Best All Time Western movies

[Hardline]

I watched this yesterday.
Who would ever think to cast Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a western?
There's even a scene with the Three Stooges.
Ursula Andres in her untimate hotness.

 

[triplets_93]

Mackenna's Gold is a favorite of mine. My most favorite Western to watch is Tombstone. I have the Vista Series DVD set.

I want to give a shout out to the many fine TV westerns made in the 1950's and 1960's. The filmwork, sound, storylines and acting were quite good in the those TV dramas. I'm not even thinking about Gunsmoke, which everybody knows. There's a TV channel we get called GRIT that has lots of the shows I'm talking about. Check to see if you have it as a sub-channel for one of your local stations.

 

[triplets_93]

There Was A Crooked Man was made, in a way, to test the new boundaries of what could be in an R Rated film in 1970 after Supreme Court rulings.

 

[morasp]

 

[visionary]

IS Clint Eastwood a bad guy? Please enlighten me CC.

he’s a bad bad man not a bad guy

 

[nobody]

They're not my favs, or exactly westerns, but they kind of are and are fun:

Three Amigos
Quigley Down Under

 

[Sarge]

Blazing Saddles.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

i also loved AMC's western series Hell On Wheels.

 

[DallasEast]

High Noon

Some of the best 'synchronized' entertainment audiences will ever experience. The hour and 25 minute film is perfect for the length of apprehension felt by Gary Cooper and all the other characters, many of whom showed their true colors while the marshal stood tall. Great movie.

 

[cowboyec]

•Cattle Drive-(1951)...excellent story...Joel McCrea and a young Dean Stockwell star.
well written...worth your time.

•The True Story of Jesse James-(1957)...Robert Wagner as Jesse James...Jeffery Hunter as Frank James.
excellent film all the way around.

•The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw-(1958)...comedy starring Kenneth More and a beautiful Jayne Mansfield...very good...very funny...not over the top...comedy elements were understated and perfect.
well written story.
excellent film.

•Bullet For A Badman-(1964)...Audie Murphy and Darren McGavin star.
excellent movie.
good story.
Audie Murphy's westerns were always good...this one is.
and Darren McGavin is GREAT as a villian.

 

[Montanalo]

•Cattle Drive-(1951)...excellent story...Joel McCrea and a young Dean Stockwell star.
well written...worth your time.

•The True Story of Jesse James-(1957)...Robert Wagner as Jesse James...Jeffery Hunter as Frank James.
excellent film all the way around.

•The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw-(1958)...comedy starring Kenneth More and a beautiful Jayne Mansfield...very good...very funny...not over the top...comedy elements were understated and perfect.
well written story.
excellent film.

•Bullet For A Badman-(1964)...Audie Murphy and Darren McGavin star.
excellent movie.
good story.
Audie Murphy's westerns were always good...this one is.
and Darren McGavin is GREAT as a villian.

Glad you mentioned a comedy/Western -. Reminded me how much I enjoyed Don Knots in "The Shakiest Gun in the West"

 

[cowboyec]

Glad you mentioned a comedy/Western -. Reminded me how much I enjoyed Don Knots in "The Shakiest Gun in the West"

i love a good western comedy.
if done right....it can be very fun to watch.

 

[JoeKing]

1. True Grit (John Wayne version)
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Two Mules for Sister Sara
6. Tombstone
7. Unforgiven
8. Dances with Wolves
9. The Sons of Katie Elder
10. Legends of the Fall

Honorable Mention: High Plains Drifter

 

[Montanalo]

1. True Grit (John Wayne version)
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Two Mules for Sister Sara
6. Tombstone
7. Unforgiven
8. Dances with Wolves
9. The Sons of Katie Elder
10. Legends of the Fall

Honorable Mention: High Plains Drifter

Hard to argue with that list... Maybe not my exact order, but a great list nonetheless.

 

[quickccc]

i love a good western comedy.
if done right....it can be very fun to watch.

Blazing Saddles, Evil Roy Slade, Shakiest Gun in the West, Wild Wild West and a Million Ways to Die in the West would among be my top Western Comedies,
and " Red Garters " and Three Amigos wouldn't be too far behind.

(Red Garters more of a musical comedy)

i've yet to see Shanhai Noon (jackie chan) Apple Dumpling Gang, Cat Ballou or City Slickers,...
... and i didn't like Support Your Local Sheriff .

 

[JoeKing]

Hard to argue with that list... Maybe not my exact order, but a great list nonetheless.

Thanks, I could have easily made that list much longer. I was raised on Western movies and TV shows. When I was barely old enough to talk I would beg my mom to but the TV on "big belly" which is what I thought the western TV show "The Big Valley" was called. lol

 

[cowboyec]

hope y'all vote in the movie tournament...specially the western genre bracket.
head on over.....first rounds on me

 

[DoctorChicken]

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Butch Cassidy
The Revenant are my top 3.

Some may consider The Revenant too recent to put that high, and I understand. But as a filmmaker, it was one of the most impressive films I’ve ever seen. As far as cinematography and directing go, it’s an all time great in my opinion.

 

[kskboys]

I think my favorite Western is now "Cowboys vs Aliens". I found it to be a real hoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CouchCoach]

I think my favorite Western is now "Cowboys vs Aliens". I found it to be a real hoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was a blast!