it is in my top ten best westerns of all time, including, in no particular order:
Unforgiven
Tombstone
The Shootist
True Grit
Lonesome Dove (the original 6 hour mini series)
The Wild Bunch
The Professionals
Will Penny
The Searchers
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Also +1 on Unforgiven
What? No Silverado?
Maybe not the most accurate western but I always thought it was pretty good nevertheless!
I like youir list, but I would replace “Butch cassidy” wit “Crossfire Trail”. I never liked the Butch movie and Tom Selleck does excellent westerns. Also, The Wild Bunch is an underrated western. It has extremely subtle undercurrents which strike a chord with those who have a sense of not fitting in with what their world has become.
I also think that Val Kilmer deserved an oscar for his performance in Tombstone, another underrated film (much better than Costner’s Wyatt Earp).
Val Kilmer = Best Doc Holiday ever, imo.
What about “Roy Rogers and the Runaway Stagecoach”? or “Gene Autry and the Legend of the Buried Treasure”? or “Bonanza - the Movie”? or “Zorro - the Movie”? (not technically a western, but sort of) and the classic “High Noon - the Sequel”?
Your list is so . . . unimaginative. You must broaden your horizons. Now, there’s a good idea for a western . . “Broad Horizons” starring some really fat actors.
Great list, although I saw Butch Cassidy for the first time this weekend and really didn’t like it..
You have these two supposed famous bandits who never manage to hit a big score, get chased all over hell and gone, and solve that problem by going to a country where they don’t speak the language and stand out like sore thumbs.
Will Penny is worth watching just for Donald Pleasance out crazying Bruce Dern (which in the 70’s took some doing!).
Vaquero mentioned Lonesome Dove. I’ve seen Lonesome Dove and all the prequels and sequels, and as good as Lonesome Dove is, I have to say “Streets of Laredo” is my favorite of the group. James Garner is excellent as Woodrow Call, but the guy who steals the show is Randy Quaid as John Wesley Harding. His character has the be the meanest ever (he rivals Bruce Dern at his best). And the stone cold killer kid Joey Garza is frightening.
Good list. But what about the Long Riders?
it is in my top ten best westerns
Doesn’t “Hombre” with Paul Newman make the list?
Favorite line:
Indian Agent’s Wife: “Those Indians were such savages that they actually ate dogs.”
Hombre: “You ever been hungry, Lady? I don’t mean just ready for dinner, but so hungry that your stomach gnaws at you all the time? If you were that hungry, you would eat that dog, and thank God for it.”
Later, we discover that the Indian Agent had been embezzeling the money for food for the Indians on the Reservation.
Or later, when the outlaw leader (Richard Boone) walks up the hill to talk to Hombre, and he starts making threats.
Hombre: “Just one question ... how are you going to get down the hill?” and he cocks his rifle.
Outlaw: “Wait a minute, I am here under a flag of truce ..”
He turns around, and tries to run down the steep hill, as Hombre is firing at him, eventually hitting him at least once.
It is one of my all time favorites, and finally found a DVD copy at the Walmart $5 bin this weekend.