The Top 10 Westerns Ever Made, Plus 10 More Deep Cuts

The Federalist ^ | 03/25/2018 | By Inez Feltscher Stepman

[Ronniesque]

Watched High Noon and High Plains Drifter for a college course (though I had seen them before) and was interesting to write a comparison and contrast between them.

[SpaceBar]

A Fistful of Dollars, hands down.

[yarddog]

Pretty good list.

[Califreak]

IMO, it was a tribute to the American west and the movies that were made about it.

[FredZarguna]

I agree. So is Shane; two very overrated films that critics love, but western fans generally find weak.

[PAR35]

Add The Shootist and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and dump The Magnificent Seven (not really a Western) and Winchester 73 (which I never really liked).

[MUDDOG]

Not one of the greats, but I liked “Cat Ballou.” Another outstanding Lee Marvin performance.

[silent_jonny]

El Dorado doesn’t get an honorable mention? I enjoy it much more than Rio Bravo.

[Califreak]

Emperor of the North is a good movie.

Hard to believe Shack is Mermaid Man from the Spongebob show.

[King Moonracer]

Unforgiven
Paint Your Wagon
Dirty Dingus McGee

[be-baw]

Notably missing is “Tombstone.” Like “Rio Bravo,” it’s a film that I would watch every time I could. Val Kilmer, playing Doc Holliday, should have won an Oscar.

[Califreak]

My Name Is Nobody.

[sparklite2]

Hard to believe anyone who watched one would watch the other. LOL

[max americana]

Open Range will eventually be like Tombstone, a modern classic...

I know the gentleman who was one of the producers. They had a tight budget and almost couldnt afford annette benning. No set in place and they just asked “where did they shoot UNFORGIVEN”?

So off they went to Calgary. Just to show you how pro-American Robert Duvall was, he was mad that foreign actors were taking away parts for American actors while he was on-set..

[FredZarguna]

How the West Was Won is too often overlooked, and should replace Shane in the top 10. Open Range is one of the few good westerns of recent vintage; I would replace High Noon which is Highly overrated with that.

[Califreak]

Well you know, the kids.

; )

I don’t watch anymore because the kids grew up.

[Vaquero]

Some great movies there

Here is my list:

1) Unforgiven
2) Tombstone
3) The Shootist
4) True Grit (pick one....tied for 4th for different reasons)
5) Searchers
6) Shane
7) Winchester 73
8) Will Penny
9) Butch Cassidy … etc
10) …Liberty Valance.

And one of my all time favorites but not a “movie” per Se is the made or TV mini series Lonesome Dove with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.

[yarddog]

After he had directed “Red River” Howard Hawks said that it was the first time he realized “the big guy” could act.

[John 3_19-21]

I enjoyed Big Country - 1958 Gregory Peck.

Hud, Giant, and Jeremiah Johnson were pretty good.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Did you ever see “My Name Is Nobody” with Hill and Henry Fonda? Good stuff.