Need Western Movie Suggestions - Non Mainstream

[red14]

A Man Named Horse was good, second one was good, third one, not so much.

I liked Jeremiah Johnson, too!

 

[handejector]

OLD movie with Robert Taylor as a buffalo hunter-------

"The Last Hunt" ????????????????
Help me here.......

I like Costner, too
Wolves
Open Range
Wyatt Earp

also like Tombstone

 

[rimfired]

Try

One-Eyed Jacks. Brando.

 

[bmhiii]

OLD movie with Robert Taylor as a buffalo hunter-------

"The Last Hunt" ????????????????
Help me here.......

I like Costner, too
Wolves
Open Range
Wyatt Earp

also like Tombstone

"The Last Hunt" is correct. Also had Stewart Granger.

I watched Pale Rider again tonight. Knew it was a "Shane" remake but didn't realize it had a little Josey Wales in it. The girl falling for the guy and almost "getting into trouble" with a bunch of guys surrounding her ala Sondra Locke....

 

[Spotteddog]

I think all 9 people that ever saw Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) are here on this forum? Hugely underrated movie and performance IMHO. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie almost makes up for Warren Beatty). The already mentioned "Valdez is Coming", "Ulzana's Raid" too, if you like Burt Lancaster (which I always have!) I see Warlock made the cut! Comedy/drama "The Cowboys" (Glenn Ford & Jack Lemmon). "The Cheyenne Social Club" comedy/drama if you can suspend your disbelief about Jimmy Stewart running a chip shop and Henry Fonda being reluctant about using it's services?
Tom Horn (McQueen, what else do you need to know? And the stunningly beautiful Linda Evans).
The list goes on and on!
Great link on the westerns by year!

 

[Peter J.]

I'd suggest "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" and "the Missouri Breaks" with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson

 

[redlevel]

One of my all-time favorites is The Professionals with Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy, and the stunning Claudia Cardinale.

I just might watch it again tonight.

 

[cmort666]

"100 Rifles" wasn't terrible. has Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown (football player), and <drumroll> Raquel Welch. She looks good as ever, so it makes up for Burt Reynolds...Ha Ha!

I loved that movie. I saw it in the theater when I was in grade school. At the time, I was fascinated by Fernando Lamas shooting through multiple Yaqui Indians with his Colt .38 auto. I was also fascinated by Raquel Welch's "lungs"! When I saw it again as an adult, I started noticing things like the Garands carried by some of the soldiers in the Mexican Revolution. Years later, I saw it dubbed into Korean on TV in Korea. Korean film dubbers think that every man should sound like Orson Welles, and every woman like Jennifer Tilly. It was hilarious!

You want "non mainstream"? How about "Johnny Guitar" with Sterling Hayden and Joan Crawford? Sterling Hayden and Mercedes McCambridge both HATED Joan Crawford! It must have been like shooting a film on location with Hillary Clinton! It's a perfect over the top '50s western.

 

[BarbC]

The first great non-mainstream Western that came to mind for me is

The Grey Fox (1982)

 

[35Rem]

Alias Jesse James
A Bob Hope western- Funny Stuff.
Bob is an insurance salesman that accidentally sells a life insurance policy to Jesse James, then is charged by his boss with not letting anything happen to him. Pretty funny movie.

 

[shortcut]

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

 

[walnutred]

Two I like are: Goin' South and Frisco Kid.

 

[Noah Zark]

A few offbeat Westerns that haven't been mentioned yet; not saying they are good, just offbeat:

Breakheart Pass (Charles Bronson movie of Alastair McLean novel of same name)

Powderkeg! (Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole star in this movie about mercenaries who are tasked to recover a train hijacked by Mexican bandits; was the pilot for the short-run TV series "Bearcats" in the early 70s.)

Duck You Sucker! (James Coburn and Rod Steiger star in this Sergio Leone movie about unwitting partners in a bank robbery in revolutionary Mexico.)

Last of the Mohicans (Gary Cooper classic)

Noah

 

[mesell]

lonesome dove series is hard to beat robert duvall tommy lee jones are excellent cowboys!

 

[cmort666]

Duck You Sucker! (James Coburn and Rod Steiger star in this Sergio Leone movie about unwitting partners in a bank robbery in revolutionary Mexico.)

Currently running periodically on Encore! under its alternate title "Fistful of Dynamite".

 

[29Wheelgunner]

Monte Walsh!

 

[David LaPell]

My Name is Nobody with Henry Fonda
Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger version)
Ride With The Devil
Lightning Jack (funny Paul Hogan western)

 

[Andy Griffith]

I know you meant westerns, rather than series...

But if you don't have Lonesome Dove in your collection, you should.

Another western that you regularly won't find that also stars Tommy Lee Jones is The Good Old Boys. Believe it or not, it is one of my favorites!

 

[cmort666]

Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger version)

What, you're not entranced by Mick Jagger's awesome acting "talent"?

 

[handejector]

The first great non-mainstream Western that came to mind for me is

The Grey Fox (1982)

EXCELLENT movie.
Forgot that one.