Best All Time Western movies

[quickccc]

i dunno if Western movies are most people's tasters' choice. but if Quentin Tarantino can spring a couple of out of his bags of trick, (Django and hateful 8) then i guess modern day Spagetti Westerns can still pop up on rare occasions ditto with remakes like Magnificent Seven, or 3:10 to Yuma etc.

Here's a quick look at My top 10 All time Western movies:

1 Good Bad and Ugly
2 Tombstone
3 The Unforgiven
4 Shane
5 Django Unchained
6 Quick and the Dead (sharon stone)
7 The Magnificent Seven (1960 version)
8 Broken Arrow (1950)
9 The Man who shot Liberty Valance
10 Fistful of Dollars

Best of the Rest:
Evil Roy Slade
For a Few Dollars More
Warlock
High Noon
The Cowboys
Blazing Saddles
Nuns and Guns
The Hateful Eight

- i admit that i have never seen some that are considered classics such as:
Outlaw of Josey Wales (Eastwood)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Open Range
3:10 to Yuma
The Searchers
Stagecoach
Once upon a Time in the West

 

[jsb357]

i dunno

- i admit that i have never seen some that are considered classics such as:

Once upon a Time in the West

See it and your list will change...

 

[Runwildboys]

I'm no Western aficionado, but:

Tombstone
The Cowboys (John Wayne)
True Grit (John Wayne)
The Unforgiven
The Quick and the Dead (Sharon Stone)
The Sons of Katie Elder
Quigley Down Under (Australia, but I assume we're judging genre, as opposed to location)
Dances With Wolves (if that counts)
McLintock!

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

I'm no Western aficionado, but:

Tombstone
The Cowboys (John Wayne)
True Grit (John Wayne)
The Unforgiven
The Quick and the Dead (Sharon Stone)
The Sons of Katie Elder
Quigley Down Under (Australia, but I assume we're judging genre, as opposed to location)
Dances With Wolves (if that counts)
McLintock!

Heck yeah Dances with Wolves counts. It made me not even want to see Pandora. Because I knew it was going to be a similar story line to Dances with Wolves.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

You do know that Django Unchained was a remake of Django{1966} https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/

Some great movies listed there, but do yourself a favor and watch Outlaw Josey Wales and Once upon a time in the West. They are both stellar.

 

[CouchCoach]

i dunno if Western movies are most people's tasters' choice. but if Quentin Tarantino can spring a couple of out of his bags of trick, (Django and hateful 8) then i guess modern day Spagetti Westerns can still pop up on rare occasions ditto with remakes like Magnificent Seven, or 3:10 to Yuma etc.

Here's a quick look at My top 10 All time Western movies:

1 Good Bad and Ugly
2 Tombstone
3 The Unforgiven
4 Shane
5 Django Unchained
6 Quick and the Dead (sharon stone)
7 The Magnificent Seven (1960 version)
8 Broken Arrow (1950)
9 The Man who shot Liberty Valance
10 Fistful of Dollars

Best of the Rest:
Evil Roy Slade
For a Few Dollars More
Warlock
High Noon
The Cowboys
Blazing Saddles
Nuns and Guns
The Hateful Eight

- i admit that i have never seen some that are considered classics such as:
Outlaw of Josey Wales (Eastwood)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Open Range
3:10 to Yuma
The Searchers
Stagecoach
Once upon a Time in the West

How in the hell does anyone not confined to a cave, around the clock, not see The Outlaw Josey Wales? There were three things for certain, death, taxes and The Outlaw Josey Wales is on some cable channel right now.

 

[CouchCoach]

I am a western buff and cut my teeth on Audie Murphy, Randolph Scott and John Wayne. Not to mention Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Cisco Kid and Zorro.

I really loved those big scope Westerns with powerful musical scores and thought they might be coming back when Silverado hit, I love that movie.

I also can't rank them because the last one I watched won't rank high enough because I just watched it.

There are Westerns I have to watch at least twice a year in my Western Festival complete with homemade jerky and a mug of beer for the saloon scenes. I've been known to pan fry a T-Bones and have some eggs as well.

The list is:
The Man with No Name trilogy
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Tombstone
Silverado
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Villa Rides!
The Magnificent 7, both versions
3:10 to Yuma
Shane
Pale Rider
The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
Unforgiven
High Noon
The Quick and the Dead

If I could only have one, that would be The Wild Bunch. Best western I ever saw from an acting, directing and writing standpoint. Add to that it was set in the time of transition from the old wild west.

