Top 5 Cowboy Movies - What are your favorites?

Alternate picks
Tom Horn
High Plains Drifter
The Missing
Winchester '73
The Left Handed Gun
 
#1 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
#2 - Rio Bravo
#3 - Eldorado
#4 - True Grit (the original)
#5 - Joe Kidd
I probably have another 10 I could add that are in my favorite list. Now I have to go put one of these on..
 
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Tombstone
The Sacketts
The Magnificent Seven
Hombre
 
Top 5 Westerns, wow that's a tough one, there are so many great ones.

1. Any Eastwood Western, yes, I cheated.
2. Quigley down under.
3. Anything John Wayne, darn, there I go again.
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
5. Tombstone
6. Tom Horn--sorry.
 
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Can I possibly be the only one who likes Butch Cassidy? Redford and Newman? It was a classic.

and Selleck and his Sharps in Australia?

Admittedly that was a tough list, keeping it to 6, even with cheating.

Most underrated Western, Appaloosa, when I heard Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in a Cowboy movie, I thought it'll stink, but it's a classic.
 
Top Five Westerns? That would be a tough chore to narrow down to if I only considered John Wayne westerns! But to play along with your request:

1. My favorite John Wayne western: The Shootist

2. My favorite western without John Wayne (general enjoyment): Unforgiven

3. My favorite realistic western: Lonesome Dove (the original)

4. My favorite comedic western: Support Your Local Sheriff & Support Your Local Gunfighter (tied)

5. My favorite violent/dramatic western: The Wild Bunch
 
Lonesome Dove (far & away #1, both the book & the movie)
John Wayne (pick one: Searchers, Three Godfathers, Hondo, Red River,
Big Jake,Chisum,True Grit/Rooster Cogburn,Cowboys,Shootist)
Outlaw Josie Wales
Selleck & Elliott (pick one: Sacketts/Shadow Riders)
Tom Horn
 
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Probably different than my last one, but anyhow:

Lonesome Dove
Chatos Land
Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
Will Penny

That's five, but there are many more that would fit.
 
I'll just give you the five I've got right now.
How the West Was Won
Once Upon A Time in the West
Bandelero
The War Wagon
Silverado
Note: I did not include Lonesome Dove because it is a mini series rather than a movie, and is much too long for a movie. I do agree with those who think it is the best of the genre. I did not include The Wild Bunch. While the characters are certainly of the western style, I just don't consider movies with heavy machine guns and 1911s as westerns. I left out Villa Rides, for same reason....no airplanes in westerns.
 
As much western movies I can't limit it to five as someone said 60 years of movies, I tend to remember the westerns for my childhood with Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and from TV. Gunsmoke, Maverick, Wanted Dead or Alive.Cheyenne, Have Gun Will Travel, Audy Murphy movies. The Rebel. But My all time favorite is Magnificent Seven. I am now watching thr DVD of Wanted Dead or Alive 1 & 2 seasons.
 
Mine:

Unforgiven
The Searchers
Good The Bad and The Ugly
Magnificent Seven
Outlaw Josey Wales

honorable mention to:
Silverado
Open Range
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Dances With Wolves
Fistful and few dollars more
 
I forgot one of my favorites - Rory Calhoun in "The Treasure of Pancho Villa." Superb Lewis Gun-play, not to be missed whenever it comes up on TCM, which it occasionally does.
 
StatesRightist said:
Can I possibly be the only one who likes Butch Cassidy? Redford and Newman? It was a classic.
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No, that was my first thought, too, and I was surprised to scroll down so far to see it.

How the West Was Won-great saga with great musical score
Shenandoah-okay more Civil War, but darn good
Cat Ballou-yes, I know it has what's-her-name in it, but Lee Marvin was really funny, too along with the drunk horse.
City Slickers-that might be cheating a bit as far as the title western goes, but it's in there somewhere.
 
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