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Re: OT: What's Your Favorite Western...

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Anyone want to add a movie?
Should be a few since Feb. 2008.
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I couldn't possibly list my favorites. But I can tell you at the top of that list is Once Upon A Time In The West. Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson (anyone know if he was actually playing the harmonica?) at their best. And Claudia Cardinale, what more could a man want? Toss in that its a Sergio Leone film and it's all good.
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cshold wrote:Anyone want to add a movie?
Should be a few since Feb. 2008.
I would add "Cowboys & Aliens"... a combination of my two favorite genres that exceeded all my expectations. And, Daniel Craig is the best "007" since Sean Connery.
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Just for fun, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, and Slim Pickens in "Rancho Deluxe".

For a WWII western "Brady's Escape".
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"Anything with John Wayne"-- really" Do you include that movie where he was Genghis Kahn?
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Man..... So many. I will watch any western that's on. I just love them.

I would have to say that I really enjoy any of the Lonesome Dove and Lonesome Dove spin offs.

A couple more of my go to western movies are;

Open Range
Crossfire Trail
Last Stand at Sabre River
Tom Horn
And the Young Gun movies.
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No way to pick a single favorite, and looks like most of us can't. I have most of what's listed above and watch them over and over. Sometimes when I put one in, my wife will ask if I think it will end different this time! I love 'em all.
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One that I've watched more than a few times is "Rio Bravo" the singing always makes me smile, thankfully John Wayne doesn't join in....... :wink:
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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This is a hard one, I have thought and thought about this, and keep coming back to.

LAWMAN Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan


Followed by and probably in about this order


My Darling Clementine

The Unforgiven Burt Lancaster

The Professionals Burt Lancaster again, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode, Woody used to wrestle on the same tag team as the one and only BEAR CAT WRIGHT

McClintock

Searches

Hondo

Shane

Magnificent Seven

And probably another hundred after these.
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gamekeeper wrote:One that I've watched more than a few times is "Rio Bravo" the singing always makes me smile, thankfully John Wayne doesn't join in....... :wink:
Me too! I always loved Rio Bravo, and especially the singing. (Just my rifle, My Pony, and Me)

I also love El Dorado, Red River, and on old B-movie of John Wayne's called (Tall in the Saddle)

I also always loved (Fort Dobbs) with Clint Walker and Brian Keith

And Lonesome Dove is the best mini-series western ever, of course.
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Watching "The Searchers" as I type. Dog gone good movie.
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Didn't see Ride the High Country listed. An early Peckinpah film featuring Randolph Scott in his last movie and Joel McCrea.
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Always liked "Red Sun"... with Charles Bronson... and Toshiro Mifune :shock:

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I like them all! Even the crappy ones. Hell, I even watched "Cowboys and Aliens" twice! Beats the hell out of the evening news. Give the Western channel on cable a pretty good work out.

I am old enough to have seen "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" as a first run. It is still my favorite Westen/Movie of all time.
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I guess I have around 400 western movies and tv episodes...
the searchers still my favorite
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Richard Farnsworth in "The Grey Fox" based on a true story, I found it an interesting movie.
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Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan in "Northwest Passage." (Roger's Rangers on an extended search and destroy mission)
I don't believe Walter Brennan was ever young!

"Last of the Mohican's" with Daniel Day Lewis. (great theme music)
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Sunkmanitu Tanka Owaci is another favorite of mine

or in the movie Šuŋgmánitu Tȟaŋka Ob'wačhi
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Re: OT: What's Your Favorite Western...

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"Ride the High Country" and "Hombre" are absolutely my favorites.

"The Hired Hand", starring Peter Fonda and Warren Oates." I don't think it's been mentioned on this thread yet. Not an all-time great, but interesting and underrated.
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Anything with the Duke, Searchers being #1
High Lonesome, (Chill Wills, John Archer, John Barrymore)
Sacketts, (Tom Sellick, Ben Johnson, Sam Elliot)
Stalking Moon, (Gregory Peck)
Chino, (Charles Bronson)
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"Gunless" and "Riders of the Purple Sage" with Ed Harris.
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Just watched "Appaloosa" again last nite, and really enjoyed the "correctness" of the tack, holsters, guns and dress for a period piece set in 1882. Would love to see the deleted scenes added into a version. They add to the backstory of the beginning of the film, and for a couple of the later scenes.
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RICHP wrote:Dont know if this would be counted as a bonafied western, but my favorite would be Jeremiah Johnson.
Not sure; the boy was asking me whether it was a "cowboy movie", a few days ago. I would say a western, but not a cowboy movie.

Too many favourites, most of which I can't remember. Trinity gets an honourable mention. I think it was the first one? Nicknamed my best
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RIHMFIRE wrote:Sunkmanitu Tanka Owaci is another favorite of mine

or in the movie Šuŋgmánitu Tȟaŋka Ob'wačhi
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Open Range......

The best shootout all time IMHO.....



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True Grit. (The new one)
The Good The Bad and the Ugly (which as a movie is so unlike other films, taking place in its own Sergio Leone western world, that it has not dated nearly as much as one would think - my sixteen year old son watched it and was impressed with it.)
Unforgiven - a movie about what happens to the Man With No Name in older age.
Dances With Wolves - Saw it twice at the pictures. I havn't seen it in years so possibly it might come across as corny nowadays, but in 1990 everyone loved it.

Mountain man movies are sort of westerns: the new Leonardo DeCaprio "The Revenant" had me all excited and I enjoyed it although I may not watch it twice.
(Why doesn't anyone make a new film about Daniel Boone? Indian fighting, hunting for hides and flintlocks.)
Last of the Mohicans get an honourable mention.


I liked Open Range too, Appaloosa, even the new one with Kurt Russell and the cannabals....like an earlier poster, I even watched Cowboys and Aliens twice as well.

One that just struck me was the film, "And Introducing Pancho villa as himself" with Antonio Banderas as Pancho Villa.

I just like Westerns. I was never the John Wayne fan my father was, but I like them all. I might be the only one who loved "Paint Your Wagon".
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Most of what was already posted.

I also liked Trinity, and My Name is Nobody. From Nobody, "...but mostly, when you are up to your nose in (excrement), keep your mouth shut!" Nobody was faster.
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SmokeEater2 wrote:Quigley Down Under

Lonesome Dove


The Unforgiven

My three favorite as well, might reorder them though.
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Rusty wrote:Quigley
Sliverado
Big Jake
Cross Fire Trail
Monte Walsh ( I'd like to get a copy of the one with Lee Marvin)
The Sacketts

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I like them all, but probably the one I have watched more times than I care to count is "Jeremiah Johnson" with Robert Redford.
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williamranks wrote:"Gunless" and "Riders of the Purple Sage" with Ed Harris.
Riders was actually not too bad an adaptation (hey they've only got a couple of hours). I just wish some one would do a decent version of The Rainbow Trail.
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HERES ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE...
7 MEN FROM NOW WITH RANDOLF SCOTT , GAIL RUSSEL AND LEE MARVIN.
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RIHMFIRE wrote:HERES ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE...
7 MEN FROM NOW WITH RANDOLF SCOTT , GAIL RUSSEL AND LEE MARVIN.
Cue Choir:

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Old Ironsights wrote:
RIHMFIRE wrote:HERES ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE...
7 MEN FROM NOW WITH RANDOLF SCOTT , GAIL RUSSEL AND LEE MARVIN.
Cue Choir:

Ran,dolfff, Scottt! (amen)
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I've seen a new one recently called "The Salvation" that I quite liked.

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