The Best Western of the '70s?

OldeCinemaSoz

the last great decade of the cowboy film i think...

i'll go back a bit further to '68 for a begining though...

THE WILD BUNCH.

a monumental film.

although, when the decade turned it was hands in holsters with the likes of SOLDIER BLUE, THE BOUNTY HUNTERS, A TOWN CALLED BASTARD, THE LAST HARD MEN, ULZANA'S RAID...

never mind what came out of THE ITALIAN WEST.

a wonderful decade for the western indeed but my favourite of the lot has got to be THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES.

A fine testement. :cool:

What's your favourite?

Paparazzo

I never like The Wild bunch. Fistful of Dynamite is from the 70's, I enjoyed that. Irish connection in it too. Haven't watched it in a while though, but the music is coming back to me "sean sean"

High Plains Drifter deserves a mention too.

Have to check out Town called Bastard, with a name like that, it has to be good!

OldeCinemaSoz

Paparazzo wrote: »

I never like The Wild bunch. Fistful of Dynamite is from the 70's, I enjoyed that. Irish connection in it too. Haven't watched it in a while though, but the music is coming back to me "sean sean"

High Plains Drifter deserves a mention too.

Have to check out Town called Bastard, with a name like that, it has to be good!

You're right...

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER.

excellent.

A TOWN CALLED BASTARD sometimes plays BTW on one of those free sat chanells like movies for men under the title A TOWN CALLED HELL...

don't ask! :rolleyes:

mike65

Town Called Bastard/Hell is very ho hum. The Ballard of Cable Hogue is a very nice light western, hard to believe its by Sam Peckinpah. High Plains Drifter and Outlaw Josey Wales are certainly among the best (never seen Joe Kidd even on the telly, almost completely forgotten it seems), Posse which was directed by Kirk Douglas, who also stars with Bruce Dern is well worth catching.

Its a very traditional western and as such sticks out like a sore thumb in the 70s but The Shootist is also a terrific classical piece of film making by Don Siegel.

Little Big Man is a hoot, a bit hippy/counter-culture as one might expect from Authur Penn in 1970. A shaggy dog western.

bnt

I haven't seen that many of them, but there's an interesting "anti-Western" on TV3, just after midnight on Saturday night: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976). It's about Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the way he helped to create the myth of the "West"; like many Robert Altman films, it looks like a mess if you come at it linearly. With Paul Newman, Harvey Keitel, and Geraldine Chaplin.