Name your favorite westerns.......NOBODY under 50 need answer!
I'm waiting.......
shareHere's a few, in no particular order (highlighting stars I enjoyed):
Movies -
The Big Country (Burl Ives, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck)
The Magnificent Seven (Brynner, McQueen, Coburn)
The Hanging Tree (Scott, Malden, Cooper)
The Fastest Gun Alive (Glenn Ford)
3:10 to Yuma (Glenn Ford)
Tombstone (Val Kilmer)
Silverado (all)
The Wild Bunch
Quick and the Dead
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid
Rio Bravo
Quigley Down Under
Any western with Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott
Television -
Have Gun Will Travel
Bat Masterson
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
The Big Valley
Yantze Derringer
Rawhide
The Rifleman
That should get you started...If I review the appropriate lists I could name another 50 I've seen but I'll leave those for others.
No " Shane "? How about " The Shootist "? To mention a couple. Remember...I said nobody under 50.
shareFor some reason, I've never seen "Shane". Shane on me.
"The Shootist" was good, but I've never been a huge John Wayne fan, because the only character he ever played was "John Wayne". I suppose that's sacrilegious.
fyi, I was born in the first half of the 20th century, i. e. before television sets were widely available.
Maybe respondents should also name the absolute "best western" ever made.
My brother, born during WWII, definitively assures me it was "The Big Country".
He discounts the Magnificent Seven because he believes each of the characters were playing caricatures of the actors themselves.
I also forgot to mention "Warlock", a great Henry Fonda/Anthony Quinn film. I also loved "Gettysburg" which was actually a war movie but still in the western time period.
Best acting in a western film...had to be Val Kilmer in Tombstone.
Too bad they cancelled the Deadwood TV program...it was probably more true to life than Hollywood's films.
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Doogiebee, I clicked on your user name so that I could send you a private message and IMDB came back with the message " that user does not exist ". What gives?
shareEvery morning when I get up, the first thing I do is read the obituary column in the Toronto Star to see if I'm listed as "deceased".
So far, so good, so I think I still exist.
I'll send a notice to the IMDB of your advisement, and would love to receive my first private message (assuming it doesn't contain anthrax).
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I'm 51
THE FAR COUNTRY
THE SEARCHERS
COLORADO SUNDOWN (Rex Allen, but so what?)
BEND OF THE RIVER
TRUE GRIT
UNFORGIVEN
THE SHOOTIST
UNION PACIFIC
STAGECOACH
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
SHANE
THE PROFESSIONALS
Oh, man! You gotta see Shane! That's like being a Beatles fan but not having heard Sgt. Pepper.
shareso anyone under 50 doesn't know anything about westerns?
so then the shootist,rio lobo,rooster cogburn,red river,north to alaska,the man who shot liberty valance,and all those other great John Wayne films that are to many to mention would escape my appreciation?
or maybe,high noon,billy the kid,magnificent seven,how the west was won,once up on a time in the west, are just to classic for me.
forget about the clint eastwood westerns of which i have seen all many times,including the rawhide years.
speaking of rawhide,i guess the virginian,wanted dead or alive,zane grey theatre,
gunsmoke,even to big valley and bonanza,and who can forget maverick? of course all these have escaped me.
maybe i'm to young to realize there was westerns before lonseome dove, dances with wolves,and Geronimo(the new one not the one burt lancaster played in).
how could i ever have known that Glenn Ford,Kirk Douglas,Randolph Scott,Henry Fonda,John Carradine,Eli Wallach all had good careers in westerns.
i sure wish i hadn't have been to young to have read and enjoyed a lot of louis l' amour paperbacks,i'm sure i missed out not getting to read the sackett novels.which didnt they make a movie on in the 80's? i'm sure it was ok but never got close to the thrill of the Tennessee sacketts in the novels.
forgive us young whooper snappers for not knowing good westerns like you old longtooth guys do,but then maybe an extra 20 years of watching westerns is all you really have on us.
hopefully in the next 20 years i can find all those missing classics i haven't saw,but after viewing all the ones i named above and more, i doubt there is much better out there :D
I'm 52,I liked all those listed before,also The Ox Bow Incident,Silverado,Support Your Local Sheriff,Hombre,The Wild Bunch,Judge Roy Bean,Stagecoach,etc.
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