Best Western of All Time?

[dw33]

"The Searchers" with John Wayne, "Shane," come quickly to mind.

[ducslayer]

Lonesome Dove!

[Coues]

Outlaw Josie Wales
Jerimiah Johnson

[tmoniz]

The Searchers was a good one.

[gtimo98]

High Plains Drifter

[powerman]

Big Jake is my hero

[Neil San Diego]

Blazing Saddles
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Woody

[B.L. Justice]

I&#39;m a yung&#39;un so I like more modern stuff. Allways liked Silverado and Tombstone. Watch&#39;em every chance I get. I shoot BP Gunfighter so I like the scene where Kevin Costner shoots two guys outside the saloon, GF style.

[kphunter]

Back in the day I was a Big Valley fan, and Gunsmoke too.

KP

[Guard Dog]

I&#39;m a big JW fan.

True Grit, Chisum and The Cowboys are the first that come to mind. I also liked Tombstone and The Unforgiven. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-patriotic-flagwaver-ani.gif

[ducslayer]

Best Christmas western..Three Godfather&#39;s !

[dw33]

All good choices. I watch Tombstone every time it is on also. Three Godfathers! Haven&#39;t thought of that one in a while - another good John Wayne film. Unforgiven, great movie, gritty, probably captures the West as well as any film. Hombre with Paul Newman is another good one.

[AMMOe]

Open Range with Costner and Duvall. One handgunning glitch (13 shots from a Colt SAA) but the rest was very realistic.~AMMOe

[Glass eye]

Jack Bull comes to mind. John Cusack isn&#39;t the guy who looks like he could star in a western but he played the part real well, good story.

[yankeejim]

What a bunch of youngsters! Best all-time Western? High Noon with Gary Cooper. http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley_10sign.gif

yj http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-2drunks-singing.gif

[dw33]

High Noon is a great film, and if I was trying to get back to a woman who looked liked Grace Kelly I would have been firing away, lol.

[7mm RM]

All time best IMHO is Outlaw Josie Wales...."Dying aint much of a living"...god I love that line in the movie. Also the Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean with Paul Newman. Pale Rider and Unforgiven are great. Great topic starter! http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley_10sign.gif

[SFHOGWILD]

Outlaw Josie Wales is now but growing up my favorite was "The Cowboys" with John Wayne. I wanted to be able to leave home and work a drive like that so much when I was a kid, The whiskey scene is great too.

[Chuck N. Lead]

Toss up between lonsome dove, The good the bad and the ugly, fist full of dollars, Few dollars more, Outlaw Josie Wales, Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid, young guns, Tombstone ................

[tdbob]

For me, it depends on my mood and what I feel like watching. I love all the films mentioned. I&#39;ll have to toss in Magnificent Seven, Nevada Smith, The Professionals, and The Wild Bunch as favorites too.

[doghouse95]

That&#39;s an impossible choice to make. I still go to the theater to see every new western released.
John Wayne is still my hero.

[dhall61]

All great westerns, how about:

Shane

Tom Horn

She wore a Yellow Ribbon

Fort Apache

My Darling Clementine

The Horse Soldiers

How The West was Won

Red River

The Treause of the Sierran Madre

The Wild Bunch

[BigSwad]

Just about anything with JW or CE for me is good.

Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (great soundtrack)
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
The Cowboys
Big Jake

Some others:
Silverado
Tombstone
Open Range
Quigly Down Under

[dw33]

All the westerns listed are good choices. I did not like "The Cowboys" when I saw it as a kid because it is one of the three movies that I know of where the Duke was killed. He also died in "The Shootist", and that was a good movie also. "Silverado" was a great movie, and still enjoyable every time I see it. Why don&#39;t they make another movie as good as that one for us western fans?

[hntnnut]

For me it would have to be:

New western
1. Open Range
2. Conagher


Richard

[popx5]

Lonesome Dove
Best Lines : " Ain&#39;t much of a crime wacking a sorly bartender" and "Hate rude behavior in a man, won&#39;t tolerate it"

Tombstone
Best Line: "Are you gonna do something or just stand there and bleed"

[dw33]

Tombstone, Doc Holliday: "I&#39;m in my prime."

[Chuck N. Lead]

-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid: "WHO ARE THOSE GUYS?!"

-Tombstone-
Curly Bill: " Next time we come through, &#39;yall better step aside! I ain&#39;t kidden neither."

[billt]

"The Shootist". The Dukes last, and his best.

Best line, Sam Elloitt in "The Desperate Trail". "You shudda stayed back east thief, you coulda been play&#39;n cards in some nice warm bar, instead a diein out here in this stinkhole." Bill T.

[Chuck N. Lead]

Once upon a time in the West-

Charles Bronson to the three bad guys. "Did you bring a horse for me?

