Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid for me...

And yours?


ATB

Paul

Easy:
A fistful of dollars
The good, the bad, the ugly
Once upon a time in the west
The wild bunch
The magnificent seven
Hud
The man who shoot Liberty Valance

and the tv film Centennial from a book by James Michener (Alaska, Texas, Chesapeake etc..)

The Searchers;
The Outlaw Josey Wells;
True Grit;
Rio Bravo;
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly;
The Magnificent Seven.

M

Shane

All the Clint Eastwood ones.

Also a couple of Django ones i have seen. The one where he carries a coffin around for the whole movie and then produces a huge machine gun from it (a gatling gun perhaps?). Completly daft but that suits me fine

Unforgiven.

High Plains Drifter

Shane & Unforgiven - great films.

The Big Country.

Blazing Saddles

I forgot "Dead man" which is not a western in the classic way but very charming (Neil Young guitar soundtrack).

Carry On Cowboy and Paleface - not too keen on westerns if truth be known.

The good, the bad and the Ugly
The Outlaw Jose Wales...

Having grown up on westerns - my father liked a lot of them - I too grew a taste for the Western ... of the American kind. I've enjoyed a few of the continental kind and find that I like C'Era Una Volta Il West (Once Upon A Time In The West) more each time I watch. I acknowledge that Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad And The Ugly) is a good movie but I'm still in two minds as to its enjoyability.

I think Dances With Wolves (extended version) is one of best movies ever made but, nit picking, don't class it as a western (it is a drama set during western times).

Of the traditional western then I particularly like:

Rio Bravo
... and to a lesser extent its remake: El Dorado
The Man From Laramie
The Far Country
and for good laugh (i.e. a comedy set during western times): Support Your Local Sheriff!

But the winner, by a mile, is:
The Magnificent Seven

By far for me - It has to be the lonesome dove.

The anti-Mcarthy witch hunt 'High Noon'.

My favorite westerns are :

Pale rider : realisateur Clint Eastwood

Impitoyable or Unforgiven : realisateur Clint Eastwood

Il etait une fois dans l'ouest or Once upon a time in the west : realisateur Sergio Leone

All the John Wayne Calvary films and Magnificent Seven.

. . . . "get up you scum sucking pig!"

All time favorite delivered line in a western by
Marlon Brando. Also starring Carl Malden in "One eyed Jacks" - classic movie!

Also, "3:10 to Yuma", the new version is very good.

The Shootist. John Wayne's last film. Very dark

Oh come on! The best Western of all time is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

I would go one stage further and state for me, it's probably the greatest film ever made.

quote:

Originally posted by count.d:
.... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
.... greatest film ever made.

PLEASE, surely you mean Cat Ballou!

M

"The Longriders" inspired use of real life brothers for the main characters, fantastic slo-mo scenes and a sense of gritty realism.

Jono

Very much enjoyed the new Jesse James - very good performance from Casey Affleck

Otherwise, Jimmy Stewart's collaborations with Anthony Mann and the Duke in most of his work with John Ford plus Rio Bravo. The Peckinpah westerns from Randolph Scott through to the Wild Bunch.

Less well known, Lee Marvin in Monte Walsh

Four Feather Falls.

"Broken Arrow" Filmed around Sedona where we went on holiday last month. An excellent film, which portayed the Apache in a good light, rather than as savages. A James Stewart classic.

Not a favourite, but certainly a harrowing film: Soldier Blue.

I quite enjoyed Dances with Wolves, and a definite favourite of mine is Little Big Man.

Rob