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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: Anatoli on 22 September 2011, 09:26:07 PM
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As I'm wrapping up "Old west" week on my blog I listed 7 westerns I really like (in no particular order).
Description of each movie can be read on my blog: http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/7-western-movies-i-really-like.html
Unforgiven
Tombstone
Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Once Upon a Time in the West
Magnificent seven
The Good, the bad, the ugly
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
I picked 7 movies since that is pretty much the number you can cram into a blog post without making it overwhelming. I did leave out a couple of others I really like. Anyways, it would be fun to check what your "top 7" movie list would look like :)
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Hard to pick 7...
The outlaw Josey Wales
Longriders
Ride with the Devil
Shane
Good, Bad & Ugly
Fistful 'o' $
Wild Bunch
Few Dollars more
Shaun in The Bunker
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It's a tough one to just name seven, but here goes in no particular order:
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
The Magnificent Seven
The Wild Bunch
The Professionals
Tombstone
Open Range
There are loads more I would like to add, the Dollar trilogy, Ulzanas Raid, True Grit (both version) a top ten would be easier!
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Open Range - one helluva shoot out at the end
The Lonesome Dove TV series was great (OK, so it's not a movie)
Little Big Man
Outlaw Josey Wales
She wore a Yellow Ribbon
Gettysburg ( ;) )
Good Bad and the Ugly
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I agree with Malamute and Shaun, narrowing it down to 7 is very hard, here are some, but I'll probaly change my mind in a few minutes, so I'll try not to come back with a revised list, yet:
The Searchers
The Culpepper Cattle Company
Monte Walsh (both versions)
Ulzana's Raid
The Missing
Open Range
Appaloosa
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Open Range, Outlaw Josey Wales and the Wild Bunch were my "runner ups".
Does Gettysburg actually count as a Western? :D I like it despite the funny looking fake beards lol
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Tombstone
Appaloosa
Open Range
True Grit (2010)
Breakheart Pass
Dead Man
Young Guns
(No, Gettysburg does not count as a Western)
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just watched the professionals , brilliant, ..............other 6 to follow!!
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com :)
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a top ten would be easier!
If the list were for seven magnificent western movies that would make it a bit easier - the Magnificent seven would be covered by the title.
There has to be at least one Wayne movie, I'd probably opt for The Searchers, although any of the Ford cavalry trilogy could be a good option.
Also The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance to get James Stewart.
Probably High Noon and My darling Clementine to bring Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda onto the list.
Possibly Dodge City to include Errol Flynn in the list.
For purely sentimental reasons I would include Stagecoach, the Wayne version, because it reminds me of my father. He saw it when it was first released whilst on shore leave. I never did find out where, but it was always one of his favourite films.
That gets me to six without even choosing something special.
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No particular order here...
The good, the Bad and the Ugly
Few Dollars More
Quigley Down Under (set in Austrailia, but seriously, can you go farther west? :D )
True Grit (2010)
Stagecoach (1939)
Lonesome Dove
Outlaw Josey Wales
Hard to narrow it down to seven... there are so many good ones!
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Ok, 7 of them I like most :)
Pale Rider
Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Riding with the devil
Soleil Rouge
Ravenous
Magnificent Seven
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Hmmm... in no particular order:
- The Wild Bunch (Pekinpah!)
- The Good the Bad & the Ugly
- Once upon a time in the west (Bronson!)
- Open Range (great classic form western)
- High Noon
- Django
- True Grit (the Duke of course, though the remake with the Dude was not bad)
That's seven, I'm sure I could add at least a dozen more in there, just too many great ones to pick from!
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Ulzana's Raid
Valdez is Coming
Geronimo
Tombstone
The Culpepper Cattle Company
Hombre
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
That's just the ones I've watched this week ;)
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I can't believe no-one has mentioned Blazing Saddles yet! :P
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The Magnificent Seven, Has to be number one on every western list
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon the best of the cavalry trilogy for my money
Dances with Wolves, One of Costner's better films, though I like "The Postman" too
Son of the Morning Star, An excellent telling of the Custer story with a reasonable attempt at accuracy.
The Shootist, Sheer brilliance
The Searchers, Wayne and Ford at their absolute best!
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, not the greatest movie in the world, I just like it.
