# Best Western **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 11, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784 "2001-09-11T00:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/21 "2001-09-11T04:32:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*MGibson says: \*Rio Bravo with Wayne and Robery Mitchum was also entertaining. Um, that was **El Dorado** ; _Rio Bravo_ was the one with Dean Martin, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson and Rick Nelson. Both great fun, but _Bravo_’s better. One of the best western directors ever was Anthony Mann, who had a remarkable streak of films in the 50s: **Winchester '53, The Far Country, Bend of the River, The Man from Laramie, The Naked Spur,** and **Man of the West** , all better than most of the non-Peckinpah/Ford/Hawks films listed above. Other greats gone unmentioned: Jarmusch’s **Dead Man** , Sjostrom’s **The Wind** , Altman’s **McCabe & Mrs. Miller** , Walsh’s **Pursued** , and Boetticher’s **Comanche Station, Ride Lonesome, Buchanan Rides Alone, The Tall T** , and **Seven Men from Now** ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/22 "2001-09-11T04:37:45Z")
_The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Unforgiven. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. High Noon. Once Upon a Time in the West. Magnificent Seven._ Gotta second **Crunchy** ’s comment here, _Seven Samurai_ is awesome. Also if you can find it you should watch _Yojimbo_, the original _Fist Full of Dollars._ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/23 "2001-09-11T04:58:46Z")
I’ve always been very fond of **The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance**. Not only does it boast terrific performances from Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin, it also deconstructs the western myth 30 years before **Unforgiven** - and, IMHO, just as well. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/24 "2001-09-11T05:36:20Z")
It is about a possee that debates over whether or not the lynch some people they believe guilty of murder. I won’t give away the ending but it was pretty good. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/25 "2001-09-11T09:03:43Z")
A miniseries, not a movie, but it’s great (as is the book): _Lonesome Dove_ ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/26 "2001-09-11T09:22:41Z")
A couple of very good ones not mentioned: **Hombre** , a real fave of mine… **The Cowboys** , Wayne’s best (IMHO) and a devilishly great job by bruce Dern (“Now, old friend,… I’ll have the gun…”) #1 though, **Tombstone** and I also liked **Chato’s Land**. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/27 "2001-09-13T21:54:09Z")
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence True Grit The Shootist High Plains Drifter Pale Rider And, let me go on record here as saying I hated Unforgiven. It is, in my other than humble opinion, not just a terrible western, buta terrible film. The performances were stilted. The dialogue was forced (even the much ballyhooed "We’ve all got it comin’, kid) and the politically correct cliches were so hamfisted I saw them coming a mile away. I’ve watched this thing 4 times, trying to see the appeal, and it just doesn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/28 "2001-09-13T22:02:57Z")
I’m not really a big fan of Westerns, but here are the top three that I’ve loved: #1–Fistful of Dollars #2–Tombstone (Kilmer did a fantastic job as Doc) #3–Pale Rider (I can’t tell you how many times we quoted the “Nothing like a nice piece of hickory” line in arnis class–usually right after getting clobbered with a nice piece of hickory). ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784/29 "2001-09-14T01:13:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FallenAngel \* > \*\*And, let me go on record here as saying I hated Unforgiven. It is, in my other than humble opinion, not just a terrible western, buta terrible film. The performances were stilted. The dialogue was forced (even the much ballyhooed "We’ve all got it comin’, kid) and the politically correct cliches were so hamfisted I saw them coming a mile away. I’ve watched this thing 4 times, trying to see the appeal, and it just doesn’t work for me. \*\* Ditto for me. Well, maybe not _hate_ but… Although I did like Hackman kickin’ the living shit out of English Bob and his version of the “Duck of Death”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-western/80784.md?page=1)