Your three favorite Westerns

[Dionysusigma]

1) Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. Why? "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side."

2) Desperado (45% because of the wonderful guitar case full of guns)

3) Wyatt Earp.

 

[marvl]

The top 10 in my book:

The Big Country
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Will Penny
Lonesome Dove
Quigley Down Under
Shenandoah
The Shootist
Jeremiah Johnson
Pale Rider
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Oh yeah, how about them firearms?

 

[4v50 Gary]

1) The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - btw, were any of them any good? I think they were all bad.
2) The Unforgiven - Gotta love Sheriff Gene Hackman & the "Duck of Death."
3) Tombstone - "Are you my huckleberry?"

 

[semf]

1) Big Jake

2) The Searchers

3)The Shootist


Top three, thats hard I've changed this thing 10 times. Had to leave out about 20 greats.

 

[HogRider]

Tombstone

Once upon a time in the West

Unforgiven

 

[Black Snowman]

1. Unforgiven
2. Tombstone
3. Quigly Down Under

 

[Stevie-Ray]

The Quick and the Dead (the Sam Elliot, Tom Conte one)
The Long Riders
Silverado

Special mention goes to The Big Country for the Peck/Heston fight and because I always adored Jean Simmons.

 

[Captain Scarlet]

I like classics...

* Distant Drums [1951] starring Gary Cooper

* the Searchers starring John Wayne

* the ALAMO starring John Wayne and Richard Widmark

 

[Sunray]

"The Wild Bunch" Just watched it again tonight. Not exactly a Western, but great for spotting the anachronisms. Like Strother Martin using a 1903A3 rifle. Mind you, it's just a movie and I watch it every time just for the ending.
The best non-western movie of all time, if not the best of all time is "Zulu". Trust me. Michael Caine's first starring movie and absolutely true to history except for Hooky wasn't a boozing layabout.

 

[Preacherman]

My top 3:

The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
McKenna's Gold

 

[sm]

Oh great, limited to 3...( loosens top button,) ya'll know how I dislike restrictions on anything. aww heck...

Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Wild Bunch

 

[stellarpod]

Lonesome Dove (THE quintessential western)
Open Range
Outlaw Josey Wales
The Searchers
Jeremiah Johnson

stellarpod

 

[4570Rick]

Three is not a realistic number

1. Lonesome Dove…The greatest epic western ever made.

2. Liberty Valance…John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin...’nuff said.

3. The Wild Bunch…The greatest western shoot out in cinematic history.

4. Valdez is Coming…Burt Lancaster takes on corruption in Mexico single handed.

5. Tom Horn…My favorite Steve McQueen western

6. Death Hunt…Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and the location, the Yukon.

7. The Shootist…The Duke’s last and greatest western.

8. Rooster Cogburn…John Wayne and cinematography.

9. Tombstone…My favorite rendition of the Shoot out at the OK coral.

10. 100 Rifles…Raquel Welch

11. How The West Was Won…Second greatest western epic.

12. The Sacketts…One of many Ben Johnson westerns.

13. Shane…If you’ve never seen it, what are you waiting for?

14. The Desperadoes…The 1943 Glen Ford version

15. The Magnificent Seven…Adapted from Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.

In my opinion, the western is the best film style of all.

 

[Schuey2002]

Well, since I can only pick three..

1) The Outlaw Josey Wales
2) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3) [tie] Unforgiven & High Plains Drifter (The music at the end of H.P.D. rules!)

All Clint. All the time.

 

[Sean Smith]

The Shootist
The Magnificient Seven
Unforgiven

Honorable mentions to Open Range (didin't expect to like it, but did) and Tombstone. And anything else with Clint the Squint in it gets a nod.

Oh, and of course Blazing Saddles.

Bart: Are we awake?
The Waco Kid: We're not sure. Are we black?
Bart: Yes we are.
The Waco Kid: Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled.

 

[standingbear]

i dont like just 3,i like em all.so you gonna pull them pistols or whistle dixie.

 

[Okiecruffler]

1. The Shootist by far John Wayne at his best for rather sad reasons. "some men 'll bat an eye, draw a breath, I won't"

2. McLintock, the only non- Selleck Western that the wife will watch with me.

3. Big Jake, interesting to see how the world was changing.

Honerable mention goes to the Shadow Riders, have to throw Selleck in there somewhere or the wife will get upset.

 

[Tierhog]

The Cowboys

True Grit

Rio Grande

Detect a pattern?...

 

[duckfoot]

Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress

 

[A. Partisan]

The #1 All Time Greatest Western Known To Mankind: Shane

The #2 All Time Greatest Western Known To Mankind and The#1 All Time Greatest John Wayne Western Known To Mankind:True Grit

#3 is a tie between The Searchers and The Shootist.

 

[Pumpkinheaver]

The searchers
rooster cogburn
unforgiven

 

[ed dixon]

The Searchers
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone

Lonesome Dove above them all though. Sometimes TV does it right.

 

[BenW]

1) Shane
2) Stagecoach
3) The Oxbow Incident

Are my top three at this time, but there's a bunch of others..... The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Fort Apache (in fact that whole trilogy), The Three Godfathers, The Westerner, ..... Just to name a few of many.

 

[Bigjake]

The War Wagon
Rooster Cogburn
Outlaw Josey Wales

Honorable mention- Mclintock

 

[MikeJ]

It is really hard to pick just three but;

Pale Rider

For a Few Dollars More

Ulzana's Raid - I haven't seen this one mentioned but it is a fantastic movie that starred Burt Lancaster about an Apache uprising. Really worth seeing if you haven't already.