Western Writers of America has released their Top 100 Western Films

[Henry4440]

Western Writers of America, a nonprofit organization of more than 600 professional writers, founded in the 1950s to promote and honor the best literature about the American West -- including screenwriting -- announced the 100 Greatest Western Movies of All Time on Thursday, June 12, at Scottsdale's Chaparral Suites during the association's annual convention.

WWA Top 100 Westerns
1. Shane
2. High Noon
3. The Searchers
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Dances with Wolves
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Red River
8. Tombstone
9. The Magnificent Seven
10. Open Range
11. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
12. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
13. True Grit
14. The Shootist
15. Stagecoach (1939)
16. Unforgiven
17. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
18. The Outlaw Josey Wales
19. Ride the High Country
20. Jeremiah Johnson
21. The Cowboys
22. My Darling Clementine
23. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
24. Rio Bravo
25. The Ox-Bow Incident
26. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
27. Lonely are the Brave
28. Will Penny
29. Hud
30. Winchester`73
31. Little Big Man
32. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
33. The Grey Fox
34. The Alamo (1960)
35. Silverado
36. Ulzana's Raid
37. Once upon a Time in the West
38. Rio Grande
39. The Rounders
40. The Big Country
41. The Hi-Lo Country
42. Duel in the Sun
43. Fort Apache
44. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
45. The Last Picture Show
46. The Grapes of Wrath
47. Bad Day at Black Rock
48. The Long Riders
49. The Tall T
50. Cat Ballou
51. Tumbleweeds (1925)
52. The Iron Horse (1924)
53. Man of the West
54. Seven Men from Now
55. The Big Trail
56. Three Godfathers
57. Hell's Hinges
58. The Wind (1928)
59. The Westerner
60. Support Your Local Sheriff
61. They Died with Their Boots On
62. Gunfight at the OK Corral
63. The Professionals
64. The Cheyenne Social Club
65. El Dorado
66. Thunderheart
67. The Virginian (1929)
68. A Man Called Horse
69. Hombre
70. Barbarosa
71. Chisum
72. The Big Sky
73. Young Guns
74. Destry Rides Again
75. Junior Bonner
76. Angel and the Badman
77. Warlock
78. The Misfits
79. No Country for Old Men
80. Monte Walsh
81. Four Faces West
82. The Naked Spur
83. The Gunfighter
84. High Plains Drifter
85. Devil's Doorway
86. Law and Order (1932)
87. Coroner Creek
88. Valdez is Coming
89. Hondo
90. The Man from Laramie
91. The Unforgiven (1960)
92. Broken Arrow
93. Bend of the River
94. Giant
95. Blazing Saddles
96. The Culpepper Cattle Company
97. Three Bad Men
98. Pursued
99. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
100. The Great Train Robbery (1903)

In 2009, WWA plans to announce the 100 Greatest Western Television Movies, Series and Miniseries of All Time during the convention in Oklahoma City.

[Texas Lawdog]

That's a pretty good list. There's a few of them I would not have had on the list.

[piebiter]

Can't say as I agree with the entire list or the order of the ranking. Maybe I missed it but I don't recall seeing Lonesome Dove on that list for one thing. Wonder which version of Monte Walsh they choose?

[Major 2]

44. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Good film but it's an EASTERN 

Quigley Down Under did not make the list ...Far EASTERN ?   

[Texas Lawdog]

Major 2, I would have to agree on "Last of the Mohicans" not being a Western.

[The Elderly Kid]

Maybe "frontier" would be a better category than "western" for LOTM. But then, in that period the Mohawk River Valley really was the west. I'd like to know what the criteria were. Many of the films are post WWII, like "The Last Picture Show," "Lonely Are the Brave" and others. "No Country For Old Men" takes place in 1980. "Grapes of Wrath" is a Depression social protest story. I realize "western" is a pretty vague category, but some of these seem unlikely candidates. At least "Old Men" is about lawmen and bad guys (in fact, just about the baddest bad guy ever), and "Lonely Are the Brave" is about a man of the Old West who is an anachronism in the modern world, but "The Last Picture Show?" It's a fine film based on a novel by a prize-winning western writer, but it's a coming-of-age story set in a postwar small town and could have been set in New England.

[River City John]

I am just appalled that The Apple Dumpling Gang was not listed!
Well, at least Blazing Saddles made it in.
Haruumph!

[Texas Lawdog]

i noticed they left off "The Over the Hill Gang" too.

[Mogorilla]

WHat about The Outlaw, shouldn't it been ~38?   

[Capt, Woodrow F. Call]

many good movies on the list............. but they forget .... Lonesome Dove.

[Henry4440]

many good movies on the list............. but they forget .... Lonesome Dove.

In 2009, WWA plans to announce the 100 Greatest Western Television Movies,
Series and Miniseries of All Time during the convention in Oklahoma City.

[Leo Tanner]

I'm just wondering how 600 people were all able ta settle on this list. 
     Some of the pictures didn't seem ta fit in and the order was a bit odd IMHO.  I'm glad ta see Good, the Bad and the Ugly almost cracked the top ten but was surprised ta see other great Eastwood movies buried so far into the list.  All ranking order aside, it's a good collection of films for the most part.


Leo

[kid sheleen]

I'm just wondering how 600 people were all able ta settle on this list. 
     Some of the pictures didn't seem ta fit in and the order was a bit odd IMHO.  I'm glad ta see Good, the Bad and the Ugly almost cracked the top ten but was surprised ta see other great Eastwood movies buried so far into the list.  All ranking order aside, it's a good collection of films for the most part.


Leo

I gotta agree with Leo here.  Some great films by Eastwood weren't on there at all.  And with all due respect to Duke Wayne, whom I admire greatly,  "Angel and the Badman" was not one I'd have put on the list at all.  I was glad to see "Cat Ballou" on there!

[Deadeye Don]

I am wondering if Lonesome Dove was not on the list of MOVIES because it was actually a TV mini series when it first came out.  That would be the only reasonable explan  ation why it was not in the top 10.

[Texas Lawdog]

You're probably right about Lonesome Dove being considered a TV mini-series. It is still a good one, no matter what catagory it falls in. I would like to attend the convention in OKC in 2009. OKC is only about 3 hrs from where I live. Does anyone have knowledge of the dates for the convention and location?

[Top Kick Ken]

I really liked the humor of McKlintock.  Sad to see it's not on that list.

Anytime Duke Wayne paired up with Maureen O'Hara the screen just came alive!