The Single GREATEST Western Movie of all time

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Poll question: The Single GREATEST Western Movie of all time

[quigleyunder]

1. That's some hard choices. I voted for the Searchers. But Butch Cassidy

and the Sundance kid was close second.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Yeah, and there are plenty more...

I just scratched the surface. The Searchers was from another era of film making than Butch...makes it hard to compare.

[nosmokes]

64. No one else is a fan of the Big Country?

Great flick. Gregory Peck,Charlton Heston,Burl Ives, Chuck Connors (the last two in their best roles ever IMO.)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

79. The musical score for Big Country was great

It was a wonderful movie, but I would watch it just to hear that amazing music.

[Flaxbee]

3. I liked Unforgiven, and Silverado

... but then again, those are about the only two Westerns I've seen. ;-)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. Those were good. Also, 3:10 to Yuma was good. It came out

this summer, with Russell Crowe.

[regnaD kciN]

48. Nowhere near as good as the original, with Van Heflin and Glenn Ford...

That was old-time Hollywood filmmaking at its best. :applause:

[MissMillie]

81. Unforgiven is a great film

:thumbsup:

[FarLeftRage]

5. IMHO.....

Blazing Saddles is the best...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. But, of course

:rofl:

[flvegan]

7. Tombstone.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Yep. I love westerns.

I even like Lonesome Dove and All The Pretty Horses :hide:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. How The West Was Won was fun but it was really just eye candy.

I'll watch it (and enjoy it) for a while any time I stumble across it but it's just not 'great.'

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. sure. What did you vote?

I just posted them as they came to mind off the top of my head.

[The Magistrate]

11. McCabe And Mrs. Miller, Ma'am

Not even 'Little Big Man' comes close....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. That is an excellent film --

very well told.

[The Magistrate]

16. And A Leonard Cohen Sound-Track, Ma'am, Never Hurts....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. Leonard Cohen is my idol. --

All around great cast, too

[The Magistrate]

21. Since My Early Teens, Ma'am

There are songs of his I still sing today.

[qwertyMike]

58. That was some movie n/t

[Lautremont]

61. I strenuously agree.

[yardwork]

88. Oh my gosh - I should have known that you would add that one - the very best Western of all time.

No question. Sir, you rock.

[argyl]

12. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[colinmom71]

37. I have to park myself here.... BEST Western Ever!

[argyl]

62. "This is the west,sir. When the legend becomes fact,print the legend."

One of the all time great movie lines.

[mcscajun]

74. Gets *my* vote, Pilgrim!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Not quite a traditional western, but I am a fan of Dead Man.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. I do not think I have seen that one -- with Johnny Depp?

This one:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0112817/
Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named "Nobody," who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.

[ghostsofgiants]

24. That's the one.

Jim Jarmusch directed it. He is great.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. I can't believe I have missed a Depp Flick. I will defintiely have

to check this one out. Thanks for the turn on.

[MrSlayer]

23. Great movie.

I just watched it the other night.

[The Magistrate]

25. Oh, Yes, Sir, That Is A Wonderful Movie

[Generic Brad]

17. Where's "The Unforgiven"?

I'm not sure if I can forgive this omission.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. right where you posted it. No omission .. thanks to you!!

Excellent film.

[Demoiselle]

20. Red River is a great movie.

It's gorgeous to watch, and it doesn't hurt that it has a very young, beautiful Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, John Wayne, playing a bad guy for once, , a cast of thousands of cattle and Howard Hawks directing.
Just about anything by John Ford is super. I'm not all that crazy about the "newer" Westerns...from the '60's on. They seem a little self conscious.

[Paladin]

55. I Watched "Red River" On TCM Last Night.....

...for the umpteenth time. Best Western ever, as far as I'm concerned.

My Favorite bit of "Red River" trivia is John Ford's purported quote after seeing the movie and the extraordinary performance that Howard Hawks coaxed out of John Wayne: "I didn't know the big sonovabitch could act."

[MrSlayer]

22. High Plains Drifter.

Didn't we do this a few days ago?

[triguy46]

27. Hombre, 73 Winchester, Liberty Valence, Shane

[txwhitedove]

28. I grew up watching westerns with my grandpa: Gunsmoke, Johnny Yuma,

Have Gun Will Travel, and John Wayne in The Alamo.
I love the story and amazing horse riding in The Man
from Snowy River. But my recent favorite, by far is
The Missing, with Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones.

:thumbsup:

[Deep13]

29. Fist Full of Dollars

[The Magistrate]

31. That Is The Best Of Mr. Leone's, Sir

[Deep13]

32. It is so different than the traditional westerns of the 1910s-1950s.

The very first scene tells the audience that. We all know about white hats and black hats, so what kind of man wears a brown hat and a Mexican poncho while on a mule? John Wayne did not use trickery to get close to the bad guy, but Eastwood did. Wayne never took money from the enemy, but Eastwood did.

