Best Western (movie)

Cafe Society
101

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.

102

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…

103

  1. Unforgiven

  2. Unforgiven

  3. Unforgiven

  4. Unforgiven

  5. Unforgiven

104

Sorry–been swamped, but glad to see people are still posting. The poll will be up by tomorrow morning.

:slight_smile:

105

Baa Ram Ewe!

Agreed.

106

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

107

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
108

Looks like the idea of a poll on this topic just wouldn’t fly?

109

No, I’m sorry–been really swamped (but we’ve had some more good posts in the interim). This weekend–I SWEAR! :slight_smile:

110

I’m sure all of your submissions are fine films, but, silenus got it right in post #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.

111

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.

112

“Trinity”? :frowning:

113

Go to Best Western (not the motel chain) and vote!

Great work, ArchiveGuy!

114

++++ 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.

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)

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Any ideas for further tweaking?

115

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.

116

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