Unforgiven Outlaw Josey Wales Tombstone Silverado The Proposition Open Range.....well parts of it....
Vera Cruz High Noon Open Range Support Your Local Gunfighter/Sherriff Ransom of Red Chief The Rounders El Dorado Stagecoach Joe Kidd The Cowboys
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Rio Bravo El Dorado Open Range Tombstone For A Few Dollars More Fistful of Dollars Unforgiven Quick and the Dead Valdez is Coming Good the bad and the Ugly Firecreek There was a crooked man For comedic purposes I like Cat Balou, McLintock and The Hallelujah Trail. All three are awesome. McLintock is underrated and lost to time.
Great mentions guys! I'd choose many already posted. But to add to the list: The Long Riders with the Keachs, Carradines, Quaids and Guests.
Unforgiven Rooster Cogburn Shane True Grit High Noon Tombstone Three Amigos The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly The Magnificent Seven Westworld (because of Yul Brynner!)
I've seen a couple with Jimmy Stewart - I liked Destry Rides Again, just not enough to say its one of my favorites. I haven't seen any with Gary Cooper yet. I've seen a few with John Wayne and debated adding The Sons of Katy Elder to my top list. I was never really in to westerns, and this is just a recent (last few years) thing. I had Hondo on my DVR but it got erased before I could watch it. I have How The West Was Won on my DVR now. Pretty much, if I see a Western I'll DVR it to watch later. I have Shane and High Noon on my Netflix cue, but we only have Netflix on our XBox in the living room. I'll get around to seeing more, I just don't have a lot of time to watch tv. This is partly why I made this thread..to get others opinions on westerns I haven't seen yet.
Not only is Open Range my favorite western but it's in my all-time top 10 favorite movie list. Everything about that movie is pure epic win. I'm not much of a John Wayne fan, but I do enjoy his version of True Grit over the remake.
Wellman, 1943 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lljIrAfBzYs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Spoiler <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UIDfzCzdjcs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Ford, 1946 one of the earlier Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday movies <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BUQJeXMGamk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Spoiler <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UCMKtlXTTcg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Ray, 1954 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ACgSyxdV9vE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Bandolero! - Martin, Stewart, and what in my opinion is the sexist woman of all time. don't no how I forgot this one from my list.
But seriously folks, just about all the ones here are on my list. The Searchers, Sergio Leone, Eastwood, Wayne etc... Also Blazing Saddles. And although maybe not strictly a 'Western', check out
The best western film of all time wasn't in the movie theater. Nothing will ever compete with "Lonesome Dove". Ever. Even if you've seen the miniseries, you owe it to yourselves to read the source material novel. One of my favorite books. It didn't win the Pulitzer Prize for nothing. Honorable mentions? "The Searchers", "The Good The Bad and the Ugly". Please no one list "Dances with Wolves". A decent movie but vastly overrated, minus the buffalo hunt. Costner's voice-over is and remains pukeworthy. Or maybe it just reminds me that he won Best Picture and Director for that over Scorcese and "GoodFellas".
Just to make things interesting I would suggest you Cowboys watch a counter culture, revisionist Western called Little Big Man. It was made in 1970 at the height of the Viet Nam War so it takes a shot at the hubris of manifest destiny. It stars Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway. It's an epic that follows the lead character's life for 100 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Man_(film) Oh, and the real True Grit stars John Wayne dammit. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xWGAdzn5_KU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I've seen that a few times. Really good movie. Comes on Turner Classic every now and again. Depicts Custer as an egomaniacal doof, which he just might have been. The Grandfather walking "blind" through the massacre....priceless. The, er, heterosexually-challenged Native American....priceless. Little Big Man in the teepee, er, keeping the sisters-in-law (if I remember correctly?) happy....priceless.
