Greatest westerns ever made? Pick your top five.

[Bone Dog]

I'm with @f1f1ferrari :

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales

"Endeavor to persevere" -- words to live by.

 

[Futbol]

Somewhat surprised --though not really due to the year-- that nobody dropped Dodge City. This film has everything including the saloon scene that Blazing based theirs on. Great cast in their prime. It ends with a gunfight on a burning train car. Young E.Flynn and O.dehavilland

1. OUATITW - what a sound track
2.Shane
3.High Noon
4.Gunfight at Ok Corral
5.Dodge City
#I love Red River but the ending was awful and while it didn't ruin the film, major flaw in the script that hurt it.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

clint eastwood
james stewart
james garner
clark gable
henry fonda.

if its a 'western,' and one of these guys has a big role in it, i'd watch it.
and brad pitt. always. legends of the fall, a river runs thru it? that's old timey Montana, which is in the west, which makes them westerns, to me.

 

[Alibi Ike]

One of my all time favs - Broken Arrow with Jimmy Stewart, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget.

Check out Debra Paget's SNAKE DANCE scene.

 

[Alibi Ike]

The Searchers
Shane
The Ox-Bow Incident
High Noon
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

 

[Bone Dog]

Ok, fine. To my list of #1-5 The Outlaw Josey Wales, I'll add #6-10: Destry Rides Again.

 

[hoophuskee]

If I saw the movie and then went back to read the book, I consider that " special"
so.... 1. Shane (I read it 3 times), 2. True Grit.... a spunky little kid... try reading the BOOK to get
an extra picture of this unique girl!
3. Lonesome Dove. so realistic, maybe Larry McMurtry at his best (I met him in Tuscon!)
Not read, but enjoyed: High Noon, and Treasure of Sierra Madre. I must add a #6
Butch Cassidy etc

Ohh crap- I forgot Lonesome Dove. Wow - what a Western.

 

[ballhawk]

I would add two by Sam Peckinpah- McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Ride The High Country.

 

[Stymie]

I'm with @f1f1ferrari :

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales

"Endeavor to persevere" -- words to live by.

With a cameo by “Uncle Leo”

 

[Shenandoah]

Why not Shenandoah?

Shenandoah (1965)

James Stewart, Glenn Corbett, Rosemary Forsyth, Doug McClure, and Patrick Wayne in Shenandoah (1965)

www.imdb.com

Lol! Believe it or not, I don't think that I've ever seen that one!

 

[Ricker]

Just adding to the many good picks;
The Tall Men - Gable/RbtRyan/Jane Russell
Dodge City - Flynn
San Antonio - Flynn
Wyatt Earp - Costner
They Died With Their Boots On - Flynn
Western Union - McCrea

 

[Bone Dog]

Why is Destry Rides Again the best of all, you ask [I realize no one asked] — reason #127: Marlene Dietrich cast as a saloon singer named Frenchie.

 

[cohenzone]

Not a great western, but the first 3D movie i ever saw. The Charge ar Feather River. Arrows flying into the seats. I was a little kid.

Loved Cat Ballou “i’m drunk as a skun
Once Upon A Time in the West
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
The Frisco Kid
Blazing Saddles
True Grit.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

[Scud49]

oops- wrong thread

 

[jimflutes]

Hombre - Paul Newman .

 

[jonson]

Once Upon a Time in the West
Hombre
Unforgiven
High Noon
No Country for Old Men

 

[Ozimoto]

And on the lighter side of things there is "Support Your Local Sheriff" and "Support Your Local Gunfighter."

 

[hoophuskee]

Why is Destry Rides Again the best of all, you ask [I realize no one asked] — reason #127: Marlene Dietrich cast as a saloon singer named Frenchie.

Another one I forgot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[f1f1ferrari]

I'm with @f1f1ferrari :

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales

"Endeavor to persevere" -- words to live by.

"All I have is this piece of hard rock candy. But it's not fer eatin', it's just fer lookin' through."

Chief Dan George had so many great lines in that film.

 

[Jackcatscal]

Outlaw Josie Wales is one of my all-time favorite films…part of it was filmed in Angel Canyon, Utah, the site of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. It’s a gorgeous spot. My late wife and I visited a number of years ago.

A fascinating fact is that clocks appear continually in High Noon, which adds suspense. And the timing of the film tracks the times you see on the clocks. That’s pretty amazing.

Finally, how about Little Big Man, with Dustin Hoffman? (And I just read that Chief Dan George was in that film—as well as Josie Wells!)

 

[SJF]

The Shakiest Gun in the West.

 

[CL82]

 

[Bama fan]

Unforgiven, True Grit, The Searchers, Shane, The Wild Bunch.

 

[Conndog]

Just watched last night "The Sons of Katie Elder"- it was very good, held my interest throughout, seemed different than other westerns that I have watched. Had Dennis Hopper in it which was a surprise.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

One of my all time favs - Broken Arrow with Jimmy Stewart, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget.

Debra Paget starred in another western, “Love Me Tender”, also starred of course Elvis Presley, along with Richard Egan, Neville Brand, and William Campbell.