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Sonny44 said:
You guys like all these because you are too young to remember Hopalong Cassidy!Head bang

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Now you are talking! After all of those large scale movies with the big time actors, Hoppy, Lucky and Windy and then California, were among my favorites. In addition, Gene Autry and champion, and Roy Rogers and Trigger movies were both my Saturday Matinee and eventually TV favorites. Man that goes back a long way to 1946 and up. Now I have fun watching old Hoppy movies of the 1930's. Any one see John Wayne play "Singing Sandy"?
 
Unforgiven (favorite lines)

Saul Rubinek: You killed 5 men, single-handed. Who did you kill first?
Clint: I was lucky in the order. But I've always been lucky when it comes to killin' folks.

 
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The Unforgiven (1960). Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn. Audie Murphy stars as the little brother. A complicated film about prejudice against Indians.

For those who like war movies, see Audie Murphy as himself in 'To Hell and Back' (1955).
 
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Here are a bunch of my favorite Westerns. I'm not putting them in a ranking, but I will organize them by directors.

John Ford

Stagecoach
My Darling Clementine
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
The Searchers

Howard Hawks

Red River
Rio Bravo
El Dorado

Sergio Leone

Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Others

The Westerner (Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan)
The Ox Bow Incident
High Noon
3:10 to Yuma (1957 version)
The Magnificent Seven

My wife would toss in Tin Star, with Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, and Two Mules for Sister Sara. Both are very good.
 
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Kaizen said:
Definitely the one with Yul and Steve.
This move creates 7 super stars:
The Seven
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K, has in other western had a cast as good as this. Maybe stagecoach, not too many others. My favorite scene was Coburn doing the knife-gun duel. Incidently, James Coburn's father was that great character actor Charles Coburn.
 
Steelerone said:
K, has in other western had a cast as good as this. Maybe stagecoach, not too many others. My favorite scene was Coburn doing the knife-gun duel. Incidently, James Coburn's father was that great character actor Charles Coburn.
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Agree 100%. This move makes Yul, Steve McQ, Charles Bronson, James Coburn ...and so many big stars. A legend movie.

I was also a big fan of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E by Robert Vaughn.
 
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Sorry, I won't watch John Wayne movies. Another of my favorites was "Geronimo" where a young Matt Damon played ( I believe ) a reporter from the East. I watched Johnny Mack Brown, Lash LaRue, and The Durango Kid. Loved Lash LaRue and that black suit and whip.
 
Stagecoach
Fort Apache
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
The Searchers
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Shootist
Hombre
Shane
3:10 to Yuma (original)
Last Train From Gun Hill
Fastest Gun Alive
True Grit (original)
Cowboys
Dances With Wolves
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
The Lefthanded Gun
Magnificent 7 (original)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Little Big Man
Cheyenne Autumn
How The West Was Won
 
Steelerone said:
Incidently, James Coburn's father was that great character actor Charles Coburn.
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That is the first I have heard of that. I don't believe that is true. I checked wikipedia, and they don't have that info.
 
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Kaizen said:
Agree 100%. This move makes Yul, Steve McQ, Charles Bronson, James Coburn ...and so many big stars. A legend movie.

I was also a big fan of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E by Robert Vaughn.
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The Magnificent Seven is famous for its cast of rising actors who became well known stars. Of the bunch of actors in that film, Yul Brynner was the only one of them who was a firmly established star before that film, having appeared in such film productions as The Ten Commandments and The King and I.

By the way, my wife is always commenting on Eli Wallach as the bandit leader in this film, she just loves it. We always get a chuckle from the idea that the bandit leader just cannot come to grips with Yul Brynner's motivation to continue defending the village. As far as film roles go, this Eli Wallach performance in this film is a nice companion piece to his role as Tuco in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
 
Centerstream said:
And who could forget Roy and Dale?
Or The Rifleman? Bonanza? Gunsmoke?


Obviously these go against the OP in that they are not movies but when I was growing up, even though I was aware of the 2 movie theaters in the big city, we never had the opportunity to go there. But we did have cable TV.
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Don't forget -
Have Gun Will Travel
Maverick
Wanted, Dead or Alive
Cheyenne
Lawman
The Rebel
The Lone Ranger
The Virginian
Wagon Train
Bat Masterson.
 
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Steelerone said:
Kaizen, I would watch the entire movie over ten times just to see the final fifteen minutes.
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This trailer so understates how good that movie actually is.
 
Aluminny69 said:
Not only was a British Invasion group of the sixties named after this movie, but after watching this movie, Buddy Holly wrote the 50s rock hit That'll be the Day.
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Thanks for this interesting rock and toll trivia. I picked up some other trivia from this thread. Watching the High Noon clip I recognized the name Sheb Wooley in the cast. This is the same Sheb Wooley who had the big hit Purple People Eater in 1958. Then last night I watched Hoosiers (which someone on the BY mentioned was on) and there’s Sheb playing the high school principal who hires Coach Norman Dale. Isn’t it amazing all the useful stuff you can learn just by hanging around the Boneyard !
 
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