Your Top 3 westerns of all time?

1.The Good,The Bad, And The Ugly
2.The Naked Spur
3.The Wild Bunch

Ride The High Country
Little Big Man
Unforgiven
Tombstone
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Open Range
The Searchers
Hombre

 

Unforgiven, Tombstone, and Django Unchained probably because I've seen them the most.

 

Anyone mentioned Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid yet? Not a fave of mine but it just entered my head.

 

Yes, Robert Redford approves

 

name every western of all time....go>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Only a CSN fan would set an assignment like that!

 

after all, crosby did write 'cowboy movie"

 

How about a thread on cowboy / Wild West songs by rock musicians?

Powder Finger
Ballad of Pancho and Lefty
The Rope and the Colt

 

Geronimo's Cadillac
Desperado (the album)
The Ballad of Ira Hayes

Back to the topic, I've picked my three (and more) but I find this too rich a strand of film-making to actually limit my choices. On the other hand, I find it very difficult to sit through average Westerns whereas I often find something of merit in an average Film Noir/crime film - though I'm more likely to list Westerns in my top ten films than Noirs (excepting Out of the Past).

 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Naked Spur
One-Eyed Jacks

 

Off the top of my head these three immediately come to mind:

Silverado
The Wild Bunch
The Unforgiven

There are many more I'd add as possible contenders on any given day including...

High Noon
Shane
The Magnificent Seven (orig.)
Wild Horse Mesa (silent era Zane Grey classic I recently screened)
The Iron Horse (John Ford classic silent era film)
Ride the High Country
The Oxbow Incident


Cat

 

I loved the western TV series Kung Fu.

 

For western TV series (that's a thread in itself) I'd start with Lonesome Dove!
Then I'd probably set the ol' Wayback machine for the 50's to the early 60's:

Lawman
The Dakotas
Wyatt Earp
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Tall Man
Gunsmoke
The Rebel
and ...don't laugh... Yancy Derringer


Cat

 

Unforgiven
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Once Upon a Time in the West

 

Dad always liked GUNSMOKE, so I at least became familiar with it. I suppose it would rank high in my list of western TV series, just by attrition, as I've not been a western fan most of my life.

In the past few years, I've become fond of THE GUNS OF WILL SONNETT. It's only a half-hour, so the stories aren't drawn out, and I love Walter Brennan's "no brag, just fact" line.

 

Top 3?
The Good
The Bad
&
The Ugly.

 

The Wind, 1928 silent. Worth a watch. Also a great book!

 

Not as good as Lonesome Dove, but the prequel Dead Man's Walk was pretty good even with the abrupt ending.

 

The Searchers, Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence just a few of my favorites!

 

The Unforgiven

Once upon a Time in the West

Open Range

 

The Wild Bunch
The Searchers
Unforgiven

 

The Wild Bunch
High Plains Drifter
Johnny Guitar

But ask me another day and I'll pick another 3.

 

So many. Open Range, Tombstone, The Shootist. Just three out of many more.

 

The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean
Little Big Man

 

The Shootist
Rio Bravo
Son of Paleface (seriously. This is the best western comedy ever in my book)