What's your favorite Western?

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Top Kick Ken

#120
September 08, 2008, 02:32:00 AM
Too many good ones to list just one, not enough time to sort through them all to try and figure it out.

So I guess I'll just list the first ten (Their gonna be the ones I finished watching very recently)...or so...that come to mind. 

Tombstone
Crossfire Trail
The Magnificent Seven
McKlintock
The Sacketts
Dances with Wolves
Rio Grande
Silverado
Blazing Saddles
Open Range

Looky what we have here...an extra 10 that I couldn't stop myself from typing.

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Maverick 
Hang 'em High
Rooster Cogburn
Sons of Katie Elder
El Dorado
Rio Bravo
Broken Trail
Winchester '73
Tom Horn
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Leo Tanner

#121
September 08, 2008, 12:27:00 PM
Saw a great one on Saturday.  Man With a Gun.
     Good story and the acting was top notch.  They don't make movies like this one anymore.


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Sir Charles deMouton-Black

#122
September 26, 2008, 02:09:33 PM
Another vote for RUSTLERS RHAPSODY!



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Willie Dixon

#123
December 16, 2008, 10:00:08 PM
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
"Tombstone"
"Maverick"

obviously depending on my mood will depend on which of these three I'd like to watch.  I also like pretty much all of John Wayne's... especially "The Searchers," "McClintock," and the one above.  Also, "The Quiet Man," even though it wasn't a western, totally my favorite.
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Willie Dixon

#124
January 18, 2009, 08:21:27 AM
Gotta add Appaloosa and 3:10 to Yuma to my list now too!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 06, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
At 25, you need to follow dreams or you'll regret it later. 

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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Daniel Nighteyes

#125
January 24, 2009, 11:33:58 AM
Too many good'uns to pick just one, so here are some general thoughts.  I like:

1.  any Western with Tom Selleck or Sam Elliot in it.  And if they're BOTH in it...    ;D ;D ;D

2.  just about any Western with Robert Duvall or Tommy Lee Jones in it.  And once again, if they're BOTH in it... ;D ;D ;D

3.  most Westerns (but not all) that star John Wayne

I believe that, until recently, the most realistic & historically accurate Western I had ever seen was The Culpepper Cattle Company.

Willie Dixon

#126
January 24, 2009, 02:50:58 PM
Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot are great western actors.  Sam Elliot's voice is perfect for this genre. I love him in Tombstone, Virgil is my favorite character.  Tom Selleck in Quigley is good too!  What movie are they both in together?
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 06, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
At 25, you need to follow dreams or you'll regret it later. 

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

Russ T Chambers

#127
January 24, 2009, 03:22:20 PM
Quote from: Willie Dixon on January 24, 2009, 02:50:58 PM
Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot are great western actors.  Sam Elliot's voice is perfect for this genre. I love him in Tombstone, Virgil is my favorite character.  Tom Selleck in Quigley is good too!  What movie are they both in together?

The Shadow Riders, was just on Encore Westerns!
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Willie Dixon

#128
January 25, 2009, 03:57:03 AM
IMDBing that one now! heheh, add that to my collection!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 06, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
At 25, you need to follow dreams or you'll regret it later. 

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

Daniel Nighteyes

#129
January 25, 2009, 10:03:24 AM
Quote from: Willie Dixon on January 24, 2009, 02:50:58 PM
Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot are great western actors.  Sam Elliot's voice is perfect for this genre. I love him in Tombstone, Virgil is my favorite character.  Tom Selleck in Quigley is good too!  What movie are they both in together?

They're in at least two made-for-television movies together, and in both they were cast as brothers. They certainly look enough like to be brothers!  Both movies were based on Louis L'Amour novels.

In The Sacketts (1979), they were Orrin and Tell Sackett.  In The Shadow Riders (1982), they were Mac and Dal Traven.

Russ T Chambers

#130
January 25, 2009, 10:53:31 AM
Daniel
I had almost forgotten "The Sacketts"!  That hasn't hit the play list in a long time.  As I recall the two stories were by Louis L'Amour, but the studio didn't have the rights to one of the novels and had to change the name of the family and a few other things.
As I also recall, between the two of them (Selleck and Elliott). They have covered a rather wide range of L'Amour's books.

Crossfire trail
Conagher
The Sacketts
The Shadow Riders

And probably some others I can't come up with right now!
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Daniel Nighteyes

#131
January 26, 2009, 09:43:17 AM
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on January 25, 2009, 10:53:31 AM
As I recall the two stories were by Louis L'Amour, but the studio didn't have the rights to one of the novels and had to change the name of the family and a few other things.

Hadn't heard that.  The Sacketts movie combined the plots of two L'Amour books:  Sackett and The Daybreakers.  Oh, and two more of my favorites, Ben Johnson ("Cap Rountree") and Glen Ford ("Tom Sunday") were in it.  Ford started out as a good guy, but he turned bad.  In fact, the cast had a LOT of "names" in it.

Daniel Nighteyes

#132
January 26, 2009, 08:27:23 PM
Quote from: Russ T Chambers on January 25, 2009, 10:53:31 AM
Daniel
I had almost forgotten "The Sacketts"!  That hasn't hit the play list in a long time.  As I recall the two stories were by Louis L'Amour, but the studio didn't have the rights to one of the novels and had to change the name of the family and a few other things.
As I also recall, between the two of them (Selleck and Elliott). They have covered a rather wide range of L'Amour's books.

Crossfire trail
Conagher
The Sacketts
The Shadow Riders

And probably some others I can't come up with right now!


Don't forget the REAL The Quick And The Dead (1987), which starred Sam Elliot and was based on the L'Amour novel of the same name. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093811/

Willie Dixon

#133
January 27, 2009, 02:52:24 AM
The real Quick and the Dead is amazing! I'll say it again, anything with Sam Elliot is awesome!
Quote from: Leo Tanner on January 06, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
At 25, you need to follow dreams or you'll regret it later. 

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

Skeeter Lewis

#134
February 17, 2009, 04:28:39 PM
I know it had Marlon Brando in it, but One Eyed Jacks was pretty good.

Pinto Jim

#135
April 04, 2009, 02:10:36 PM
AMC has this same poll going on there website currently

Leo Tanner

#136
April 04, 2009, 02:19:24 PM
They do a lot of those polls.  One was "who's a badder bad guy, Lee Van Cleef or Jack Palance?"  Palance was good, but he weren't no Angel Eyes.

Welcome Nash, fresh faces and opinions are a great thing around here.
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Texas Lawdog

#137
April 04, 2009, 04:18:14 PM
Lee Van Cleef had a bunch more bad guy western roles than Palance did.  Palance's character in "Shane" was an evil SOB.  Even when Van Cleef was the good guy, he was still a bad guy.  I finally got around to watch my Blu Ray edition of  "The Searchers". No none will ever make me change my mind. It is still the greatest Western and John Wayne was robbed. He should have gotten an Oscar for Uncle Ethan's character.
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Leo Tanner

#138
April 04, 2009, 05:55:12 PM
The Searchers was a special movie. 
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

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Cyrille

#139
April 04, 2009, 08:02:13 PM
I'll second that!
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