Posted on 03/25/2018 2:48:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
also liked the quick and the dead for its popcorn qualities, not a 'serious' genre western but still fun
One I loved but not because of it’s moral relevance was Support Your Local Sherrif with Jim Garner with a career performance from veteran typecast bad man Jack Elam. Garner’s Maverick-esque character was classic. Another one was Skin Game with Garner and Lou Gossett that spoofed slavery and slave holders, pretty daring for 1971.
The Dukes First..
The Big Trail.
Many great Firsts!
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The steam coming off the deer when it was being skinned is a good example. That was a very authentic, good movie.
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couple of his books that are not westerns that are great are The Last of The Breed and the Haunted Mesa.”
I have both books.
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I have both books, too. Both would make good movies.
I live about 45 miles from Mesa Verde, in Four corners Country and have hiked many areas. After reading “Haunted Mesa”, I appreciate it more.
Any Top 10 Western list that does not include “The Outlaw Josey Wales” is complete BS. I have noticed that as the years have gone by this movie continues to be down-graded. On my cable guide, it use to be a “four out of four” star movie. It is now a three star movie. Give it another year or two and I am sure it will be two stars.
Gunfighter’s Moon with Lance Henriksen was close to being top level.
Some classic scenes.
The gunfight at the end and the pre fight manuevering of the bad guys to surround Henriksen was classic.
Most creative Westerns:
Once Upon a Time in The West
They call me Trinity
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dutch: He played his string right out to the end!
I could do this all day...! Heh heh heh
It’s a very good list. About the only one I’d kick off is High Noon, which I’ve always thought was over-rated and kind of dull. Not sure what I would replace it with.
My favorite scene in Hallelujah Trail is where the Indians take cover within a group of wagons that they just circled round, while the cavalry rides madly around them hollering and whooping and shooting randomly into the circle. :-)
“was it just something to set him apart?”..
Just an observation having watched numerous movies Wayne stared in. I still watch them often.. (Actually watched “Rooster Cogburn” again last night. Gotta love old westerns). I could almost be a stand in able to speak their lines.
I love that part of the country and have visited a few times. Took the family to Mesa Verde back in the late 80s. We damn near got trapped in the park when my year old son puked on me, I jumped out of the rent car, opened the trunk, set the keys down, grabbed a rag to wipe my shirt off, and slammed the trunk shut. Yes, the keys stayed in the trunk. This was early May at 8000 feet. We were the 3rd from last car in the park and it was sunset. I stopped the last two cars and told them to send a ranger. We got the keys and moved out. The wife said, “don’t you ever call me dumb again.” I hear this story at least once a year.
What a predicament that was. Lol. Glad you got the keys.
I hope you make it back here some time.
Hondo
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Cowboys
True Grit
Hondo
Silverado
Bend in the River
Open Range
Cross Fire Trail
Broken Trail
Big Jake
My Name is Nobody
Outlaw Josey Wales
McKenna's Gold
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
My Darling Clementine
Understand about Maverick. I have a weakness for Garner’s style. And Bret usually ended up doing right thing.
I watched The Virginian as a boy. Like Drury. I now prefer tighter story; I do not want to invest in movie-length episode after episode.
There was something special about the Post war W.W. II to the mid 1960’s era (maybe because it’s when most of us were born). America was the world victor, was strong, confident, male patriarchs were revered, we were growing like crazy, inventing amazing things, exploring space. The Western genre really fit those times. Movies and TV were full of amazing, strong, and thoroughly masculine actors.
It’s a shame that America has totally lost her way and no longer has the confidence and swagger she once had. Feminism is one of the factors that destroyed that once-strong America — and our enemies today know that very well.
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