What are your favorite Western movies?

[PeteCalvin]

Westerns happen to be one of my favorite movie genres. There are so many of them, yet there are very few that really do it right. I have to say up front that I grew up in the Age of Eastwood, so I know very little about the old B&W westerns. Would love to hear about some of those. I was never a big John Wayne fan, so I never watched any of his Westerns.

Since I could name six Clint Eastwood Westerns that most people would also name, I'll go with a non-Eastwood entry.

Open Range (Duvall and Costner) - A great story and solid character development. Very underrated film, probably because it came out in the last 12 years, well past the prime of Westerns. The climactic gunfight is EPIC! One of Duvall's best performances. My son had trouble with it at first because Albus Dumbledore was an Irish bad guy.

 

[DoubleDee]

In the grand scheme, I've seen very few westerns. So I have to go with Tombstone.

 

[donniesyracuse]

Western is probably my least favorite movie genre, but I do like the Star Trek episode when they go to the OK Corral.

 

[Toga]

The Oxbow Incident

 

[bevosu]

Red River..John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.

Or... Shane.

 

[rrlbees]

Blazing Saddles

 

[Halfmooncuse]

Once Upon a Time in the West

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Fort Apache
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Searchers

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Rio Bravo. Can't ever pass that one by. John Wayne.

Love El Dorado as well which is essentially the same story as Rio Bravo and also stars John Wayne.

Sons of Katie Elder. John Wayne.

 

[Noexcuse]

Little Big Man
How the West Was Won
High Noon (anti-McCarthy Symbolism)
The Good the Bad and The Ugly
The Wild Bunch
Pretty much anything by John Ford

 

[donniesyracuse]

Does Django Unchained count?

 

[PhatOrange]

Loved all these movies:

Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider
High Plains Drifter
Unforgiven

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Tombstone
Open Range
Dances With Wolves
Silverado

The Cowboys
Mackenna’s Gold
Fort Apache

 

[Frozen]

Blue Chips

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I will simply add to those greats, rather than repeat:

Lonesome Dove mini series.
The Cheyenne Social Club
The War Wagon
The Shootist
Silverado
(forgive me) Shanghi Noon

 

[ssbriefcase]

Magnificent Seven or Shane. That said, waiting for Quentin Tarantino's new one coming out this fall, filmed in Telluride, CO. The Hateful Eight. Had this same discussion not too long ago and we looked up all the new westerns coming out soon, there's a lot. But yeah, most don't get it right.

 

[72Cuse]

How about "Terror of Tinytown?"

 

[CanadianSU]

Fort Apache with John Wayne.

 

[Trueblue25]

Tombstone
Dances With Wolves
Geronimo
Sons of Katie Elder
The First Alamo

 

[PeteCalvin]

Loved all these movies:

Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider
High Plains Drifter
Unforgiven

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Tombstone
Open Range
Dances With Wolves
Silverado

The Cowboys
Mackenna’s Gold
Fort Apache

LOVED Silverado! I saw that in the movie theater in Oneonta back when it came out. Another under the radar cult classic! It was an All Star cast...some before they were stars (Costner, Glover, Goldblum, Klein).

 

[CuseCPT]

Westerns are the only genre of movie I can think of that I don't like at all. Just no interest whatsoever. If Dances with Wolves counts, that would be my pick I guess?

 

[jordoo]

Wow most of the good ones are claimed. The ones I've probably watched the most are:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (first one I ever watched as a kid that I recall)
A Fist Full Of Dollars
Pale Rider
Tombstone
The Outlaw Josey Wales

 

[upperdeck]

isnt it un american to not like westerns?

 

[donniesyracuse]

isnt it un american to not like westerns?

I am definitely "un-american" then. I also do not care for war movies; with a few exceptions.

 

[upperdeck]

I cant see just ignoring a whole genre?

the searchers is about as good as it gets. and many other john wayne ones people have mentioned

you like robert redford? watch jeramiah johnson, butch cassidy

comedy western. blazing saddles, mcclintock, shanhai noon, maverick

true grit, old and new

classic story telling , high noon, treasure of the sierra modra

clint watch his drifter trilogy

great vistas watch john ford movies

suspense, watch 3:10 to yuma the original, or high noon

tom selleck had a nice run of tv westerns based on Lamour books

what do you watch if you throw westerns out? you against horses and mules too?

 

[72Cuse]

I cant see just ignoring a whole genre?

the searchers is about as good as it gets. and many other john wayne ones people have mentioned

you like robert redford? watch jeramiah johnson, butch cassidy

comedy western. blazing saddles, mcclintock, shanhai noon, maverick

true grit, old and new

classic story telling , high noon, treasure of the sierra modra

clint watch his drifter trilogy

great vistas watch john ford movies

suspense, watch 3:10 to yuma the original, or high noon

tom selleck had a nice run of tv westerns based on Lamour books

what do you watch if you throw westerns out? you against horses and mules too?

In my view three westerns were transcendent and stand out: High Noon; an ultimate morality play; The Magnificent Seven: a rite of passage for guys my age, and the beginning of Steve McQueen cool; and, Tombstone: Val Kilmer was the definitive Doc Holliday and should have won an Academy Award.