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Top 10 Best Westerns of All Time:
clinteastwood.org ^ | 9/11/04 | staff

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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To: pissant

Tombstone.


21 posted on 12/29/2004 3:06:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
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To: pissant
You left out Blazing Saddles?!? Man, that list is bogus.......LMAO


22 posted on 12/29/2004 3:06:44 PM PST by Viking2002 (Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
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To: sinatorhellary

Blazing Saddles


23 posted on 12/29/2004 3:06:56 PM PST by Ellesu
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To: Clemenza

Seattle a hellhole? There are worse places, I would think. Though, like in NY, you're surrounded by liberals.


24 posted on 12/29/2004 3:07:20 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
I like the orignal list a lot, but my list would find a way to include a guilty pleasure of mine, Sam Raimi's The Quick And The Dead.
25 posted on 12/29/2004 3:07:28 PM PST by denydenydeny
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To: pissant

Never really thought of The Wild Bunch as a western. It's kind of cult violence movie.


26 posted on 12/29/2004 3:08:01 PM PST by ProudVet77 (MERRY CHRISTMAS, damn it!)
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To: pissant
A Fistful of Dollars - The beginning of Sergio and Clint's Dollars series, this is the best of the bunch.

Bunch? There were only two, the other being For a Few Dollars More.

27 posted on 12/29/2004 3:08:05 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: pissant

In no particular order:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Silverado
Stagecoach
A Man Called Horse
Open Range
Tombstone
The Magnificent Seven

I must make myself stop.

Dan


28 posted on 12/29/2004 3:08:29 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: pissant

Lived in Brooklyn with a Republican congressman (Vito Fosella). NYC is nowhere near as bad as Seattle, although it is still pretty bad politically (many worship at Hillary's feet). Seattle is just boring with awful food outside of Salmon.


29 posted on 12/29/2004 3:08:37 PM PST by Clemenza (AKA "Butch" to my friends in the Seattle Leather Underground)
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To: BibChr

Ooh...I loved "The Magnificent Seven"!


30 posted on 12/29/2004 3:09:10 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: sinkspur

I just noticed where the article came from. :)


31 posted on 12/29/2004 3:09:14 PM PST by ProudVet77 (MERRY CHRISTMAS, damn it!)
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To: pissant

Where are the John Ford films?


32 posted on 12/29/2004 3:09:28 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: All

The Culpepper Cattle Company


33 posted on 12/29/2004 3:10:08 PM PST by Ellesu
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To: RosieCotton

How could one not love it? Just a great movie!

How about Silverado, though? Really fine modern western.

Dan


34 posted on 12/29/2004 3:10:19 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: cripplecreek

"Tombstone"

Ouch. Decent as recent westerns go, but all time fav??


35 posted on 12/29/2004 3:10:57 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
"The Bad, the Bad and the Bad" has no business in first place.

36 posted on 12/29/2004 3:11:02 PM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

"Bunch? There were only two, the other being For a Few Dollars More"

I won't accuse the author of being a rocket scientist.


37 posted on 12/29/2004 3:12:22 PM PST by pissant
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To: BibChr
How about Silverado, though? Really fine modern western.

I actually haven't seen that one. Who's in it?

Trouble with my movie knowledge is that it pretty much includes all the classics from the late fifties back and a few ones from the nineties or so forwards...I'm missing a lot!

Leaves much to look forward to, I suppose!

38 posted on 12/29/2004 3:12:23 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: pissant
1) The Searchers
2) High Noon
3) The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
4) The Unforgiven
5) Red River
6) The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
7) High Plains Drifter
8) Once Upon A Time In The West
9) They Call Me Trinity
10) True Grit
39 posted on 12/29/2004 3:12:41 PM PST by SoDak (home of Senator John Thune)
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To: pissant

OK, just to be a smart aleck...

"Evil Roy Slade"!


40 posted on 12/29/2004 3:12:48 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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