Your Top 3 westerns of all time?

Richard Farnsworth in the Grey Fox. I only saw this once many years ago, I'd love to see it again. An old stagecoach robber who when he got out of prison couldn't go straight. Based on the story of Bill Miner.

 

As good as so many of these Westerns are, and so many are classics to the nth degree, I'll still have to go with the most historically accurate:

Open Range

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

True Grit (2010)

They are just making them more realistic these days if the care is taken.

 

The Fastest Gun Alive
Ride Beyond Vengeance
Tombstone: I'll be your huckleberry...

 

I agree with most of the films already mentioned. Here's three I also enjoy.

• Nevada Smith
• The Big Country
• Paint Your Wagon

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So many but you asked for only 3.
Searchers
Red River
Open Range

 

I can't believe only one person has mentioned my favorite Western:

Hombre (1966)

 

Not a movie per se but Lonesome Dove is a fav of mine!

 

I also love Hang 'Em High for a fourth one.

 

Another one I should have had on my list - along with Broken Arrow and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here and The Gunfighter and...

 

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
The Wild Bunch
Culpepper Cattle Co.

 

The Big country is beautiful. Filmed around Stockton, CA iirc. Good story and great actors. Stellar western right there!

 

1958
Gregory Peck
Charlton Heston
Burl Ives
Chuck Conners


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The Good, Bad, Ugly
Rio Bravo
Shane

 

The Searchers
Lonesome Dove (Robert duvalls best role)
Little big man

 

Another vote for:

Shane

 

Hondo. #1 in my book. Wayne as recalcitrant father figure.
Red River. That's Montgomery Clift, honey. Nice to see Red River getting lots of mentions.
The Outlaw Josey Wales. "Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes." Eastwood in the midst of his Dirty Harry fame.

I'll note that the recent flick, Hell or High Water, which takes place in West Central Texas and has Jeff Bridges as a Texas Ranger, is a quality neo-western/bank robbery picture worth checking out. Even though it hints at social commentary with it boom/bust economic background, it is a Western at heart.

 

The Grey Fox
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Black Robe

Plus some old classics:

Once Upon A Time In The West
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
High Plains Drifter

 

High Noon
The Magnificent Seven
Dances With Wolves

 

I'll throw out three not mentioned:
When the Legends Die
Rancho Deluxe
Quigley Down Under

For ones I can watch over and over:
Ride the High Country
The Big Country
Open Range

 

Not necessarily my absolute favorite, but also not mentioned here yet (I think):

The Gunfighter

 

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My Darling Clementine
The Searchers
The Good Bad and The Ugly

 

A thinking man's western, i swear my IQ goes up a couple of notches every time i watch it.

 

I'm assuming you mean the one starring Gregory Peck, yes it's a GOOD one.

There's an earlier Gregory Peck western that i think is even better.