# ThwiliwiliwiliwilWahWahWaaah. (Fav Westerns) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804 "2002-08-01T02:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/1 "2002-08-01T02:16:47Z")
Just got done watching Blazing Saddles and Support your Local Sheriff and started to think, what are your favorite Westerns, be it comedy or drama. (Or musical for that matter.) My List: 5)Support your local Sherriff - Good clean fun. 4)Hondo - A filmed Louie, enjoyable enough. 3)Shane - One of the great classics. 2)Silverado - Really fun to watch. 1)Blazing Saddles - Skewers near perfect. Yours? ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/2 "2002-08-01T03:20:45Z")
Well, I’m pretty much a Clint Eastwood western fan but I like most westerns as long as they don’t have ‘The Duke’ in them…for some strange reason I can’t stand John Wayne. (tar and feathers aisle 3!) My favorite western by far is ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’…after that come: Unforgiven High Plains Drifter Pale Rider Hang 'em High Fistful of Dollars etc…etc…with Eastwood movies then; Lonesome Dove American Outlaws(Kind of a new movie, watch it if you can) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Barbarosa(with Willie Nelson) The Magnificent Seven Blazing Saddles Support Your Local Sheriff They Call Me Trinity(for a bit of comedy) They Still Call Me Trinity -K ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/3 "2002-08-01T05:02:52Z")
Man, this isn’t even my thread…but I’d love to know what westerns I’m missing. I for one am going to check out ‘Hondo’…even if it is a John Wayne movie. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/4 "2002-08-01T06:18:35Z")
_Hombre_–gosh, I wish Elmore Leonard was still writing Westerns! This is not only my favorite Western, but one of my favorite movies of all time. _Invitation to a Gunfighter_–Yul is magnificient and the ‘pronounciation’ scene is just…just…_nifty_! _Support Your Local Sheriff_ _El Dorado_ and almost all of the Clint Eastwood Westerns, although I don’t like him in any other movies. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/5 "2002-08-01T12:33:24Z")
Definitely **Support Your Local Sheriff** The following are essential: **Stagecoach She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Fort Apache** – should be less obscure than it is; not only a great look at military life, but it sympathizes greatly with the Indians. Henry Fonda makes a great villain, too. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/6 "2002-08-01T13:35:25Z")
Support Your Local Gunfighter Support Your Local Sherrif Big Jake Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Silverado Rio Bravo True Grit BTW, I absolutely HATED Shane. Not that you should care… ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/7 "2002-08-01T13:50:09Z")
**Red River** **My Darling Clementine** **The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence** **Ride the High Country** **The Wild Bunch** among others… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/8 "2002-08-01T14:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kaotic Newtral \* > \*\* > They Call Me Trinity(for a bit of comedy) > They Still Call Me Trinity > \*\* They Call Me Trinity is **Trinity Is Still My Name** , according to IMdB - I was looking because the title you mentioned sounded too much like **They Still Call Me Bruce** , a Bruce Lee parody. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/9 "2002-08-01T14:04:26Z")
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw - Comedy starring Kenneth More and Jayne Mansfield. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/10 "2002-08-01T14:13:53Z")
By the way, I meant to ask this and forgot - what’s the thread title mean, exactly? It’s eluding me… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/11 "2002-08-01T14:27:40Z")
1. _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ 2. _The Magnificent Seven_ 3. _Blazing Saddles_ … 9203941205) _Paint Your Wagon_ (blechblechblech!!!) Oh, and **dan** , I think the thread title is supposed to be an attempt to write down the opening singy-thing to _The Good, the Bad …_ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/12 "2002-08-01T14:30:45Z")
You mean the Morricone bit? You know, that’s what went through my mind, too … I’ll be doggoned. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/13 "2002-08-01T14:55:32Z")
**Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid**. Love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/14 "2002-08-01T15:15:54Z")
I’d add **For a Few Dollars More** and **Cat Ballou,** alothough pretty much any Sergio Leone (and even some of the blatant knock-offs) get my vote. Gotta love that sun-drenched, parched amoral feel to everything… ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/15 "2002-08-01T15:28:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\* > > They Call Me Trinity is **Trinity Is Still My Name** , according to IMdB - I was looking because the title you mentioned sounded too much like **They Still Call Me Bruce** , a Bruce Lee parody. 🙂 \*\* Doh! You’re right…and I’ve got it sitting right down with the rest of my DVD’s. I’ll also throw in ‘The Apple Dumpling Gang’ just because Tim Conway and Don Knotts are hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/16 "2002-08-01T15:40:31Z")
I’m purely an Eastwood Western fan… ok I love Toombstone too 1. Good Bad and the Ugly 2. Outlaw Jose Wales 3. Unforgiven 4. Toombstone 5. Fist Full of Dollars 6. Hang Em High 7. For A few Dollars More 8. Pale Rider ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/17 "2002-08-01T16:26:19Z")
To the ones already mentioned, I’d to add: _The Professionals_ with Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, etc. _Bite the Bullet_ about a grueling cross-country horse race, with Gene Hackman and James Coburn. I guess I like end-of-an-era movies; both those take place early in the 20th century. John Wayne: _McClintock_ Funny, good natured. _Fort Apache_ If a frontier cavalry fort didn’t look like this, it should have. _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_ _The Cowboys_ A rare chance to see Bruce Dern playing a psychotic low-life. (Okay, that’s not so rare.) But a really entertaining movie, with good performances by young actors, and one of Wayne’s most sympathetic roles. (No matter how much I disagree with his political views – which were mainstream conservative for their time – I can’t help liking the guy.) _The Shootist_ Wayne’s last movie, and one of Wayne’s best performances. Also has Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, Richard Boone and a young Ron Howard. Jimmy Stewart: _How the West Was Won_; actually this has everybody in it. Big, sprawling epic, great soundtrack. _The Naked Spur_ Jimmy Stewart is tough as nails in this, and it’s a good psychological story. Early frontier movies: _Jeremiah Johnson_ Great movie about surviving and making a home in the wilderness. Robert Redford, and Will Geer. (In one scene Will Geer, laughing like a lunatic, lets a bear chase him right into the cabin, which is a big surprise for Robert Redford. Geer says, “You skin this one, pilgrim, and I’ll go get another!”) _The Mountain Men_ with Charleton Heston and Brian Keith. Got bad reviews, not many people saw it, but I always liked this movie. Beautiful scenery, plenty of action. A comedy that hasn’t been mentioned: _The Frisco Kid_, with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. And of course _High Noon_. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/18 "2002-08-01T17:32:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*By the way, I meant to ask this and forgot - what’s the thread title mean, exactly? It’s eluding me… ☹ \*\* It’s the theme to _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_. You know, the whistle (thwiliwiliwil) followed by the harmonica (wahwahwaaah)? Narile just spelled it out. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/19 "2002-08-01T22:03:12Z")
I love _Jeremiah Johnson_ and think _The Frisco Kid_ was a hoot! Thanks for reminding me of them. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804/20 "2002-08-01T22:21:10Z")
Once Upon a Time in the West. I’ll watch it whenever it’s on. Hank Fonda is one of the coldest badasses ever in this flick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thwiliwiliwiliwilwahwahwaaah-fav-westerns/121804.md?page=2)