Iconic Western Films For Inspiration?

[CyberAlien312]

Hello,
I have been watching a few westerns lately, and I wanted to know which westerns really contain iconic scenes like train robberies, duels, shootouts, bank robberies, little wooden towns etc.
Could someone name a few great western films that really serve as a good inspiration?   
Thanks!

[DoctorPete]

Wow...that's a BIG question with plenty of answers.  I'll give you my favorites and see who will add to them:

Silverado
Rio Bravo
El Dorado
High Noon
Tombstone
Stagecoach
Free Range (best in-town shoot-out ever!)  Oops...that is OPEN range.
She wore a Yellow Ribbon
Pale Rider
Just about any Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns (Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

Pete

[Admiral Benbow]

Hhm, maybe this thread could also be of interest for you?

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=45598.0

[once]

i hope i have not forgot one...

The Magnificent Seven
The Searchers
Red River
Rio Bravo
El Dorado
Rio Lobo
True Grit
Rooster Cogburn
The Shootist
The Sons of Katie Elder
Northwest Passage
Once Upon a Time in the West
High Noon
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More

[Drachenklinge]

I have seen the magnificent seven just recently (again) and what makes this western a VERY good one imho is not the specific scenes (high noon duels on the street, etc.) but the dialogs!

Many conversations are nearly done without words, gesticulations alone ... but ... oh, so cool!

A must-have-seen for any western-fan!


Another brilliant western (also both typical and not!) is "The Big Country" with Gregory Peck and Jean Simmons n I think Jane Baxter, too.

best wishes
DK

[joroas]

Not forgetting Red Sun for that Samurai angle or Breakheart Pass for the Alistair McLean twist.

[Necros]

For me there's Tombstone, and then there's everything else.

[CyberAlien312]

Thanks for your suggestions, I will definitely watch some of them. 

[Mike D. Mc Brice]

Or go Spaghetti with these classics:

The Great Silence
Django
The Big Gundown
Face to Face
A Bullet for the General
Day of Anger
Keoma
Run Man Run

[Treebeard]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[mcfonz]

Shane.
High Plains Drifter.
Broken Arrow.

I'll think on it a bit more and might have some more later.

[Drachenklinge]

"White Feather" is a good one, too, a bit too much on the stagy side, and actually it is more of an indians-western, but old school and with young Robert Wagner.

With a few exceptions at least for me old school western are much more attractive, anyway.

Audey Murphey has got some "kinda cool" b-style western, from the golden age of Hollywood.
Also recommandable is James Stewart - more or less in general. ^^
Kirk Douglas (like Stewart basic rock in movie-making ^^) has got a cool "late-western" ... Man without a star.
Oh, well ... while on it ... how about Glenn Ford? He's got a few good one's, too.
E.g.: "The Sheepman"
with parody-elements, and the oh-so-lovely Shirley McLane ... and by the way, in this movie You will see comedy star young Leslie Nielson in a dead serious part.
And with Glenn Ford not to forget "The fastest Gun lives", a serious point of view on the effects of gunfighting.

I like the beforementioned "The Shootist", too (also with Katherine Hepburn, brilliant actress). But okokok ... that's a barrel with no bottom. So, finally I also recommend "Support Your Local Sheriff" with James Garner. A parody (that's the name?). Hilarius. Sort of short way to all the "iconic scenes" in western. The "problem" with parodies is ... You need to know the real versions 

best wishes
DK

[Landsknecht]

For wargaming inspiration, "Major Dundee" is amazing.  It has Union, Confederate, Apache, and French fighting each other.

[6mmfan]

310 to Yuma and Appaloosa is a couple of more recent movies

Cheers
Kieran

[HerbyF]

There are some really funny movies that have lots of character (and Characters). Blazing Saddles, Shanghai Noon, and all of the Trinity movies.