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Nominate your favorite Western movies

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My favorite six in order:

1. The Searchers
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. High Noon
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. True Grit (original)
6. A Fistful of Dollars
 
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
True Grit
Support your local sheriff
Blazing Saddles
Shenandoah
Rooster Cogburn

Shoot can't think of the title with Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Shirley Jones. Cheyenne Social Club
 
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IMHO Once Upon a Time In the West. It starred Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Elam, and Jason Robards. I think it was the best of all the Spaghetti Westerns and before the Clint Eastwood era.
It was made in 1968 - after The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars. Leone and Clint Eastwood had a big falling out. What a great film though. Henry Fonda as a villain. The soundtrack by Ennio Morricone is unforgettable too.
 
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- The 'Man With No Name' Trilogy
- El Topo (if you like your westerns with a dollop of surrealism)
- Tombstone
- Django Unchained
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (if you like your westerns with a dollop of existentialism)
- 3:10 to Yuma (Russell Crowe re-make)
- Kill Bill Vol. 2
 
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My favorite six in order:

1. The Searchers
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. High Noon
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. True Grit (original)
6. A Fistful of Dollars
Good list. High Noon is my favorite. I'd add The Outlaw Josey Wales and Shane.
 
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One of my 'have to watch if it's on' movies is the very underrated 'The Quick and the Dead'; Charlize Theron, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leo DiCaprio. It hits every great cinematic western cliche in the book.

Also, Young Guns :).
 
Gay Cooper with one of the great performances. Here is an article about it and him by his daughter.
LINK: The Tao of Cooper: Why High Noon Still Matters
Thanks for the link. I'm a big Gary Cooper fan and when add Grace Kelly, you have movie magic.
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Unforgiven (HUGE Clint fan, but Hackman stole the show)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Lonesome Dove (though the book - one of my all time favs - is MUCH better)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Dances With Wolves
Butch & Sundance
 
Unforgiven is probably my all time favorite.
Others:
The Outlaw Jose Wales
Dances with Wolves (though I've always liked Mary McDonnell)

great choices, though I have a little hate for DWW since it beat Goodfellas at the Oscars

however, Unforgiven is an anti-Western. In fact, it has one of the most unique narrative structures of any film. SPOILERS: the main character does not overcome adversity and learn from his mistakes. He slowly unrolls his defenses to return to the evil man he once was. frikkin brilliant.
 
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Once Upon a Time in the West cause you have to have a little spaghetti in the mix.
 
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Fistful of Dynamite..best musical score in a Western ever, and vastly under rated flick. Steiger and Coburn are excellent.

Purgatory...villains get just deserts. Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Bill Hickcock and others get their time in Paradise.

Desolation Valley....good story line, and cast of aging actors.
 
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The Magnificent Seven (1960).

Brynner, Wallach, McQueen, Bronson, Coburn, Vaughn...how's that for an all-star lineup?

The music.

The scenery.

Clear good guys vs. bad guys.
 
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Unforgiven (HUGE Clint fan, but Hackman stole the show)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Lonesome Dove (though the book - one of my all time favs - is MUCH better)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Dances With Wolves
Butch & Sundance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - I was wondering when this one would appear.
 
The Magnificent Seven (1960).

Brynner, Wallach, McQueen, Bronson, Coburn, Vaughn...how's that for an all-star lineup?

The music.

The scenery.

Clear good guys vs. bad guys.
Based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (one of my all-time favorite films).
 
Red River
Outlaw Josey Wayles
Pale Rider
Tombstone
Open Range
Magnificent Seven
Cat Ballou
The Searchers
The Shootist
High Plains Drifter
 
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Josey Wales is a great film.

Two more not yet mentioned:
1. Little Big Man. Very nice film.
2. Open Range. Good film. The thing about this one is that it features what may be the best gun fight scene ever. And that's saying something.
 
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True Grit (Duke version, although the remake was OK)
Jeremiah Johnson
Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
Big Jake...this was poorly acted but the Duke's dialogue is tremendous.
Unforgiven

The Shootist, featuring this immortal line:

John Bernard Books: "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
Simons, this film fits your anti-western criteria as well.
 
