Cowboy Movies

[Hairy Chest]

Mmm. Nothing like a good spaghetti western to put everything back in the proper perspective.  What are some of your favorites?  I liked For A Few Dollars More, Once Upon A Time in the West because they have good music and attention to detail.  Definitely worth watching.   

[RevJim]

 I agree! here is some I like:
"Any" Clint Eastwood western or civil war flick
Once Upon a Time in the West of course
The Appaloosa (Marlon Brando's funny hats are worth it!)
The Wild Bunch
The Scalp Hunters
The Great Minnesota Raid ( something like that)
Tom Horn
The Missouri Breaks
Bad Company
Most all the rest, ha.

[zookiezoom]

The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

[Dixie Dude]

All of John Waynes were good.  Also Jimmy Stewarts westerns.  I grew up watching Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. 
 
You know, all these great cowboy heroes were Republicans.  Hmm. 
 
I did also like Dances with Wolves, and The Last of the Mohicans. 

[Hairy Chest]

You know, all these great cowboy heroes were Republicans.  Hmm. 
 

Please, you make me not want to watch.      

[nw_hunter]

All of John Waynes were good.  Also Jimmy Stewarts westerns.  I grew up watching Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. 
 
You know, all these great cowboy heroes were Republicans.  Hmm. 
 
I did also like Dances with Wolves, and The Last of the Mohicans.

I'm sure some of the older Hollywood cowboy stars were Democrats.The Democrats were more conservative back in the day, than Republicans today.


Someone said they loved the music from the pasta westerns!That is one reason I can't bring myself to watch the re-runs. YUCK!
Dances With, was a great one, as well as Lonesome Dove, and Q. Down Under.


Duval &  Selleck made very few bad ones.

[Hairy Chest]

Also Jimmy Stewarts westerns.  I grew up watching Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. 
 
I did also like Dances with Wolves, and The Last of the Mohicans.

Wayne was good, but Jimmy Stewart?  Is that the one who has that clueless look on his face always?  Autry movies are just plain weird.  Too polished.  Not a speck of dirt. 

[Awf Hand]

No cowboy movie list is complete without:
"The Good the bad and the Ugly"
"The Searchers"
"True Grit" (both versions)
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
"Unforgiven"
"Magnificent Seven"
"High Noon"
"Tombstone"
"Wyatt Earp" (I prefer to Tombstone)
 
There are a few standouts amongst countless other westerns as well.  My favorites would include:
"Silverado"
"3:10 to Yuma"
"Monte Walsh"
*"Quigley Down Under"
 
Good comedic Westerns:
"Blazing Saddles"
"Rustler's Rhapsody"
*"City Slickers"
 
*While not 'Western' or 'cowboy' movie set in the wild west, still worth the viewing.
 
and a movie that is clearly NOT a western but has the same themes and sensibility:
"Gran Torino"
-anyone who's seen it will understand how it is essentially a 'Western'.

[Dixie Dude]

Jimmy Stewart made Winchester 73 (B&W).  He also was in Shanadoah, and a movie about the Yukon territory, and also The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance with John Wayne.  Jimmy also made the move about Carbine Williams who made the M1 Carbine in prison.  He was also in John Waynes last movie The Shootist. 
 
Then there was Randolph Scott with several movies. 
 
Gary Cooper in High Noon and Sargent York and a movie about a quaker family living near Gettysburg during the Civil War.     

[lakota]

I really liked Robert Duvall in Broken Trail. and Tom Selleck in Crossfire Trail and Last Stand at Saber River. I found all of these in the bargain DVD bin at China Mart. I dont think I have seen a Lois Lamour novel adapted to a movie that I would say was bad.

[gomerdog]

One of the best westerns ever made IMHO: The Outlaw Josie Wales (although not a true spaghetti western)

[gomerdog]

I really liked Robert Duvall in Broken Trail. and Tom Selleck in Crossfire Trail and Last Stand at Saber River. I found all of these in the bargain DVD bin at China Mart. I dont think I have seen a Lois Lamour novel adapted to a movie that I would say was bad.

If you liked these, you'll love The Sacketts, a mini-series with Selleck, Glenn Ford, and others with great talent.

[Conan The Librarian]

Clint Eastwood. Da Man!
 
 

[Anna]

Young Guns , it reminded me of my stupid brothers until one of them accidentally shot himself when they were all drunk one night.  Spinning around a loaded colt revolver like in the westerns, with the hammer back is not real bright idea. But I did like Doc Holiday in Tombstone .

