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Name your favorite westerns.......NOBODY under 50 need answer!


I'm waiting.......

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Movies that stand out in memory -
3:10 to Yuma (Glenn Ford)
The Big Country
The Magnificent Seven
High Noon
The Fastest Gun Alive
Tombstone
Shane
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Silverado
Butch Cassidy Sundance Kid
The Man from Laramie
Cowboy
Quigley Down Under
3:10 to Yuma - not bad for a remake of a better film
Red Sun
Wyatt Earp
The Cheyenne Social Club
the rest of the list would be every western I've ever seen, the exception being the 1995 The Quick and the Dead - Hackman, always good, didn't make it work in this case (personal opinion of course.)

Television -
The Restless Gun
The Rifleman
Bret Maverick
Have Gun Will Travel
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Bat Masterson
The Lone Ranger
The Rebel
Wanted: Dead or Alive

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Don't think you can stop anyone under 50 from answering.

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I'm 37, but I am chiming in anyway. No order:

Firecreek
Open Range
Once Upon a Time in the West
Dead Man
The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Shane
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
True Grit (remake)
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rio Bravo
Young Guns 2
High Noon
Track of the Cat
Tombstone

Do No Country for Old Men and Bad Day at Black Rock count?



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- rj

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I wouldn't call No Country and Bad Day westerns, but they're good films. I'm not even sure that I'd call Dead Man a western. I think it's more of a fantasy. I own all three of them. ' Anton Chigurh ' is a memorable character. I've probably seen Bad Day at Black Rock about twenty times. Robert Ryan is my all time favorite actor.

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What are your thoughts on Firecreek?



Citing NASA as experts on these matters is like citing the KK on matters of race relations.
- rj

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Ya know, it's been so long since I've seen it that I'll have to check it out again to refresh my memory before I give you my verdict. I believe that I have a recorded copy of it on vhs. I seem to recall that I liked it the last time I saw it. It has quite a cast. I'm familiar with fifteen of the actors in it. I'll get back to you on it.

If you're interested in suggestions for other westerns, let me know and I'll send it to you in a private message.







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Always.

Citing NASA as experts on these matters is like citing the KK on matters of race relations.
- rj

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The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Last Frontier (aka Savage Wilderness)
The Sundowners (1950 with Robert Preston)
True Grit (both)
3:10 to Yuma (both, but more so the 2007 version)
The Alamo (1960)
Ride with the Devil
Dances with Wolves
One-Eyed Jacks
The Missouri Breaks
The Big Country
Wyatt Earp
The Ride Back
Valdez is Coming
Bandolero!
Django Unchained
Shane
Rooster Cogburn
Duel at Diablo
The Last Wagon
The Horse Soldiers
The Quick and the Dead (1987 version with Sam Elliott)
September Dawn
American Outlaws
Ride the High Country
Jubal
Duel in the Sun
North to Alaska
Bad Company
Jonah Hex
The Night of the Grizzly
Chino
Kung Fu (pilot movie)
Molly and Lawless John
Grayeagle
The Law and Jake Wade
Buffalo Bill
The Mountain Men
Shalako
The Train Robbers
Posse (1975)
Young Guns
Broken Arrow
Hombre
Destry (Audie Murphy)
Rio Bravo
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (which deals with the settlers/native conflict evenhandedly)

I could easily cite a dozen more, but this is good enough for here.

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100!!!!!

Also, "Once Upon a Time in the West".

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Just imagine--people who were only thirty-five when the original post was made are now fifty and permitted to respond!

I'm as skeptical of most younger people's vintage movie knowledge as anybody, but there are exceptions. Since films are preserved on FILM, anyone of any age can see any movies of any time period, and have a valid opinion about them. I wasn't born until the 1950s, but I've seen hundreds of movies from the '20s, '30s, and '40s, and am very familiar with their writers, directors, cinematographers, stars, and character actors. I can discuss them with eighty and ninety-year-olds all day, and I almost always actually know more about them than they do, even though they were going to movies decades before I was alive.

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