OUR 25 favorite Westerns

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

The other thread about that list of "Westerns" set me to thinking. (Don't worry, I took the battery out of the smoke detector). 

I know that we've done it before, but why not do it again. I'll start with a few of my favorites. In no particular order:

(1) Tombstone.

(2) Crossfire Trail.

(3) Outlaw Josey Wales.

(4) ElDorado.

(5) Silverado.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

1. Hombre

2. Ride the High Country

3. Seven Men From Now

4. True Grit (Coen Bros)

5. The Man From Laramie

6. The Big Country

 

A few of my favorites.....

[Blackwater 53393]

Okay…

In no particular order because I can’t narrow it down that far. My Top 10

 

The Searchers

Once Apon a Time In The West

Gunsmoke, (Audie Murphy)

Angel and the Badman

Magnificent Seven (original)

Blood on the Moon

Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin)

Monte Walsh (Selek)

Bite the Bullet 

Conagher

[Rye Miles #13621]

My top 5

 

1.Tombstone 

2. Open Range

3. Unforgiven

4. Josey Wales

5. Quigley down under

 

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

1. Tombstone

2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

3. Crossfire Trail

4. The Searchers

4(t) The Westerner

5. Open Range

[Warden Callaway]

What?   Nobody mentioned Red River! Or How the West was Won. 

[Alpo]

I've never understood why anyone liked Red River.

 

John Wayne's character is an ass. And he's a thief. And if I was the cowboy that was stealing the sugar and caused the stampede, I would blow John Wayne's head off with a shotgun from hiding.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

@Alpo  

 

[Warden Callaway]

Red River  - John Wayne played a character that was dark and bitter.  But the story and musical score was great.  Aside from Montgomery Cliff, the cast was top notch. Howard Hawks was a capable director.  

[DocWard]

This'll take some thought on my part. My top ten fifteen. What can I say? I got to ten and realized there were a few I needed to add. Top five, middle five and bottom five ar generally in no particular order. I stopped short of including Blazing Saddles because it is a comedy first, western second. If I run across any of these playing, I'm watching.

 

Tombstone

The Magnificent Seven (original)

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Open Range

Shane

El Dorado (Michele Carey trumps Walter Brennan)

Hang 'Em High

The Shootist

Quigley Down Under

Silverado

The Fastest Gun Alive

Big Jake

The Quick and The Dead (Based on the Louis L'amour novel with Sam Elliott)

Last Stand at Saber River

Two Mules for Sister Sara.

 

[Blackwater 53393]

My next ten. Again, in no particular order and no less worthy than the other ten.

 

Stagecoach. (Original)

The Far Country

Broken Trail

The Violent Men

The Cowboys (just to see Bruce Dern get his ass whipped)

For a Few Dollars More 

A Man Called Sledge 

Nevada Smith

Rio Grande

Man With The Gun (Mitchum)

 

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

5 hours ago, Alpo said:

I've never understood why anyone liked Red River.

 

John Wayne's character is an ass. And he's a thief. And if I was the cowboy that was stealing the sugar and caused the stampede, I would blow John Wayne's head off with a shotgun from hiding.

 

The thing that really turned me off on Red River is not so much Wayne as pretty much a psychopath, as the fact that it all builds up to a fistfight and happy handshakes and reconciliation all 'round. Just plain weird...bizarre.

[Warden Callaway]

But.., But... what would a SASS match be without a Yeeha!

 

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

A few more favorites (a subject I never get tired of):

 

Hondo

The Naked Spur

The Tall T

Comanche Station

Winchester '73

Man of the West

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

My next 5

 

1. Rio Grande (because Maureen O'Hara is plus in any film, and I got a thing for redheads)

2. Trooper Hook (okay, I got a thing for Barbara Stanwyck too)

3. Winchester '73 (original)

4. Quigley Down Under

5. Hostiles

[Warden Callaway]

If you need to pick a silent movie, Go West with Buster Keaton. Just a part.

 

 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

Blazing Saddles

[Pat Riot]

My favorites - I cannot put them in order

 

Silverado

Outlaw Josie Wales

Tombstone

Quigley Down Under

Open Range

Crossfire Trail

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Fist Full of Dollars

For a Few Dollars More 

Hang ‘Em High

High Plains Drifter

Rio Bravo

Support your local gunfighter

Support your local sheriff

3:10 to Yuma (the new one)

The Lonesome Dove series - all of ‘em

 

I know there are many more, but I am done for now. 

 

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

The Terror of Tiny Town.

 

 

[watab kid]

so many favorites , all mine have been mentioned except those i forgot about and cant recall right not , 

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

On 4/6/2024 at 6:35 AM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

My top 5

 

1.Tombstone 

2. Open Range

3. Unforgiven

4. Josey Wales

5. Quigley down under

 

 

Dayum, you picked my brain. I have watched these many times.

[Warden Callaway]

Old Yeller - childhood classic 

[Mossy Horn Gent]

No particular order"

 

The good the bad and the ugly

The Outlaw Josey Wales

True Grit

3:10 to Yuma

Tombstone

Quigley Down Under

Lonesome Dove

The Sacketts

1883

[DeaconKC]

[Buckshot Bear]

Thanks for this thread @Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Jenorado and myself watched Crossfire Trail last night, its been a long time since we have and enjoyed it from start to finish. 

[Buckshot Bear]

Tonight's Monte Walsh and tomorrow nights The Big Country. 

[Warden Callaway]

Rawhide the movie with Tyrone Powers, Susan Hayward and Jack Elam as the meanest man in the whole damn town!

 

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Here’s a few more! 
 

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 

The Professionals

Valdez Is Coming 

Winchester 73 (James Stewart)

Streets of Laredo (who knew George Carlin would make such a great cowboy?!?)

[Warden Callaway]

Putting out Cheyenne Social Club.  Henry Fonda and James Stewart,  don't come any better. 

 

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Just now, Warden Callaway said:

Putting out Cheyenne Social Club.  Henry Fonda and James Stewart,  don't come any better. 

 

 

 

I was considering that one!!

[Warden Callaway]

Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. 

 

 

 

[DeaconKC]

Support your local sherriff

And Support you local Gunfighter

[DeaconKC]

 

[Warden Callaway]

The Rounders with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda. 

 

 

Cowboys with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon. 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

Jenorado and I watched Monte Walsh last night, unbelievably and to our great surprise we have never seen the movie before (or our old timers is really startin' to kick in  )what a pleasure it was to watch, even though one scene did have Jenorado in tears.