# Top Western Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123 "2008-11-17T15:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/1 "2008-11-17T15:25:10Z")
My brother is coming to town for the Thanksgiving holiday. I thought it’d be nice to Netflix a few westerns, so I went to see what the AFI said was the top 10 westerns. Um, yeah. I don’t think so. For example Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might be a “great” move, but I couldn’t get 10 minutes into without changing the channel. BORING! So let me ask this is a different way. What are some of your top / favorite westerns that you would enjoy sitting down to watch again right now? Some of mine are: [ul] [li]Unforgiven[/li][li]True Grit (You’re getting ready to see a lot of John Wayne favortism)[/li][li]El Dorado[/li][li]McLintock![/li][li]Rio Bravo (Basically the same movie as El Dorado)[/li][li]Pale Rider[/li][li]Tombstone[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/2 "2008-11-17T15:30:14Z")
Silverado, for certain. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/3 "2008-11-17T15:31:12Z")
_3:10 to Yuma_ (2007 film). I never saw the original, but I did enjoy the newest remake. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/4 "2008-11-17T15:34:02Z")
Butch Cassidy (sorry!) Red River She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Magnificent Seven The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ---
**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:** [November 17, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/5 "2008-11-17T15:36:31Z")
Yojimbo 😉 Stagecoach The Oklahoma Kid (if only for the casting – James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart as cowboys!) Support your Local Sheriff! ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/6 "2008-11-17T15:38:01Z")
John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy: “Fort Apache”, “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” and “Rio Grande” – great movie making, with a fascinating rhythm that wouldn’t go over in today’s bam, bam, cut to the chase world. Oh, and “Rio Bravo”. Not only a fine western, but a great showcase for a young Angie Dickinson. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/7 "2008-11-17T15:38:18Z")
The Outlaw Josey Wales Tombstone Unforgiven Open Range My Darling Clementine The Searchers ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/8 "2008-11-17T15:40:01Z")
I’ll second Magnificent Seven and Stagecoach. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/9 "2008-11-17T15:47:08Z")
Shane! No one’s said Shane! ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/10 "2008-11-17T15:52:01Z")
_An American Tail: Fievel Goes West_ ranks up there, too. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/11 "2008-11-17T15:52:47Z")
My Darling Clementine - Henry Fonda at his best and Victor Mature at his very best. Red River - John Wayne really acts and Montgomery Clift is excellent and Walter Brennen is delightful. Ride the High Country - The passing of the Old West was never done better. One of the earliest Sam Peckenpah featuring Randolf Scott and Joel McRae. Cowboy - is very good very interesting job done by Jack Lemon and Glenn Ford. Cheyenne Social Club - Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart together with an interesting premis. Not great acting perhaps, but good fun. Both Judge Roy Beam movies are good, the Walter Brennen/Gary Cooper film and the Paul Newaman movie (weird, but good). ---
**Author:** ![happ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@happ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happ)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/12 "2008-11-17T16:02:38Z")
What, no love for Blazing Saddles? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/13 "2008-11-17T16:56:57Z")
Don’t miss these! \*The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Naked Spur Winchester '73 \* All three star James Stewart and are great Westerns. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/14 "2008-11-17T17:01:46Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The Oklahoma Kid (if only for the casting – James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart as cowboys!) “I don’t want to play in your yard/ I don’t like you any more!” **Petrobey Mavromihalis** , I would have said _Shane_ during my short-lived crush on Alan Ladd. Now I say \*High Noon \*for my eternal crush on Gary Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/15 "2008-11-17T17:04:27Z")
_The Cowboys_ with John Wayne. I love that movie! And _Rooster Cogburn_ - is that the one with Katherine Hepburn? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/16 "2008-11-17T17:09:34Z")
Lonesome Dove Jeremiah Johnson ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/17 "2008-11-17T17:21:01Z")
Second _The outlaw Josey Wales_. Clint’s best. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/18 "2008-11-17T17:21:05Z")
The Wild Bunch Once Upon a Time in the West ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/19 "2008-11-17T17:32:22Z")
If you’re looking for something really good that he might not have seen, try _Seven Men From Now_, a Budd Boetticher western with Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin. The final showdown has gotta be one of the best ever. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123/20 "2008-11-17T17:36:09Z")
Blazing Saddles Unforgiven Pale Rider 3:10 to Yuma The Good, The Bad & The Ugly I’ll think of more as soon as I hit “submit…” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-western-movies/473123.md?page=2)