Any of these westerners worth watching

[Quasar44]

Agreed. Josey Wales is top 5 movies ever made, genre doesn't matter.

What about High drifter

 

[westwall]

What about High drifter

Good movie, has some great scenes, but Josey Wales is at least an order of magnitude greater. There is not a wasted minute in the film.

 

[toobfreak]

Glenn Campbell couldn't act his way out of a paper sack....Darby wasn't much better.....

I rather liked their acting in that movie, both came off as very natural and unforced, but they do say the remake WAS closer to the book.

 

[Oddball]

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Ballad of Buster Scruggs.....Just for shits and giggles.

Stephen Root is SO underrated!

And who doesn't love the Coen Brothers?

 

[fncceo]

I would suggest, in order of my preference ....

"Rio Bravo" - both Wayne and Howard Hawks doing some of their best work together. Of course, Ricky Nelson just HAD to sing.

"Winchester 73" - a really good Stewart vehicle where he tracks down the bad-guy

"Shenandoah" - another superlative Stewart Western

"Fort Apache" - Wayne, Fonda, and SHIRLEY freakin' TEMPLE as a pretty hot grown-up

"3:10 to Yuma" - The 1957 original with Glenn Ford

"Blazing Saddles" - The BEST comedy / satire of the genre

"Rustler's Rhapsody" - a well done send up of "singing cowboy" B-Westerns

"Tears of the Black Tiger - A pretty good Thai Western... an outside look on a particularly American genre.

 

[Oddball]

Dying ain't much of a living, boy.

 

[westwall]

I would suggest, in order of my preference ....

"Rio Bravo" - both Wayne and Howard Hawks doing some of their best work together. Of course, Ricky Nelson just HAD to sing.

"Winchester 73" - a really good Stewart vehicle where he tracks down the bad-guy

"Shenandoah" - another superlative Stewart Western

"Fort Apache" - Wayne, Fonda, and SHIRLEY freakin' TEMPLE as a pretty hot grown-up

"3:10 to Yuma" - The 1957 original with Glenn Ford

"Blazing Saddles" - The BEST comedy / satire of the genre

"Rustler's Rhapsody" - a well done send up of "singing cowboy" B-Westerns

"Tears of the Black Tiger - A pretty good Thai Western... an outside look on a particularly American genre.

Hmmm, if you want an Asian viewpont then you have to go with Red Sun with Bronson and Mifune. Another unsung movie.

 

[The Duke]

Fort Apache

They had to have Ricky Nelson sing.

 

[Hossfly]

.I forgot about The Ox Bow Incident. I was going to watch a revival of the movie and my dad suggested I read the book first. Like most movies, the book was much better. But the movie was great. For example, if you read the book, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, you will be disappointed in the movie.

 

[White 6]

They had to have Ricky Nelson sing.

For a western farce, try El Diablo with Lou Gosset Jr and Anthony Edwards

 

[The Duke]

.I forgot about The Ox Bow Incident. I was going to watch a revival of the movie and my dad suggested I read the book first. Like most movies, the book was much better. But the movie was great. For example, if you read the book, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, you will be disappointed in the movie.

I'd say don't even watch the movie. Tbh, very few movies live up to the books.

The Hobbit is the only one I can think of that does off the top of my head.

As for "The Life and Times of Roy Bean", they left large chunks of things out.

I wish there were more Roy Beans around today.

 

[petro]

Gotta give this one a mention

 

[braalian]

You can just say “western”.

The HBO series Deadwood is the best Western ever.

 

[petro]

Sci Fi Western?

It felt western and Yul Brenner kind of freaked me out as a kid playing the first Terminator.

 

[luiza]

Any of these westerners worth watching​

Your list is good though Pale Rider is not quite that class, and it is , The Searchers ( classic ) , not Searches.
You should add :-
My Darling Clementine,
The Wild Bunch
High Noon
Stagecoach
True Grit
Red River
Possibly ,Shane, plus the Sergio Leone films .
imho but generally all great fims that have stood the test of time .

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Ever watch Open Range with Costner and Duvall? Excellent western, with the most realistic gunfight sequence near the end I ever saw. Turn the volume up.

Another great western is the original True Grit with Wayne and Darby.

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"Tombstone" -- the version with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. "I'm your huckleberry".

Anything with Duvall in it. I can watch "Lonesome Dove" a million times.

.

 

[gtopa1]

I was about to say "High Noon"....but Iuiza beat me to it.

But with Westerns I have to just say "whatever dad let us watch as kids" while he watched them. It was a real story time.

Greg

 

[hjmick]

Sci Fi Western?
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It felt western and Yul Brenner kind of freaked me out as a kid playing the first Terminator.

Written and directed by Michael Crichton.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider