"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.
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.
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
Support you Local Sheriff
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Blazing Saddles
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.
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?)
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....
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.