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I can't believe no-one has mentioned Blazing Saddles yet! :P
Or Paint Your Wagon...
or Calamity Jane
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Oh, two musts for the list:
Hallelujah Trail (my personal gaming inspiration!)
and Shenandoah (with Jimmy Stewart) I know, ACW more than western but it still gets my vote
and I second Paint Your Wagon (not so much for Clint Eastwood's singing :o as for the visual behind "Is that what you're looking at, Mr. Rumson?"
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Major Dundee
Searchers
3.10 to Yuma (2007?)
Wild Bunch
Vera Cruz
Dances With Wolves
Tombstone
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Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
True Grit (2010)
3:10 To Yuma (2007)
The assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
American Outlaws (shame on me, I know)
Notable mentions:
Posse
Wild Wild West
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She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, The Unforgiven (Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn), Red River, and Wagon Master
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A lot of the movies previously listed would have to go on my favourite favourites' list so here's twenty more, in alphabetical order, that I enjoyed watching (and rewatching, in many cases). I make no apologies for the number of John Wayne movies in the list either.
Big Jake (1971)
Cat Ballou (1965)
Comancheros, The (1961)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
El Dorado (1966)
Hang 'Em High (1968)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Maverick (1994)
McLintock! (1963)
North to Alaska (1960)
Paleface, The (1948) - Jane Russell!
Rio Conchos (1964)
Silverado (1985) - one of the most underrated modern westerns, IMHO
Spoilers, The (1942) - Duke vs Randolph Scott!
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
Train Robbers, The (1973)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Undefeated, The (1969)
War Wagon, The (1967)
Way Out West (1937) - Laurel and Hardy classic
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High Plains Drifter,that's all I need :)
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It's so difficult to choose my favorites are: (by decending order of preference):
Lonesome Dove (as a 6h movie ^^ with R.Duval & T.L. Jones)
Dances with the wolwes
Little Big Man
Open Range
True Grit
Silverado
Tombstone
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Outlaw Josey Wales
Good the Bad and The Ugly
Fist full $
Few Dollars More
Major Dundee
Ride with the Devil
Long Riders
Tombstone
Man called Horse
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Unforgiven
Tombstone
Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Once Upon a Time in the West
Magnificent seven
The Good, the bad, the ugly
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Open Range - one of the best ever endings (maybe the best) and the 6 main roles are all spot on!
Unforgiven
Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Wyatt Earp (you see the real Doc Holiday)
Ride with the Devil (Spiderman, the guy from scream and Jewel, wow!)
And three that I probably shouldn't like but do
September Dawn (not really a western I suppose, but perhaps that's why I liked it more tha I should have)
Rio Bravo (aside for the song by Ricky what's his name...)
Gettysburg (again not a western...)
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I really like "Open range" too but I feel it is awfully similar to Unforgiven, they even have Gene Hackman playing the bad guy in both movies lol
I admit "The quick and the dead" (not mentioned by anyone yet) is something of a guilty pleasure of mine lol Not the best movie, far from it, but still fun to watch the cowboy "tournament".
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How to pick only seven :?
Unforgiven.
Once Upon a Time in the West.
McCabe and Ms. Miller.
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Django.
Pale Rider.
Of course, the rest of the Dollars trilogy should be in there as well as High Plains Drifter, The Magnificant Seven, A Man CAlled Horse, The Searchers. I could go on for ages.
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Hombre
Oh yeah that's a good one
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Man called Horse
Is that the one where they put hooks on his chest and pull? If so it's a good one too
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I really like "Open range" too but I feel it is awfully similar to Unforgiven, they even have Gene Hackman playing the bad guy in both movies lol
I admit "The quick and the dead" (not mentioned by anyone yet) is something of a guilty pleasure of mine lol Not the best movie, far from it, but still fun to watch the cowboy "tournament".
Quick and the dead is good, and actually has an amazing cast
Open range is Michael Gambon (I think) as the Irish guy. Not sure it is that like Unforgiven...
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Paint Your Wagon...
Even though Homer was disappointed that it wasn't paint your wagon with blood it is good "I was born under a wandering star...."
If were're going musical I'll through in Seven Brides.
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Quick and the dead is good, and actually has an amazing cast
Open range is Michael Gambon (I think) as the Irish guy. Not sure it is that like Unforgiven...
