My Top Ten Westerns

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My favorite ten westerns are:
1. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood
2. Hombre Paul Newman, Richard Boone
3. The Outlaw Josey Whales Clint Eastwood
4. Missouri Breaks Jack Nicholson
5. Death Hunt Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin – Angie Dickenson
6. Going South Jack Nicholson
7. Waterhole # 3 James Coburn
8a. Pale Rider Clint Eastwood
8b. Tombstone
9. Lonesome Dove Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Diane Lane
10. Monte Walsh Tom Selleck

Another one I forgot to put on the litst:
Jeremiah Johnson Robert Redford
 
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Astonishing! I never thought I'd see a thread like this that didn't include at least one from John Wayne. It's still early, though. But it won't be me.

Oops, posted too late. #3 had a couple by the Duke.
I'm only gonna throw one in there:
Rancho Deluxe.

I take it back. I'll throw in a couple with Brando to offset the Duke:
One Eyed Jacks
Missouri Breaks.
 
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finesse_r,
I like your list, but you gotta have a John Wayne movie or two!

My favorite ten westerns in no particular order are:
1. Unforgiven
2. Silverado
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. Tombstone
5. Open Range
6. Quigley Down Under
7. Rio Bravo
8. Pale Rider
9. Lonesome Dove Series
10. The Cowboys - I don't know why I like this one, but I like John Wayne's character.
 
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?
 
Not necessarily in order of excellence...

Last Train From Gun Hill
3:10 To Yuma (original)
The Searchers
The Shootist
Magnificent Seven
Hombre
Lonesome Dove anthology
The Gunfighter
High Noon
Hour of the Gun
 
A lot of great ones have been mentioned already so I will only go with some that haven't been:
Culpepper Cattle Company
High Noon
Hired Hand
Man in the Wilderness
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Nevada Smith
Ride with the Devil
Stagecoach
The Missing
Tom Horn
Wagon Master

Ok, so that's 11 ... :o
 
Let me just add....

Hondo
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
High Plains Drifter

Some I didn't think were so great..

Dances with Wolves
Pale Rider

I was in a bad frame of mind first time I saw 'Unforgiven' I didn't appreciate it, but watched it again and was amazed at the grit and realism.
 
Three I don't think have been previously mentioned:

The Fastest Gun Alive - Glenn Ford
(Similar plot to High Noon)

Winchester '73 - Jimmy Stewart

Dances With Wolves - Kevin Costner

Many believe "The Searchers" was the best Western ever made, and is on some Top 10 lists of all-time best movies regardless of genre.

"She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" was mentioned, but not the other two of the John Ford/John Wayne Cavalry Trilogy - "Fort Apache" and "Rio Grande," the latter being a fictionalized version of a true event involving a U. S. Cavalry incursion into Mexico.
 
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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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Please don't tell me that Al St. John, aka Fuzzy Q. Jones wasn't a real Saint!
I loved all the B Westerns, and the thing I loved the most were the side-kicks.
And nobody was a better side-kick than Fuzzy!
 
THE PILGRIM said:
Please don't tell me that Al St. John, aka Fuzzy Q. Jones wasn't a real Saint!
I loved all the B Westerns, and the thing I loved the most were the side-kicks.
And nobody was a better side-kick than Fuzzy!
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I completely agree. You do realize, don't you, that my icon/photo is Fuzzy St. John? (Although it does look a heck of a lot like me.)
 
HOW COULD EVERYONE FORGET

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.
 
Marshwheeling said:
Astonishing! I never thought I'd see a thread like this that didn't include at least one from John Wayne. It's still early, though. But it won't be me.

Oops, posted too late. #3 had a couple by the Duke.
I'm only gonna throw one in there:
Rancho Deluxe.

I take it back. I'll throw in a couple with Brando to offset the Duke:
One Eyed Jacks
Missouri Breaks.
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For some reason, Missouri Breaks and One Eyed Jacks do not get the airplay they should. Probably because they have Brando in them and both of them have a touch of weirdness (for lack of a better word) to them. People seem to have a problem, too, of seeing Brando as a cowboy-western-gunfighter kind of character.
 
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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The gifted gal in "The Professionals" was Claudia Cardinale and the Ben Johnson character in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" was Sgt. Tyree.
 
Top 10 Westerns

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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Galzanized Yankees
 
Wild Bunch
Unforgiving
Outlas Josey Wales
Tombstone
Once upon a time in the West
Open Range
Lonesome Dove
The Good, Bad, and Ugly
The professionals
My Name is Nobody
 
hangnoose said:
...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).
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Geno44 said:
The gifted gal in "The Professionals" was Claudia Cardinale...
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Well, although Claudia Cardinale is beautiful, and played Mrs. Grant, she's actually Italian...and Burt Lancaster resisted her temptations throughout the film. He was sort of ambivalent towards her.

The real woman Lancaster had such an attachment to, and fond memories of, was Chiquita, the Mexican revolutionary played by Maria Gomez. No, she did not have a role in The Wild Bunch.

Just as an aside, I'd sure love to have that revolver and gunbelt!

Also, note that in one of the photos below, the cartridges in the bandolier appear to have firing pin imprints in them! Gotta love Hollywood, huh?



 
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