Bad guy- "Looks like we&#39;re shy one horse." followed by laughter.

Charles Bronson- "No. You brought two too many" followed briefly by silence and the BANG! POW! BING! PTOW! After the smoke cleared, Bronson had a flesh wound and there were two too many horses:-)

[Gomer76825]

The Duke all the way

War Wagon "mine hit the ground first." "Mine was taller"

Big Jake "you can call me Jake, you can call me Jacob, you can call me father, you can call me a Dirty son of A b@#$H, but if you ever call me Daddy again I&#39;m gonna finish this fight.

Also love Mountain Men with Heston, and Brian Keith

[Pecci]

Favorite Series - The Big Valley

Favorite Movie - Tombstone

[billrob]

"High Noon" Gary Cooper

"The Grey Fox" Richard Farnsworth

"Once Upon a time In The West" Henry Fonda

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance" John Wayne Jimmy Steward

"Sons Of Katie Elder" John Wayne

"Missouri Breaks" Jack Nicholson Marlin Brando

"Cat Ballou" Lee Marvin

Best Epic: "How the West Was Won" too many stars to mention

Best TV

"Wanted Dead or Alive" Steve McQueen

"Maverick" James Garner

[Flatbroke]

Hondo and the Searchers are among my favorite.

[rusman66]

Tough to choose.
Tombstone is one of my fav&#39;s.
Once upon a time in the west.

I know its probably not considered a great western
But I can watch Rio Bravo everytime its on and just laugh and laugh.

[BelchFire]

Nothing tough about this.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. FOREVER!

[fishnshoot]

High Noon, Almost anything from John Ford, The Wild Bunch, How the West was Won, plenty of good ones but High Noon says so much about a man, people and life.

[SCREWLOOSE]

Anything filmed in TECHNICOLOR OR PANAVISION. The colors where so much better in the 60s and early 70s. You could feel the heat coming off the prairie. And you could actually see whats going on in the scene, dust coming up from a horses hoofs, other actors in the background, made you feel like you were right there.

[RoosterKiller]

One of the best westerns ever made was called "The Long Riders"
It Had great action,very good special effects.
It was about the James gang and had 4 sets of actual brothers in it to represent the James,Youngers and Fords. I recommend it.

[Bisley]

Best western scene ever. I don&#39;t think any other actor could have pulled this off. A Fistful of dollars. Three quotes come to mind. "Get three coffins ready". "I don&#39;t think it&#39;s very nice you laughin, see, my mule don&#39;t like people laughin, gets the crazy idea your laughin at him". And of course, "My mistake, four coffins".

[Lurediver]

Young Guns is my favorite western, yeah-I am not very old.

[bobcatman04]

Jerimiah Johnson http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-eatin-popcorn.gif

[cubanpete]

for me it would have to be ...

the cowboys.... and it fulfiled any dream i had ever had of becoming a coming a cowboy.

the searchers

unforgivin

palerider

quigley down under

lonesome dove

broken trail..with robert duvall

saber river (i think thats&#39;s what it wa called) with tom selleck

....also the rounders with glen ford

and cowboy with glen ford and jack lemon

[billt]

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Jerimiah Johnson[/b]

"Can you really hunt "Griz"? I can hunt anything. You sure are cocky for a starvin&#39; Pilgrim! Bill T.

[hntnnut]

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Jerimiah Johnson[/b]

"Can you really hunt "Griz"? I can hunt anything. You sure are cocky for a starvin&#39; Pilgrim! Bill T.
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I thought it was;
"Can you really skin "Griz"? I can skin anything. You sure are cocky for a starvin&#39; Pilgrim!"


Richard

[bighog]

hntnnut, your right on...... it&#39;s skin griz. The other thing I really liked from that movie was the note hatchet Jake left. I think it went something about being of sound mind and broke legs. then about his rifle, I believe a 50 cal hawkin, that Kilt the bear that kilt him and that he hoped whoever found him was a whiteman. I love that movie.

The other one I can watch over and over is Josie......you gunna pull them pistols or whistle dixie.

[gundogs]

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Just about anything with JW or CE for me is good.

Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (great soundtrack)
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
The Cowboys
Big Jake

Some others:
Silverado
Tombstone
Open Range
Quigly Down Under[/b]
These are all great movies but what about all of the movies and tv shows made by Roy?
Happy Tails to You!
Bryce & Trigger.....Bullet too!

[dw33]

Can&#39;t leave out "The Searchers."

[gottahunt]

I have to go with Jeremiah Johnson, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (loved the leading lady), followed by Clint and the http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smiley-gunfighter-yellow.gif spaghetti westerns.

[mstan99999]

McClintock...

"Hey Maklin. Good party. No whiskey. We go home."

The Cheyenne Social Club....

