Top 5 Cowboy Movies - What are your favorites?

[Buford57]

No particular order:

Will Penny
True Grit (either, for different reasons)
Ride the High Country
The Searchers
Lonesome Dove

 

[buckeyeshooter1]

1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. High Noon
3. The Professionals
4. Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck)
5. Hombre

 

[bubbiesdad]

1. The Searchers
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Shootist
4. Open Range
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (I had to include this one, I mean, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin along with Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, John Carradine and Lee Van Cleef)

and Strother Martin.

 

[Art Doc]

1. Far and away El Dorado is my favorite. Saw it in the theater in 1968 on the big screen and maybe 30 times on TV since then. Michele Carey in her tightly stretched top and leather pants perhaps responsible for most of my impure thoughts as a teenager.

2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin. Doesn't get any better than that.

3. The Professionals. Not quite a true western as it is set in the early 20th century but it has the feel of a classic western tale. Marvin and Lancaster and others make a great cast.

4. The Unforgiven (Eastwood version). Gritty, dark and brooding it feels like the reality of killing is being displayed. Great portrayal of the brutal marshal by Gene Hackman, one of the great character actors.

5. Winchester '73. Jimmy Stewart once more in a great story.

Honorable mention nods to Silverado and The War Wagon.

For comedy relief, Cat Ballou (Marvin wins Oscar and it has a great soundtrack).

 

[Harrison]

John Wayne - The Searchers

 

[Straightshooter2]

Oxbo and Hanging Tree are two very underated films--period.

I definitely agree that "The Ox-Bow Incident" is one of the most underrated movies. And I'm not talking about just westerns.

Jimmy Stewart---Praise God for making him an American.

Amen!

Now what Western movie actor was "discovered" when he wrangeled a heard of horses to LA from Oklahoma for a movie with John Wayne?

Ben Johnson (1953 Team Roping World Champion). Howard Hughes bought the horses from Ben Jonson, Sr. for use in "The Outlaw" and hired Ben to take them first to Arizona and then on to Hollywood. But he actually got a seven year contract from John Ford for saving three men in a runaway wagon while "Ft. Apache" was being filmed. He was Henry Fonda's stunt double and horse wrangler for the movie until that time.

CW

 

[semperfi71]

1. The Searchers
2. Shane
3. Outlaw Josey Wales
4. All of John Wayne's other westerns
5. All of Clint Eastwood's other westerns
6. All of Glenn Ford's westerns
7. All of Burt Lancaster's westerns
8. All of Alan Ladd's westerns
9. All of Gregory Peck's westerns.
10. All of Gary Cooper's westerns
11. All of Randolph Scott's westerns
12. All of William Holden's westerns
13. All of John Ford's westerns
14. All of the rest of the westerns

How do you expect someone who dresses like this and shoots Cowboy Action to choose the "Top Five Westerns"?????

 

[rdcl]

"Unforgiven"
"The Good,The Bad, & The Ugly"
"Shane"
"Hombre"
"The Shootist"


Russ

 

[doublesharp]

Open Range

Tombstone

Unforgiven

The Long Riders

Silverado

Lonesome Dove

 

[jlrhiner]

A real jewel that didn't get much play is "The Tracker" with Kris Kristofferson. If you can find it, you'll be suprised.