Greatest Western All-time???

[chelsea0011]

AMC has been showing "Once Upon a Time in the West".
Leone made some great ones but "Wild Bunch" has to be my favorite.

[newscaster]

1. Shane

with Alan Ladd

[chelsea0011]

7. The first time Ladd fires his gun still gives adrenaline rush

[oxymoron]

2. The Searchers

[TN al]

3. The Long Riders

[Southsideirish]

4. The Searchers - raw, honest and brutal - its our history.

[chelsea0011]

9. McCabe and Mrs. Miller did it better

[oxymoron]

10. Great film...

but technically it doesn't compare to John Ford's masterpiece.

[Tom_Foolery]

5. High Noon n/t

[chelsea0011]

8. I read somewhere on DU that John Wayne hated this movie

Didn't like the idea of hero begging for help

[Tom_Foolery]

12. He also scolded Kirk Douglas...

for playing Van Gough. Wayne didn't think that tough guys should play weaklings. Douglas shot back that Wayne's problem was that he really thought that he was John Wayne.

[jpgray]

20. If I remember, Wayne didn't like it because it was 'commie'

I believe the screenwriter was blacklisted, and Wayne hated the idea of the end of the movie, wherein no one had helped the hero and as a result he throws down his badge in disgust at the end.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

6. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".............

"High Plains Drifter" and "Hombre" are up there too.

[lazarus]

11. second vote for GB&U

Also to be considered is Unforgiven.

And the best western television show is the incomparable Deadwood.

[Teddy_Salad]

18. I agree, FD. The G,B and the U hands down!

No contest, in my opinion, of course.

The scene where Eli Wallach is running through the graveyard with the cool music going in the background is my favorite all time movie scene.

An absolute classic!

[terrya]

13. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" - underappreciated John Ford western.

[MasonJar]

14. I love Shane, but equally great, formidable films are High Noon

with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly and The Unforgiven with Cliint Eastwood.

[bullimiami]

15. The TIn Star

Anthony Perkins, Henry Fonda. 1957.



Anything with John Wayne is off my list because he was a McCarthy collaberator. Ditto Reagan.

[Supply Side Jesus]

16. Unforgiven

definetly....definetly

[jobycom]

17. Mine, too. I'd put Lonesome Dove second

mainly because I hate most westerns, but I thought the characters in Unforgiven and Lonesome Dove where complex, and there were no grand sweeping commentaries in either film, aside from the implied "life was tough" message.

[DS1]

19. Probably not 'of all time', but I thoroughly enjoy Tombstone, I typically

don't like westerns.

[mistertrickster]

21. Best theme song is "Magnificent Seven"--the movie itself is a little

rambling, but who can forget the music?

[HEyHEY]

22. Hang em high

[Paladin]

23. "Red River" With "The Wild Bunch" A Close Runner-up

Best Western I've seen recently: the HBO series "Deadwood." Absolutely brilliant; the season finale last Sunday had the same epic sweep you see in the very best Western movies. Highly recommended....

[argyl]

24. "The Ox Bow Incident". A searing indictment of vigilante justice.

It certainly deserves a mention.

[mitchum]

25. #1 "The Wild Bunch" #2 "The Searchers" #3 "Once Upon A Time.In The West"