Western Movies

Great thread!!!

Originally Posted by Texan in Mexico

Some really good flicks that I like -

Stagecoach

The man who shot Liberty Vallance

The Shootist

Great old flicks! I certainly lean towards the older stuff but I'd have to say I agree with you on Tombstone. Val Kilmer was quite possibly the best Doc Holliday ever.

I was fortunate enough to take a "Film Genres" class while I went to UCLA back in '94. And while I wasn't terribly excited about it when i first heard our genre was going to be "The Western", I grew to freaking LOVE them....well, Western films, and the fact that I was getting 6 units instead of the normal 4 all for sitting in a dark theater for 4 hours, twice a week.

Prior to this class, I hadn't watched a full Western film from start to finish, other than what I saw on Bonanza on the tube at home.

I'm not sure it's very American of me within a very American genre, but I'd have to say my favorite Western filmmaker is Sergio Leone, no offense John Ford. The first "Spaghetti Western" I saw remains my favorite: "Once Upon a Time in the West" with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards and mmm....Claudia Cardinale. Sergio's style of filmmaking is insane and if you don't know him, you'll know the more well known "A Fistfull of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

I'm getting a little long-winded so I'll just list a few faves:

1) Once Upon a Time in the West
2) The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah masterpiece with William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ed O'Brien...)
3) Stagecoach (freakin' love John Wayne!)
4) High Noon (freakin Gary Cooper)
5) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Wayne & Jimmy Stewart!!)
6) Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kidd (the late Paul Newman & Robert Redford)
7) The Searchers - Another great John Ford flic with John Wayne
8) My Darling Clementine - John Ford / Henry Fonda
9) Broken Arrow - Jimmy Stewart

hell, I even like Young Guns!