# Best Western (movie) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237 "2010-03-21T15:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/101 "2010-03-24T20:06:43Z")
Glad to see someone mentioned _El Dorado_ and _Support Your Local Sherrif_ - two of my favorites from childhood. _Silverado_ is another fave as well as _The Sons of Katie Elder._ ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/102 "2010-03-24T20:52:02Z")
**My Darling Clementine** **Unforgiven** **Johnny Guitar** **The Grey Fox** and, for the great memories of watching it with my dad, **Cat Ballou** Also wanted to mention **El Topo** , not because it is good, but because it is the weirdest western of all time. Unless someone’s seen a weirder one… ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/103 "2010-03-26T18:24:07Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > What’s your vote for the All-Time best Western movie? Any era as long as the setting is pre-1930 and somewhere in either the Western USA or counterparts in Australia. > > If you just can’t quite pull it down to one, try for a top 5. > > 1. The Outlaw Josey Wales > 2. Shane > 3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid > 4. The Wild Bunch > 5. Quigley Down Under 1. Unforgiven 2. Unforgiven 3. Unforgiven 4. Unforgiven 5. Unforgiven ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/104 "2010-03-26T18:26:11Z")
Sorry–been swamped, but glad to see people are still posting. The poll will be up by tomorrow morning. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/105 "2010-03-26T18:36:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Call me a sheep if you must, but _[Unforgiven](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/)_ is my tops. Baa Ram Ewe! Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/106 "2010-03-27T11:05:36Z")
Hombre Unforgiven The Proposition Open Range High Noon 3:10 to Yuma (original, though the remake is not too shabby) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Shane The Shootist Dead Man The Magnificent Seven The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/107 "2010-03-27T11:35:32Z")
Off the top of my head, not read others responses yet. 1. Once Upon A Time in the West 2. A Fistful of Dollars 3. Bad Day at Black Rock (set after WWII, but still has the feel of a Western) 4. The Outlaw Josie Wales 5. Unforgiven ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/108 "2010-04-02T12:28:15Z")
Looks like the idea of a poll on this topic just wouldn’t fly? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/109 "2010-04-02T17:07:11Z")
No, I’m sorry–been _really_ swamped (but we’ve had some more good posts in the interim). This weekend–I _ **SWEAR** _! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/110 "2010-04-02T17:43:15Z")
I’m sure all of your submissions are fine films, but, **silenus** got it right in [post #37.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12248966&postcount=37) Them other movies are probably all well worth a look, but once you’ve seen _Rustlers’ Rhapsody_, you’ve had a taste of everything that a Western needs. ---
**Author:** ![slime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@slime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slime)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/111 "2010-04-03T00:48:25Z")
110 posts and no one has mentioned the Trinity movies. They may not be great art but they are great fun. Also I would have to say My Name is Nobody with Terence Hill and Henry Fonda is also in the same line as the Trinity movies and is definetly in my top 5. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/112 "2010-04-03T04:59:49Z")
> [@slime](#): > > 110 posts and no one has mentioned the Trinity movies. They may not be great art but they are great fun. Also I would have to say My Name is Nobody with Terence Hill and Henry Fonda is also in the same line as the Trinity movies and is definetly in my top 5. “Trinity”? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/113 "2010-04-03T12:21:35Z")
Go to [Best Western (not the motel chain)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=558313) and vote! Great work, **ArchiveGuy**! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/114 "2015-06-08T01:04:42Z")
++++ ZOMBIE ALERT ++++ Just over 5 years since last post, but I stumbled over a feature of IMDb that prompted me to do this search and I thought I’d share it with anyone interested in similar searches. > **[User Rating between 6 and 10, Western, IMDb "Top 1000", Released (Sorted by...](https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?genres=western&groups=top_1000&production_status=released&user_rating=6.0,10)** > > IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what you're looking for! **Most Popular IMDb “Top 1000” Westerns With User Rating Between 6.0 And 10 and Production Status: Released** 31 titles. 1. Django Unchained (2012) 2. Dances with Wolves (1990) 3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 4. True Grit (2010) 5. Back to the Future Part III (1990) 6. Blazing Saddles (1974) 7. Tombstone (1993) 8. Legends of the Fall (1994) 9. Unforgiven (1992) 10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 11. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) 13. 3:10 to Yuma (2007) 14. The Magnificent Seven (1960) 15. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) 16. True Grit (1969) 17. For a Few Dollars More (1965) 18. Rio Bravo (1959) 19. The Searchers (1956) 20. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 21. Open Range (2003) 22. High Plains Drifter (1973) 23. Dead Man (1995) 24. Stagecoach (1939) 25. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 26. High Noon (1952) 27. The Wild Bunch (1969) 28. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 29. Shane (1953) 30. The Proposition (2005) 31. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) ================================= Any ideas for further tweaking? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/115 "2015-06-09T14:06:30Z")
I’d forgot about _Open Range_, which I would put up as a candidate for the best Western so far in this millenium. I’d like to recommend the movie _Good for Nothing_, a recent (2011) Western, about an outlaw who’s frustrated because he can’t rape his hostage due to erectile dysfunction, and rides all over the west looking for a cure. I can’t say it’s in my top ten Westerns list, but I found it very entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237/116 "2015-06-09T14:11:40Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’d forgot about _Open Range_, which I would put up as a candidate for the best Western so far in this millenium. > > I’d like to recommend the movie _Good for Nothing_, a recent (2011) Western, about an outlaw who’s frustrated because he can’t rape his hostage due to erectile dysfunction, and rides all over the west looking for a cure. I can’t say it’s in my top ten Westerns list, but I found it very entertaining. I’ll keep an eye out for GfN! I agree on OR: one of the best if not THE best gunfights ever filmed. [kevin kostner and robert duvall gunfight from open range](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMRhP-zji8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western-movie/533237.md?page=5)