New G.O.A.T. Thread - Westerns

[TroutTackler]

Alright guys, what are some of the greatest Western movies of all time?

I figure movies like Tombstone and McClintock will be listed over and over, so let's keep those out. What are some other favorites?

-David

[Gillseeker]

I love Tombstone! here are some of my favorites:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Lonesome Dove series

Anything with John Wayne or Clint Eastwood.

Dan

[NewtoHooch]

Shane. Anything with Roy and Dale.

[Fletch_W]

The Unforgiven

[Gillseeker]

I also like Glenn Ford movies.

[JOHNKIES]

'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'. Lee Marvin, Johh Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. And a killer theme song. And for you trivia buffs (well, Billy the Kid has had 60+ movies based on his life):

This and eighty-nine cents buys you the small coffee at any Waffle House .....................

During the Lincoln County, NM range wars, President Rutherford B Hayes appoints a Civil War hero named Wallace as territorial governor to stop corruption and the range war. Wallace is the one who promised a pardon to Billy The Kid in exchange for his testimony in a murder trial. Billy kept his part of the deal, but Governor Wallace not only ignored his part of the bargain, but when Billy broke out of jail, Wallace put a $500 bounty on his head and Pat Garrett set out to collect the reward. Ten days after posted the bounty notice, another event took place for Governor Wallace ............ his new book was published, 'Ben Hur'

[Buck Henry]

The Outlaw Josie Wales is by far is my favorite, followed closely by John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn. I also like that John Wayne movie called The Cowboys when all those young kids go on that cattle drive.

[fishinbub]

My favorite would have to be Rio Bravo, and pretty much anything else with John Wayne in it.

[Fletch_W]

"I killed him Will.... I killed him [sniff sniff]..... I ain't never killed a man.... I was tellin' stories before.... [sniff sniff]..... but.... I gues... I guess they had it comin'...."




"We all got it comin' kid"




It doesn't get any better than that.

[duane]

Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Jeremiah Johnson(if you want to call that a western) Legends of the Fall(hey, it was filmed in Montana)

Duane

[Trout8myfly]

Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood's flick in 1992)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner's version - yeah too long but still...)
Silverado
Lonesome Dove
Jeremiah Johnson
The Shootist

[The Ole Man]

"One Eyed Jacks"--Marlon Brando, Katherine Hepburn (a fav)

"Magnificent Seven"--Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Eli Wallach,....others (a great one)

"Hombre"---Paul Newman

"Rooster Cogburn"--John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn

John Wayne:

"McClintock"
"Hondo"
"The Cowboys"
"Stage Coach"

"Streets of Laredo"--Tommy Lee Jones

"3:10 to Yuma"--Gary Cooper

"Silverado"--Kevin Costner

"Cheyenne Autum"--Jimmy Stewart

Sooo many more----------

[bonedog]

Open Range was definitely a top 10 as was Lonesome Dove if you want to include a TV miniseries.
bd

PS. And my sig line comes from Josey Wales so that speaks for itself :)

[Speck]

Rio Bravo
The Tin Star - Anthony Perkins and Henry Fonda - an overlooked and underrated classic
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The man who shot Liberty Valance
Shane
The Magnificent Seven
Jeremiah Johnson
Dances with Wolves
Wyatt Earp
Hidalgo

And how is it we've gone this far in the thread without any Gary Cooper movies? High Noon? HELLO!! Here's another good overlooked Cooper movie to check out:
Along Came Jones

And I still can't understand why people think Tombstone was such a great movie. Of the Earp movies I've seen, it's easily the worst. I call it the "Bubble Gum" telling of the story. The only redeeming quality of the entire movie was Kilmer's portrayal of Doc Holliday.

Any serious movie fan should watch Tombstone and Wyatt Earp just to see the different ways Kilmer and Dennis Quaid play Holliday. Very different, yet both very good.

[The Ole Man]

Re--Gary Cooper, you didn't read my post. Hello !