Saved me pointing that out, Gambon was great in Open Range, but then, when isn't he? 8)
Rehetorical question BTW ;)
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Cliff Roberston is great as Cole Younger)
The Grey Fox (Richard Farnsworth as Bill Miner)
The Wild Bunch (just because)
The Magnificent Seven (again just because)
The Searchers (if only for the last shot of the Duke framed in the doorway)
Wild Bill (partly based on Pete Dexter's Deadwood - a book you must read)
and Unforgiven (for breathing life back into the genre)
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The Grey Fox (Richard Farnsworth as Bill Miner)
Yes, a really nicely made film, made about the same time, and set about the same period:
Harry Tracy (Bruce Dern)
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If were're going musical I'll through in Seven Brides.
I'll see your Seven Brides and raise you :
Annie Get Your Gun
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Here,s mine Mackenna,s Gold [ loads of great characters ]
Good , Bad and the Ugly
Few Dollars More
Son of the morning star
Pale Rider
Ulzanas Raid
Wild Bunch THE CID.
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That's my list
The searchers
My darling clementine/ OK corral with H Fonda
Wild bunch
The outlaw Josey Wales
The stagecoach
Jededia Smith
The big sky
Piero
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Tombstone
Unforgiven
Pale rider
Outlaw josey wales
she wore a yellow ribbon
The Good the bad and the ugly (blondie !!)
Open Range
Love me tender......(the King still lives !)(ducks for cover)
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Since no one else has included these let me add Fort Apache (Wayne and Fonda), The Ox-Bow Incident (Fonda), 3 Godfathers (Wayne) and The Cowboys (Wayne).
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Boy, so many damn good Westerns.
Here are my seven,
The Wild Bunch
Tombstone
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Magnificent Seven
The Son of Morning Star
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallace
Geronimo
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Magnificent Seven
Once Upon A Time In The West
Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Maverick
A Few Dollars More
And not a movie but rather a series, and not strickly pure western :D
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr
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Silverado
Unforgiven
Pale Rider
The Cowboys (favourite John Wayne film)
The Missing
Once Upon a Time in the West
Tombstone
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the 7 i keep in my locker at work to watch on those long cold nightshifts are:
Long Riders
Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
Tombstone
Warlock
Shootist
Mckennas gold
(gettysburg and Major dundee are in there as well but not true westerns ?)
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Maverick
A good, if under rated film:
"I smelled touble and refried beans"
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Calamity Jane
Cat Ballou
The Quick and the Dead
Viva Maria!
The Legend of Hannie Calder
Bad Girls
Bandidas
There may be some sort of theme here.
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Valdez is coming....Burt Lancaster is great.
The Cowboys.....one of the few where John Wayne dies.
The Shootist....the other one where John Wayne dies.
True Grit........(Both versions)
Unforgiven.........Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, wow. Great use of out of the ordinary weapons.
The outlaw Josey Wales. Pale Rider, and High Plains Drifter, (like above but without Morgan Freeman).
The Seven Samurai, oops I mean The Magnificent Seven.
The Missing, Cate Blanchet and Tommy lee Jones.
Maybe another thread would be best shootouts in a western, which would have to have Tombstone, (the river and the OK corral) Open Range, 3:10 to Yuma,
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If the list were for seven magnificent western movies that would make it a bit easier - the Magnificent seven would be covered by the title.
There has to be at least one Wayne movie, I'd probably opt for The Searchers, although any of the Ford cavalry trilogy could be a good option.
Also The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance to get James Stewart.
Probably High Noon and My darling Clementine to bring Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda onto the list.
Possibly Dodge City to include Errol Flynn in the list.
For purely sentimental reasons I would include Stagecoach, the Wayne version, because it reminds me of my father. He saw it when it was first released whilst on shore leave. I never did find out where, but it was always one of his favourite films.
That gets me to six without even choosing something special.
Its cheating to bring these guys in to the pictures, and makes the choises even harder.
However, with the above in mind I am not sure I can pick any that I prefer. However, I love spagetti westerns and hence they must be in the lead.
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However, with the above in mind I am not sure I can pick any that I prefer. However, I love spagetti westerns and hence they must be in the lead.
please "Spaghetti " , our national food lol
piero
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only seven? seven per actor you mean? ;D
clint: for a fistfull of dollars and for a a few dollars more; the good, the bad, the ugly; hang 'em high, two mules for sister sara, high plains drifter and pale rider, unforgiven, the outlaw josey wales ( spit) ok it is 9
john: the cowboys, the shootist, the alamo, the train robbers, true gritt, the comancheros, rio bravo
burt: villa rides, vera cruz,valdez is coming, the scalphunters,gunfight at ok corral,apache,the unforgiven
charles: the magnificent seven, the battle of san sebastian, once upon a time in the west, chato's land, red sun, death hunt, breakhaert pass
then 7?
jeremiah johnson, the wild bunch, open range, 3.10 yuma, the long riders, true gritt, appaloosa
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WOW!!!!!
