Your favorite westerns.

[Silver Moon]

Wonderful Lists! As many of you already know (as all of the "Western" threads in the Story Hour forum are from my campaigns) I love westerns.

One of my favorites that hasn't shown up yet on any of the above lists is Hannie Caulder. It was a early 1970's film starring Racquel Welch as widow who becomes a lady gunfighter to get revenge against the outlaws that killed her husband. Lots of great performances in the film which co-starred Robert Culp, Christopher Lee and Ernest Bourgnine. Beautifully filmed as well.

 

[Brakkart]

I think all of my favourites have already been mentioned, but I'll list them anyway:

Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider
Young Guns (Both of them, the sequel wasn't as good as the first, but still fun)
Dances With Wolves
Bad Girls
The Quick And The Dead
Tombstone
Last Of The Mohicans (okay not technically a Western, but close enough)
Maverick

Also in the fringe category I'll add the movies Serenity and The Postman as futuristic takes on the western genre, and the TV series Firefly.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

One of my favorites not mentioned is John Wayne's The Shootist.

It's the story of an old gunfighter who finds out that he is dying.

It was John Wayne's last film.

He knew that he had terminal lung cancer while filming.

Arguably the Duke's truest performance.

This is such a great movie... *tears up* I hate watching it though... it makes me sad.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Paint Your Wagon - more for the music than anything else, I love They Call the Wind Mariah...

Maverick

El Diablo ('You shot him in the back!' 'His back was to me.')

I am old enough that I would love to see a well made movie of 'Have Gun Will Travel'.

The Auld Grump

 

[Rogue765]

Red Sun. Charles Bronson as a gunfighter and Toshiro Mifune as a Japanese samurai who was accompanying the Japanese ambassador on a goodwill trip to Washington DC when the train crossing the US that he was on was robbed by a group of outlaws who stole a valuable katana that the ambassador was going to present to the President. Mifune's character goes after the outlaws to retrieve the sword and Bronson's character goes with him to get revenge on the outlaw leader. GUNFIGHTERS!!! SAMURAI!!! It's a sushi western.

Also there's Wyatt Earp with Kevin Cosner and Dennis Quaid as Doc Holiday. Made the same year as Tombstone . Interesting to compare the two.

 

[Henry]

Also there's Wyatt Earp with Kevin Cosner and Dennis Quaid as Doc Holiday. Made the same year as Tombstone . Interesting to compare the two.

For me, Tombstone has it all over Costner's Earp. In terms of acting delivery and quotable lines, Tombstone is the more fun flick.

And of course, I don't think I've seen any that's ever got the OK Corral correct.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I notice that a few people have mentioned Deadwood in this thread. So if we're going to allow television westerns, I'd like to add Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

 

[frog]

Dang...no love at all for Jeremiah Johnson.

Heathen

 

[Rel]

Paint Your Wagon - more for the music than anything else, I love They Call the Wind Mariah...

I was going to mention this movie if nobody else had by the time I finished reading the thread. Very fun film.

I went on a tear some years ago when I worked at a video store. I watched western after western and I appreciated many of them but they all kind of ran together after a while. The more modern works are the ones that I can still recall fairly well. My list of very favorites (all for very different reasons) are:

Silverado (starring everybody)
Rustler's Rhapsody ("Of course I'm a bad guy! I'm a lawyer!")
Dances With Wolves
Pale Rider
Open Range
Quiggley Down Under (He's the inspiration for "Tex" in my Sky Galleons games)
Unforgiven ("Deserve ain't got nuthin' to do with it...")
Young Guns ("We're in the spirit word, hole!" is still quoted around our gaming table.)
and of course The Outlaw Josey Wales

 

[CarlZog]

I'm pretty fond of most of the ones already listed. A couple others that haven't shown up yet:

Sons of Katie Elder John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, and a young Dennis Hopper. I always liked this movie, though others consider it mediocre. I only just recently read that it was Wayne's first film after losing a lung to cancer, and he still did all his own stunts.

Son of Paleface Bob Hope comedy with Jane Russell and Roy Rogers. This is creative, slapstick, cartoon-like action. Great fun. My favorite movie when I was a kid; had all the great lines memorized!

Carl