Posted on 03/25/2018 2:48:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Richard Harris, who did a good job in The Man Called Horse.
A fun movie but so historically inaccurate it is pitiful
Yes, but read the book it is based on, one of the most authentic Western novels ever written.
I still wince thinking about him being hoisted by the skin.
Sam Elliott is simply my favorite character actor, especially in cowboy films.
I watched Gettysburg Saturday. His portrayal of General John Buford was intense.
I believe so, he uses them well.
Elliot excelled as sheriff Bucky O’Neal in the TV serial Rough Riders.
Shane? Please.
I also like “Bite the Bullet”, “Monty Walsh” and “Crossfire Trail”.
I read plenty of Zane Gray. He had one where the main character was helping build one of the big western dams. Boulder or Hoover. Great book.
One day, I was at a garage sale and just didn’t have the money for the entire Louis L’Amour collection. Still kicking myself
Burt Lancaster, Brian Keith, Lee Remick, many more.
Favorite character in it was Oracle.
From Post war W.W. II to the mid 1960’s westerns were a staple in the movies and on TV. In 1960 on prime time TV, back then three major networks, there were 31 western on.
Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea from about 1946 till they both retired in 1962, made something like 35 westerns each in those years. A deliberate decision they made. They both produced many of their own pictures and become very wealthy in staying with that Genre.
Alas the western now is almost forgotten in Hollywood, rarely do you see one made, For awhile cable TV had westerns, most notably TBS and TNT did a great job of still doing westerns with Sam Elliott and Tom Selleck, but those days are gone.
I still watch the old westerns now on channels like The Grit Channel, ME TV, and others.
My favorite western to watch now is “Laramie” with John Smith and Robert Fuller, they were a great screen team and I love that theme song.
I cut the cable about months ago and I don’t miss it. I get great shows to watch that are more to my liking.
The Western is truly American and Unique.
Everyone you listed were great movies. Can we talk about western series: Gunsmoke for about the first 12 years was a great series portraying just how hard life was in those days. Have Gun Will Travel was also a great series. I think I have every movie you listed and most of the Gunsmoke episodes.
Oh, that would be a great collection to have.
You could probably find a lot of them on Amazon as used books or Powells Used Books.
Most of those are too recent. A list like this is impossible, in the 1930’s and 1940’s there were so many great westerns made that aren’t being mentioned at all.
How about:
Western Union
Dodge City: Almost anything with Errol Flynn
San Antonio
Anything with Gary Cooper
The Westener
You can go on and on.
There you go, anything with Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer.
I think Hollywood could make more money if they made more traditional style westerns without rap music and all of the other crap they put in.
More westerns and more clean movies with values.
Let me add “Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid.” And “The Long Riders.”
I watch western on retro channels all the time. Laramie is great. Fuller and Eastwood are probably the only western cowboys still living.
Shadow Riders with Tom Sellick. Sellick was in a couple of others too. I must have 50 LaMour books.
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