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Favorite Western Movie

carbinekingcarbineking Member Posts: 60 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I was just about to ask this, then I scrolled down and saw the favorite western series post. I recently have gotten into watching Western movies (I'm 21 so almost all the classics were made well before my time). So far I've watched High Noon (my favorite so far); The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Unforgiven; and just got done watching Tombstone. I own the rest of the Man With No Name movies, Silverado, and Rio Bravo, just haven't gotten around to watching them yet. Anybody got any favorites?
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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    All time #1 is Lonesome Dove. The movie and the book are both excellent.

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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Carbineking, you started out with some good ones. All would make my top 10. Try a couple of westerns with "The Duke" -- John Wayne. Maybe The Searchers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Bravo, True Grit, The War Wagon. Then see The Shootist as the finale.

    Movie Trivia: Did you know that High Noon was considered at the time an allegory against the McCarthy hearings and the blacklisting of many left-wing Hollywood writers and actors?
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    My all-time favorite, Once Upon A Time In The West. I've probably seen it 20 times. Watch it everytime it's on TV.

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  • roysharoysha Member Posts: 749 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Watch SHANE and PALERIDER back to back. Same story different people. SHANE is one of the greatest!
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always thought that Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter were pretty much the same film!

    For comedy relief, hard to beat Blazing Saddles. "Where's all the white women?", "The Sheriff's a ....", "That's HEADLY Lamarr!", so many great lines.
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My favorites are Unforgiven and Winchester 73 with James Stewart.280 blazing saddles is pretty good the first time i saw him say where the whit woen at I about choked to death.That movies funny everytime I see it.Never gets old.The Ox Bo Incident and a few John Wayne movies are good too.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I forgot about Fort Apache and The Outlaw Josey Wales.My favorite part of Josey Wales is where Clint says"To hell with them fellas buzzards gotta eat the same as worms"

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree about Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Then there is a lesser known great Western called THE PROFESSIONALS with, I believe, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, etc. Treat yourself. While you're at it, THE WILD BUNCH is still a great one. If you can stand black & white movies, and apparently you can, I'd try Paul Newman in THE LEFT-HANDED GUN and Marlon Brando in VIVA ZAPATA. The other two good Sergio Leone Westerns with Eastwood are FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, and both are fun. As for GREAT Westerns, gee, DUEL IN THE SUN, THE FAR COUNTRY, GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, SHANE, THE SEARCHERS, THE MAGNIFICENT 7, I mean there are a lot of them. You've got quite a summer ahead at this rate.

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I accidentally double-posted so I'll change this one. The three best Western comedies in my opinion are TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER, BLAZING SADDLES, and that one with Arnold Swarzenegger whose title I forget. So if you need relief from all that macho, try dropping in one of these. TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER is a certified classic. "Aroar, Har!!"

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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 07/13/2002 11:20:27
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Almost forgot about "Missouri Breaks", with Jack Nicholson, Marlin Brando, and Lee Marvin, and "Goin' South", with Nicholson, and John Belushi as a Mexican bandito.
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Another good western comedy is Cat Boulou.There was one with KIrk Douglas that I cant remember the name of it but its funny too.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Hello,......can ya'll say "The Three Amigo's". Chase, Martin and Short all in the same movie,....fugettaboudditt!!
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  • LogansdaddyLogansdaddy Member Posts: 56 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Josey Wales !, The Good, The Bad & the Ugly, The Wild Bunch, Tombstone

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    E. Williams --
    The one you and I are both thinking of is THE VILLAIN, with Kirk Douglas and Arnold Swarzenegger and I think Ann Margaret. It is hilarious like a Road Runner cartoon. Here's a view from Amazon.com:



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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Ooop's,...let us not forget "Young Guns" !!
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  • charlie15charlie15 Member Posts: 937 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ALONG CAME JONES with GARY COOPER.



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  • rscoleman88rscoleman88 Member Posts: 4,250
    edited November -1
    The whole Lonesome Dove trilogy

    Respect those who protect us now just as you would those who died for us in the past.
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    The very best MOVIE ever made (not just western movie) is THE SEARCHERS

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Got to be "The Searchers," or "Big Jake" with the Duke. Theme is the same: Dropping everything and moving Heaven and earth to rescue a loved one.

    Come to think of it, "Shenandoah," with Jimmy Steward as the patriarch had the same theme.

    All in all, I'll take "Big Jake."

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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Outlaw Josey Wales
    Jeremiah Johnson
    Sons of Katie Elder
    Rooster Cogburn
    Cahill US Marshal
    Magnificent 7
    Big Jake
    War Wagon
    The Cowboys
    Young Guns I and II
    Hang Em High
    High Plains Drifter
    The Alamo
    Davy Crocket
    Rio Bravo
    and many many more.......

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wondered how long it would take media groups like Turner Classic Movies to begin treating THE SEARCHERS as a problem of political correctness. Well, yesterday it happened. The showing of THE SEARCHERS was followed by the "American Indians' side of the story," the movie GERONIMO starring Chuck Connors, which depicts a small group of Apache warriors, wives and children who go into the hills and "declare war" on the American government over a broken land treaty and disrespectful treatment. Chuck gets to give a speech that would be music to the ears of terrorists -- the gist of which is that while declaring war on the whole United States may seem futile, the desperate effort may get people to understand that every "people" deserves to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. Rings pretty hollow with suicide bombings going on and various plots for killing innocent citizens being foiled almost daily. My guess is you will seldom see THE SEARCHERS on cable again without accompanying films that take the Indians' point of view.

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  • RockinURockinU Member Posts: 248 ✭
    edited November -1
    The Cowboys with John Wayne...it's my favorite.
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  • RockinURockinU Member Posts: 248 ✭
    edited November -1
    BTW...can you name the 2 movies that John Wayne died in...they have both been mentioned in this thread
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    The Cowboys and The Shootist

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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Quigley Downunder, Support Your Local Sheriff.

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  • RockinURockinU Member Posts: 248 ✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider nailed that before quick...
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  • iron sightsiron sights Member Posts: 41 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    once upon a time in the west......
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  • drl50drl50 Member Posts: 2,496 ✭
    edited November -1
    Butch Cassidy and the SunDance Kid
    Best Mini-serie: Lonesome Dove (Got to buy them both and watch annually.}

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  • 25-0625-06 Member Posts: 382 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got to agree with Lowrider, about Once Upon a Time in the West, just saw it again a couple of nites ago. Only time I ever saw Henry Fonda play the bad guy. Jason Robards and Bronson were great also. Second is the Wild Bunch, there has to be a whole village of dead Mexicans somewhere. One of the most realistic shoot out scenes ever. Third is just about anything with John Wayne, but especially the Shootist. And fourth, Quigley Down Under, but some of the shots would be stretching it in real life.
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  • bama55bama55 Member Posts: 6,389 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Too many to list, but I believe The Wild Bunch would
    be my favorite.
    Magnificent Seven, Shane, any John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper,
    etc.
    Like I said, too many to list!!!!!

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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I went out and rented Once Upon A Time In The West toady.That is one good western.Im going to buy it as soon as I can find it.That and Unforgiven have to be my favorites.But for anyone who hasnt seen Once Upon A Time In The West rent it you wont be dissapointed.Good reccomendation to all who said so on here.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • twinstwins Member Posts: 647 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can't remeber the title but it was with Randolph Scott and he and another guy were hired to guard a load of gold as it came down from a miners camp. It was one of his last films.
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