Your Top 3 westerns of all time?

Them's the best kind!

My top three would be:
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Pursued
The Outlaw
+ any spaghetti western (especially if Lee Van Cleef is in it)

 

I saw Man Of The West quite recently -- a ridiculous movie. Gary Cooper ("Link Jones") talks about how Lee J Cobb ("Dock Tobin") raised him, but Cooper is 10 years older than Cobb. Also John Dehner ("Claude") talks about how he and the Cooper character ran around together when they were kids -- like when he was 5 and Cooper was 20?! Because Cooper is 15 years older than Dehner. I can't stand Cooper's wooden acting, in this film or any other (including High Noon). But Julie London is a WOW!

 

I have no problem with the movie’s plot at all, even if Cooper looks a bit old for the part. But then i always make it a point to never mistake the ages of the actors with the ages of the characters they’re portraying. If i didn’t my favorites list would be much different.

 

Those films always needed a suspension of disbelief as the actors were often times older than their co-stars or with noticeable age differences. It was more accepted because it was seen as a performance just as age wasn't as big an issue with stage productiI S as well. While Cooper isn't my favorite actor,,his style and persona worked surprisingly well for a number of years. That style of acting and approach has, of course changed with time and you are seeing the film through the lens of modern day filmmaking. You need to WatchKit within the context of its time and, if you couldn't stand Cooper's style (which was all about the projected sincerity and common man approach although Jimmy Stewart was better at that IMHO) , I'm mystified why you would even watch the film or give it a chance in the first place.

Even John Wayne wasn't very good early on in his roles but it became about the persona and he improved as an actor with time. The big difference was that Cooper was la felt static but, again, he was selling his persona as a leading man and not as an actor. His style,of acting has aged the worst among leading men in films.

That, however, doesn't detract from the quality of the film.

 

When I saw Julie London's name in the opening credits, I figured I'd stay tuned and see how it went. Not that I'm the biggest fan of hers, but I do like her.

 

He's not one of my favorite actors either, but i think his performance as the troubled doctor in ''The Hanging Tree'' is superb, maybe my favorite performance and film of his.

 

Unforgiven
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

 

Indeed, his style seemed very well suited there partially because the character was so conflicted. I think that also having George C. Scott and Karl Malden forced him to raise the bar for his acting.

 

Good point, the actress Maria Schell is also very good in it, the film deserves a much higher profile i think.

 

When you have two actors who can chew scenery that well, you have to pull out the stops to not be lost in their noise. I recall that as hell does an exceptional job as well.

 

A Man Called Horse -Blu Ray.
The cinema version I seen with Richard Harris playing the English gentleman captured by the Sioux, you see him strung up in the initiation process of becoming a brave you see the hooks ripping through his flesh and he falls down. Blu Ray version he’s lowered down. Was the film cut in the US ? Definitely loosing authenticity there.

 

The Alamo (Full Version) - John Wayne
Red River (John Wayne)
High Noon (Gary Cooper)

Runners Up:
One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
Singing Guns (Vaughn Monroe)
Calamity Jane (Doris Day)
Gunfight At The OK Corral (Kirk Douglas)
Shane (Alan Ladd)

 

another 3

The Return Of Frank James
3:10 To Yuma-original
The Left Handed Gun

 

will we ever get the original theatrical version on home video?

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Tombstone
The Wild Bunch

 

Wasn't it on the 2 disc set that came out about 15 years ago? There are two versions on there.

 

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Turner preview cut)
One-Eyed Jacks
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

 

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

 

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Once Upon A Time In the west
Conagher

 

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Great Silence
Once Upon A Time in the West

 

Hmmmm.

maybe Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid / For a Few Dollars More / Once Upon a Time in The West

Notable mentions to The Wild Bunch (certainly the last 17 minutes), Jeremiah Johnson (is that a Western?) and a few others if I think hard enough.

 

there is, but I'm not sure the one I saw at the movies is on this DVD?

 

Westerns are one of my favorite genre, tough to only pick three;
The Searchers
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
High Noon

 

Pale Rider
The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter

 

APPALOOSA

JEREMIAH JOHNSON

LITTLE BIG MAN