Long ago, there was a movie genre that ruled the silver screen.....the Westerns. They remained popular in theaters and on TV until that fateful year when Sergio Leone created the anti-western 'A Fistful of Dollars', and the westerns we all loved faded into oblivion. What were YOUR favorite westerns from the pre- 1966 years? You know, the ones that starred James Stewart, Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne......
shareHang Em High, another great Clint Eastwood movie. Also, A Big Hand For The Little Lady.
My fave is Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.
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El Dorado is my top western, even though its from 1967.
share"Ride The High Country" '62 - With Scott & McCrea that you referenced in the charter.
"The Ox Bow Incident" '43 - Is superb with Fonda & Dana Andrews.
"Lonely Are The Brave" '62 - With (Kirk Douglas) is impeccable.
Ride The High Country and The Ox-Bow Incident are excellent examples of great westerns of the pre-Leone era. I personally don't care for Kirk Douglas. Other favorites of mine are Shane, Monte Walsh and Will Penny.
shareI like "Will Penny" as well, it's just that she won't stay with him so I avoid it.
"Shane" just improves with the years. I pick up something new each time I view it.
I feel guilty not to have seen any of these and I'm a fossil!
Ride The High Country (1962 ) - another gem I forgot
and Lonely Are The Brave , a Kirk Douglas , Gena Rowlands gem , superb acting-Walter Matthau and George Kennedy great in their roles
"Lonely Are the Brave" - excellent citation, tex. When Douglas is in the street at the end. He's perfect there, looks exactly like he's in shock. An unworldly aura takes over his countenance. The rain is pouring, the horse is screaming. It's an incredible sequence to stand witness to. It's stretched out lengthwise as deadly road accidents generally are.
Rowland at zenith loves both men. Ain't nothin' wrong with that. And her husband's decision to remain jailed. It's a brilliant set there with him & Douglas.
You called the ball here, tex. Bless your heart. I can see the scenes roll off in my mind just as if I'm watching the movie.
That's Sergio Leone and his films are regarded as such classics now in the field of Westerns that they teach his techniques in film schools. Let's also not forget his inspired use of Ennio Morricone's music scores for them also.
Don't know how you can not think of his films as classics.
Whether Leone's films are classics or not, is not my point here. They featured non-heroes which never could have existed in 'old' westerns. These newer films were in a class of there own which started the ultra violent western genre including The Wild Bunch.
shareThe man who shot liberty valance is on point! Is butch and sundance and films afterwards considered classics? I always thought B&S ushered in the next generation of the genre...but due to its age? Sure...in my opinion.
shareMy favorite western is Silverado followed by Tombstone
share"Silverado" is too cute, too quaint. Costner is insufferable there.
"Tombstone" stands up just as well a quarter century in. Sitting there at the release I was not a fan! Wanted to walk out, but, the children wouldn't hear of it. I must have been out of my freakin' mind. What the hell was I thinking? I don't know. Had a hair up my ass. I ought to be beat for it.
I understand your pov regarding Siverado but I still fell for it. Costner's break out film thanks to the director who cut him out(although he did play the corpse)of The Big Chill.
Kilmer stole the film. Although I believe Russell is one of our most underrated actors. Not a tremendous thespian but a solid entertainer for DECADES.
This will really piss off the critics but I also loved...gulp....The Lone Ranger. It was 30 minutes too long but it was chock full of detail. Sorry, I thought Johnny Depp was hysterical.
[Costner's break out film thanks to the director who cut him out(although he did play the corpse)of The Big Chill.]
I'll be damned, Daddy! I did not know that.
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Yes, Kilmer was locked in tight there.
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I was keen for the Lone Ranger before this Depp one...sometime in the '80's I believe with Klinton Spilsbury, or, some damn name. But, it was an unmitigated disaster & was cooked by the critics.
The Plainsman ( 1936 )
Stagecoach (1939)
The Westerner (1940)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Destry(1954)
Night Passage (1957)
Winchester 73 (1950 )
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Angel And The Badman (1947)
Fort Apache (1948)
Red River ( 1948 )
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon(1949)
Rio Grande (1950)
Hondo (1953)
The Searchers (1956)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Rounders (1965)
The Sheepman (1958)
3:10 To Yuma (1957)
[Winchester 73 (1950 )]
& you'd think having Will Geer as "Wyatt Earp" would be ridiculous. Nonsense. He nails it to the wall. He's absolute aces! His character establishes it's control without fanfare. It's incredible to behold.
& the scenes in the isolated saloon are just excellent.
I've never seen Brodie fail in a role. Ever. McNally either. Here he is a driven man, a lost soul upon appearance. At charter view I never saw the deal coming until it came. Absolutely nary quarter afforded from either Caine. That's all & far behind them by the time they find one another early on.
Anthony Mann in charge of production.
tex, with a Thursday before blessed Friday Direct Hit.
>>>Dutch Henry Brown: That's too bad. That's too much gun for a man to have just for... shootin' rabbits.
Lin McAdam: Or for shootin' men in the back.<<<
Both their hearts are painted black.
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I am stumped
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Rebecca ??
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there must be others but I can't think of any.
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I thought of another one - The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004). I pretty sure we don't see Nixon in this movie.
share& that's a fantastic movie. Between Penn's wife & boss a lot of buttons are pushed, and pushed hard.
Bully citation, howie. Damn proud of ya.
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I liked it - It reminded me of Falling Down (1993)
shareI would have added others but they were 1966 or later and I respect the criteria made by original poster
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