[Speck]

Re--Gary Cooper, you didn't read my post. Hello !

Sorry Old Man - 1 mention in 13 posts, what do you expect? Remember I'm getting old too ...

[fishnpreacher]

Where's Dan the Gillseeker?

Thought he might weigh in here with "Brokeback Mountain" :yikes:
JK, Dan, JK

Hang'em High, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter

[JOHNKIES]

Get serious; 'Legends of the Fall'? That was a chic-flic of the highest order!

And I had forgotten 'The Shootist'. Great movie and Wayne's swan song. We were living in Phoenix at the time and the author screen writer lived in the area. 'The Bev' and I went to the theater where it had just opened and found about half the theater roped off. Turned out is was the local premier and about everyone was there except Wayne. Made a most interesting evening.

And yes, there are trout in AZ.

[Gatorbyte]

Blazing Saddles. IMO the best western of all! :rotfl:

[NewtoHooch]

Young Guns 1 and 2.




jk

[finless brown]

Another vote for "Blazing Saddles" and "The Magnificent Seven"

[vidalia1]

My personal top five:

Shane...best bar fight ever
Hign Noon...best ever western
Gunfight at the OK Corral....best shoot out ever
Blazing saddles...funniest western ever
Silverado...best characters

TV Movie...Lonesome Dove
TV Show....Wagon Train

Kim Youngblood
(aka vidalia1)

[B Kar Ma]

Gunsmoke - the old ones with Chester (Dennis Weaver)

Paladin

Wagon Train - with a young Clint Eastwood!

Man, I'm old, remembering all these.............

[REDTOP]

True Grit and Unforgiven (tie)

[Aquadump]

Blazing Saddles. IMO the best western of all! :rotfl:

Lets pull an old No. 9 on ’em!

[THE EG]

Winchester 73 (w/ Jimmy Stewart)

Cimmaron (the remake w/ Glenn Ford)

How the West Was Won (terrible acting but a classic western)

Any of the westerns directed by John Ford were usually good (great scenery around Monument Vally)

and I have no idea why but Sergio Leone and his spaghetti westerns are usually good (kicked off Clint's career) - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best

[Chuck Morris]

BKarma,
It was "Have Gun Will Travel", Paladin was the character. You ain't as old as you think you are.:D
Chuck

[SlckTrck]

Shane - Although little Joey (the kid) is very annoying. and if you did not know, at the end when Shane rides off, he's...DEAD.
"....no more guns in the valley....."

Rio Bravo - There are 2 versions of this movie, 1 is a bit more musical. Both are great. Dean Martin as a cowboy and you even have Ricky Nelson as young guitar toting gunslinger.

True Gret - An excellent movie. One of my late grandfather's favorites.

[The Ole Man]

SlckTrck--"Shane" was on the tube last night. Got to see that barfight again. It was a goodun!

[vidalia1]

Several more of these are TV shows:

I loved "Have Gun Will Travel"

also, who remembers "Yancey Daringer"????

and "The Rifleman"

Shane was dead????...I am crushed. I just thought he was ignoring Joey (aka Brandon De Wilde) who starred in another classic "Good-bye My Lady"??? about a Bisenji. This a great movie about a boy and his dog. Maybe even better than "Ole Yeller".

Another good hunting movie is "The Biscuit Eater" but that is for another thread.

[JOHNKIES]

Indeed a good one and I think the last of the so-called "Adult Westerns" No porn jokes, please.

And here's a little thought fodder ............... if you look at many of those westerns we have marked as our favorites, many of them came about because of the vision and dedication of one person. One person who was willing to put their reputation and their money on the line to produce a movie they thought was good but the major studios would not touch. Mel Brooks bet his bank roll on 'Blazing Saddles', Wayne on 'The Alamo' (and lost his shirt in the process), Clint Eastwood several times over, and, Robert Reford on 'Jeremiah Johnson'. It took Redford three years after the film was edited and ready before he could even find anyone to distribute it!