[lakota]

I really liked Robert Duvall in Broken Trail. and Tom Selleck in Crossfire Trail and Last Stand at Saber River. I found all of these in the bargain DVD bin at China Mart. I dont think I have seen a Lois Lamour novel adapted to a movie that I would say was bad.

If you liked these, you'll love The Sacketts, a mini-series with Selleck, Glenn Ford, and others with great talent.

Saw and loved it. I might have it on DVD around here somewhere. The Sackett book series is a great read too. My favotite is The Sackett Brand. I love how Sacketts come out of the wood work in that book to help out a relative that many of them had never even met.
 
 

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[m-g Willy]

Joesy Wales has to be the best western of all time.
I'm surprised no one mentioned THE LONG RIDERS!!

[powderman]

It would be mighty hard to pick a favorite, anything with John Wayne, Tom Selleck, Robert duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Jimmy Stuart, Glen Ford, Lots of great movies. I especially like Westerns where the correct weapons for the period are used. Ticks my wife off when we are watching a flick and I casually say, hmm, that gun will be invented in another 20 years or so. POWDERMAN. 

[Sourdough]

Back when I was a kid it seems almost all the movies were westerns.  TV shows too.  Saturday consisted of Fury, Rin Tin Tin, Roy Rogers, Anne Oakley, Range Rider, Death Valley Days, Yance Derringer, Jim Bowie, and Sky King.

Then through the week we saw Sugerfoot, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, Rifleman, The Rebel, Stage Coach, Wagon Train, Rawhide, Maverick, High Chaparral, Shotgun Slade, Billy The Kid, and Wanted Dead or Alive.

My favorite actors were Kerby Grant, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Richard Boone, Camron Mitchel, Henry Darrow, Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Jock Mahoney,  Nick Adams, Loren Greene, Will Hutchins, and Clint Eastwood.

[m-g Willy]

. Ticks my wife off when we are watching a flick and I casually say, hmm, that gun will be invented in another 20 years or so. POWDERMAN. 

I got my wife counting rounds fired now,
And she can tell you that there were no SAA in the Civil War.
She even asks me sometimes if they are using the right gun .
 

[Sourdough]

I was watching a Gene Autry movie that was supposed to take place during the 1890s.  During a chase scene the Rustlers ran their horses by a 1940s model Chevy flat bed truck.  Then a few moments later here came the Posse and they went by the same truck, sitting out in the middle of a hay field.  OOps, that didn't make the cutting room floor.

I also remember a movie about Indians in Arizona, being chased to Mexico.  One scene you see the Indians riding their horses down a slope, and in the back ground is a paved highway and power lines.  Another OOps.

[Ranger99]

the cowboys
unforgiven
open range
my name is trinity
trinity is still my name
my name is nobody
boot hill
good bad ugly
barbarosa
red headed stranger

[P.A. Myers]

Windblown West Texas dirt; "No Country for Old Men".   When did the wild west end? It has'nt.


        P.A.

[powderman]

M-G WILLY. Been noticing that stuff since I was a kid. I remember a movie I think called Comanche about this Indian horse that also belonged to a soldier at the battle of the little bighorn, supposedly the horse was ther only survivor.  In 1 scene there were tire tracks in front of a tepee, a coleman lantern in a tepee, and high power lines in the distance. Love a good western. POWDERMAN. 

[Bear Rider]

Wayne was good, but Jimmy Stewart?  Is that the one who has that clueless look on his face always?

No, that's the guy who in WWII as a flight commander in the Eighth Air Force had to do what John Wayne always prattled about  -- Look somebody in the eye and tell them, "Go get killed".

[sidewinder319]

Back in the day, Hopalong Cassidy, Wild Bill Elliott, Sunset Carson, Durango Kid, Whip Wilson, Lash Larue. And there was Red Ryder and Lil Beaver the name sake of the famous Dasiy BB gun that ever kid just had to have.

[kennyd]

The ranger, cook, and hole in the sky;  about early forest rangers with Sam Elliott
The proposition:  about early Australian bandits and the man catching them.
The 3 burials of Melquiades Estrada:  Tommy Lee kidnapping a rogue Border agent and making him help take the body back to Mexico.
maddog Morgan:  Australian bandit with Dennis Hopper

[tobster]

Goin' South is one you need to watch a couple times to catch all the subtle jokes and sarcasm. Missouri Breaks was pretty good too. Both starred Jack Nicholson as well as some other recognizable names.

[powderman]

Missouri breaks was definitely a good one. POWDERMAN.