 

[cowboyec]

☆The Man With No Name Trilogy
•a fistful of dollars
•for a few dollars more
•the good,the bad and the ugly
☆Shane
☆Rio Bravo
☆The Searchers
☆The Outlaw Josey Wales
☆High Plains Drifter
☆El Dorado
☆The Sons of Katie Elder
☆Stagecoach
☆The Magnificient Seven
☆Hang'm High
☆The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
☆Broken Arrow
☆The Man From Laramie
☆Big Jake
☆Two Mules For Sister Sarah
☆Tom Horn
☆Chisum
☆Cahill
☆Flaming Star
☆Charro

 

[1972COWBOY]

They Call Me Trinity
Blazing Saddles
Geronimo from the 70's

 

[DFWJC]

How in the hell does anyone not confined to a cave, around the clock, not see The Outlaw Josey Wales? There were three things for certain, death, taxes and The Outlaw Josey Wales is on some cable channel right now.

Loved that movie.
epic Western

 

[quickccc]

They Call Me Trinity
Blazing Saddles
Geronimo from the 70's

Later on, i thought about Geronimo too - even with a blue eyed, blonde haired Chuck Connors ...lol

i thought about Westworld and Cowboys and Aliens too but yet they don't really stick to me true purian Westerns .
way too much of a sci- fy added mixture

 

[quickccc]

☆The Man With No Name Trilogy
•a fistful of dollars
•for a few dollars more
•the good,the bad and the ugly
☆Shane
☆Rio Bravo
☆The Searchers
☆The Outlaw Josey Wales
☆High Plains Drifter
☆El Dorado
☆The Sons of Katie Elder
☆Stagecoach
☆The Magnificient Seven
☆Hang'm High
☆The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
☆Broken Arrow
☆The Man From Laramie
☆Big Jake
☆Two Mules For Sister Sarah
☆Tom Horn
☆Chisum
☆Cahill
☆Flaming Star
☆Charro

Nice list. Is Flaming Star the one with Elvis as an bi-racial white/native indian that says he is gonna " go up to the mountains and die " at the very end ?

 

[quickccc]

I am a western buff and cut my teeth on Audie Murphy, Randolph Scott and John Wayne. Not to mention Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Cisco Kid and Zorro.

I really loved those big scope Westerns with powerful musical scores and thought they might be coming back when Silverado hit, I love that movie.

I also can't rank them because the last one I watched won't rank high enough because I just watched it.

There are Westerns I have to watch at least twice a year in my Western Festival complete with homemade jerky and a mug of beer for the saloon scenes. I've been known to pan fry a T-Bones and have some eggs as well.

The list is:
The Man with No Name trilogy
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Tombstone
Silverado
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Villa Rides!
The Magnificent 7, both versions
3:10 to Yuma
Shane
Pale Rider
The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
Unforgiven
High Noon
The Quick and the Dead

If I could only have one, that would be The Wild Bunch. Best western I ever saw from an acting, directing and writing standpoint. Add to that it was set in the time of transition from the old wild west.

Great List !

The music theme score for man with no name trilogy - particularly takes the cake for me ..when it comes to ANY particular movie theme score for ANY movies.
i've even set my ring tone for my phone with that music theme, ..and just my luck at this time Netflix has ..the Good the Bad and the Ugly available for stream binge
and i'm just killing it ..! LOL
especially with this stay at home pandemic we're having and so much incredible amount of time for me at home.
the only other music them score that instantly comes to mind is the one for James Bond 007 which i give that a close second behind the man with no name trilogies.

and i can be sure i'm browsing Tubi TV, Hulu and YouTube stream for some of these classics that i definitely missed out on.

 

[Idgit]

The Outlaw Josie Wales

 

[Montanalo]

Some repeats from those above, but...

The Magnificent Seven (original) -- if nothing else, it makes the list for the music alone
Unforgiven -- One of Clint Eastwood's best movies
High Noon
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
Dances with Wolfs
Good, Bad and Ugly
Rio Bravo

and, something completely off the wall... Cowboys and Aliens

 

[SMASHMOUTH9473]

The Outlaw Josie Wales

^^^^ This^^^^......my #1

 

[1972COWBOY]

Later on, i thought about Geronimo too - even with a blue eyed, blonde haired Chuck Connors ...lol

i thought about Westworld and Cowboys and Aliens too but yet they don't really stick to me true purian Westerns .
way too much of a sci- fy added mixture

We saw Geronimo at the movies back then. I'd love to see it again. I don't remember much but a scene where the Indians caused an ammo dump/wagon to explode and the commander watching helplessly seems to stick in my mind.

 

[cowboyec]

Nice list. Is Flaming Star the one with Elvis as an bi-racial white/native indian that says he is gonna " go up to the mountains and die " at the very end ?

yup.

 

[Doomsday]

I would have Young Guns somewhere in my top 10

 

[funkytown]

I would have Young Guns somewhere in my top 10

Top 3 for me.