Speaking of Redford, he wrote a book called 'The Outlaw Trail' which documented the actual network of old trails through the Rockies from Montana to Mexico used by outlaws to run, hide, move stolen cattle and so forth. Set off on horseback with a couple of guides and traced what they could find of these old trails. The book concludes with an interview Redford did with Butch Cassidy's little sister! That was the fun part of the old west, still so close in so many ways. Great book if you can find it. I lost my copy ...... any of you have it??

[The Ole Man]

Anybody here old enough to remember "Lash Larue" (sp)? The cowboy that did all his fighting with a bull whip. How about "Sky King"--the flying cowboy. Serial series played in theaters on Sat mornings before the main feature.

Audie Murphy--in "Destry" and other Westerns I can't remember the names of. Audie was a decorated WWII hero and Medal of Honor winner. His first movie "To Hell and Back" was his true-life war experience.

Real oldies---"Sea of Grass"--Spencer Tracy (in B&W), and "Cattle Queen of Montana"--Barbara Stanwyck.

[Tam o' Shanter]

What about:


The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) - William Holden & Ernest Borgnine


The Magnificent Seven - Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen (The King of Cool), Robert Wagner, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, etc.


;)

[lone wolf]

anyone mention "High Noon" with Gary Cooper and a very young blond woman who became the princess on Monico, Grace Kelly.
Also, I love all the John Wayne movies... "Stagecoach" and especially the ones that were directed by John Ford. I could watch them every night..
wolf

[Tom]

Lash Larue...Hoppy....Tom Mix and Tarzan....and yes, good ole Gene and Roy. Back in the good old days when a real cowboy wouldn't kiss the girl but would his horse! Six shooters held at least 24 rounds and after a gunfight the smoke was thicker than a fog.
Back in my youth in Charlotte, when Dad had to work on Saturday mornings, he would drop me off at one of the downtown theaters where for a quarter, I would see several serials, two movies, a doxen cartoons and a stage show.
Put me down for Gary Cooper, Glen Ford, John Wayne and while not truly a cowboy Western, Jerimiah was one heck'uva movie. Not a western at all but as an ex-horse raiser, I loved "The Horse Whisperer"
Gotta run now I think I see a black panther looking in the window.:yikes:

[Speck]

Several more of these are TV shows:

I loved "Have Gun Will Travel"

also, who remembers "Yancey Daringer"????

and "The Rifleman"

Shane was dead????...I am crushed. I just thought he was ignoring Joey (aka Brandon De Wilde) who starred in another classic "Good-bye My Lady"??? about a Bisenji. This a great movie about a boy and his dog. Maybe even better than "Ole Yeller".

Another good hunting movie is "The Biscuit Eater" but that is for another thread.



Dead? I think I missed something. I'll have to watch the ending again.

I believe De Wilde was also in Hud with Paul Newman. Much better acting job there than in Shane.

[Tom]

Vidalia, I doubt if enough saw or remember that movie to warrant a separate thread....it was the first one I remember crying in and that swamp hermit scared the dickens out of me. Thanks for the reminder.

[vidalia1]

Penny was Sky King's niece and she was HOT...at least when I was 10 I think she was hot. Her name was Gloria Winters. She also played Jackie Gleason's wife on the first "Life with Riley" show.
Sky King's plane was the Songbird.

Yancey Derringer was played by Jock Mahoney. He was an agent for the New Orleans Administrator Dept. NO could use him now. His Indian shotgun toting sidekick was Pahoo Ka Ta Wah played by an Indian actor whose real name was X Brands.

Another favorite was "My Friend Flicka". I think I may have watched too much TV and movies as a kid......

