Silverado should be in the top 5.
Searchers is my #1
Looks like the Duke’s movies did okay.
Shane? Please.
I also like “Bite the Bullet”, “Monty Walsh” and “Crossfire Trail”.
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.
Let me add “Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid.” And “The Long Riders.”
Nobody has mentioned another John Ford Western that I believe may be the best over Shane and The Searchers. Three Godfathers has been made several times but my favorite is the one with John Wayne, Harry Carey, Jr. and Pedro Armendariz.
3 Godfathers
Shane
The Searchers
Tombstone
Rio Grande
Outlaw Josey Wales
Stagecoach
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
True Grit Movies if you could combine the best elements of both.
The Long Riders
I would put these five in a separate category.
Paint Your Wagon as a musical.
Blazing Saddles as a comedy farce.
Hallelujah Trail as a comedy.
Waterhole #3 as a comedy.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre as a modern western.
I enjoyed all of the Spaghetti’s.
Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider is also a great western.
I’ll play.
My Top 10
1. Unforgiven
2. Silverado
3. The Big Country
4. Shane
5. The Magnificent Seven
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. The Searchers
8. The Naked Spur
9. Appaloosa
10. Stage Coach
Deeper cuts
True Grit
Rio Bravo
Red River
The Cowboys
Django Unchained
Tombstone
Open Range
Winchester 73
The Man From Snowy River
The Wild Bunch
El Dorado
Bonus: Popular westerns I can’t stand
Dances with Wolves
The Quick and the Dead
The Revenent
The Lone Ranger
Bad Girls
Nevada Smith is one I watch every so often, also.
Not a movie, but I can’t help but watch Steve McQueen’s “Wanted: Dead or Alive”, anytime there is a marathon on TV. I was raised on shows like that.
Hollywood had to kill the classic Western. You can’t spew PC and destroy modern US culture by showing classic Westerns where good triumphs over evil, and the Cowboy code of honesty, hard work, chivalry, self-sufficiency and patriotism is constantly showing on the screen.
The classic Hollywood western movie espouses everything that Hollywood Liberals hate about conservatism and morality. No wonder it died a sudden death. I am constantly amazed when a great new Western movie leaks out of the Hollywood cesspool now and then.
Any “Top 10 Westerns” list that doesn’t include “The Outlaw Josey Wales” is invalid...
I would admit to being petty—were it not for the fact that the entire outcome of the movie's plot hinges on that one impossibly unlikely event!
Does anyone else here feel that way?
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