What's your favorite Western?

[Stillwater]

Bill. on the contrary, I don't mind reading what you wrote and I respect you for your opinions and your convictions.  I envy you for having the opportunity to me Mr. Heston and the chance to stick it to the Fonda b!tch.  Perhaps there is or should be a web site that listed which actors were conservatives.

I don't go to many movies any more but I did see "The Book of Elie", which I enjoyed.  I have no idea what Danzel Washington's politics are.

Respectfully
Will Ketchum

Will:
I have went out of my way to read your posts, and your posts from before I found this forum. You stand pretty tall in my sight. Thanks for being here.

I met the Producer of the movie "Will Penny," and he was talkative about starting to work on "Will Penny." I said, "I don't want to become an actor," "I don't think the movie going public is ready for someone like me." "However," "I am running out of a job soon." "Do Have anything I can do?" He said, we'll see. That is usually a brush-off in the movie business.

He came back the next day with an employment application, from his production company, and a studio pass for me. Heston, was a major partner in the production company, and I was hired on as one of Hestons personal assistants for that movie. Mainly, my job was to assist with the continuity of the movie.

Movie scenes aren't all shot, completely, at one time. One important scene can be shot over several days. Continuity is making sure the several actors wore the same hats and clothing, had the same firearms, rode the same horses, hit the same spot, etc, as they did in the begining filming of the scene.

When Heston found out that I was pretty good with a .45 auto, he wanted to learn to shoot one properly. Then, he found out that I knew Jeff Cooper, Heston really wanted to meet him.

If you are active in the shooting scene, in southern California, rifles and pistols mainly, You will be surprised at the people you will meet. I met Jeff Cooper when he formed and lead the South West Pistol league, and sponsored "Leather Slaps," at his Big Bear, CA, place.

Jeff Coopers favorite gunsmith, Jim Hoag, now of Hoag Gun Works, worked in the same gun shop I worked in. At that time we both worked at Kings Gun Works. Jim got me involved in .45 auto shooting, many years before it was called action pistol shooting. Jim and I are still good friends, going on 47 years now. Jim was one of the very best SWPL competitors... Now he is closing in on eighty years old, but Jim is still very, very good. We stilll shoot togeather once a month or so.

Many prominent actors and musicians, and other prominent people patronized Kings Gun Works. Before he died in an airplane crash, Audie Murphy was a frequent customer... All 5' 4" of him.

I met Art Gobel, who was the first pilot to fly to Hawaii non-stop. Gobel won the Dole prize, $25,000.00 for being first to do it.

In South West Pistol League competition, I have shot against Jack Weaver, of the "Weaver Stance" method of shooting fame. I copied his style of shooting for myself. I didn't beat him, but I pushed him very hard.

Jack Weaver passed away a few months ago.

I'm derived from Old Western pioneer stock. I had my conservative convictions and priinciples instilled within me, by my grandfather and Uncles. It's too late for me to compromise with liberalism, a code word for Socialism. I have trouble abiding liberals in any form.

Bill

[liten]

little big man

[rep1954]

Once Upon a Time in the West

[WaddWatsonEllis]

I just watched 'The Quick and the Dead' on my new (to me) DVD.

Other than Tom Conti (Who must have thought himself to be in an '80s 'Sherpico' remake), it would be on my best list ...

[Stillwater]

I just watched 'The Quick and the Dead' on my new (to me) DVD.

Other than Tom Conti (Who must have thought himself to be in an '80s 'Sherpico' remake), it would be on my best list ...

Actually Ton Conti acted out the roll of a wussy New England immigrant pretty well.

Bill

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Bill,

Perhaps I am being too particular, but Mr Conti always looked as if he had just stepped from his trailer, showered, shaved by his barber, etc

At a time when the most fastidious of New Englanders bathed once a week and shaved twice a week, and when General Burnsides had made mutton chop sideburns de rigeur, he jus looked too cleam, too 1980s ...

But again, that is just me ...

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I watched THE HIGH COUNTRY last night.  A good western in the same end-of-the-west genre as The Shootist, Tomj Horn, and also from Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch.

