What is your favorite western?

Fine Figure of a Man said:

Eli Wallach's "Tuco" is one of the all great film characters.

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Definitely.

Anything Clint for me.

I might be the only guy here who didn't like Tombstone. I didn't think a single one of those actors struck me as "western". Like "The Quick and the Dead".

Cemetery21 said:

The man who shot Liberty Valance. .

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He was the bravest of them all

2nd and 3rd the calls for Wild Bunch and the Man with no name epics..

To add

Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the kid. Much of the movie's story is whole cloth but the dialog and use of the older western actors in it is mesmerizing. The assassination of Pat Garrett in the beginning of the movie is magic.

Old Gringo.. like The Wild bunch a movie to end the cowboy era..

How the West Was won.. Nuff said

Gunfight at Ok Carral.. Great actors, a Frankie lane song and they have guns.. All a movie needs






Oh my God Forgot Magnificence Seven (or Seven Samurai if you must )

Everyone....get on netflix and watch "Godless"....you wont be disapointed.

Mine is McKenna’s Gold with Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif and Julie Newmar. Saw as a kid. Julie did a skinny dipping scene. I think she was one of the “Catwomen” and was in playboy.
I did some prospecting as a young man so this movie appeals to me on several levels. What more do you need ? Good western action, a little gold fever, and a hot chick!

Lonesome Dove
Dances With Wolves

Big Jake
Hang em high
The War Wagon

Oh, and one more....
Yellowstone
ETA
If you're not currently watching Paramount's Yellowstone, you're missing an epic contemporary western.

Winchester '73

So many great ones!! Not sure if "The Long Riders" (1980) has been mentioned. The cast for that movie was loaded !!

Mike

Blazing Saddles.

Mn Fats said:

I might be the only guy here who didn't like Tombstone. I didn't think a single one of those actors struck me as "western".

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You are not alone, "Tombstone" should be remembered as the film that combined the worst performances in the entire careers of the largest number of big name actors.

Jeremiah Johnson is one of the best films ever. If it is a Western or not is up to the viewer.

Unforgiven.

"We all have it comin' kid."

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

Good Morning,
'Night of the Grizzly' 1966 \ Clint Walker ( and a Host of Great Character Actors like Jack Elam and Nancy Culp )
regards all!

Unforgiven, Hombre, and the Lonsome Dove series.
I've killed just about every thing that's walked or crawled.
I got a question. How're you gonna get down that hill.
A man that wouldn't cheat at cards for a poke, don't want one bad enough.

NMachine said:

Big Jake
Hang em high
The War Wagon

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wow loved the War Wagon... I have based my life on its teachings

I am a fan of all of the classics,,,
Shane, anything with James Stewart, etc.

But there is one that I deem my absolute favorite.

"Valdez is Coming"

Burt Lancaster at his finest playing an aging deputy sheriff for the "Mexican side of town",,,
who has to resort to violence against a powerful rancher in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.

My favorite line,,,
When asked why he is carrying a sawed off shotgun he replied,,,
'dis leetle thing,,,
Dis is for rabbeets.

From a book by Elmore Leonard.

Oddly enough, when he first started to produce the movie,,,
He was originally going to play the bad guy rancher.

Honorable mention goes to a movie called "Chuka"

Rod Taylor and Ernest Borgnine,,,
Great movie!

Aarond

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This may stretch the definition of the ‘western’ genre so I will just say this in defense of the submission.... that in the time period the film takes place the principles were on the ‘western’ frontier.

Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis. As someone who hunted with traditional muzzleloaders this movie really struck a cord with me. I’ve lost count of the times Ive seen it.

post script: as a result of how many times it was mentioned in this thread I watched Josey Wales yesterday PM. It’s been probably 20 years since I last saw it. Forgot just how good it is. Has held up remarkably well.

Anyone mention Howard Hawks' El Dorado (1966) yet?
( Very similar to Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo)

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Ed Asner, Arthur Hunnicutt, Charlene Holt, Michele Carey, all with memorable roles, including a greenhorn actor named James Caan.

Included a title song based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem "El Dorado" and Caan's character recites a few lines. None of the Roger Corman Poe films were Westerns.

I'm a sucker for big battle scenes, like in The Patriot and Glory.



This thread got me started watching some on Youtube including part of Gladiator.
But then I saw the Google results for a free western named "Chino" with Charles Bronson.
So I watched most all of it.
What a low budget plate of spaghetti that is, but you know that it's all good.
Not much for gun battles at all except for a very little at the end after 1:25:00.
Of course it was over a pretty lady.
I won't spoil it for you, Bronson makes a good bronco bustin' cowboy.
But don't expect much action, just good ole' Charles Bronson as Chino!
I had already watched enough action in the aforementioned battle scenes.

Agree there are so many with quality attributes. One I remember seeing at the theater as a youngster is on one of my local area TV channels ATM.

Bite the Bullet

Open Range again.

Open Range
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Quigley Down Under
Lonesome Dove (mini-series)
The Sacketts (mini-series/movie)
Gettysburg (not a western, but...)
Unforgiven
Hombre

arcticap said:

I won't spoil it for you, Bronson makes a good bronco bustin' cowboy.
But don't expect much action, just good ole' Charles Bronson as Chino!
I had already watched enough action in the aforementioned battle scenes.

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Had not seen that before, that was a darn good Bronson movie... Moocho thanks