Author Topic: Definitive or Must Have Western Films (Read 114252 times)

Ramirez Noname · « **Reply #75 on:** November 22, 2018, 08:01:14 AM »

Quote from: majorsmith on November 21, 2018, 10:56:13 PM

The ballad of buster scrubbs on Netflix, a great little film

Got to agree, there ...

RMZ

Luisito · « **Reply #76 on:** December 22, 2018, 10:25:42 PM »

I saw yesterday Hostiles with Christian Bale. A very good movie.

Freelancer · « **Reply #77 on:** December 29, 2018, 03:04:24 AM »

For the Old West of the East there is: The Good The Bad and the Weird

Its inspired quite a few Back of Beyond/Western games at our club

spect_spidey · « **Reply #78 on:** December 29, 2018, 02:17:42 PM »

Quote from: majorsmith on November 21, 2018, 10:56:13 PM

The ballad of buster scrubbs on Netflix, a great little film

I didn't care for it. I made it through the first two stories and then turned it off. It just wasn't what I was looking for and I lost interest.

DS615 · « **Reply #79 on:** January 15, 2019, 04:15:06 PM »

"Outlaw Justice", with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Travis Tritt.
It's not going to have you pondering existance or anything, but man is it a fun movie.
Great for miniatures scenario ideas too.

Ironhead · « **Reply #80 on:** January 15, 2019, 04:18:29 PM »

Quote from: lethallee61 on January 02, 2015, 10:28:34 AM

The Long Riders - interesting that they used real acting brothers to play brothers. And it's a reasonable take on the James/Younger gang.

Always been my favorite. Love many others, but Riders is my go to.

boywundyrx · « **Reply #81 on:** January 15, 2019, 04:41:01 PM »

Man, this is a great thread, I'm going to be copying and pasting suggestions into a master file.

I don't have much to contribute, most of the ones I'd suggest have been listed, but I will say I always have a soft spot too for The Professionals as a good actioner, and I'm not at all biased by Claudia Cardinale. Borrowing from Wikipedia: 'Grant calls Fardan a bastard, to which Fardan retorts: "Yes, sir, in my case an accident of birth. But you, sir, you are a self-made man."'

Recently watched John Wayne's Alamo too, liked it for what it was, rousing 1950s mythology.

Chris

El Aguila · « **Reply #82 on:** November 21, 2019, 07:11:18 AM »

For a few dollars more , my favorite of the Leone trilogy. ( I love all 3 films )

Winchester 73 , the original with Jimmy Stewart

Gunfighter , Gregory Peck.

NickNascati · « **Reply #83 on:** July 04, 2020, 03:17:16 PM »

Warlock, with Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn.
Open Range, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall. Good film, maybe the best gunfight in any western movie.

wds0855 · « **Reply #84 on:** August 24, 2020, 08:49:59 PM »

Lots of great films already mentioned - here are some of my favorites I do not think were covered yet:

1. The Culppeper Cattle Company - Billy Greenbush, Bo Hopkins,
Really depicts what it takes to make it on a cattle drive.
Young farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2520760089?playlistId=tt0068435&ref_=tt_ov_vi

2. The Big Country - Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Chuck Connors.
A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051411/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_94

3. Cowboy - Jack Lemmon, Glen Ford
An idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but
discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051496/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_71

4. Hombre - Paul Newman, Richard Boone. One of Newman's best.
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061770/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Walt

Westbury · « **Reply #85 on:** February 21, 2022, 05:21:23 PM »

Loved Godless hated Buster Scrubbs

tin shed gamer · « **Reply #86 on:** February 21, 2022, 07:01:28 PM »

Whilst there's a bunch of western fans all in one place.
Doe's anyone know the name of a Western Horror (I'd have seen it in the late 80's in the Naafi.)
It was in premise similar to the ww1 Death Watch.
A bunch of Chaps travelling through the High Country come across a wagon that appears to have been attacked by a war party.
With only one near catatonic female survivor. As the party tries to leave the valley they're harassed by unseen natives arrows flying from nowhere.
As the movie progress it dawns on the party that the survivor isn't what she seems ultimately ending in a show down with her.As the groups guide realise her true nature.
The film ends with the woman repositioning her self amongst the carnage back around the wagon from the start of the film.
Whilst off in the distance you can just see and hear a new group of travellers approaching the wagon site.
It made quite the impression but I had to go on duty so the name slipped me. It still does.

frank xerox · « **Reply #87 on:** February 21, 2022, 07:29:48 PM »

I really want to see this now!

has.been · « **Reply #88 on:** February 21, 2022, 09:09:04 PM »

Quote

I really want to see this now!

Plus one to that.

carlos marighela · « **Reply #89 on:** February 23, 2022, 01:21:18 AM »

Possibly a wee bit off topic but few here would likely be aware that there is specifically Brazilian genre or perhaps genres of the Western. Mostly set in the sertão of the North-east of the Brazil the storylines typically cover the banditry prevalent in the first half of the last century. If you are looking for some gaming inspiration with a very different setting then these might fire your imagination.

O Cangaceiro (The Bandit) is a stock '50s style Western but quite entertaining. It's the sort of fare you can imagine Randolph Scott popping up in, were he Brazilian. Not exactly John Ford but diverting enough.

Lampião O Rei do Cangaço is a fictionalised biopic of Brazil's most (in)famous bandit, someone who enjoys the status of a Robin Hood or Ned Kelly figure. Again it's watchable fare and might provide some inspiration for some exotic off the beaten track game inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_exh8NqFlTs

Interestingly enough, Lampião is that rarest of breeds, a notorious outlaw of whom actual documentary footage exits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmqd-ijH2cQ

Glauber Rocha is one of Brazil's most famous directors and in the early to mid 'sixties made a couple of films which might be described as 'westerns'. They aren't straight up shoot out cowboy flicks, blending a political commentary on contemporary Brazil with folk elements of the North-east. Interestingly they feature an anti-hero in the form of Antonia das Mortes, a hired killer who is not unlike Eastwood's Man With No Name. Made at the same time as the first of Leone's spaghetti westerns.

Full copies of Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (titled in English as Black God, White Devil) and the companion piece O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro ( English Title Antonio da Mortes) can be found on Youtube, albeit with slightly dodgy subtitling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTnX_yl1bw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEnlffMB5s

It doesn't hurt to have an understanding of the political and artistic context of '60s Brazil or some of the local folk traditions but both can we watched as Western fare. Martin Scorcese is a big fan if that says anything.

Currently on Netflix, there's a quite decent and recently made straight western entitled O Matador (The Killer) which is worth a watch if you subscribe to the service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-jyHG5ado

Might just turn you on to possibilities beyond the High Chapparal.

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