another all time western classic is 'city slickers"! :]
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Off Topic Poll - Favorite Western
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Posts: 597 09/11/2007 00:14 |
'Dances With Wolves' & 'Open Range'
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Posts: 160 09/11/2007 08:07 |
We should save these off topics and polls for the dead of winter when we have just enough sunlight to keep from killing ourselves....
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Posts: 579 09/11/2007 08:56 |
Once upon a time in the west.........little big man..........anything with Randolph Scott...oh ya.....Dances with wolves...!! |
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baunvivant |
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Posts: 89 09/11/2007 09:58 |
High Noon, for me. And that may be only because I saw the movie for the first time a few years ago while it was playing on the big screen at the local theatre. The picture quality was aboslutely stunning and the colors (yes, black and white) were so much more vibrant than anything I've seen in B&W. If you ever get the chance to see it at a theartre, the experience will be all the better. |
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Posts: 150 09/11/2007 10:37 |
I like westerns - a lot. I grew up in Nebraska's eastern sandhills. Sioux country. Two and a half day battle on my aunt's ranch - mounted Sioux vs Army
infantry & two small cannon. The gun emplacements were still there. Lots of stuff to find.
We had a coffee can almost full of arrow and spear points before someone stole it. The loss of that can taught me what theft was about. There was a big buffalo wallow on our place. My wife couldn't believe it until she saw it. Sort of like a gigantic bathtub in the sand. Anyway from the list: Shane But, I think Once Upon a Time in the West, and The Big Country should be on everyone's list, especially when it's time to rent DVDs this winter. For 15 years I dreamed of trout fishing. Always subscribed to either "Outdoor Life" or "Field & Stream." Where we were there was no tv until I was about 12. Reading was it at night. My wife and I'd been married for about 20 years when I got her to go "home." It was and has been the only time in my life when a little over four hours out of Omaha she said, "Are we there yet?" So much for retiring out there. Also, north Nebraska is not at all like freeway country through the Platte Valley. It's rolling hills and much of it is a huge sand beach from an ancient ocean. Sand under thin topsoil. Near Clearwater is a state park with an excavation of ice age animal skeletons drowned in a huge ancient flood. Magnificant exhibition. A must see if possible. JHector
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teter |
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Posts: 665 09/11/2007 16:40 |
I grew up just west of Wichita, Kan., pretty much right on the Chisholm Trail, and a few miles south of where Jesse Chisholm's original trading post stood.
I fished for catfish with a canepole in Cowskin Creek, the last watering stop for the herds before they crossed the last couple of miles into the town. My
family has been there since the 1870's -- my grandfather's first cousin was one of the founders. So was Billy the Kid's mother. The city officials
hired Wyatt Earp as a constable, and fired him. His boss, Marshal Mike Meagher, has been described as one of the models for the fictional Matt Dillon of
"Gunsmoke" (you'd be amazed at how many people think Matt Dillon was the real marshal of Dodge City).
I love "The Searchers," "Ride the High Country," "High Noon" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," which challenged the myth of the gunfighter long before Clint Eastwood made "Unforgiven." Jimmy Stewart made some other terrific westerns, including "The Man From Laramie." I think "Tombstone" is one of the best westerns in the last 20 years. If I could count a television miniseries, I would throw in "Lonesome Dove," which was, in a word, superb.
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brooksriver |
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Posts: 66 09/11/2007 18:39 |
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and High Noon are tops on my list. Here's a sleeper -- Man of the West 1958 with Gary Cooper, Julie London, and Lee J
Cobb.
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teter |
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Posts: 666 09/11/2007 21:36 |
Yep. A couple more I love: "The Gunfighter" (Gregory Peck) and "The Ox-Bow Incident" (Henry Fonda, among others.)
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bulldog1935 |
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Posts: 4324 09/11/2007 23:19 Bulldog1935 |
OK, I'll chime a nod for The Gunfighter.
Also, 3 Godfathers - John Wayne's first starring role. |
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doloresboy |
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Posts: 331 09/11/2007 23:24 |
The Wild Bunch was, in my opinion, Peckinpah's finest movie and maybe my favorite. Eastwood did so many great ones but "The Unforgiven" is my
favorite of his. ("I ain't like that no more!"). John Wayne and the scenery in True Grit was awsome but Glen Campbell dragged it down. Jeremiah
Johnson I could watch once a week. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Wayne, Marvin and Stewart, how good is that!) can't watch it without my ivory handled
Colt SAA at my side! Too many to list!
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Posts: 4325 09/11/2007 23:35 Bulldog1935 |
I wish Ry Cooder had done the soundtrack on Jeremiah Johnson.
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baunvivant |
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Posts: 91 09/11/2007 23:58 |
Just remembered that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid would qualify for my second favorite "Western" -- after High Noon. Great director, superb
writer and, the actors were pretty good, too.
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pmag |
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Posts: 203 09/12/2007 06:27 |
"One Eyed Jacks" without a doubt.
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uintaangler |
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Posts: 834 09/12/2007 08:41 |
Best Western: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid = one of the best movies of all time. Honorable Mention: Tombstone because of Val Kilmer ["I'm your huckleberry"] |
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Posts: 1056 09/12/2007 10:30 |
I also enjoy western history. Speaking of Doc Holiday, I read somewhere that on the walk to the feed lot Virgil told the boys that "We will disarm
them". Wyatt muttered to Doc that he intended to kill them. To which Doc replied, "That is more my line". Another history had Wyatt and Doc
hunting down Ringo with Wyatt killing him with a single rifle shot. Both men had warrants out for their arrest in Arizona, so the affair was kept quiet. Some
solid research has also been done on Butch and Sundance's time in South America. The ending of the movie was reasonable accurate. Don
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canenut |
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Posts: 486 09/12/2007 10:44 |
Lonesome Dove is a classic and a wonderful story. Duvall as Gus made the movie.
Thanks for adding more great westerns that need to be added to my DVD / VHS collection. 3 Godfathers was very nice. Thanks and keep them coming! Tommy Lee Jones wrote and directed a movie set in the early 1900's called "The Good Old Boys". It isn't a gunfighter western, bur rather a homesteader vs banker saga that has a very young Matt Damon in it. It's a good movie even if it doesn't have any gunfights in it.
The trout takes the fly, the line tightens and it's like I was blind, but now I
see.
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bulldog1935 |
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Posts: 4328 09/12/2007 11:16 Bulldog1935 |
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Zenkoanhead |
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Posts: 1057 09/12/2007 11:45 |
Just remembered Bronson's best: Chato's Land. Don
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explorer48 |
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Posts: 190 09/12/2007 23:08 |
Missouri Breaks-Marlin Brando
Tom Horn-Steve McQueen Gray Fox-James Farnsworth |
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