Best Western Film Ever

[Kent_Mackem]

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.

The soundtrack is immaculate as the film itself. Never bettered.

You can visit the graveyard used in the film set in Spain. It's on my bucket list.

 

[BigPete]

Blazing saddles

 

[Cypher]

You can visit the graveyard used in the film set in Spain. It's on my bucket list.

I was watching a Youtube video on it earlier.

 

[den]

The sons of Katie Elder

 

[Roker Skate]

'Hombre' is well worth a watch. Paul Newman is up against Richard Boone's gang and some other characters.

 

[FootballFan]

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.

The soundtrack is immaculate as the film itself. Never bettered.

Best film ever, never mind best Western ever

 

[Skrabble]

The book was written by Elmore Leonard considered by Quentin Tarantino, Martin Amis and Stephen King to be the US no 1 crime writer. He also wrote Joe Kidd, “Jackie Brown”, Get Shorty, Out of Sight and dozens more that nivver quite transferred to the screen with any artistic success.
Pre fame Tarantino spent his only night in the cells after being caught shoplifting a copy of his latest at the time.

Hombre was also written by Elmore Leonard.

Good knowledge lad, good knowledge.

 

[Billy Fish]

I know it's not a film but loved "Alias Smith and Jones", all the banks and trains they robbed they never shot anyone. Pete Duel was one cool dude.

Monday night 9:00 on BBC 2 from memory.

 

[Daffy]

Clint

 

[Cockney Mackem]

My favourite is The Outlaw Josey Wales but you could also have:

The Wild Bunch
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Unforgiven
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Once Upon A Time In The West
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
The Searchers
Ride The High Country
Rio Bravo
Shane
High Noon
Blazing Saddles

 

[safcrob]

My favourite is The Outlaw Josey Wales but you could also have:

The Wild Bunch
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Unforgiven
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Once Upon A Time In The West
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
The Searchers
Ride The High Country
Rio Bravo
Shane
High Noon
Blazing Saddles

This with True Grit, Shenandoah and Rawhide (not the TV series) added.

 

[Motor City Cobra]

Bye not a film but I thought godless on netflix was pretty good like....

 

[Dennis]

The Shootist, John Wayne's last film IIRC, is canny. Nowhere near best western ever but it's a decent enough film.

 

[Kent_Mackem]

There's a class line in Unforgiven where Clint shoots the landlord of the boozer after shouting "Who's the owner of this shithole?"
Hackman says "You just shot an unarmed man"
Clint replies "Well he should have armed himself"

 

[biilymack]

The Comancheros,good in its day.

 

[Don Birnam]

All good suggestions but I think Last Train From Gunhill should be added to the list. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn...

 

[muggboots]

Seven Samurai

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Cap doffed. Not just one of the best westerns, it's one of the best films of all time.

 

[Parkside]

High Noon

 

[muggboots]

I haven't read the full thread as I don't want to get banned but I hope someone has mentioned The Searchers. John Wayne in the only film he made where his character wasn't a true blue American hero. He plays an ageing veteran in it, a bigoted, cruel, racist, amoral horrible bastard with chips on both shoulders and more axes to grind than a blacksmith after his holidays, and that's just his plus points. A classic.

 

[Johnap]

I haven't read the full thread as I don't want to get banned but I hope someone has mentioned The Searchers. John Wayne in the only film he made where his character wasn't a true blue American hero. He plays an ageing veteran in it, a bigoted, cruel, racist, amoral horrible bastard with chips on both shoulders and more axes to grind than a blacksmith after his holidays, and that's just his plus points. A classic.

It is a very good film but I think he is better in the Trilogy westerns from Ford.