Name your best Western

[DodgyGeezer]

After a comment in the "Films I Watched" thread I thought I'd ask the PH masses to nominate their best "cowboy film"/Western

There are a lot to choose from from but I do suspect that you'll be hard pressed to find many better than "Once Upon A Time In The West". I'm not saying it's my best but it has to be in with a shout (probably so does Blazing Saddles for being so subversive).

[Sheets Tabuer]

Gosh, tombstone, true grit, pale rider, blazing saddles, Django how can you pick?

anything with Clint Eastwood omg even the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo

[Evoluzione]

The one in York was quite memorable.

[J6542]

The outlaw Josey Wales. “Are you going to pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?”

[Doofus]

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

[shih tzu faced]

Tombstone is great, with Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday stealing the show for me… “Say when”.
Kurt Russell is really good too. Ending drags on a tiny bit too long though, always thought they should’ve clipped a few minutes off it.

Otherwise can’t go wrong with Clint Eastwood. Any of his will do me but I’ll plump for Pale Rider.

[Philbar]

John Wayne - The Shootist. His last film.

[texaxile]

Unforgiven.

[Johnspex]

The original Magnificent Seven? In my opinion marred by the odd gun noises.

Pale Rider that was spoiled a little by the fashionable whistling noise when he tosses the axe handle in the air. It sounded like a cheap Chinese kung-Fu movie.

Eldorado.
Open Range.
Monte Walsh

[Roofless Toothless]

I can’t decide between The Searchers and The Big Country.

[Turtle Shed]

Don’t have one, but there’s a Travelodge at the motorway junction.

[kalexan273]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly... simply the best, if a touch on the long side

Followed by The Quick and the Dead, not great but one of the better modern western films

[BryanC]

Ulzanas Raid
Burt Lancaster is the old Indian Scout chasing a renegade Apache war party.

Remember the rules, Lieutenant. The first one to make a mistake gets to buryin' some people.

Lieutenant, a horse apple dries out at a certain rate. This one's pretty solid. Ke-Ni-Tay figures four, maybe five hours. ( ahead ).

Classic western, all the usual prejudices and thought to be Robert Aldrich's statement reflecting the Vietnam conflict.

[CooperD]

The Long Riders. A film about the James gang with well know acting brothers playing all the families. Stacy and James Keach as Frank and Jesse James. David, Keith and Robert Carradine as the Younger Brothers. Dennis and Randy Quaid as Ed and Clell Miller. Chrisopher and Nicholas Guest as Charlie and Bob Ford. Also has a great score from Ry Cooder in it.

[sam greenock]

BryanC said:

Ulzanas Raid
Burt Lancaster is the old Indian Scout chasing a renegade Apache war party.

Remember the rules, Lieutenant. The first one to make a mistake gets to buryin' some people.

Lieutenant, a horse apple dries out at a certain rate. This one's pretty solid. Ke-Ni-Tay figures four, maybe five hours. ( ahead ).

Classic western, all the usual prejudices and thought to be Robert Aldrich's statement reflecting the Vietnam conflict.

Aha - Ulzana's Raid, written by a chap from Greenock - Alan Sharp -he also wrote another western called Billy Two Hats - my dad knew him quite well when they were young as they both served their apprenticeship together in shipyards

His most famous screenplay though, especially in UK, was probably Rob Roy - not exactly a western

[vixen1700]

Must admit if I turn the telly over and A Fistful of Dollars is on, I just have to carry on watching it even though I probably know it line by line now, I've seen it so many times.

Clint is so cool, the look and the music is fantastic and Ramon is one of my favourite film psychos.

So yeah, that'll be my favourite.

"That ain't nice you laughin'. My mule gets the funny idea you're laughin' at him".

[Riff Raff]

Philbar said:

John Wayne - The Shootist. His last film.

With John Wayne, for me, True Grit. Great film but not the best western ever. Anyone who can reload a Winchester one handed at the gallop gets a vote from me.

[nicanary]

I love a Western. They're usually pretty formulaic but that's the appeal for me. Good versus evil. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance. Not one, but two heroes. A superb villain with 2 strutting sidekicks - Lee van Cleef and Strother Martin. Pretty girl, drunken doctor, ja a Svedish shopkeeper, Shakespeare-quoting newspaper editor. It's got it all, including a great twist which never bores me.

Also anything which includes Walter Brennan as a hornery old-timer called Stumpy.

[steveatesh]

Too many serious ones to chose from so I’ll go for Blazing Saddles……then Support your local Sheriff!

[chris116]

The good, the bad and the ugly for me.