Top 10 Westerns

[JoeProBono]

"What components make a western truly great? That depends on who's asking, as there are so many subgenres and different takes. There's the classic, the Spaghetti western, the singing cowboy western, the comedy western and the contemporary western. We tend to favor the slow-moving epics à la Leone over fast shoot-'em-ups, and our gunslingers and cowboys to be complex, stoic characters faced with morally difficult situations we believe are microcosms for all of life. There were many contenders for this very American genre—even though some of the finest were shot by an Italian. We've also tried to include a couple of rare choices that do not easily spring to mind, such as the Australian oeuvre "The Proposition." After all, you can Google John Wayne yourself. But what list of top westerns would be complete without The Duke?"

[JoeProBono]

[Wallop the Cat]

"They said you was hung."

"And they were right."

[trisham]

I think that both are on “Round-Up”.

[Non-Sequitur]

“Ulzana’s Raid” was a great performance by Burt Lancaster.

[Free in Texas]

Many excellent choices so far. Besides these, I really enjoyed The Long Riders. It has a fantastic knife fighting scene as well as being a really gritty film with a good ending.

[JoeProBono]

[Sudetenland]

I left this one out too:



Loved that movie!!!

[dawn53]

We posted at almost the same time...great minds think alike, LOL.

[verga]

The Professionals

Big Jake

Mc Clintock

[Calvin Locke]

Chato's Land (Charles Bronson)

On later today on Encore-Western.

It's overlapping Steve McQueen in "The Blob". Chuck loses.

[Utah Binger]

Come on down to Kane County Utah to see where most of them were filmed

Films in Kane County

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[JoeProBono]

Long Riders, 1980

[Sudetenland]

Another great one with Clint Eastwood and Robert Duval, "Joe Kidd"

[JoeProBono]

[Vaduz]

Great one another one was with Burt Lancaster I think it was Sam Bass.

[JoeProBono]

[Ronald_Magnus]

I think only one person mentioned “Once upon a Time in the West”. I’m thinking not too many people have seen that movie, because if they did, they’d rank it right up there at the top.. imo. One of the best finales ever. The great music has a lot to do with that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnXNRKjDhY8

[dawn53]

You know, I can’t think of any movie that Robert Duval’s starred in that I didn’t like.

[stop_fascism]

1. Tumbleweeds
2. True Grit
3. Red River
4. Shane
5. Fistful of Dollars
6. Hombre
7. Wild Bunch
8. Cheyenne Autumn
9. Hondo
10. The Sea of Grass

[dblup]

Never saw it. But heard it wasn’t worth teats on a boar!

(ha..you are looking for trouble, aren’t you?)