[silent_jonny]

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

[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.

[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.

[RooRoobird20]

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!

[donna]

How the West Was Won 1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxO1b59tntI

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Got to add "Ride the High Country" with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, directed by Sam Peckinpah.

[Flag_This]

Little Big Man (despite it’s leftist bent). The book was great, too.

[Publius]

"Ride the High Country"
"The Last Wagon"

[ozarkgirl]

bookmark to show hubby :) he’s a western fan.

[Lent]

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.

[yarddog]

One of the best westerns I have ever seen was surprisingly one made for TV.

“Broken Trail”.

[libertylover]

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

[Alberta's Child]

Shane belongs higher on the list.

Open Range should at least be on the "Honorable Mention" list.

How do they leave out any of the various Lonesome Dove movies?

Conagher might be the most underrated Western movie of all. It has all the classic themes of a Western, and perhaps the one actor in a protagonist role (Sam Elliott) who can almost make John Wayne look like Richard Simmons.

[Publius]

Of the Westerns directed by Bud Boetticher for Randolph Scott at Columbia, "Buchanan Rides Alone" is a classic. The script reads like an episode of "Maverick."

I should note that the first 3 episodes of "Maverick" were directed by Boetticher at the request of Roy Huggins, the creator and producer of the series.

[SES1066]

Like “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” “The Searchers” recognizes that violent men may have secured the frontier, but there can never be a place for them in civilization.

Really? What about the aphorism "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." and the like?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The Run of the Arrow.

It made a lasting impact on me when I saw it as a child.

[dfwgator]