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Top 10 Best Westerns of All Time:
clinteastwood.org ^ | 9/11/04 | staff

Posted on 12/29/2004 3:00:15 PM PST by pissant

Top 10 Best Westerns of All Time:

1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Sergio Leone's quintessential Western epic made Clint Eastwood the torchbearer in the genre and cemented Lee Van Cleef as one of the greatest movie villains of all time.

2. Shane - The archetypal Western plotline of the stranger who befriends a family and saves them from evil set the tone for all that swam in it’s wake, including The Unforgiven, the most blatant (and best) Shane knockoff.

3. High Noon - A case study in movie making, High Noon is among the first films to take place in real time.

4. The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah's ultra-violent epic still packs quite a punch.

5. High Plains Drifter - The most badass revenge flick ever made. Clint's The Man With No Name could kick Dirty Harry's ass.

6. The Unforgiven - There would be no Unforgiven without Shane.

7. Outlaw Josey Wales - Practically a remake of High Plains Drifter but with more backstory, sub-plots and fully developed characters. You can still feel the sting of that darned whip!

8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre - A later-era Western to be sure, but a terrific character study in greed and trust, and a fine example of why we are still talking about Bogart to this day. The man oozes star power.

9. A Fistful of Dollars - The beginning of Sergio and Clint's Dollars series, this is the best of the bunch.

10. Once Upon a Time in the West - Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson lead this all-star cast. Never in cinematic history has a harmonica been the source of so much tension.

Do ya'll agree or disagree?

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To: pissant
I know my taste on this will seem pretty far out to some but, in addition to some already mentioned, I really loved:

1) Heaven's Gate (it got trashed bigtime by the critics but I loved itl!!!)
2). Duel in the Sun (loved Gregory Peck's bad guy role in this one!)

101 posted on 12/29/2004 5:22:52 PM PST by Zacs Mom ("In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Jefferson)
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To: pissant

Nevada Smith -Steve McQueen.


102 posted on 12/29/2004 5:56:13 PM PST by Solamente
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To: pissant

I have to add:
Death Hunt with Lee Marvin and Charle Bronson
The White Buffalo with Charles Bronson
I know these are a little off the wall but I like 'em.


103 posted on 12/29/2004 6:03:44 PM PST by unbalanced but fair
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To: pissant

"the villan" Arnold Schwartznegger, Ann Margart, Kirk Douglas


104 posted on 12/29/2004 6:04:48 PM PST by Lokibob (All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
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To: devolve

I like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly music. It's cute.


105 posted on 12/29/2004 7:35:41 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: pissant

Open Range (2003) with Kevin Costner and Robert DeNiro.


106 posted on 12/29/2004 7:39:18 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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To: pissant

Gunfight at the OK corral, all the various versions.


107 posted on 12/29/2004 7:40:34 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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To: mtbopfuyn
anything with John Wayne is a true western.

In a way "Fighting Seabees" could be called a Western.

108 posted on 12/29/2004 7:45:57 PM PST by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: pissant
Don't know about the top 10, but I stayed in a pretty good one in Atlanta once.


109 posted on 12/29/2004 7:48:44 PM PST by Sloth (Al Franken is a racist.)
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To: pissant

Blazing Saddles wasn't on the list. It's my fav!


110 posted on 12/29/2004 7:50:04 PM PST by KoRn
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To: pissant
I dunno, I kinda liked Young Guns & Young Guns 2, Tombstone & Wyatt Earp. But that's just me.


111 posted on 12/29/2004 7:50:58 PM PST by unixfox (Close the borders, problems solved!)
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To: pissant
Skip past 10. Add "Valdez is Coming" ....Burt Lancaster.

'one hunert dollars'

112 posted on 12/29/2004 7:52:13 PM PST by BIGLOOK (I once opposed keelhauling but have recently come to my senses.)
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To: Viking2002

113 posted on 12/29/2004 7:53:47 PM PST by KoRn
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To: vetvetdoug

That is an awesome flick.


114 posted on 12/29/2004 7:56:18 PM PST by AmishDude (Official pseudo-Amish mathematician of FreeRepublic.)
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To: unbalanced but fair
The their is the longest running Western series, "Gunsmoke".
115 posted on 12/29/2004 7:57:23 PM PST by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: pissant
Seattle a hellhole? There are worse places, I would think.

They are certainly rich in ballots.

116 posted on 12/29/2004 7:57:41 PM PST by AmishDude (Official pseudo-Amish mathematician of FreeRepublic.)
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To: pcgTheDestroyer
There was no good main character in "The Bad, the Bad and the Bad". The were all bad. The movie lowered the bar for "good" to the level of fraud and theft. Otherwise, it was a good story and well acted.

117 posted on 12/29/2004 9:16:41 PM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: pissant
TOMBSTONE!

You tell em I'm comin' - and that HELL, is comin' with me!
I got two guns. One for each of ya!
I'm yer huckleberry!

118 posted on 12/29/2004 11:05:08 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("BZZZZZT You are fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute")
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To: IoCaster
What's a Four Feather and Gunga Din?

Can you still me what this means. Thanks.

119 posted on 12/29/2004 11:21:26 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: pissant

I like the Gregory Peck movie with the pet deer too! It is "The Yearling"

Jody Baxter - "Pa, am I a man now?" Pa tells Jody that life is `gettin, losin, gettin, losin.

He taught his boy so much in this 1946 movie. Remember the last part where Jody and the deer run off together in his imagination? Innocense is lost but the part of him that loved the deer so deeply is with him and will be part of who he is forever. This is a wonderful movie!

I also enjoy McClintock and The Quiet Man for westerns!

Mary Kate Danaher ~ "What manner of man is it that I have married?"

Charles Fitzsimons ~ "A better one, I think, than you know Mary Kate."

Sean Thornton ~ "Well, some things a man doesn`t get over easy."

Mary Kate Danaher ~ "Like what supposin?"

Sean Thornton ~ "Like the sight of a girl comin through the fields with the sun on her hair...kneeling in church with a face like a saint."

Mary Kate Danaher ~ "Saint Indeed!"


~ Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes into us at midnight very clean. Its perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands and hopes we`ve learned something from yesterday.
~ John Wayne ~

Thank you for this really fun and memorable Thread!


120 posted on 12/30/2004 12:45:17 AM PST by My Melody
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