What is your favorite western?

Pale Rider and The Outlaw Josey Wales are my favorites.

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Same here, and I agree that The Good The Bad And The Ugly is the qunitessential spaghetti western, but I think The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite.

I’m a huge fan of westerns and the lever rifles and single actions in the safe underscore that. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly ranks right at the top for me. I saw it for the first time around 8 years old. I was accompanying a childhood friend whose father was an American G.I. to the Baumholder Army Base theater when it was first released. Quite the overwhelming experience. I didn’t understand a word of English but the huge screen. Gun fights. Popcorn, coke and candy made it all worthwhile.

I’m also a fan of Open Range and Hell on Wheels. They rank close to the top as well.

I love the Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, what I hated was that back ground music, just a small segment of it that drove me up the walls.

I have not grown up with westerns like many of you, but I liked watching old movies with my dad like the old syfi ones. But if there's a western on I'll watch it, I like the clint Eastwood ones to.

seems most my age or younger just hate black and white, almost looks like it hurts them to watch it lol. I guess blazing saddles would be considered a spaghetti western, I've Hurd that was the death of them when that movie came out.

All good movies mine is Ride with the devil and then there is unforgiven and Open Range. I have all these movies I have a big screen and blue ray player in the shop.

I watched a good one last week, the white buffalo.

On a site local to me there’s a Cimarron.38 Special Version of that gun currently listed for $480

I always told my self if I had the money if get the same 1874 from Quigley down under. Definitely some cool guns in westerns and see a lot of 92 winchesters in movies that were supposed to be before 1892 lol.

Two Mules for Sister Sara
Outlaw JW
Fist Full of Dollars
Shane
Tombstone

Gosh. That’s like asking which one of my kids I love the most.

Hard to pick a favorite. Honestly it’s a rotation between a few.

Young Guns
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Quick and The Dead
The whole “dollars” trilogy
2 mules for sister sara
Tombstone
And Hannie Caulder.

And anything I find that has a Colt Root Rifle anywhere as a prop.

I forgot about Young Guns. As a kid that was my intro to Billy the Kid

"Unforgiven" is the best western ever since it is more like life. No good guys in the entire film. Everyone is out for themselves.

Modern - Cold in July, runner up The Hateful Eight

Cinematic - The Wild Bunch, runner up The Magnificent Seven (the original, not the more recent remake)

Spaghetti - High Plains Drifter, but there are so many in that era such as Fistful of Dynamite / Duck You Sucker! that run a close race

I don't think this is appropriate for this forum, but I will say my favorite western is 'The man from Utah' with John Wayne. For the name alone. Old fashion 30s western.
If it wasn't for the western movies, awesome guns like the Ruger Blackhawk series would never exist.

The first John Wayne western I remember seeing at the theater was The Cowboys.

We didn't have a color TV until 1979 so the only time we saw movies in color was at the theater or visiting at various friends' houses

I have 3 favorites. Tombstone with Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Quigley Down Under and Open Range.

Hell on Wheels. Not a Western , perhaps but all the elements of one and glimpses of most of the revolvers used during and years after the civil war. From Grisewolds to NMA’s to Colts. In the late 2nd season series the main man does the classic, put down six bad guys, then preforms the NMA cylinder switch and nails a few more.

Russell13 said:

I’m a big fan of westerns, especially spaghetti westerns. Though I love most of them my favorite would have to be The Good The Bad And The Ugly.

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I love them all, but it would have to be "A Fistful of Dollars." If its on, I stop what I'm doing and enjoy!

whughett said:

Hell on Wheels. Not a Western , perhaps but all the elements of one and glimpses of most of the revolvers used during and years after the civil war. From Grisewolds to NMA’s to Colts. In the late 2nd season series the main man does the classic, put down six bad guys, then preforms the NMA cylinder switch and nails a few more.

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A seriously good show. Also Deadwood would fall into that category.

I’m a younger guy so I really like Tombstone and Unforgiven. In fact, I have been noted to say that Tombstone is my favorite movie ever.

However, I also like The Searchers, and The Professionals.

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High Noon. I live the principle in my mind: duty, duty, duty!