A lot of good movies here. I'm very partial to The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. I enjoy Jeff Bridges' work a lot and I think Wild Bill is a good film, great atmosphere, with Ellen Barkin as a crazed Calamity Jane.
 
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A lot of good movies here. I'm very partial to The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. I enjoy Jeff Bridges' work a lot and I think Wild Bill is a good film, great atmosphere, with Ellen Barkin as a crazed Calamity Jane.
Thank you LJ. I held off on the Wild Bunch. Was wondering when that would be mentioned. Sam Peckinpah's epic poetry of violence. Really controversial at the time. Very different from the Westerns before it.
 
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A lot of good movies here. I'm very partial to The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. I enjoy Jeff Bridges' work a lot and I think Wild Bill is a good film, great atmosphere, with Ellen Barkin as a crazed Calamity Jane.

Wild Bunch is fantastic

Once upon the West is my favorite.
 
My favorite six in order:

1. The Searchers
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. High Noon
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. True Grit (original)
6. A Fistful of Dollars
So many great choices in the total thread. I will add The Tin Star, with Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Neville
Brand and Betsy Palmer. Fonda as an ex-sheriff turned bounty hunter who takes young sheriff (Perkins)
under his wing.
 
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They Died With Their Boots On.

Not probably considered a "true" western movie, but The Horse Shoulders.
 
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Thank you LJ. I held off on the Wild Bunch. Was wondering when that would be mentioned. Sam Peckinpah's epic poetry of violence. Really controversial at the time. Very different from the Westerns before it.

one of my favorite films, Wild Bunch also defies Western conventions. Peckinpah's masterpiece. I could watch the march to the Battle of Bloody Porch (as the crew called it) a million times, and still not lose the awe one feels seeing Holden, Borgnine, Oates, and Johnson boldly confront Mapache and his army.
 
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True Grit (Duke version, although the remake was OK)
Jeremiah Johnson
Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
Big Jake...this was poorly acted but the Duke's dialogue is tremendous.
Unforgiven

The Shootist, featuring this immortal line:

John Bernard Books: "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
Simons, this film fits your anti-western criteria as well.

I'm always moved by the final scene with Ron Howard, so morally ambiguous.
 
My favorite six in order:

1. The Searchers
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. High Noon
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. True Grit (original)
6. A Fistful of Dollars


The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Dances With Wolves
El Dorado
High Noon
Open Range
Wyatt Earp
Tombstone
 
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She wore a yellow ribbon
Tombstone
Gunfight at the OK corral
The Searchers
How the west was won 1962
High Noon

One movie I haven't seen but would like to is My Darling Clementine. I am a big fan of John Ford and I once read that early in his career he befriended Wyatt Earp before he passed away and when he made that movie, he shot the shootout exactly how Earp told him it went down, literally from the horses mouth so to speak.
 
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My favorite six in order:

1. The Searchers
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. High Noon
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. True Grit (original)
6. A Fistful of Dollars
Does Blazing Saddles qualify?
1.) Liberty Valance Lee Marvin is the perfect villain
2.) Wild Bunch great send off to veteran actors
3.) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly nothing else needs to be said great cast, great score, great cinematography and great voice dubbing
4.) Shane one of the first of the mysterious, stoic Protector of the Innocent westerns and Jack Palance rivals Marvin as a villain
5.) Pale Rider "There's nothing like a good piece of hickory"
 
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Does Blazing Saddles qualify?
1.) Liberty Valance Lee Marvin is the perfect villain
2.) Wild Bunch great send off to veteran actors
3.) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly nothing else needs to be said great cast, great score, great cinematography and great voice dubbing
4.) Shane one of the first of the mysterious, stoic Protector of the Innocent westerns and Jack Palance rivals Marvin as a villain
5.) Pale Rider "There's nothing like a good piece of hickory"
Blazing Saddles does qualify. It's a great Western comedy.
 
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