OT - Best Westerns II

[Gun Smith]

I didn't want to highjack the original thread. OK guys, let's put together our own lists of the best westerns ever filmed, a minimum of 10 up to 25. #1 is best. Let's all take a couple of days to compile them.

[Doc Hudson]

#1 - Lonesome Dove
#2 Quigley Down Under
#3 - McClintock
#4 - Rio Bravo
#5 - Tombstone
#6 - The Undefeated
#7 - Open Range
#8 True Grit
#9 - The Shootist
#10 - Whispering Smith

If I took more time to consider, I'd probably add more and maybe rearrange the one's I've already listed, but I'll stand by my opinion that these are among the best Western Movies ever.

[Warhawk]

I'll add a few of my favorites:

The Cowboys
Unforgiven
Tom Horn
Jeremiah Johnson
The Mountain Men
The Magnificent Seven
Will Penny
Josey Wales

[bdhold]

The Long Riders
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Quigley Down Under (in spite of the overly melodramatic villain)
Tom Horn (someone mentioned authenticity on the other thread - this was it)
True Grit
The Cowboys
Winchester 73
High Noon
Hidalgo
3 Godfathers (cowboy Christmas)



squeaking out my last 8,
High Plains Drifter
The Shootist
Little Big Man
Dances with Wolves
Shane
The Gunfighter
I'll just leave the last few open for anything with Gregory Peck , Glenn Ford, or William Holden - I like them in westerns.

[rangerider7]

Lonesome Dove
Searchers
Red River
Open Range
The westerner
Unforgiven
Shootist
Tombstone
My Darling Clementine
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Oxbow Incident
Shane
Apaloosa
One Eyed Jacks
The Gunfighter
Will Penny
Stagecoach

[shooter]

Here's my list. The first few are in order, but after that it's pretty much mix and match. If I took a lot of time to arrange this, I would have put a different order after Josey Wales. BTW, I'm a huge John Wayne fan if you can't tell.

Lonesome Dove
Tombstone
The Cowboys
The Outlaw Josey Wales
True Grit
El Dorado
Rio Lobo
Big Jake
Unforgiven
Open Range
Broken Trail
Pale Rider
Sons of Katie Elder
Quick and the Dead (the one with Sam Elliot, not Gene Hackman)
The Sacketts
Shadowriders
Monte Walsh
Quigley
Crossfire Trail
The Searchers
Comancheros
The Shootist
Jeremiah Johnson
The Undefeated

[Beaker]

+ Warwagon, Cheyenne Social Club, Rooster Cogburn, How the West Was Won, ...She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ... etc.

[L_Kilkenny]

In no particular Order:

Red River
Tombstone
Pale Rider
Winchester '73
Open Range
Rio Bravo
El Dorado
The Big Country
The Tin Star
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Maverick
Johnson County War
etc etc.

Not to hyjack but there are some very popular Westerns that I have zero interest in:

Anything Spaghetti
High Noon
Rooster Cogburn
True Grit
Broken Trail
Unforgiven
How the West was Won

LK

[gak]

In no particular order:
True Grit
Red River
Jeremiah Johnson
Cheyenne Social Club
Good, Bad and Ugly
Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
Butch Cassidy
Josey Wales
High Planes Drifter
Two Mules For Sister Sara
Pale Rider
Open Range
Unforgiven
Lonesome Dove
Broken Trail
Tombstone
Winchester 73
The Big Country
Quigley
Rio Bravo
Rio Lobo
Sons of Katie Elder
McClintock
Big Jake
Rooster Cogburn (ok so that's 26!)
You get the idea I like Eastwood, Wayne and Duvall?)
I'm missing a few more Fonda in there unintentionally.
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Could've been but messed up (IMO)
Appaloosa (plodding)
3:10 to Yuma (II) (too dark visually, too dumb rancher/pursuant, but hey, guess that's the story!)

[FWiedner]

Lonesome Dove
Unforgiven
Jeremiah Johnson
The man who shot Liberty Valance
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Quigley Down Under
Apaloosa
Open Range
Broken Trail
No country for old men
The 3 burials of Meliquades Estrada
Tombstone
The Big Country
Winchester '73
High Noon
Red River
Hidalgo

That's my short list...

[mran1126]

Shane

[J Miller]

I've copied down all the lists and put an asterisk beside the movies I have. I have most of those listed. Plus some that were not listed.

Here are some I've enjoyed that nobody else mentioned in no particular order:

Bandidas
Bite The Bullet
Missing
Bend In The River
Shenandoah
Broken Arrow
Cahill United States Marshal
Wyatt Earp

These may not be the most popular, but I enjoyed them and I didn't want to list those others had listed.

Joe

[Beaker]

+ The Shakiest Gun in the West and Support Your Local Sheriff.

[Bosco]

I always liked Hondo, amongst most of the others listed above.

[phc45-70]

Nobody mentioned

The Culpepper cattle company
Lonely are the brave (set in contemporary times)
Rustlers Rapsody ( for comedy)
and it may have been mentioned but I don't think I saw
Monty Walsh ( both of them)

[lthardman]

Some close calls, but here are some of my favorites. I am sure I will forget to list some great ones:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Silverado
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Open Range
Lonesome Dove
Appaloosa
3:10 to Yuma
The Last Outlaw
Geronimo
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
Gettysburg
Crossfire Trail
Quigley Down Under
The Quick and The Dead

[bdhold]

OK, modern times - Rancho Deluxe

[gak]

Somebody with more energy than I compile a summary of this after a few days! - top 10 at least, and maybe 25 if there are enough duplicate votes in the upper tier..

[Stan in SC]

Lonesome Dove and Jeremiah Johnson tie for first in my opinion.
Any western which John Wayne did.

Stan in SC

[RIHMFIRE]

lonesome dove
searchers
crossfire trail
the original red river
the original 3:10 to yuma
winchester 73
quigley down under
rooster cogburn
7 men from now
angel and the bad man.....heck i like em all!

and every year christmas morning.....
I watch the 3 godfathers

[Griff]

I think my answer is on page 4: What's your Favorite Western? I forgot to list "Good Ol' Boys".

[765x53]

OK, modern times - Rancho Deluxe

I agree, Rancho Deluxe is one of my favorites also, Lonely Are the Brave.

Regarding the spaghetti westerns, without them Clint might not have been a big star and a lot of American productions since then might never have been funded. They helped revive the public's interest in westerns.

[alnitak]

I'll just ditto all the above. They ALL are on my list. Here's one I didn't see mentioned ... Dances With Wolves. I liked it at least.

[papasan]

And of course don`t forget.......
"The Stalking Moon"! Gregory Peck
fit the role perfectly in my opinion.

papasan

[missionary5155]

Good morning
STAGECOACH... I think it was filmed in 1939

[765x53]

Not exactly a western but, another great Gregory Peck film was The Yearling. Especially the real bear/hound fight.