# I need Western Movie titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738 "2006-03-31T19:00:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/21 "2006-03-31T21:07:27Z")
The Gunfighter, with Gregory Peck as an aging fastest gun drained by the constant challenges to the title. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/22 "2006-03-31T21:09:45Z")
> [@brownie55](#): > > And Blazing Saddles? There ought to be at least two other sub-genres to consider, over and above the comedies: Sci-Fi/Twilight Zone/Fantasy Westerns: Westworld as an example Westerns to avoid: Missouri Breaks as an example The Ox-Bow Incident goes somewhere like that. The Tin Star is also a candidate. I’m wondering why _Dances With Wolves_ hasn’t been touted. (I’m not touting it, just asking.) ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/23 "2006-03-31T21:42:00Z")
My all time favorite, among the many great ones previously mentioned: [My Darling Clementine](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/) ---
**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/24 "2006-03-31T22:22:00Z")
Aaaack! Completely forgot about the most recent Western I saw - [Dead Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817). What do you call post-post-modern? I cannot think of a single bad performance in the entire film. Definitely one of my new favorites. > [@Gordon Urquhart](#): > > Shoot – didn’t see Agnostic Pagan’s earlier recommendation. Sorry, pardners. No worries. That film can never be recommended enough. Great minds think alike and all that… ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/25 "2006-03-31T22:29:27Z")
**American Westerns:** Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Cattle Queen of Montana (1955) Clash of the Wolves (1925) The Great Train Robbery (1903) Heaven’s Gate (1980) Hell’s Hinges (1916) High Noon (1952) How the West Was Won (1962) Johnny Guitar (1954) The Living Desert (1953) documentary The Magnificent Seven (1960) Man of the West (1958) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Melody Ranch (1940) My Darling Clementine (1946) The Naked Spur (1953) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) Red River (1948) Ride the High Country (1962) Rio Bravo (1959) Rio Grande (1950) The Searchers (1956) Shane (1953) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1948) Stagecoach (1939) 3:10 to Yuma (1957) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Unforgiven (1992) Wagon Master (1950) The Wild Bunch (1969) **American Northwesterns:** The Gold Rush (1925) The Chechahcos (1924) In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) **American Northeasterns:** The Last of the Mohicans (1920) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/26 "2006-03-31T22:46:12Z")
In spite of the OP asking for _good_ Westerns, now that **Walloon** has opened the flood gates, I feel compelled to list some of the B Western stars whose movies spanned the decades of the 30’s through 50’s with some trickle-over into the 60’s and certainly into the TV western series that basically rendered them obsolete. As a youngster I saw these guys on the big screen. The generations after mine saw them on TV in the afternoons, and can still see them on specialty channels even today. Just some of the greats: Allan “Rocky” Lane Bob Steele Tim Holt “Wild” Bill Elliott Sunset Carson Jimmy Wakely Hopalong Cassidy (aka William Boyd) Roy Rogers Gene Autry Lash LaRue Whip Wilson Charles Starrett Larry “Buster” Crabbe Duncan Reynaldo (The Cisco Kid) Rex Allen Randolph Scott Joel McCrae There must be dozens more, but these are just “from the hip” shots. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/27 "2006-03-31T22:52:05Z")
> [@Menocchio](#): > > If you want a Western themed comedy, then I’d suggest: > Support Your Local Sheriff > Maverick (the Mel Gibson movie, or the older TV show) [The First Travelling Saleslady](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049212/)–the only time you’ll see Carol Channing running off with Clint Eastwood! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/28 "2006-03-31T23:04:47Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [The First Travelling Saleslady](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049212/)–the only time you’ll see Carol Channing running off with Clint Eastwood! _Caveat_: a really horrible movie. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/29 "2006-03-31T23:48:01Z")
High Plains Drifter gets my vote for the most surreal, and good) Western ever. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/30 "2006-03-31T23:53:17Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > _Caveat_: a really horrible movie. “Horrible” is subjective. I figure **Bosda** could judge that 5.4 for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/31 "2006-03-31T23:56:11Z")
Although it’s rather dated, being among those sprawling epics like _Giant_ (which is one of the “modern Westerns” in location only), one I can recommend is _The Big Country_ which has some big names and a big story. Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charles Bickford, Burl Ives and some others who were regulars in the genre. Big in scope. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/32 "2006-04-01T00:04:19Z")
> [@Gordon Urquhart](#): > > I finally saw [Once Upon a Time in the West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/) a few months ago, and can highly recommend it. It’s got an incredible cast under the direction of Sergio Leone. If you’ve not seen it, you’ll likely not view Henry Fonda the same after doing so. Fonda looked like he loved every minute of that movie. It couldn’t have been easy, turning the twinkle in his eye to an evil gleam. Same with Gregory Peck doing **Duel in the Sun** , famously aka Lust in the Dust. Way out of character. Joyously evil. 🙂 I was going to recommend some Randolph Scott titles, but it always takes half the movie before I stop thinking that a guy who looks like him **has** to be a bank president, and he wandered onto the wrong location. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/33 "2006-04-01T00:06:22Z")
It’s not like I suggested [this](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0030845/), [this](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078790/), or even [this](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110353/)! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/34 "2006-04-01T00:11:04Z")
The Shootist. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/35 "2006-04-01T00:35:16Z")
Of course it’s subjective. But it seems to me that the most helpful, to Bosda, would be suggest “essential” titles, assuming he can work his way out from there. Do you, honestly, subjectively, consider _The First Travelling Saleslady_ to be an “essential” Western? A starting point? I understand that some people will like it more than I do, but it would honestly surprise me if there were a lot of people who considered it, in the history of Westerns, to be one of the essentials. Just sayin, talkin bout the signal-to-noise ratio of this thread, an’ all. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/36 "2006-04-01T00:41:06Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Do you, honestly, subjectively, consider _The First Travelling Saleslady_ to be an “essential” Western? Only for the novelty factor that I mentioned earlier. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/37 "2006-04-01T01:02:02Z")
**She Wore a Yellow Ribbon** is vastly underrated, and one of John Wayne’s best roles. He was pissed he didn’t get an Oscar nomination for it, and he was right. Not mentioned in another Wayne/John Ford film: **Fort Apache**. Different in that the cavalry commander (Henry Fonda) is a jerk, and that the Indians aren’t the bad guys. It also shows what Ford had to say in **Liberty Valance** , that when the legend becomes the truth, print the legend. Wayne has to come to that decision, making a great film. **The Angel and the Badman** is another good Wayne film, especially when he is forced to become a pacifist. I’m surprised **True Grit** hasn’t been mentioned. Finally, there’s **Yojimbo**. Sure, it’s not technically a western (it takes place in Japan), but it plays like one. **A Fistful of Dollars** is one of several remakes ( **Bad Day at Black Rock** is similar, and **Last Man Standing** is a remake), but you should see the original (which, in turn, is based on Dashiel Hammett’s book, **Red Harvest**. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/38 "2006-04-01T01:24:04Z")
Destry Rides Again (the original and remake are great) Winchester '76 Bend in the River The Man From Laramie…as you can tell I think any western with james Stewart is a classic. Also,the Wild Bunch,Tombstone and…Zorro,the Gay Blade! ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/39 "2006-04-01T01:39:14Z")
I’d consider any John Ford Western essential I love \*\*Cheyenne Autumn \*\* the most. It always makes me giggle to know that the Cheyenne in the movie are speaking Navajo and not Cheyenne. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-western-movie-titles/350738/40 "2006-04-01T01:55:51Z")
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