Posted on 12/29/2004 3:00:15 PM PST by pissant
Top 10 Best Westerns of All Time:
1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Sergio Leone's quintessential Western epic made Clint Eastwood the torchbearer in the genre and cemented Lee Van Cleef as one of the greatest movie villains of all time.
2. Shane - The archetypal Western plotline of the stranger who befriends a family and saves them from evil set the tone for all that swam in it’s wake, including The Unforgiven, the most blatant (and best) Shane knockoff.
3. High Noon - A case study in movie making, High Noon is among the first films to take place in real time.
4. The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah's ultra-violent epic still packs quite a punch.
5. High Plains Drifter - The most badass revenge flick ever made. Clint's The Man With No Name could kick Dirty Harry's ass.
6. The Unforgiven - There would be no Unforgiven without Shane.
7. Outlaw Josey Wales - Practically a remake of High Plains Drifter but with more backstory, sub-plots and fully developed characters. You can still feel the sting of that darned whip!
8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre - A later-era Western to be sure, but a terrific character study in greed and trust, and a fine example of why we are still talking about Bogart to this day. The man oozes star power.
9. A Fistful of Dollars - The beginning of Sergio and Clint's Dollars series, this is the best of the bunch.
10. Once Upon a Time in the West - Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson lead this all-star cast. Never in cinematic history has a harmonica been the source of so much tension.
Do ya'll agree or disagree?
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dances with Wolves, Magnificent Seven, The Hanging Tree, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Run of the Arrow, Support your local sheriff/gunfighter.... I could go on and on. Lots of great westerns....
most made from the 1940s through the mid seventies. Few and far between since then, unfortunately.
Hillary Skank?
Cowboy with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemon.
Courtney Love might just squeeze onto such a list.
Skank is a step or two up for Hillary ....why would we honor her in such a manner ?:o)
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Have you ever seen Run of the Arrow? That was one of the first movies I ever watched. Still have nightmares about that man running across the desert with bare feet.
No I have not seen Run of the Arrow. Perhaps, since the freeper with my favorite screen name recommends it, I'll try to rent it.
We have a winner!
Floyd: Doc! Doc! Liberty's hurt!
Doc Willoughby: Whiskey, quick.
[takes a drink, turns Valance's body over with his foot]
Doc Willoughby: Dead.
But just reciting it won't do; you have to see it. It's just one of my favorite scenes ever.
Ad the greasy guy is Strother Martin, with Lee van Cleef.
As to M7, I like your picks and can't do mine by memory; but it's as they are riding through the woods, and the kid (Horst Buchholtz playing a Mexican) is shadowing them. As I recall, McQueen makes some comment about what a "chowderhead" the kid is, and Yul Brynner says, "Right. Not smart, like us."
Dan
That would be "Death Hunt", good movie and now more come to mind. Did you see Richard Harris in "Man in the Wilderness" (I think that's the name") Where he was mauled by a Grizzly bear and left to die, also had John Huston. And another Harris movie was "A Man Called Horse".
You'll probably have to look in a rare video store, but it's definitely worth the look. Way ahead of it's time.
For WORST western, I'd recommend the wonderful William Shatner saga White Comanche. OH what a bomb....
Oh that WAS a stinker!
Also, Ron Howard's "The Missing" was a nasty piece of trash,
I kept thinking "just get it over with and put us all out of our misery!"
What was that Mel Brooks spoof on western's Now that was a great movie.
Are you gonna skin them smokewagons or are you gonna stand there and bleed?
Blazing Saddles
How the West was won
Rooster Cogburn
Don't take much to get the bulge on a dub (??) like you. :)
Great lines in that flick.
I'm your huckleberry.
Actually, there were 3 Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly was the third. Sergio Leone then made Once Upon A Time In The West. All 4 of them are great.
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