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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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!)
Nevada Smith -Steve McQueen.
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.
"the villan" Arnold Schwartznegger, Ann Margart, Kirk Douglas
I like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly music. It's cute.
Open Range (2003) with Kevin Costner and Robert DeNiro.
Gunfight at the OK corral, all the various versions.
In a way "Fighting Seabees" could be called a Western.
Blazing Saddles wasn't on the list. It's my fav!
'one hunert dollars'
That is an awesome flick.
They are certainly rich in ballots.
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!
Can you still me what this means. Thanks.
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!
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