Greatest westerns ever made? Pick your top five.

[HopJim]

I favor movies that set standards or develop new genres. A few that come to mind:

-High Noon - such a simple but powerful movie. Few actors (although Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly were outstanding) and basic set. Must have been inexpensive to film but could watch this over and over.
-Spaghetti Westerns like Pale Rider - an updated version of High Noon. Filmed cheaply and not made to be a classic but entertaining
-Dances with Wolves - with the hundreds of westerns made, takes alot of imagination to make a new type of movie. Everyone I've ever spoken to deeply relates to one of more of the characters.

 

[oldude]

Spinoff time:

5 Favorite Villains in Westerns:

Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West:

Lee Van Cleff in the Eastwood Spaghettis

Lee Marvin in Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance.

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven.

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men

I really like your choice of villains, although I don’t know that No Country for Old Men would be considered to be a Western.

 

[visitingcock]

I really like your choice of villains, although I don’t know that No Country for Old Men would be considered to be a Western.

Texas
Mexico
horses
Cowboy hats
boots
guns
sheriff
bounty hunters

What's missing?

 

[oldude]

Texas
Mexico
horses
Cowboy hats
boots
guns
sheriff
bounty hunters

What's missing?

Not many horses. More cars and trucks.

 

[punchjur]

I can't believe that no one has yet mentioned "The Big Country," a 1958 classic starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Burl Ives, Charlton Heston and Charles Bickford.

 

[Jingo]

1) The Fastest Gun Alive [1956] – Glenn Ford, a gorgeous Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
“I’m lookin’ for the man who shot two silver dollars out of the air”

2) Shane [1953] – Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Jean Arthur
” A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it.”

3) Magnificent Seven [1960] - Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach
Yul: There are lots of new walls, all around.
Eli: They won't keep me out!
Yul: They were built to keep you in.

4) My Darling Clementine [1946] – Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan
“Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone”

5) Open Range [2003] – Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Robt Duvall
“Men are gonna get killed today, Sue, and I’m gonna kill them”

6) Hopalong Cassidy [1935] – Wm Boyd, ‘Gabby’ Hayes
“We don’t make war on women, Johnny”

 

[Happydad745]

Red River, Shane, Once Upon a time in the West, The Searchers, The Man who shot Liberty Vallens.

 

[Javafan]

o Shane
o Gun fight at the O.K. Corral
o My darling Clementine
o The good the bad and the ugly
o The fastest gun alive

 

[Buzzyboy]

whelp, based on the last few posts (movie names, like song names, are mostly a mystery to me. except one-worders like 'up' or 'misfits'),
yup. clark gable. i like that guy.
and james garner. guy comes on the screen, viewers break out in a smile cuz he has that way about him. some folks are born like that.

loved James Garner .... such a cool dude

 

[dbmill]

loved James Garner .... such a cool dude

whelp, based on the last few posts (movie names, like song names, are mostly a mystery to me. except one-worders like 'up' or 'misfits'),
yup. clark gable. i like that guy.
and james garner. guy comes on the screen, viewers break out in a smile cuz he has that way about him. some folks are born like that.

The older I get, the more of a James Garner fan I get to be. I recall watching on occasion The Rockford Files and enjoying it when I was a teenager. Whatever, the case, I've seen a number of Garner movies over the years, and I definitely feel a need to see more of them. Love his charm, and it helps that he was in quality productions, both in movies and television.

 

[hard2please]

Best Western Hotel, western omelet, Western Union, Case Western Reserve University, western bluebird.

 

[Stymie]

I really like your choice of villains, although I don’t know that No Country for Old Men would be considered to be a Western.

Eli Wallach- “Tuco”- in one of the Eastwood vehicles ( Few Dollars more?)
Major dirtbag- one of the best worst.
Bardem in No Country- is an all time, all time best ( worst) hit man.
YouTube the scene at the gas station with the ‘ ole, flip a coin- call it…
Magnificent scene.

 

[dbmill]

Eli Wallach- “Tuco”- in one of the Eastwood vehicles ( Few Dollars more?)
Major dirtbag- one of the best worst.
Bardem in No Country- is an all time, all time best ( worst) hit man.
YouTube the scene at the gas station with the ‘ ole, flip a coin- call it…
Magnificent scene.

Eli Wallach is "Tuco" in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". He is terrific, and as much as people love Eastwood in this film, Wallach really carries the movie.

Eli Wallach is also the head bandit in the original movie production of "The Magnificent Seven", which of course is a western remake of "The Seven Samurai". He's very good in this film as well.

 

[hard2please]

i forgot "all quiet on the western front"

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Cheyenne Autumn A huge cast of great stars
Little Big Man Dustin Hoffman et al
The Rare Breed James Stewart/Maureen O'Hara/Brian Keith
The Ox Bow Incident Henry Fonda/Dana Andrews/Anthony Quinn
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Burt Lancaster/Kirk Douglas
A Man Called Horse (series) Richard Harris
3:10 to Yuma (original 1957) Glenn Ford/Van Heflin

 

[CTFIRERETIRED]

I sometimes think of "The Quiet Man" as a western that takes place in Ireland. Well, it isn't a western but it is an absolutely terrific movie, one of the best films done by either John Wayne or John Ford.

an unknown fact was that John Ford wanted to do the Quiet Man, but studio big wigs had to make a deal with Ford. He had to do the 3rd installment of the Cavalry trilogy "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, before they would support and fund The Quiet Man.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

1) The Fastest Gun Alive [1956] – Glenn Ford, a gorgeous Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
“I’m lookin’ for the man who shot two silver dollars out of the air”

2) Shane [1953] – Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Jean Arthur
” A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it.”

3) Magnificent Seven [1960] - Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach
Yul: There are lots of new walls, all around.
Eli: They won't keep me out!
Yul: They were built to keep you in.

4) My Darling Clementine [1946] – Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan
“Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone”

5) Open Range [2003] – Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Robt Duvall
“Men are gonna get killed today, Sue, and I’m gonna kill them”

6) Hopalong Cassidy [1935] – Wm Boyd, ‘Gabby’ Hayes
“We don’t make war on women, Johnny”

“Come back Shane, Pa’s got things for you to do, and Mother wants you, I know she does”.

How Brandon DeWilde didn’t win the Best Supporting Actor award is beyond me, one of the worst mistakes by the academy ever.

 

[dbmill]

an unknown fact was that John Ford wanted to do the Quiet Man, but studio big wigs had to make a deal with Ford. He had to do the 3rd installment of the Cavalry trilogy "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, before they would support and fund The Quiet Man.

You got the wrong movie from the Cavalry trilogy. "Rio Grande" was the third installment of the the Trilogy, and that is the one he had to make for Republic in order to get the studio to support "The Quiet Man".

 

[Stymie]

an unknown fact was that John Ford wanted to do the Quiet Man, but studio big wigs had to make a deal with Ford. He had to do the 3rd installment of the Cavalry trilogy "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, before they would support and fund The Quiet Man.

Quiet Man- Maureen Ohara—>S-M-O-K-I-N-G

 

[Kaizen]

The good the Bad and the Ugly.

Once Upton a Time in the West.

Giant, starring James Dean (his last film) and Elizabeth Taylor.

Rebel Without a Cause (not sure is a pure western movie but is a suburban, middle-class teenagers story). One of my favorite movie.

 

[Billineckz]

All fantastic movies in no particular order:
Take A Hard Ride
100 Rifles
Buck and the Preacher
Thomasine and Bushrod
Posse