Favourite Westerns

ntlbell

After watching 3:10 to yuma I realised it had been years since I watched any westerns.

Not that I watched that many but as a kid I was exposed to a lot of john wayne/clint eastwood movies

so I'm going to try get my hands on a few, anyone recommend any must see?

Josey Wales

I love the Western genre and I can recommend the following:

Unforgiven
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Open Range

The first three are all Eastwood movies and Open Range is a great movie starring Kevin Costner.

Karl Hungus

I'd second Open Range, probably not a must see, but a great film.

Once Upon A Time In The West would be absolutely essential viewing, as well as A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and of course The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I'd also recommend The Wild Bunch and Tombstone was always a favourite of mine.

Although it doesn't take place in the American west, but rather the Australian outback, The Proposition is well worth a look.

Ruu_Old

Pale Rider and Hang 'Em High.

The Outlaw Josey Wales, best western ever.

ziedth

i'd second tombstone. I also really enjoyed 3.10 to yuma

sunzz

the good the bad and the ugly.

this is a MUST SEE.

humanji

I'm a huge fan of Rio Bravo. It's not the greatest film in the world, but it's got all the right elements of a western, is great fun, has loads of memorable sequences and has John Wayne kickin' ass!

Duel At Diablo is another great one, with James Garner and Sidney Poitier. It's very atmospheric and has some fairly shocking scenes that you wouldn't expect from the 60's, like a soldier being tortured by Indians on a wagon wheel (not the biscuit!).

And it may not be your typical western, but A Big Hand For A Little Lady is a guilty pleasure of mine. I love it. It's got a fantastic cast, brilliant story and a hell of a twist in the end.

TnaG shows some great westerns on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Great for working off a hangover.

edit: Oh and The Good The Bad The Weird is a great korean western that you should check out.

Otis Driftwood

Aside from whats been mentioned try.

The Django series with Franco Nero.

Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

Soldier Blue.

Capt'n Midnight

In addition

Blazing Saddles
Little Big Man

A man called Horse.

Jako8

I think two worth trying are;

The Commancheros
The Magnificent 7.

indough

A fistful of dollars
for a few dollars more
the good, the bad and the ugly
the mercenary
django
the outlaw josey wales
unforgiven
pale rider
high plains drifter
the wild bunch
once upon a time in the west

if its spaghetti westerns youre into then sergio leone and sergio corbucci would be the two main directors to look out for

blacon9

I have to add to this and emphasize 'Tombstone'.

You MUST see Tombstone. Best western out there.

meanmachine3

high plains drifter
all of clints spaghetti westerns
and
the comedy western collection basically the trinity westerns with bud sepncer and terence hill. these are a must to see for those of you thats never heard of them.

Nolanger

Lads the best Westerns were from the '50s:

Seven Men From Now
Man of the West
The Searchers
Johnny Guitar
Man From the Alamo

and the best '60s Western:
Ride the High Country

sixpack's little hat

Try The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, a kind of western directed by Tommy Lee Jones. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419294/

Karl Hungus

Nolanger wrote: »

Lads the best Westerns were from the '50s:

How about the 40's? The Oxbow Incident

Red Sleeping Beauty

Wow, I'm surprised at the love for Tombstone. I thought that was gonna end up as a bit of a lost one. It came out after Unforgiven and that wasn't an easy act to follow. Because Unforgiven was so good most Westerns up until a few years ago weren't that great and they kinda suffered from blandness ( Quick and the Dead, Bad Girls, Wild Bill). IU always loved Tombstone though, ever since I was about 9 when I got it on tape for my birthday.

Just got the "Director's cut" DVD there recently. It's more one of these "extended cuts" than the director's prefered cut. Did ye know it was Kurt Russell who really directed it though ? :eek: George P Cosmatos was just a "ghost director".

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/93006/russell.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(film)

Red Sleeping Beauty

Oh and this is a great film :


While John Wayne was extolling his particular bigoted version of justice (a trait repeated in his "war" films of course), this deadly little film was just so much fun

"eh , you thik you used enough dynamite there Butch ?"

purple_hatstand

There's been a spate of decent Westerns recently including the previously mentioned 'Open Range' and the remake of '3:10 To Yuma'. Also definitely worth a look are:

'Seraphim Falls'
'The Assassination of Jesse James...'
'Appaloosa'

‘Ride The High Country’ & ‘The Wild Bunch’ have already been mentioned and Peckinpah made two more excellent Westerns – ‘The Ballad Of Cable Hogue’ & ‘Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid’ – all four are in this boxset.

‘High Noon’ & ‘High Plains Drifter’ are two other favourites of mine which I don’t think have been mentioned yet…

Quint

All the Leone ones mentioned above.
Also:
Fistfull of Dynamite
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dances With Wolves

For some reason I never liked The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch or any of the John Wayne stuff

indough

Quint wrote: »

All the Leone ones mentioned above.
Also:
Fistfull of Dynamite
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dances With Wolves

For some reason I never liked The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch or any of the John Wayne stuff

ah i kinda hated 'for a fistful of dynamite', it would have been ok but for those terrible flashback sequences and the stupid catchphrase though

i also despise john wayne movies and didnt rate magnificent 7 all that highly

Quint

indough wrote: »

ah i kinda hated 'for a fistful of dynamite', it would have been ok but for those terrible flashback sequences and the stupid catchphrase though

i also despise john wayne movies and didnt rate magnificent 7 all that highly

Fistful of Dynamite wasn't Leone's best, but I still enjoyed it. Nothing comes close to The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Except maybe Wild Wild West with Will Smith