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......
shareTwo pop into my head when talking about favorite westerns: Hang 'Em High and Unforgiven (my favorite).
shareShane and High Noon
I like the 'newer' Westerns better
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The Searchers
Stagecoach
The Westerner
High Noon
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
Hombre
Day of the Outlaw
Shane
The Man from Laramie
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[The Man from Laramie]
It's a bit convoluted, howie.
The old man is mostly blind and owns a spread as big as Rhode Island but goes to & up that mountain like he had a map, though Arthur Kennedy nagging him the entire trip to go somewhere else steers the old coot quite nicely.
The old man rides all the way over to that woman's house mostly blind, takes a few pot shots at Stewart, falls off his horse, calls Stewart every dirty name in the book, climbs back on his horse and tears ass back outta there.
The old man treated that woman who loves him like pure dirt for 2 hours until he loses his sight completely then calls out to her and she jockey's right in there. If I were her I'd tell him what Margo told me: "Screw off, creep!"
No doubt that most old westerns were hokey, but that gave them a certain appeal at the time. A LOT of movies that I really enjoyed watching when they came out now seem rather silly.....
Hate the spaghetti Westerns. Wonder why they ever came out and
why people thought they were good. Just killing and stupid moments
of macho. Not really sure of the order
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
Last Of The Mohicans ( I'd call this the West at the time )
Dances With Wolves
McCabe And Mrs. Miller
Paint Your Wagon
Jeremiah Johnson
Heaven's Gate
The Quick And The Dead
High Noon
Shane
really enjoyed Paint Your Wagon - saw it at a Drive-In Theater years ago
shareMost of mine have been named
These come to mind.
Man Without a Star
Winchester 73
Bend of the River
Far Country
Naked Spur
North to Alaska
Night Passage
Once Upon a Time in the West
Man From Laramie
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Can't argue with that.
We had a thread awhile ago about those kinds of things in westerns.
Just remembered another of my favorites. The Big Country.