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Post by towncaller on Jan 27, 2020 19:03:16 GMT
My 5 favorites, not in order and without repeats of leading men, are: 1. Shane - Never get tired of watching it over and over...
2. The Shootist - Really John Wayne's best performance IMO, but he'd already gotten the Oscar for True Grit.
3. The Guns of Fort Petticoat - Had to have at least one Audie Murphy movie, and this one is really fun.
4. Ride the High Country - Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea and Director Sam Peckinpah, you can't go wrong!
5. Borderland - Wm Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy plays an outlaw as he goes undercover, and his common nemesis Stephen Morris plays a mentally disabled person who is really the leader of the area's criminal gang. A real departure for both actors and they do it up well.
What are your favorites?
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 27, 2020 19:17:49 GMT
All of yours are fine pictures. If I could choose 20 or 25 favorites at least four of your five choice would be on it.
Here are 5 I can watch over and over. They are in chronological order.
Zorro’s Fighting Legion / William Witney and John English (1939) (12-chapter serial)
My Darling Clementine / John Ford (1946)
Red River / Howard Hawkes (1948)
The Gunfighter / Henry King (1950)
High Noon / Fred Zinneman (1952)
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 27, 2020 19:55:54 GMT
Shane
True Grit (2010)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Fort Apache
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jan 27, 2020 20:27:58 GMT
Johnny Guitar
The Shooting
The Searchers
Man of the West
Once Upon A Time in the West
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 27, 2020 20:30:41 GMT
Adding some other titles and performers:
Stagecoach (Wayne)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Fonda)
Union Pacific (McCrea)
Winchester '73 (Stewart)
The Bravados (Peck)
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Post by millar70 on Jan 27, 2020 21:42:10 GMT
So very difficult to pick 5 favorite Westerns, I love the genre so much.
I do like the OP's idea of using a different leading man, so with that in mind....
Once Upon a Time In the West
The Searchers
Unforgiven
Ride the High Country
Shane
A couple of modern Westerns that get honorable mention from me are Open Range and especially The Assassination of Jesse James.....
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Post by llanwydd on Jan 27, 2020 21:47:59 GMT
Western is not one of my favorite film genres. In fact, I could probably count the ones I like on one hand. So, in descending order...
01. The Virginian (1929)
02. The Big Country
03. For a Few Dollars More
04. High Noon
05. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 27, 2020 21:56:59 GMT
Zorro’s Fighting Legion / William Witney and John English (1939) (12-chapter serial) Ha
I think that was a HUGE influence on Batman and Robin especially Robin.
The Valley of Gwangi is No. 1 for me.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 27, 2020 22:14:24 GMT
Zorro’s Fighting Legion / William Witney and John English (1939) (12-chapter serial) Ha I think that was a HUGE influence on Batman and Robin especially Robin.
The Valley of Gwangi is No. 1 for me.
Also Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Chapter 8 start elaborates on a stunt used in Stagecoach. The horse/truck chase and fight in Raiders reproduces the Zorro version of that stunt.