[Wolfsburg]

For me, if it has John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, there's a good chance I like it, or would like it, but it is hard to pick a singular favorite. Most of the newer Westerns don't really do much for me and personally, I can't stand Kevin Costner (who is in his fair share of them). I'd love to see Eastwood (the last of the Hollywood badasses, and Western film legends) do at least one more Western, but I've heard Unforgiven is considered to be his farewell to the genre.

Anyway...

Some notables for me, in no particular order...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Shootist
Rio Bravo
The Cowboys
The Searchers
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider
Unforgiven
Hang 'em High
The "No Name" trilogy
True Grit

[WaddWatsonEllis]

A reel sleeper (pun intended is a movie called 'Valdez is Coming'

Burt Lancaster (in what is considered one of his best acting roles) plays a tired old Mexican sherriff who has just had enough

Besides being a great movie, all the guns are correct and used in a correct manner, and within their capabilities ....

And you can buy it cheaper used from Amazon.com than rent it from Netflicks ... if Netflicks even has it  ....

[Forty Rod]

A reel sleeper (pun intended is a movie called 'Valdez is Coming'

Burt Lancaster (in what is considered one of his best acting roles) plays a tired old Mexican sherriff who has just had enough

Besides being a great movie, all the guns are correct and used in a correct manner, and within their capabilities ....

And you can buy it cheaper used from Amazon.com than rent it from Netflicks ... if Netflicks even has it  ....

Had it on VHS, now I have it on DVD.  One of my favorites, especially the line "I told you.  Something for rabbits."

[Stillwater]

The movie "Valdez is Coming," is one of my favorite movies. I bought it on VHS first, then on DVD, when that became available.

Valdez was a deputy sheriff on the "Mexican side of town."

Bill

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Forty Rod ...

Can't ask for a better recommendation ...

Now I have to watchit again to find that quote ... LOL

[Josie Wales]

Howdy fellas.  My top ten would probably look something like this:

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Jeremiah Johnson (probably not a western in the traditional sense but still a great movie)
Winchester 73
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Rio Bravo
Pale Rider
Night Passage
Unforgiven
Seven Ways from Sundown
Tombstone

[dangerranger]

Heres one of my favorites The Rounders, I always liked it because the carictures were most like the real cowboys I grew up with didnt take a whole lot to make them happy, never was a whole lot of money in what they were doing, but fun was fun. DR

[Mogorilla]

Hate to say this, but Burt Lancaster stood tall and proud as a liberal in liberal Hollywood.   I still like his movies as politics really don' mean much to me, no one listens to a libertarian anyway.
From Burt's Bio on the Internet Movie Data Base.

During the late 1950s John Wayne approached Lancaster, suggesting they make a western together. Lancaster laughed off the idea, suggesting they would need Kirk Douglas in the film as well. In reality, Lancaster would not work with Wayne, Hollywood's most prominent Republican supporter who had been actively involved in the McCarthy witch hunts as a founding member and later President of the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Lancaster had only agreed to co-star opposite Gary Cooper, a moderate Republican who gave a vague testimony to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947, after Cooper had starred in the anti-McCarthyism western High Noon (1952). Despite this, Lancaster joined a minute's silence for Wayne on 11 June 1979 while filming Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981) after Wayne died in Los Angeles.

[Federalist]

All three of them are rabid, anti-gun liberals...!

Bill

They sure enough are liberal, but the girl isa still purdy! 

[buffalo bill]

Gentlemen, the question was regarding our favorite westerns. I would like to humbly suggest we leave the politics to a different time and place so that we may enjoy this forum TOGETHER like it was intended. Just my 2 cents.

[Harley Starr]

Seraphim Falls is one of my new favorites.

[Federalist]

I agree with keepin on topic!  I just watched "Stagecoach" for the first time an that was an excellent movie for it's time.  It has a star studded cast that was not well known at the time and a purdy good storyline.

[Duke York]

Favourite Western?       Impossible!

Some of my favourites:

Audie Murphy         Ride Clear of Diablo, Night Passage, Duel at Silver Creek, Tumblweed. Six Black Horses, Posse from Hell
Joel McCrea            Colorado Territory, Lone Hand, Wichita, Buffalo Bill
Greg Peck              Duel in the Sun, Stalking Moon, McKenna's Gold, Big Country
Randy Scott           Man in the Saddle, Ride Lonesome, Abilene Town, Riding Shotgun, The Tall T.

Duke York