burrhead
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Josey Wales is the best but then there's also The Searchers, One Eyed Jacks, Unforgiven and the remake of True Grit. Good, Bad and Ugly for honorable mention.
Just watched The Shootist, 1972, with John Wayne .. Again
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lemaymiami
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Lots of great old westerns (and certainly the main info source for our current crop of folks running the country... ). For something more current "Old Henry" gets my vote...
doubleh
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Wayne should have won an academy award for "The Searchers". I loved the novel and then the movie. I think I will re-read the novel. Alan LeMay wrote some really good books and "Searchers" was one of the best. I have my copy stashed away. Now to go dig it out.
As to a favorite movie, there are far too many good ones to just chose one.
As to a favorite movie, there are far too many good ones to just chose one.
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I can go along with this list except I would substitute Fort Apache for Big Jake.
And for something completely different, I would add Blazing Saddles. Hilarious parody and satire. It would never be made today, despite its underlying message.
allisd17
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A couple of weeks ago, I watched Stagecoach again. John Ford's 1939 black-and-white version, which launched the Duke to stardom. I had forgotten how good it is. We drove through Monument Valley a few years ago, just to see firsthand the setting where some of the best Westerns of all time were made. It was spectacular, really.
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Oh, "Good Bad and Ugly" for the music only. I repeat, for the music only.
Here's a full orchestral version of it if you're interested. Note the wa-waa singer lady's revolver earrings.
(Danish National Orchestra version.)
Back to the reviews...
Oh, "Good Bad and Ugly" for the music only. I repeat, for the music only.
Here's a full orchestral version of it if you're interested. Note the wa-waa singer lady's revolver earrings.
(Danish National Orchestra version.)
Back to the reviews...
Mauser lover
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It’s been a while, but El Dorado! Because sometimes goofing off is better than a serious movie.
Am I the only guy who really liked High Noon?
Scooter22
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I like them all but Open Range and The Unforgiven are on the top of my list.
I forgot about the funny scene between the sheriff and the writer who called English Bob "The Duke of Death". The sheriff kept calling him " The Duck of Death". You'd have to see it to get the full effect.
I forgot about the funny scene between the sheriff and the writer who called English Bob "The Duke of Death". The sheriff kept calling him " The Duck of Death". You'd have to see it to get the full effect.
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.308 Norma
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Oh, yeah! Thanks for posting that, 230RN.
I loved that trumpet solo during the 3-way showdown in the graveyard near the end of the movie too.
.308 Norma
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No, I like the movie AND the theme song a lot.
Beach Bum
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I watched Charles Bronson a couple days ago in Hard Times with Coburn , " I always liked Red Sun " and everything else Bronson was in ... I really liked the Trinity spagetti westerns too . You guys have pretty much listed most of the others.........My Mom before she passed away , was perfectly content too just sit and watch John Wayne movies over and over ...She loved to reminisce about those days .
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And another (kind of obscure) western I like for both the movie itself and the music is "River of no Return" with Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchem.
High Noon was kind of a landmark and as such became kind of a cliché.
Watching it afresh / anew, I constantly got the unfair feeling of "Oh, Gawd, are they doing that again? Can't these writers come up with something new?"
The same thing happened with the pretty good song by Frankie Laine. Just became "clichetic," if I can coin a word not even in my own language.
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Terry, 230RN
Edited for typo: "lind" to "kind"
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IJ1981
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Lots of great replies, reviews and observations. Thanks for all the memories of 100 years of Westerns!
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MrChicken
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For me Big Country is what pops front and center for the best western.
Classic good versus evil is not so cut and dried. Neither being as good as they think or as evil they think.
Loyalty, honor, fair play. Some from places you might not expect.
Gregory Peck as the dude showing the men (and his fiance) how a real man acts.
(Edit: Orson Welles, nope) Burl Ives, just awesome as usual.
Classic good versus evil is not so cut and dried. Neither being as good as they think or as evil they think.
Loyalty, honor, fair play. Some from places you might not expect.
Gregory Peck as the dude showing the men (and his fiance) how a real man acts.
(Edit: Orson Welles, nope) Burl Ives, just awesome as usual.
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Nasty Canasta
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I'll mention Silverado- as much for the cinematography & scenery in the background as the story.
.45Coltguy
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So many great replies here. My favorite is Shane. I was just at the film location of Shane last week outside of Jackson, Wy. Beautiful country around Antelope Flat where a lot of filming took place. Getting back to post #39, Hard Times with Bronson/Coburn, while not a western, was great.
tark
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Ditto, despite the 1911A1s and the 03A3 Springfield.The Wild Bunch.
Shanghai McCoy
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And also the music.
Shanghai McCoy
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It was the other "big" star, Burl Ives.
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allisd17
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The Big Country is a great film with an awesome cast, but Orson Welles wasn't in it.
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