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Post by llanwydd on Jan 27, 2020 22:23:28 GMT
If I had thought of the Zorro films as westerns I might have included The Mark of Zorro (1920) with Douglas Fairbanks. Quite a nail-biter.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jan 27, 2020 22:49:00 GMT
JOHNNY GUITAR RED RIVER OX BOW INCIDENT THE BIG COUNTRY DUEL IN THE SUN
although I might include HUD and/or THE MISFITS if "modern day" westerns are allowed
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Post by politicidal on Jan 28, 2020 0:37:50 GMT
True Grit (2010)
The Searchers (1956)
How the West Was Won (1963)
One Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
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Post by london777 on Jan 28, 2020 4:32:44 GMT
Western is not one of my favorite film genres. In fact, I could probably count the ones I like on one hand. So, in descending order... 01. The Virginian (1929) 02. The Big Country 03. For a Few Dollars More 04. High Noon 05. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Western is not one of my favorite film genres. In fact, I could probably count the ones I like on one hand. So, in descending order... (Is there a echo in here?) 01. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968) Sergio Leone 02. True Grit (2010) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen 03. The Searchers (1956) John Ford 04. Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray 05. Dead Man (1995) Jim Jarmusch Only the first two listed would make my top 250 movies. I do like a few more: 3:10 to Yuma (2007) James Mangold The Proposition (2005) John Hillcoat (An Australian "western", if that counts) White Sun of the Desert (1970) Vladimir Motyl (A Russian "spaghetti eastern", if that counts) The Sisters Brothers (2018) Jacques Audiard The Homesman (2014) Tommy Lee Jones Rancho Notorious (1952) Fritz Lang
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 28, 2020 5:00:12 GMT
Ride the High Country (1962)
Red River (1948)
The Searchers (1956)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Hombre (1967)
gotta do 5 more
Shane (1953)
Major Dundee (1965)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Fort Apache (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 28, 2020 19:15:12 GMT
1. The Searchers 2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 3. The man Who Shot Liberty Valance 4. Unforgiven 5. True Grit (2010)
If I had to do the "no repeat, leading man" rule, Liberty Valance goes for The Wild Bunch and Ride the High Country for Unforgiven. Nice to see the love for Ride the High Country, somewhat surprised that I was the first mention of TGTBATU
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Post by london777 on Jan 28, 2020 23:16:43 GMT
Interesting that all four posters who nominated True Grit preferred the 2010 version to the 1959 version.
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Post by towncaller on Jan 28, 2020 23:23:42 GMT
Interesting that all four posters who nominated True Grit preferred the 2010 version to the 1959 version. Yeah, I would not favor the remake myself. Kim Darby is just so much better in the original.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 29, 2020 1:47:17 GMT
Interesting that all four posters who nominated True Grit preferred the 2010 version to the 1959 version. Yeah, I would not favor the remake myself. Kim Darby is just so much better in the original. I'm glad you brought this up because the 2010 Grit is very close to being a shot-for-shot remake of the Henry Hathaway directed 1969 film. The Jeff Bridges one could not have existed unless the older film had come first. But, well, the Coen Bros directed the new one so they get a lot of leeway no matter what might be said if another director were at the helm - sort of like Martin Scorsese.
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Post by london777 on Jan 29, 2020 2:04:22 GMT
I'm glad you brought this up because the 2010 Grit is very close to being a shot-for-shot remake of the Henry Hathaway directed 1969 film. The Jeff Bridges one could not have existed unless the older film had come first. But, well, the Coen Bros directed the new one so they get a lot of leeway no matter what might be said if another director were at the helm - sort of like Martin Scorsese. Unlike 3:10 to Yuma (2007), which is very different from the earlier movie but also improves on it (IMHO). How about the recent The Magnificent Seven (2016)? Does that depart from, or follow closely, the earlier movie (1960)? I do not follow Hollywood politics or movie gossip, so why do you say that The Coen Bros enjoy a lot of leeway?
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 29, 2020 2:19:56 GMT
I'm glad you brought this up because the 2010 Grit is very close to being a shot-for-shot remake of the Henry Hathaway directed 1969 film. The Jeff Bridges one could not have existed unless the older film had come first. But, well, the Coen Bros directed the new one so they get a lot of leeway no matter what might be said if another director were at the helm - sort of like Martin Scorsese. Unlike 3:10 to Yuma (2007), which is very different from the earlier movie but also improves on it (IMHO). How about the recent The Magnificent Seven (2016)? Does that depart from, or follow closely, the earlier movie (1960)? I do not follow Hollywood politics or movie gossip, so why do you say that The Coen Bros enjoy a lot of leeway? The new 3:10, whose story is vaguely similar to the older film, the '07 is just a modern action movie full of the same kind of tropes as many others of its kind but with a western setting. Very annoying. The '16 Magnificent Seven also had superficial resemblances to its namesake. the Yul Brynner, but really didn't need to be called "The Magnificent Seven" at all. Like 3:10 a modern action nerve jangler with horses. Actually, I don't know why I said the Coens got leeway. A lot of the people I know (including you Mr. London) who like the 2010 Grit are people whose views on movies I respect even while disagreeing. I don't believe anyone on this thread, at least, has fanboy inclinations and will praise a favorite just because.
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