"But Harley, you&#39;ve been talking for a thousand miles."

[bubaskeet]

The http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_...-dancin-red.gif (http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smiley-dancin-red.gif) best western of all time is Shane

[Tank]

Lonesome Dove because it&#39;s probably how it really was. Open Range for the 18 minute shootout. Unforgiven because it&#39;s Clint and True Grit because John Wayne is the King of the Cowboys.

[myfriendis410]

My God; I can&#39;t believe True Grit didn&#39;t get better billing than the others listed. Don&#39;t get me wrong-I think there are a bunch of great ones out there. But let&#39;s not forget the Duke&#39;s Oscar winning movie!

Tombstone

Unforgiven

Open Range

Josie Wales

[Orygun]

They are all worth watching over and over.

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"Missouri Breaks" Jack Nicholson Marlin Brando[/b] Was wondering if that was gonna be tossed in.

"You know what woke you up? You just had your throat cut."


For laughs I would enthusiastically add Rustler&#39;s Rhapsody with Tom Berenger, Patrick Wayne, and Andy Griffith. It doesn&#39;t hold a candle to Blazing Saddles (nothing does) but it is a better parody of the western.

"For some reason, the bad guy was always a Colonel who had a beautiful daughter and about a thousand head of cattle which you would hear but never see. "


Man, got to head over to Netflix and add to the que.

[kphunter]

Just watched the modern 3:10 to Yuma, that&#39;s right up there with the best I&#39;ve seen.

KP

[Common Sense]

Can&#39;t argue with any of the old ones you all have listed. The Searchers is high on the list, but I gotta go with Red River.


My favorite line is from Big Jake when The Duke and Sam the Indian are talking about going to Montana to shoot "elk as big as buffalo". Sam says "I wish they were buffalo" and John Wayne says THINGS CHANGE.

[PaHaSaPa]

Any John Wayne western.
Does anybody remember "Sergeants Three", one of my favorites as a kid.

[billt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zssZQBDUj-A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbyIGmErY5A...feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbyIGmErY5A&feature=related)

Not a western mind you. But undoubtedly one of the best shootouts ever filmed. They could only film on Sunday mornings, and used over 400 rounds of blank ammo PER TAKE! There were some screw ups. If you notice when DeNiro starts shooting inside the car, the rear view mirror falls off twice, (bad editing). Also when the Lincoln rear ends the stopped car the air bags don&#39;t deploy. If you watch Tom Sizemore, he falls into a fountain, and in the next scene when he gets up, he&#39;s completely dry. Check out Val Kilmer&#39;s magazine change. Pretty slick. Bill T.

[RR1]

Lonesome Dove

Also Rans--

Red River
Jeremiah Johnson
The Searchers
Will Penny
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid
Outlaw Josie Wales

[jackrabbit]

Haven&#39;t any of you youngsters seen "The Sackets"? That was a classic that had both Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot as two of the three brothers. After that there was a sequel featuring Sam Elliot titled "The Quick and the Dead" which was way better than the movie with the same title made much later and was just about street duels. I think I still have The Sackets on VHS, gonna have to dig it up again.

[howdy62]

Anyone seen "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"? I call it a modern day lonesome dove. Tommy lee Jones, Dwight Yokum. Didn&#39;t get much press but I thought was a good movie.

[sean english]

Tombstone is all good lines.
Open range and high Noon, and lonesome dove and just Brad Pit&#39;s Jessie James. Awesome. Really Awesome. The Aflic kid was just great. I think he should have won the best actors award. Didnt like No country all that much. Of course it was Tommy Lee Jones, but the movie wasnt all that great.

Just saw Monte Walsh.
It was ok.

[Doubletap]

How can you leave out the MAGNIFICIENT SEVEN gotta be in the top 5
along with
JW the cowboys
butch an sundance
jeremiah Johnson
Shane
silverado

[GregVan]

Most realistic: Probably McCabe & Mrs Miller.
Funniest: Cat Ballou
Most enjoyable: Tombstone or Lonesome Dove
Favorite: Probably Wild Bunch

[myfriendis410]

True Grit
Open Range
Paint Your Wagon was pretty good too.
Silverado

[Lives2Hunt]

Modern Movies ------------- Older Movies
Fav: Lonesome Dove ------ Fav: Pale Rider

2nd: Silverado ------------ 2nd: Shane

3rd: Tomb. ----------------3rd: Winchester 73

[ROBruin]

#1, Good, Bad, Ugly
#2 Joe Kidd

[wingman1]

Lonesome Dove

[Frank X. Morris]

Howdy All,
I may have missed it , but I didn't see it mentioned "Stagecoach" with the Duke. A few others that I liked that I didn't see mentioned. Quigly Down Under, Support Your Local Sheriff and Shanghi Knights.