Your three favorite Westerns

[ojibweindian]

Bear in mind that this list is not in order of preference:

1. Quigly Down Under simply because of "The Rifle".

2. True Grit (and just about every other John Wayne western).

3. Tombstone (Every time I hear Val Kilmer's Doc Holiday saying the line "I'll be your huckleberry" gives me thrilling goosebumps!).

Others that should be on the list of favorite westerns:
The Mountain Men
Every Clint Eastwood western (including "paint Your Wagon")
The Magnificent Seven
Last Stand at Sabre River (Tom Seleck)
Every Jimmy Stewart western.

There's more, I just can't think of them all off the top of my head!

 

[El Tejon]

After semf and Okie, I'll third "Big Jake." How can a gun nut NOT like that one!

 

[jrhead75]

If I can only choose 3:

Lonesome Dove
Outlaw Josie Wales
True Grit

Then there's:

Blazing Saddles

 

[Hkmp5sd]

1. El Dorado
2. The Outlaw Jose Wales
3. Red Sun

 

[hansolo]

Move 'em out!

All the above are great films; I'll be contrarian and throw in a few off-the-wall ones:

"McCabe and Mrs. Miller"- Julie Christie/Warren Beaty

"A Man Called Horse" - Richard Harris

"Last Train to Gun Hill" - Kirk Douglas

....Special points for midgets and naked prostitutes.

 

[marvl]

The Magnificient Seven

Bit of trivia... only of of the Magnificient Seven is still alive: Robert Vaughn.

 

[Zip06]

Hombre
High Noon
The Wild Bunch

 

[jsalcedo]

Outlaw Josey Wales

High plains drifter

Silverado

 

[Smoke]

Conagher
Tombstone
Lonesome Dove
Quigley Down Under
Crossfire Trail
The Cowboys
Tom Horn
Dances with Wolves
Jeremiah Johnson
Silverado

Just three....you've got to be kidding me.

I could add another twenty or so if you'd like

 

[Nando Aqui]

Too many to narrow down, so...

1st Three:
Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Open Range

2nd Three:
High Planes Drifter
For a Few Dollars More
The Quick and the Dead (yeah, I know...)

3rd Three:
A Man Called Horse (1 & 2)
Dances With Wolves
Little Big Man (funny...)

and.... oops! I better quit

Alex

 

[Silver Bullet]

hansolo -- you beat me to it !

1. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
2. Jeremiah Johnson
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Too bad I despise the politics of its director, but McCabe and Mrs. Miller was one of those late 60s-early 70s movies that made you feel like you were right there with the characters, lending an extra feeling of menace to the viewer.

 

[OF]

Just a note: Josey packed two Walker Colts...not Navy's.

- Gabe

 

[Okiecruffler]

The wife wanted to vote for her favorite, Terror comes to Tiny Town.

 

[Ringer]

Not easy to narrow down to three.

Silverado

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Wyatt Earp (the one with Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid)

 

[Beetle Bailey]

Unforgiven

The Outlaw Josey Wales

High Noon

If you haven't seen them, watch them tonight !

 

[Bostonterrier97]

The Wild Bunch
The Shootist
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

(3 is too short of a list!)
Wanted to include Quigly Down Under, Silverado, Shane, Fist full of dollars, etc.

 

[38Mike]

Anyone see "The Missouri Breaks"? Had Jack Nicholson; Marlon Brando was a "Regulator", he did some fine long range regulatin' on the bad guys....

Whew, that was a long time ago for that flick.....

 

[LiquidTension]

Unforgiven
Tombstone
Hang 'em High - am I the only one that likes this movie? Nobody else has mentioned it

 

[Ian11]

I generally prefer "modern" Westerns.

Lonesome Dove

Unforgiven

Tombstone

Ride With the Devil

Quick and the Dead (Hackman, Stone)

Dances With Wolves

Wyatt Earp

Open Range

Though I do have a soft spot for some of the "old school" Westerns:

The Searchers

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

Rio Bravo

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly


Oh you said 3

Okay the first 3 I mentioned.

 

[4570Rick]

hansolo

Good choice. When I was shooting cowboy comp I wore the same outfit as Anthony Quinn in Last Train.

 

[Okiecruffler]

I had forgotten about one of te first westerns that really caught my attention back when I still thought John Wayne was boring. The Long Riders was a great movie, but I haven't seen it in forever. Now I have a quest for the day, locate it on DVD and purchase it, and hide the purchase from the wife.

 

[oweno]

"The Searchers" - If you have not seen this movie, rent the widescreen version. Do this!

Somebody mentioned 'The Terror of Tinytown'? Oh man .... I still can't believe somebody made this movie ... and a western yet?

Owen

 

[ChickenHawk]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Open Range

Does "Quigley Down Under" count as a western? I love that movie.

Cheers,
ChickenHawk

 

[moxie]

1. Tombstone
2. Lonesome Dove
3. The Searchers

Open Range has potential. Let's see how it ages. In this movie, does Costner fire more than six out of one gun, or did I imagine that? Have to get the DVD when it comes out.

 

[sandy4570]

1.The outlaw Josey wells - Colt walker , colt navy and Colt army all cap and ball black powder all fun. 2.The unforgiven- Spencer rifle (the first time I ever saw Spencer rifle mention correclty by name in the movie), Shcofield revolver (did they had this break open revolver back then? and I thought only British use break open revolver) 3.Wild bunch - Colt M1911 (not M1911A1), peace maker, Winchester 92, 94, Mauser 93, Browning M1917 water cool.