Similar movies
does anyone know of any other good sort of mysterious gunslinger type westerns.
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Well hopefully you've seen The Good The Bad And The Ugly (The greatest movie of all time) and For A Few Dollars More
but other than those two an amazing mystery western is Once Upon A Time In The West. Brilliant movie
The other two Dollars triology For a Few Dollars More and The Good the Bad and the Ugly (starring Clint Eastwood,Gian Maria Volonté,Elli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef).
Hang'em High (starring Clint Eastwood).
Django (starring Franco Nero).
Navajo Joe (starring Burt Reynolds).
Sabata (starring Lee Van Cleef).
Adios,Sabata! (starring Yul Brynner).
Return of Sabata (starring Lee Van Cleef).
Indio Black AKA Sabata (in some versions) (starring Yul Brynner).
Johnny Yuma (starring Mark Damon).
A Bullet for the General (starring Gian Maria Volonté).
The Hellbenders (starring Joseph Cotten).
Death Rides a Horse (starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law).
Django Kill...If u live,Shoot! (starring Thomas Millan).
A Pistol for Django (starring Jeff Cameron).
Red Sun (starring Alain Delon,Ursulla Andress,Charles Bronson,Capucine and Toshiro Mifune).
Viva,Django! (starring Terence Hill).
Django...Adios! (starring Brad Harris).
A Stranger in Town (starring Tony Anthony).
The Stranger Returns (starring Tony Anthony).
The Mercenary (starring Franco Nero).
They call me Trinity (starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill).
Trinity is still my name! (starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill).
Compañeros (starring Thomas Millan and Franco Nero).
Black Killer (starring Klaus Kinski).
Keoma (starring Donald O'Brien and Franco Nero as Keoma).
A Reason to Live & A Reason to Die (starring Bud Spencer,James Coburn and Telly Savalas).
My Name is Nobody (Starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda).
One Upon a Time in West (starring Jason Robards,Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson).
Once Upon a Time in the Revolution AKA A Fistfull of Dynamite (starring James Coburn).
Un Dollare Bucato (starring Giuliano Gemma AKA Montgomery Wood).
Una Pistola per Ringo (starring Giuliano Gemma AKA Montgomery Wood).
Adiós Gringo (starring Giuliano Gemma AKA Montgomery Wood).
Silver Saddle (starring Giuliano Gemma AKA Montgomery Wood).
20moose -- your question made me think hard. At first I thought that coming up with similar "mysterious gunmen" would be easy, but not so much, really. Of course many Italian Westerns copied (or at least ran close to) the same sort of story that Leone used. So I'll discount them. Another poster gave a good list of the higher quality Italian westerns.
But in thinking about it, I can't really come up with that many "mysterious gunslingers" as protagonists in westerns. Eastwood did "High Plains Drifter" and "Pale Rider," which fit the bill perfectly. Does his role in "Unforgiven" count as "mysterious?"
"Shane" is really the prototype of the mysterious gunslinger riding in to town and setting things straight. I would highly recommend reading the book "Shane." In the book, he's darker, more mysterious, a bit more "super-powered." Terrific read. The film is a classic, but since I read the book many times before I saw the flick, it stuck with me better.
A couple of off-the-wall choices: Yul Brynner in the truly weird "Invitation to a Gunfighter." Gregory Peck isn't all that mysterious in "The Gunfighter," but it's a good, perhaps a bit old-fashioned, look at a gunslinger. Worth a viewing.
Henry Fonda does a pretty good villainous gunfighter in "Firecreek." Paul Newman in "Hombre." Glenn Ford in the original "3:10 to Yuma" (warning -- this isn't an action picture. Just an excellent drama set in the west.)
James Garner faces several mysterious gunfighters in "Support Your Local Sheriff" to great comedic effect. Sets some of the typical western scenarios on their ear.
Actually, that list of movies would make a pretty good weekend film festival, so I'll sign off.
Sukiyaki.Western.Django is practically the same movie
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I'm surprised no one has brought up Yojimbo, the Kurasawa movie this is based on.
While it's not a "western" in the sense that it isn't set in the American Old West (you could argue that Fist Full of Dollars isn't set in the American Old West either), the themes and, of course, the story, are very similar.
Both are superb movies.
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