Just 7 LOL!!!
Open Range
El Dorado
Rio Bravo
Pale Rider
Stagecoach
Quigley Down Under
3;10 to Yuma
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7? Should be more like 70. A lot of movies I really like have been mentioned already, so here are some other good ones I think have been missed. Shanghai Noon, and Rising Sun, with Charles Bronson. I just watched that one on TV a couple of days ago. Also Six Mules for Sister Sarrah.
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The big country.
Unforgiven.
Tombstone.
True grit.
The villian(arnie at his best).
How the west was won.
The sons of Katie Elder.
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at last someone mentionned Jeremiah Johnson... :-)
outlaw josey wales
pale rider
the long riders
once upon a time in the west
the good the bad...
hang em high
7 is really too few (open range, the wild bunch, the magnificent 7 must ne on the list)
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Hear are my seven in no particular order:
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Clint Eastwood)
For a Fist Full of Dollars (Clint Eastwood)
The Searchers (John Wayne)
Tombstone (Kirk Russel)
The Magificent Seven (Yol Brenner)
With runner ups:
;D Paleface (Bob Hope)
;D The Good, The Bad and The Weird (some Korean Western-like film set in the Manchurian part of the Gobi Desert, saw it on Netflix)
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movies:
Outlaw Josie Wales
Mountain Men
Heaven's Gate
Tom Horne
Shanghai Noon
Blazing Saddles
At Home Among Strangers (1974 Russian film - but genre is very western)
series:
Deadwood
Wild Wild West
The Rifleman
Gunsmoke
Kung Fu
Zoro
Hell on Wheels (current AMC series)
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I'm seeing a lot of old favourites cropping up in this thread and some I will have to see.
Well, my list looks like this:
'For a Fistful of Dollars'
'For a Few Dollars More'
'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'
'Hang 'em High'
'The Wild Bunch'
'The Magnificent Seven'
I'm going to add 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' as number 7, it was the first Western I saw. Even if I was baffled as a young fellow that the hero was fighting 'good guys'... lol
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Ok, I will join in...
Stagecoach (1939) .. could easily be "The" western movie
Big Jake (...."I thought you was dead"... gun blast... "not hardly") my favorite John Wayne
Tombstone (Val Kilmer steals it)
Magnificent 7 (the theme music alone is killer)
Silverado
Unforgiven
maybe lesser known, but still among my favorites
Winchester 73 (Jimmy Stewart) good angry vengeful Stewart
Man from Laramie (Jimmy Stewart)
Fastest Gun Alive (Glen Ford)
Sheepman (Glen Ford) doesn't like to be told what to do
San Antonio (Errol Flynn)
Ride the High Country (Randolph Scott's last movie) iconic as a western and for its decade (1962)
5 card stud (Dean Martin) I can't defend it as a great western, but I can't hel;p but love it.
Support your Local Sheriff (James Garner) silly but fun
I could list another 20 or more I could readily watch again.
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Hi to all,
Since I need to post at least once to keep my membership I thought this would be a good thread to make my first post to, as everyone likes westerns...
Anyway, my seven are:
Breakheart Pass
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Wild Bunch
The Magnificent Seven
The Quick And The Dead
Once Upon a Time in the West
Carry On Cowboy
Chris
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No-one chose Brokeback Mountain....? :D
I'm glad to see a few votes for The Assasination of Jesse James etc 'cos I bought it at a bargain price yesterday without knowing a thing about it. Once I've seen it, I can choose my 7.
Doug
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magnificent seven
silverado
bite the bullet
open range
two mules for sister sarha
the man with no name /spagetti westerns
hando
the searchers
rio lobo
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Okay, in no particular order:
The Searchers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,
Rio Grande,
The Magnificent Seven,
Jeremiah Johnson,
The Little Bighorn,
High Noon.
I have picked these from my youth. A lot of newer others out there, but I like these.
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Pale rider
High plains drifter
3.10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe
Few dollars more
Silverado
Outlaw josey Wales
Joe Kidd
Got to admit westerns are my favourite genre