I tend to classify westerns based on style and context. Once Upon a Time in the West is the best Western you'll probably ever see. I love that the fact that it's melodramatic and yet doesn't come off as being sappy. A film that stays with you primarily because of the images it puts on the screen: three gunslingers at station, a train in the middle of the desert, two people in gun fight. Its interesting that little of this film is dialogue, because youre always caught up in the anticipation that something great will happen. Not an anti-western but transcends the typical western in way that makes it totally unique just like McCabe & Ms. Miller. This is the 2001 of westerns.
Westerns
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Mac
Westerns, why didn't nobody tell me you were talk'n 'bout westerns?
Here's my top 10: (like it matters, and not in order)
Ballad Of Cable Hogue ( a sweet, lyrical Peckinpah film, unlike that nasty Wild Bunch, which is also fantastic) Great performances by Jason Robards and Stella Stevens (Ooooh La La!)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (The Duke and James Stewart at their best!)
Red River
Stage Coach (not the remakes)
Rio Bravo (Dean Martin at his best!)
Shane (How could you not have mentioned this classic?)
Cat Ballou (Ya gotta love Lee Marvin, or at least his horse!)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Bite the Bullet
Tombstone (Kilmer's performance is one that all previous and future portrayals of Doc Holiday shall be measured against) I feel bad for Dennis Quaid, he did a great job!
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eyegirl
i remember watching lonesome dove with my dad and bawling my eyes out at the end. great movie!! we also used to watch.....
the good, the bad, and the ugly
sons of katie elder
the cowboys
pale rider
outlaw josie wales
any old clint eastwood westerns
also memories of rushing home from field service saturday mornings and watching westerns all afternoon. the rifleman, big valley, bonanza, wild wild west, alias smith & jones, have gun--will travel, gunsmoke.
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Mac
Thanks for reminding me about The Sons of Katie Elder., I love that film. Did yoy know that Katie elder (Big Nose Kate) was the same Kate that Doc Holiday carried on a commonlaw marriage with?