Any of these westerners worth watching

[Synthaholic]

Seriously? You like the latter one with Bridges over the one with John Wayne, Glenn Campbell and Kim Darby?

The original Grit stands as my favorite single western of all time with Open Range my second. Interesting that the great Robert Duvall was in BOTH of them!

Definitely the remake. Hailee Steinfeld is phenomenal. Bridges and Damon are much better than Marion and Campbell.

 

[Synthaholic]

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

Dean Martin was good in that - and he should have sung.

He was also good with Marion in The Sons of Katie Elder.

 

[22lcidw]

Errol Flynn had a few westerns. One of them Dodge City.

 

[Flash]

Seriously? You like the latter one with Bridges over the one with John Wayne, Glenn Campbell and Kim Darby?

The original Grit stands as my favorite single western of all time with Open Range my second. Interesting that the great Robert Duvall was in BOTH of them!

I agree with 1srelluc. The second one was far superior to the John Wayne version. Better script, better acting and a much better cast.

 

[toobfreak]

I agree with 1srelluc. The second one was far superior to the John Wayne version. Better script, better acting and a much better cast.

Maybe it is just me and my love for the original movie but I was very disappointed in all of those things. I found the acting and characters in the remake flat and 2-dimensional.

 

[hjmick]

Seriously? You like the latter one with Bridges over the one with John Wayne, Glenn Campbell and Kim Darby?

The original Grit stands as my favorite single western of all time with Open Range my second. Interesting that the great Robert Duvall was in BOTH of them!

I preferred the book...

 

[toobfreak]

I preferred the book...

Books are usually better because you are limited only by your imagination.

 

[Flash]

Maybe it is just me and my love for the original movie but I was very disappointed in all of those things. I found the acting and characters in the remake flat and 2-dimensional.

That is what I would say about the first one.

Wayne was not a very good actor. Just about the only good acting he ever did was in The Man That Shot Liberty Valance".

 

[whitehall]

Hondo is very good, but a little slow. You are correct about Rio Bravo and El Dorado though. I still prefer El Dorado because of the Mississippi character, but a young Angie Dickinson is quite pleasing to the eye!

The Mississippi character in el Dorado is none other but teen idol Rickey Nelson but my favorite is good old Walter Brennon as the jail keeper. You could swop Drunken Dean Martin for drunken Bob Mitch and it wouldn't make any difference.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The Mississippi character in el Dorado is none other but teen idol Rickey Nelson but my favorite is good old Walter Brennon as the jail keeper. You could swop Drunken Dean Martin for drunken Bob Mitch and it wouldn't make any difference.

Stumpy was great.

 

[Synthaholic]

It's one of the better remakes ever.

Keep your seat trash

Coen Brothers always deliver.

 

[whitehall]

Stumpy was great.

That's right. The El Dorado Brennan character was a Civil War Vet with a wooden leg and the Rio Lobo jail keeper was a Civil War confederate who blew the bugle. Martin and Mich were still drunks and young Jimmy Caan was a knife expert who couldn't handle a revolver.

 

[westwall]

The Mississippi character in el Dorado is none other but teen idol Rickey Nelson but my favorite is good old Walter Brennon as the jail keeper. You could swop Drunken Dean Martin for drunken Bob Mitch and it wouldn't make any difference.

Nope. James Caan played Mississippi.

Nelson was in Rio Bravo.