Stagecoach John Wayne
The Wild Bunch
All the Clint Eastwood westerns
All Sergio Leone Westerns
Any Western Charles Bronson was in-including the early ones where he
was not the star.
 
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I'm glad to see one mention of McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The soundtrack is so dated, it almost kills the movie, but it is still one of the unknown classics.

My favorite is The Wild Bunch. I think it could have been cut down a little, but I think that of most movies. I think the TV series Deadwood was the pinnacle of TV westerns, although each season had its flaws.
 
I didn't read through the whole 17 pages, so I'll just list some of mine.

Magnificent Seven
Monte Walsh
Stagecoach (The "Nashville" version)
Lonesome Dove
Centennial (all 25 hours of it)
The Far Country
True Grit (both versions)
Barbarossa
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Red River
 
Cardboard_killer said:
I'm glad to see one mention of McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The soundtrack is so dated, it almost kills the movie, but it is still one of the unknown classics.

My favorite is The Wild Bunch. I think it could have been cut down a little, but I think that of most movies. I think the TV series Deadwood was the pinnacle of TV westerns, although each season had its flaws.
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For me, the only flaw with the Deadwood Series, was that they shut it down about 3 seasons too early!
 
THE PILGRIM said:
I do love the Duke,
Going with Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, True Grit, Liberty Valance.
Like Josey Wales, Butch and Das Kid, Lonesome Dove,
And Unforgiven.
Sort of a Yellow Ribbon trivia question-
What was a Reb (like me ) who agreed to join the Union Army and go out West and fight Indians called?
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I dont kknow if that is answered by now but: "Galvanized yankee." When you all finally see some more custom grips I had made? you will see what a "galvanized yankee" looks like. Think: James Garner and Jack Kelly. ;)
 
vytoland said:
the man with the black hat, black clothes, black horse, black whip....and his side kick.....
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Picture for me is too small to make out the lead-but the sidekick looks like either Al St.John or George Gabby Hayes. Ill have to get a bigger screen tomorrow or next day to see for sure.
 
johnnyflake said:
For me, the only flaw with the Deadwood Series, was that they shut it down about 3 seasons too early!
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Deadwood was supposed to run one more season, but for some reason, either some key actors wanted out or the producer wanted to move on, it was cancelled. There was even talk (wishful thinking) that a final episode would be made, but it never happened and left a whole lot of stuff unanswered and up in the air. I've been mad at HBO ever since.
 
mjr said:
I was hoping nobody would list Blazing Saddles as a favorite western. Anyone who thinks Blazing Saddles is a western probably thinks Young Frankenstein is a horror movie.
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Why not? its got: Cowboys, Injuns, Outlaws and German soldiers.:p
 
WATCHDOG said:
Strother Martin was an interesting guy. To me, at any rate. He'd been around in bit parts in films and on TV since the fifties. And he always seemed like an older guy to me, perhaps because his hair was prematurely grey.

I think he could've gone on to bigger and better things as a character actor...his abilities were really beginning to be noticed during the last ten years of his career.

Sadly, he died a fairly young man...he was only 61 when he passed away.
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He's also in countless Western TV series from the 50s to??? Ive seen him several times in Gunsmoke, Tombstone Territory, and several others.
 
eveled said:
No movie ever made has more great quotes than Josie Wales.
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Josie Wales is up there, but the most quotable Western, and probably the most quotable movie of all time is Rancho Deluxe.

"I will not live in a West that's not free, and at this point in the Twentieth Century, I will not be plagued by rustlers."

I might have mentioned this movie earlier in this thread, but that was a long time ago.
 
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