The 25 greatest westerns of all time?

[Lucky13]

Which are they, which are your favorites, what makes a great western?8)

 

[ccheese]

"Shane" has got to be one of the best. And probably the original make of
"Stagecoach". After those two, you can probably pick your own. I seem to
recall a John Wayne/Montgomery Clift movie about a cattle drive that was good, too.

Charles

 

[Wayne Little]

That would be Red River, Charles...

Shane is definitely a great Western! that would get a vote from me.

Gee, where does one start?...A personal recent favourite 'Open Range' Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall...

 

[Becca]

does 'Blazing Saddles' count???

 

[Wurger]

Les'Bride, have you ever seen the movie titled "Vinnetou"? This is something intersting, Indians shouting "halt" or "Hände hoch " all over around etc....

I like John Wayne and all westerns where he starred.Especially "Rio Bravo"
Also I like "Dances with wolves" with Kevin Costner.

 

[comiso90]

The Searchers
The Man who Shot Liberty Valence (The Duke, Jimmy Stewart AND Lee Marvin)
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Red River

 

[Thorlifter]

Just to name a few of my favorites

My Darling Clementine
Hondo
The Man who shot Libery Vallence
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Hang em High
Unforgiven
High Plains Drifter
The Searchers
High Noon
Once Upon a Time in the West
Paint Your Wagon
The Shootist
El Dorado
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
McClintock
Rooster Cogburn

And on the humor side.......
Maverick
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The Apple Dumpling Gang
Blazing Saddles

 

[Bucksnort101]

If Balzing Saddles counts then I nominate Evil Roy Slade and The Villian, where else will you see Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Cowboy movie?

 

[SoD Stitch]

Older Westerns:

Any Clint Eastwood Western, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.

Newer Westerns:

Silverado, Tombstone and Unforgiven.

Does Jeremiah Johnson count as a Western? That's a really good movie.

 

[ToughOmbre]

Tombstone
The Magnificent Seven
The Searchers
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
High Noon
The Wild Bunch
My Darling Clementine
Fort Apache
Stagecoach

TO

 

[v2]

classic: The Magnificent Seven,
comic: Cat Ballou-
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABVf_1pq5k
spaghetti western: Once Upon a Time in the West,
musical: Paint Your Wagon.

 

[HoHun]

Hi Lucky,

>Which are they, which are your favorites, what makes a great western?8)

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Barbarosa
West World

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)

 

[evangilder]

One of my favorite comedy westerns is "Rustler's Rhapsody". If you have watched the old westerns, the cliches are throughout in a funny spoof of the old westerns like the good guy never shooting the bad guy, just shooting the gun out of his hand. Tom Berenger plays the "good guy" with GW Bailey as the town drunk and Andy Griffith as "The Colonel".

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. I laughed my head off.

 

[Negative Creep]

I like Westerns, but wouldn't say they're my favourite genre so couldn't choose 25. I will say in no real order:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (on of my all time top films, it's a masterpiece)
For A Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
A Fistful of Dynamite
Tombstone
Open Range
Unforgiven
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
No Country for Old Men (does that count?)

 

[RabidAlien]

Sons of Katie Elder
High Plains Drifter
Tombstone
Dances With Wolves
Good/Bad/Ugly

 

[Thorlifter]

Oh, I forgot one of the more forgotten spaghetti westerns that Clint Eastwood did......

Two mules for Sister Sara.

If you can find it.......get it.........it's greatness!!!!

Cat Ballou!!!!! OMG, I forgot about that one. Where I hate Hanoi Jane for her politics, man oh man, she was an 11 on a 10 scale in hotness!!!!

 

[Bernhart]

silverado
pale rider

 

[Njaco]

A few quick ones for me although most have been posted....

Open Range (man, was this one great!)
Unforgiven
The Magnificent Seven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Shane
The Long Riders
The Quiet Rage ( check this one out!)
Joe Kidd or Two Mules for Sister Sarah or The Good , the Bad and the Ugly or....


Does Westworld count?

 

[Parmigiano]

Gulp, I would had never thought that Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns were that known outside Italy...

Here's my list, in random order

High Noon - Fred Zinnermann
Little Big Man - Arthur Penn
Soldier Blue - Ralph Nelson
Soleil Rouge (red sun ?) - Terence Young
Giù la Testa (a fistful of Dynamite) - Sergio Leone
C'era una volta il West (once upon a time in the west) - Sergio Leone
Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood
Pat Garrett Billy the Kid - Sam Peckinpah
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah

About Leone, I would recommend "C'era una volta in America" (once upon a time in America) if you can find the original 220' version, not the 135' cut originally distributed in USA by the local producer.

 

[Lucky13]

Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone....WHAT A TEAM! Will we ever see a duo like that again, in ANY genre? 8)