Kim Youngblood
(aka vidalia1)

[Counslrman]

We used to see Rocky Lane and his horse Thunder and Red Ryder with his sidekick, "Little Beaver" played by Robert Blake at the Saturday movies for 10 cents. TV series like Steve McQueen's "Wanted: Dead or Alive" and Chuck Connors in "The Rifleman" were also weekly viewing. As for movies, I like Lonesome Dove, Silverado, all the Clint Eastwood stuff, McClintock w/ the Duke (and all his other films),
also on TV Clint Walker as "Cheyenne" Bodie. Remember Nick Adams as "Johnny Yuma: The Rebel"? Wow! I wonder if any of that old stuff is on DVD?
Jimmy

[Chuck Morris]

OK, more old TV shows.
Branded
Bat Masterson (Gene Barry)
Sugarfoot
Tales of the Texas Rangers
Death Valley Days (one of the hosts-Ronald Reagan)
Wild Bill Hickok (Guy Mitchell)
Bonanza (Y'all know the stars)
Tales of Wells Fargo (Dale Robertson)
Maverick (James Garner and Jack Kelley)
Hotel de Paree
Rin Tin Tin
FYI Pahoo Ka Ta Wah meant (supposedly) Wolf who stands in water.
Jay Silverheels (Tonto on the Lone Ranger) was an outstanding Lacrosse player
Question for all you Old guys. Who was your favorite sidekick?
Smiley Burdette-Gene Autry
Gabby Hayes-Roy Rogers
Chill Wills-John Wayne's McClintock
Tonto-Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
Chester(Dennis Weaver)-James Arness Gunsmoke
Burt Reynolds-Gunsmoke
Etc,etc.
How about some horses names.
Roy Rogers-Trigger
Dale Evans-Buttermilk
Gene Autry-Champion
Lone Ranger-Silver (Hi-ho Silver awaaaaaaay)
Tonto-Scout (Git em up Scout)
Hopalong Cassidy-Topper
Etc. etc.
Oh, the memories this brings back. Sometimes I can't remember what I did yesterday:bang: , but I can remember all these useless facts and information!:yikes:
Kim (Vidalia 1) Are you thinking of the "Life of Riley" with William Bendix?
Chuck

[Counslrman]

Pahoo was my favorite sidekick (Yancey Derringer) and I admired the sawed off double barrell he carried under his poncho!
Jimmy

[vidalia1]

I am too young to say that. Yes Chuck the original version was with Jackie Gleason & Gloria Winters. It was the Life with Riley. It ran for 2 years and then the more popular version was with William Bendix and was The Life of Riley.

I loved Rin Tin Tin also....i need to go buy some DVD's....

Kim Youngblood
(aka vidalia1)

[Chuck Morris]

Kim,
Thanks for the info on the "Riley" shows.:)
It took me quite a while but, after racking my brain, and being too stubborn to look it up,:bang: I finally remembered that Paladin (Have Gun-Will Travel) was played by Richard Boone.
BTW Try and keep Mark out of trouble this weekend.:D Let's be careful out there! Hill Street Blues
Chuck

[SlckTrck]

Yep fellas, Ol' Shane was dead. Watch the ending again. After the gun fight and Shane get on his horse, Joey says...it all bloody.. Talking baout his coat.
Then he says the line about "no more guns in the valley. The last scene...he's riding toward the camera in a shadow all slumped over and then up the hill out of the valley.

Yeah, the bar fight is great, especially when Big Joe comes in with the axe handle. The tw of em, Joe and AHne, take about 6 or 7 guys.:hammers:

[THE EG]

No one liked the Lee Marvin Clint Eastwood classic "Paint Your Wagon"


Jason,

"Paint Your Wagon" was a great comedic musical...even with Clint Eastwood singing.:yikes:

And your right about "Once Upon a Time in the West" with Henry Fonda as a cold-blooded killer...and that harmonica of Charles Bronson.

[Egg Sucking Leach]

I'll take Lee Marvin in musical Western comedies for $200, Alex.

Cat Ballou. Also featured Henry's daughter, Hanoi.

[LanceBoggs]

Excuse me while I whip this out... Blazing Saddles is a classic

Loved everything Eastwood and still do actually.

[nu2trout]

What about young guns, or is that not old enough
any of the spaghetti westerns with eastwood