Best Western Movie Ever Made....

[JLM]

Right on both counts, those are the movies I was trying to thin of, and both
very good.
Yeah, I've seen all of those too, red river is very old, but very good.
Montomergy Cliff was very young, just starting out.

Didn't you just love old Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo playing "Stumpy"?

 

[L Gilbert]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was good, too.

I liked Walter Brennan. Some of the character actors were a helluva lot better than the stars. Slim Pickens was another one I liked.

 

[ross 1]

Didn't you just love old Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo playing "Stumpy"?

OMG, brilliant! He could play all kinds of characters. In My Darling Clementine (about Wyatt Earp), he was the bad guy, and he was scary. In The Westerner, w/ Gary Cooper, he played Judge Roy Bean, and he was awesome. He won 3 Oscars, I think.

When I was a kid, a favorite western was Union Pacific, with Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck. Still another great one is Ride The High Country with Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. So many good ones.

 

[talloola]

OMG, brilliant! He could play all kinds of characters. In My Darling Clementine (about Wyatt Earp), he was the bad guy, and he was scary. In The Westerner, w/ Gary Cooper, he played Judge Roy Bean, and he was awesome. He won 3 Oscars, I think.

When I was a kid, a favorite western was Union Pacific, with Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck. Still another great one is Ride The High Country with Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. So many good ones.

Love those movies, and I thought randolph scott was great in them, and Joel
McRea.
when I was a little kid, I used to love the roy rogers movies, and gabby hayes
was his side kick then.
remember 'big valley' on tv, barbara stanwyck, good western series.

 

[L Gilbert]

Gabby Hayes, that's the other character actor I was trying to think of. Awesome.
Only tv series I really liked much were The Virginian and Gunsmoke. Didn't like Bonanza or Big Valley much.

Tough to pin down which movie I think is best.

 

[talloola]

Gabby Hayes, that's the other character actor I was trying to think of. Awesome.
Only tv series I really liked much were The Virginian and Gunsmoke. Didn't like Bonanza or Big Valley much.

Tough to pin down which movie I think is best.

I used to watch all of the tv westerns, and I just recently stopped watching
gunsmoke (again), as they were showing them on tv (sattelite), but now have
discontinued, I also watched rawhide on same channel, but that is 'toast' now
too. (clint eastwood)

 

[bobnoorduyn]

I just don't understand why hollywood can't make westerns these days as good as some of those mentioned in this thread. I love the old westerns.

I dunno, Hollywierd pumps out a lot of crap, computer generated imaging takes the place of good acting, on location filming, and a decent plot. I think too many people are willing to shell out good money to watch mind candy.

 

[talloola]

the wild bunch, billy the kid, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, heavens gate,
how the west was won, alamo, dances with wolves, one eyed jacks.

can anyone tell me about 'heavens gate', don't know much about it.

 

[Said1]

My most recent fav is "the propostiton". Not your typical spaghetti western as it takes place in Australia, but it meets all the typical requirements - horses, outlaws, shoot outs, blood, pillaging etc.

YouTube - The Proposition - Trailer


Older classics I like - Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, Out Law Jose Wales, Fist Full of Dollars, the Missouri Breaks, High Noon, Little Big Man and who's that kung fu guy who saves the children....I can never remember his name Billy Jack?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6t_wU1KT5U

 

[talloola]

My most recent fav is "the propostiton". Not your typical spaghetti western as it takes place in Australia, but it meets all the typical requirements - horses, outlaws, shoot outs, blood, pillaging etc.

YouTube - The Proposition - Trailer


Older classics I like - Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, Out Law Jose Wales, Fist Full of Dollars, the Missouri Breaks, High Noon, Little Big Man and who's that kung fu guy who saves the children....I can never remember his name Billy Jack?

he's one of those brothers,david carradine.

 

[talloola]

duel in the sun, gregory peck, unusual for him, as he is the bad dude in this movie
very good.
jeremiah johnson, robert redford, loved this movie
rio grande, she wore a yellow ribbon, true grit, mcKlintock, good john wayne movies
geronimo, jason patric, gene hackman, very good

posse - stephen baldwin
dead man - johnny depp
does anyone know anything about these two?

 

[JLM]

duel in the sun, gregory peck, unusual for him, as he is the bad dude in this movie
very good.
jeremiah johnson, robert redford, loved this movie
rio grande, she wore a yellow ribbon, true grit, mcKlintock, good john wayne movies
geronimo, jason patric, gene hackman, very good

posse - stephen baldwin
dead man - johnny depp
does anyone know anything about these two?

Another good one, was "The Sundowners", with Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr and I believer Ustinoff- but that's going back quite a few years probably early 60s.

 

[talloola]

Another good one, was "The Sundowners", with Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr and I believer Ustinoff- but that's going back quite a few years probably early 60s.

that was a great movie, saw it more than once, mitchum sure had the presence
in a western, very intimidating man.

 

[JLM]

that was a great movie, saw it more than once, mitchum sure had the presence
in a western, very intimidating man.

Yep, MItchum could be very intimidating, If you haven't seen it watch "Cape Fear" (not a western, but still very good)

 

[talloola]

Yep, MItchum could be very intimidating, If you haven't seen it watch "Cape Fear" (not a western, but still very good)

saw cape fear with robert denero, very scary.

 

[L Gilbert]

So is The Fan. Also a RD film.
I always kinda liked Hank Fonda in westerns the best. Helluva lot better actor than John Wayne, IMO. Mitchum was another good western actor.

 

[talloola]

So is The Fan. Also a RD film.
I always kinda liked Hank Fonda in westerns the best. Helluva lot better actor than John Wayne, IMO. Mitchum was another good western actor.

loved henry fonda in westerns, or (in anything), he had 'such a way' about him,
and his daughter looks just like him, (maybe a little prettier), but definitely
(not handsomer).;-)

 

[L Gilbert]

hehe. Yeah. Um, what was that western that she was in. I think it had Lee Marvin in it, too. Funny as hell.

 

[Vanni Fucci]

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

 

[L Gilbert]

Yeah, that's it. Whatta funny movie. I liked it better than Blazing Saddles.