# Western Movies and TV -- Tying up loose ends **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/western-movies-and-tv-tying-up-loose-ends/717140 "2015-04-08T17:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/western-movies-and-tv-tying-up-loose-ends/717140/1 "2015-04-08T17:32:14Z")
**First off,** if you have yet to vote in > **[Best Western (not the motel chain)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=558313)** > > Spinning off from this thread, if you had to pick one movie as the Best Western Ever, which would you pick? **Best Western (not the motel chain)** please do so before continuing here. **Next,** I have gathered all the titles from that thread and its parent > **[Best Western (movie)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556655)** > > What’s your vote for the All-Time best Western movie? Any era as long as the setting is pre-1930 and somewhere in either the Western USA or counterparts in Australia. If you just can’t quite pull it down to one, try for a top 5. The Outlaw Josey... **Best Western (movie)** and alphabetized them here. ================================= **Please select no more than TEN (including any not on this list or the one in the first link above) and post them here.** After we have at least TWENTY new titles (or we pass the end of April, 2015) I will put up one final poll to determine SDMB’s Favorite Westerns (to be determined with **one vote per Doper** ). ==================================== Here’s that list: 3:10 to Yuma (1957) 3:10 To Yuma (2007) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Bad Day at Black Rock The Ballad of Little Jo Barbarossa Big Country Big Jake Blazing Saddles Blood Simple Broken Arrow Cat Ballou Centennial Cheyenne Comanche Station The Cowboys Dances With Wolves Davy Crockett, King of The Wild Frontier Dead Man Decision at Sundown Deadwood Destry Rides Again Django Unchained El Topo Extreme Prejudice A Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More Fort Apache The Frisco Kid Greaser’s Palace The Grey Fox Have Gun - Will Travel Hearts of the West Heaven’s Gate High Plains Drifter Hombre How the West Was Won Jeremiah Johnson Johnny Guitar Last Man Standing The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean The Lone Ranger Lonesome Dove The Long Riders Mackenna’s Gold The Man from Laramie The Man from Snowy River Man of the West The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence Maverick McCabe and Mrs. Miller McClintock My Name is Nobody The Naked Spur No Country For Old Men Open Range The Oxbow Incident Paint Your Wagon Pale Rider Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Powwow Highway The Proposition The Quick and the Dead! Quigley Down Under Raising Arizona Rancho Deluxe Rancho Notorious Ride Lonesome Ride The High Country Rio Lobo Rooster Cogburn Rustlers’ Rhapsody Serenity Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Seven Men from Now Shane The Shootist The Sons of Katie Elder Stagecoach (the original) Support Your Local Sheriff The Tall T The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Treasure of The Sierra Madre Trinity True Grit The War Wagon Winchester '73 The Wind Wyatt Earp ===================================== ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/western-movies-and-tv-tying-up-loose-ends/717140/2 "2015-04-09T20:34:29Z")
So, are we done with this issue? 🙂