Westerns

[Baz]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Pale Rider
A Fistful Of Dollers
Wild Bunch
The Gunfighter
3:10 Yuma (Original & Remake)
The Searchers
The Proposition
Lonely Are The Brave
Pat Garret & Billy The Kid
Who Shot Liberty Valance?
Shane
Red River
Appaloosa
High Noon
One Eyed Jacks
Hostiles
Magnifcent Seven (Original & Remake)
Forty Guns
Unforgiven
True Grit (Remake)
Serephim Falls
Once Upon A Time In The West
Wyatt Earp
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Rio Bravo
Butch Cassify & The Sundance Kid
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Silverado
Vera Cruz
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Professionals
My Darling Clementine
Tombstone
Gunfight At The OK Corral
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Big Country
Winchester 73

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Baz

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Pale Rider
A Fistful Of Dollers
Wild Bunch
The Gunfighter
3:10 Yuma (Original & Remake)
The Searchers
The Proposition
Lonely Are The Brave
Pat Garret & Billy The Kid
Who Shot Liberty Valance?
Shane
Red River
Appaloosa
High Noon
One Eyed Jacks
Hostiles
Magnifcent Seven (Original & Remake)
Forty Guns
Unforgiven
True Grit (Remake)
Serephim Falls
Once Upon A Time In The West
Wyatt Earp
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Rio Bravo
Butch Cassify & The Sundance Kid
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Silverado
Vera Cruz
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Professionals
My Darling Clementine
Tombstone
Gunfight At The OK Corral
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Big Country
Winchester 73

In my opinion, Josey Wales is the best western ever as far as a "straight western". He is a Missouri farmer when the Yankee Red legs terrorized the slave states. And yes, they were real. He goes on to defend what is right, and kills the man that led the attack on his family.

Pale Rider is high up the list as well.

And Blazing Saddles is the funniest western movie of all time.

[red 928]

The original that all others are measured by:

[red 928]

Another on my favorite classics:



Even though they were both staunchly divided in political views, Stewart and Fonda were lifelong friends.
They had a falling out for a time when Fonda's anti-American antics got too much but they soon recovered from that.
Credit to Stewart's strong character.

[Baz]

How the West Was Won is widely considered one of Hollywood's greatest epics. The film received widespread critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing $50 million on a budget of $15 million. At the 36th Academy Awards it earned eight nominations, including Best Picture, and won three, for Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, Best Sound and Best Film Editing. In 1997 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Baz

The gold standard for TV westerns is "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Rawhide", and "The Big Valley".

That said....there is a slew of others that are fantastic as well....such as:

Have Gun Will Travel
Maverick
Tales of Wells Fargo
The Virginian
The Rifleman
Bat Masterson
Tombstone Territory
Laredo
High Chapperal
Wanted Dead or Alive
Zane Gray Theater
Wagon Train

"Gunsmoke" considered the best ever. I've watched every episode and it is such a good TV show, forget about western, I often watch re-runs and still enjoy them as much as when I watched the first time through. Jame Arness being the main reason why. His character Matt Dillon is amazing.

Trivia....Arness's son Rolf won the world surfing championship in Australia back in '70. His Dad, James, also surfed!



In 1970 Rolf Aurness* won the Surfing World Championship at Bells Beach and his father James Arness the Hollywood actor (he featured in the tv western drama 'Gunsmoke' as Marshall Matt Dillon) travelled with him to Victoria (Australia). The pair surfed at Bells in the lead up to the event. This footage from John Bennett's film Blue Cool shows James Arness surfing Bells on his Bing Foil.

*there's a story about why Rolf altered the spelling of his last name......

Bingo! No such thing as a bad episode of "Gunsmoke". "Rawhide"was another favorite.

Maybe becoming long in the tooth, but "Quigby down under" was one hellofa western...and damned acurate when it came to the firearms of the period. Dixie should give it a watch.

[jcwade]

Old Henry!

[Dixie]

I started watching 1923. So far I've made it to Episode Four, and I'm thinking I like it better than Yellowstone.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by jcwade

Old Henry!

I was just going to ask about that. I saw an excerpt from it the other day and it looked good.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Dixie

I started watching 1923. So far I've made it to Episode Four, and I'm thinking I like it better than Yellowstone.

I liked it better. Watched it twice.

[pwd72s]

[Baz]

I prefer the vintage stuff, myself. Like this one that's 65 years old.

My fav. scene in the movie.......

[David]

Hannie Caulder with Raquel Welch. I haven't seen it in over 30 years so I can't remember if it's any good but I do vaguely remember a scene with Raquel getting out of a bath tub with leather pants on and that's all a movie needs to be good for me

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Baz

I prefer the vintage stuff, myself. Like this one that's 65 years old.

My fav. scene in the movie.......

Yep, you like the classics for sure. I'm sure that I've seen that version, but I don't remember seeing it. I probably haven't seen it since I was my dad's remote control having to switch between the 3 channels and/or tune in the UHF channels. I love the Seven Samurai movies, so I'll have to check out that one. The clip looks good.

[Baz]

1958 and directed by John Sturges.....

[t6dpilot]

Really nice museum I stumbled across in Fort Worth a couple weeks ago. The Sid Richardson Museum. The Cinematic West: The Art that Made the Movies. Features original movie posters and original works of art from Frederick Remington and Charles Russell. Their art inspired the westerns that everyone is talking about here. I highly recommend it and it is always free to enter. A real gem in Fort Worth.

[rockfan4]

I've been retired about 2 months now, and I've watched a lot of westerns.

Gunsmoke - seems like an awful lot of the episodes end with the convenient death of the antagonist, not always at the hands of the marshal, often at the hands of their accomplices.

A lot of 70's sitcom stars got their start as western villains. Seeing Buddy Ebsen or Alan Hale playing a bad guy was interesting. Dawn Wells as a Native American too.

Buddy Hackett or Raymond Burr on a horse is amusing.

It's not a real western unless Denver Pyle or Edgar Buchanan are in it. Bonus points if they're playing a drunk.

[Baz]

"Welp. Here's to your bad luck!"

[Baz]

[jyl]

I think they just did so many Westerns, from every possible angle, people eventually got tired of it.