Posted on 03/25/2018 2:48:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Big Country should be in the top 20. The scenery, the music, Burl Ive’s Oscar-winning performance, AND hunky Chuck Heston—I could go on and on LOL!
How the West Was Won 1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxO1b59tntI
without Val Kilmer, “Tombstone” would have been a very ordinary film.
Open Range will eventually be like Tombstone, a modern classic...
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I agree. It’s a very good movie and has one of the best gun fights ever.
Yup. I’m a big Lonesome Dove fan. Though after Gus dies, I lose interest in watching the rest of it.
Little Big Man (despite it’s leftist bent). The book was great, too.
Tombstone and Outlaw Josie Wales. Little Big Man for Chief Dan George’s performance. Frisco Kid with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. Excellent. Breakheart Pass - Charles Bronson.
bookmark to show hubby :) he’s a western fan.
No Brokeback Mountain? How un PC.
No, no, no.
1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
2. Unforgiven
3. Pale Rider
4. Fist Full of Dollars
5. For a Few Dollars More
Lol. Wait. My man Eastwood’s films! Got to figure what my remaining Westerns will be.
By the way. Searchers? Lol. Did you see the dead guy breathing in the grave and a vehicle driving in the distance? I do have it in remastered HD-DVD.
If you include that film, you’d have to include “Rancho Deluxe.”
High Noon was the leftist anti-Joe McCarthy western.
I had not heard of Open Range.
But I see it is available to watch online through DirecTV and will be televised Sat, 4/7 at 7:00 - 10:00 PM ET. Don’t know which channel, though.
“without Val Kilmer, “Tombstone” would have been a very ordinary film.”
That’s probably true. Kilmer was at least all right in most of his other roles, but never exceeded that performance. The only other one I can think of that was above average was as Jim Morrison in “The Doors.”
Shane and High Noon are both number one.
The Culpepper Cattle Company is up there at the top.
An old Randolph Scott in Seven Men From Now is top level.
One of the best westerns I have ever seen was surprisingly one made for TV.
“Broken Trail”.
I’d class the Wild Bunch as “modern western” since it took place in 1913, along with “The Professionals”.
I like this version of the theme music for “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” from the Danish National Orchestra in a very big production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk
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