Whatz Yer Fav. Western Movie and Why?

[ConHog]

Choosing a favorite Western is like choosing a favorite child or sibling.

As for me: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. Though I could put just about any of Eastwood's westerns for this.

Once Upon A Time in the West, The Wild Bunch, True Grit, and so many of Wayne's movies.

I also have to mention The Magnificent Seven, though based off originally of a Japanese film about Samurais. It does have one of the best movie themes of all time:

YouTube - Magnificent Seven Theme

Who doesn't want to kick some ass while listening to this?

That was a good one

This one was good to

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfRrEUz62Lw]YouTube - the quick and the dead trailer[/ame]

 

[Oddball]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwiScdPiRW4]YouTube - Trinity is still my name - poker scene[/ame]

 

[JW Frogen]

There are some pearls in this thread.

Great one.

I would rep you all but I am a drunken lazy bastard too tired to shoot.

I would screw you too, but I don't have any money.

Let's just play poker?

 

[hjmick]

The Frisco Kid

Quigley Down Under

 

[JW Frogen]

Eeeeeeeeeeeep

 

[Ringel05]

Blazing Saddles and Support Your Local Sheriff.

 

[B. Kidd]

Jesus, if not for Hayseed in the 'intro area', almost forgot another one, 'Tom Horn'. In my top 5 if I got five left.......

 

[hjmick]

Jesus, if not for Hayseed in the 'intro area', almost forgot another one, 'Tom Horn'. In my top 5 if I got five left.......

Very good movie.

 

[pans trogladyta]

Non-western movie fans need not apply.

Mine is Sam Peckinpah's old film, THE WILD BUNCH.

It was not only ahead of its' time for the few glimpses of 'mamacita hispanic tits', but the plot was full of scurrolous(not really a word?) characters with great actors.

The movie made me think what it might have been like for the founding fathers of our country. Put into a position that they did not really want to be in, outnumbered, facing certain death, and they did their best.

I'd say it's a toss-up between "High Noon", great soundtrack, great acting, great story and "Fistful of dollars". I mean, what can you say to the line; "My mistake, four coffins".

 

[pans trogladyta]

Blazing Saddles and Support Your Local Sheriff.

Two great comedy westerns. Tell me did you ever see one called "Evil Roy Slade"? It starred John Astin.

 

[B. Kidd]

Thanx 'Dude', for not bringing back up to me 'Once Upon A Time in the West'.
Sincerely, you are a real gentleman.

 

[pans trogladyta]

I just thought of a great one, "Evil Roy Slade" with John Astin.

"If you have 10 apples and your neighbor takes 4, how many apples do you have?"

"All 10 apples and a dead neighbor."

I have one thing to say to that quote....."AMBUSH!"

 

[Jack Fate]

"Day of the Outlaw".

Blaise Starrett:The trail ends in this town. There's no place to go but back.
Jack Bruhn:The trail back is closed.

 

[Againsheila]

Blazing Saddles and Support Your Local Sheriff.

Two great comedy westerns. Tell me did you ever see one called "Evil Roy Slade"? It starred John Astin.

I did, brought that one up earlier. One of my favs.

 

[B. Kidd]

Jesus, if not for Hayseed in the 'intro area', almost forgot another one, 'Tom Horn'. In my top 5 if I got five left.......

Very good movie.

Sidebar: I found a Tom Horn website, being a true story, that determined he used a Winchester 1876 rifle in .45-60. Must've been brutal.

 

[B. Kidd]

Quote for Judge Roy Bean fans: "The last time that bear ate a lawyer, he had the runs for 33 days."

And then there was the somewhat recent western 'Seraphim Falls'......."Son, ...nobody can protect nobody in this world. The sooner you realize that, the better." Movie directed by an Irishman that never did a western before. A helluva alot of our western tourists are Europeans that are enamored by the 'old west'. Maybe something attracts them to it from their confines of socialism?

Finally, a quote worth mentioning is Eli Wallach, in 'The Magnificent Seven': "If God didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep."

 

[Toro]

Unforgiven.

 

[JW Frogen]

Great movie with one of the best scenes ever:

Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.

Will Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

 

[peach174]

I love Cat Ballou. Great western comedy. Not much of a fan of Jane Fonda but I love Lee Marvin. I liked all of his movies.