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

84. Leone was by far the best in his class.

[Solon]

30. Does Maverick count?

I'm such a smartass. :)

:hide:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. Works for me ...as does WIld WIld West...also 8 seconds.

silly :D

[HamstersFromHell]

71. Works for me as well...

...as long as it's the TV series. The movie version of TWWW absolutely blew chunks.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

72. It was disappointing. I agree.

:toast:

[bridgit]

34. Of these its Little Big Man, but I like the orig 3:10 to Yuma & Unforgiven...

I like westerns :popcorn:

[bridgit]

36. Open Range is good too, I like that one...

http://video.movies.go.com/openrange

[qwertyMike]

35. The Unforgiven

But High Noon is up theere too

[opiate69]

38. The Magnificent Seven

[Mendocino]

39. Jeremiah Johnson

[Tuesday Afternoon]

53. Yes!!! Good One

:applause:

[tammywammy]

40. Lonesome Dove & Unforgiven

[ashling]

44. You are right!

:hi:

[tammywammy]

46. My dad had Lonesome Dove on tape

And I watched that movie over and over with him.

[ashling]

47. Some of my favorite lines

Woodrow: I hate rude behavior in a man.....I won't tolerate it.

Gus: I'd like a chance to shoot at an educated man at least once in my life

Reporter: ... They say you're a man of vision!
Woodrow: .. A man of vision, huh?.. Hell of a vision.

Gus: Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop

[HamstersFromHell]

41. The Shootist

not much of a western fan, but that movie I still love.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

51. Good ONE!!

:applause:

[blonndee]

42. Other: Pale Rider! n/t

[GalleryGod]

50. Wonderful Flick.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

52. Yes, Indeed...another GOOD one

:applause:

[ashling]

43. Lonesome Dove

if for no other reason than that Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, and Danny Glover are the three best godamn actors on the godamn planet, and Larry McMurtry is one hell of a good writer and anyway, it just is, so there!

[CreekDog]

45. Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(spoiler alert) Especially when the gold blows away back to the mountain at the end of the movie.

honorable mention: Thelma and Louise. That's actually an excellent movie and a western of sorts in its bigness, its imagination and its cinematography.

:applause:

[ceile]

86. I'll second that! n/t

[GalleryGod]

49. Sergio & Clint.

[brentspeak]

54. Don't forget Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch"

Although, my personal pick for Greatest Western is "The Searchers".

[mitchum]

66. For me, The Wild Bunch just barely beats out The Searchers...

I wish people would get past their Waynephobia and watch The Searchers.
The man was indeed a horse's ass, but it is one of the greatest movies ever.
And, of course, there is also it's profound influence on so many great films from Hollywood's true golden age: The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Hardcore, etc...

[auntAgonist]

56. 3:10 to Yuma - Glenn Ford , Van Heflin (1957)

3:10 to Yuma - remake 2007 w/Russel Crowe and Christian Bale

[Tuesday Afternoon]

59. Saw it this summer...Indeed, it was excellent.

Damn fine western :hi:

[Paladin]

57. Most Underappreciated Modern Western: "Open Range"

I promise you, if the screenplay for "Open Range" had been filmed in the 50's or 60's, with John Ford, Howard Hawks or Sam Pekinpaugh directing some of the well-known actors of the time, it would be on everybody's Top Five Westerns list, right up there with "Red River," "Stagecoach," and "The Wild Bunch"......

[nosmokes]

87. Cheyenne Social Club

I had to add it. I keep getting drawn back to this thread like a moth to a flame. I know this flick is cute cute anat, but the Stewart/Fonda pairing w/ Shirley Jones as an added attraction all as people with their best years behind them makes for worthwhile viewing in my book.

[Taverner]

60. The Unforgiven - the western to end all westerns

"Kid, we all got it coming. Some, sooner than others."

[Tuesday Afternoon]

63. Kicking because I can't wait to see Comanche Moon!!!

:kick: The End of The Lonsome Dove Triology :applause:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783328/maindetails

[mitchum]

65. The Wild Bunch

[Rambis]

67. The Outlaw Josey Whales

"Dyin ain't much of a livin boy"
"You gonna pull those pistols or whistle dixie?"
my fave
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin"

[Dawggie]

68. Little Big Man fan here....

But Silverado runs a close second!

[speedoo]

69. Shocking how few votes for High Noon.

Too old fashioned for most here, I guess. But it's a great western.

So it gets my vote. But I would have voted for Unforgiven had it been a choice. It's the best IMO.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

70. I pulled some of these from a "greatest" list --

Unforgiven is excellent. Speaking of Old Fashioned: The Searchers is even older than High Noon. :hi:

[Rosemary2205]

73. WHAT???? No noms for "Blazing Saddles"???

LOL

Sorry, it had to be said. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

75. Hey...Pure Genius. And now it has been nominated --

:yourock:

[petronius]

76. Once Upon a Time in the West (nt)

[chknltl]

77. Are ye all daft? Where is ROOSTER COGBURN???1!!1?

Frankly I am speechless!

[NaturalHigh]

78. Chisum.

It's my favorite John Wayne movie of all time.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

80. Underappreciated westerns

Heaven's Gate, to me a masterpiece but a very subversive movie about the fact the old west was stolen by the cattle barons.

Man In The Wilderness, starring Richard Harris.

Valdez Is Coming, with Burt Lancaster.

Chato's Land, with Charles Bronson.

Rio Conchos, with Richard Boone.

Major Dundee, directed by Sam Pekinpah and with a wonderful cast including Charleton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Slim Pickens, among others.

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

82. The good,bad,ugly beats em all.

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

83. I wish "Once Upon a Time in the West was listed"

[yardwork]

89. You just listed it - I was going to add it if necessary.

It's cheesy but great fun. And a haunting sound track.

[kwassa]

85. Destry Rides Again

Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Deitrich, 1939

[IndianaJones]

90. Wild Wild West...Will Smith. nt.