If there is a whole category of “samurai westerns”, then an particular movie can’t be “strangest” just by being a samurai western. 
Forty-one posts and no one’s mentioned Lust in the Dust? In which a gay cowboy has to haul Divine all over in search of her twin sister so he can put their butt-cheeks together to read the tattooed treasure map?
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One of Lainie Kazan’s finest and I forgot to list it!
<shakes fist at self>
Since the OP didn’t explicitly specify Western films, how about Custer’s Revenge? Link NSFW if your work thinks 8-bit is smut.
Noooo! It was an allosaurus!
(I love this movie.)
I submit the Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland movie; From Noon Til Three.
Does anybody recognize the movie I mentioned? I can’t remember the title or much else about it, but I’d like to know. Kind of a** Dark Shadows** meets Gunsmoke thing.
Sorry, I must have skipped over your post somehow. The movie you saw was 1959’s Curse of the Undead. It’s actually a pretty cool flick; I think I first saw it as part of “Big” Wilson’s Night Owl Movies back in the late '70s or early '80s on WCIX in South Florida.
Yes, I remember it, barely. I remember a cowboy shooting somebody with a bullet that had a cross notched across the tip. The guy who got shot disappeared, leaving just his clothes behind. B&W.
Putting some of that in Google led me to Curse of the Undead - Wikipedia
You guys are so cool!
ETA too bad netflix isn’t *that *cool
No mention of Lemonade Joe yet? It’s a Czechoslovakian musical comedy parody acid western propaganda film, apparently. I need to find and watch it sometime.
Gwangi (the original name, or The Valley of Mist) was a project promoted by Harryhausen’s inspiration and mentor, willis O’Brien (animator of *King Kong[/i}0 that he never got to make. There are photos of his neve-to-be-used Gwangi models existing.
Surprisingly, there is an even earlier cowboy-vs-dinosaur movie based on an O’Brien idea than Valley of Gwangi. It’s the 1950s color film The Beast of Hollow Mountain, and it’s surprisingly good, with an animated T. Rex, although O’Brien didn’t do it. (Neither did Harryhausen – it was done by a guy named Edward Nassour, who apparently also did the animated dinosaurs in the Caesar Romero-starring the Lost Continent) 0 'Brien wrote the original screen treatment under a pseudonym, and was set to do the animation, but for some reason no one seems to know, didn’t do it. One of O’Brien’s first films to combine stop-motion with libve action was The Ghost of Slumber Mountain, which also involved a T. Rex.
The whole thing used to be on YouTube, but I can only find the end right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isY39VD7ijY
The plot is indeed strange for a Western. A laconic cowboy gets a whore house in the will of his brother and he and his best buddy set about to first civilize it, then to run it and finally to defend it. They then retire from it.
However, in the hands of Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, Cheyenne Social Club makes complete sense as a Western and seems the most natural thing in the world.
Kung-Fu.
The pilot movie and the later TV series were set in the Old West.
I was coming here to mention that one. The hero doesn’t usually end up happy in an insane asylum,and the heroine doesn’t usually die.
Wow. Just read this attempt to explain the plot and characters of Greaser’s Paradise. Holy cow.
It’s a book, not a film, but Trevanian’s Incident at 20 Mile is pretty weird - IIRC, the main character is a mentally ill young man and much of the plot swirls around how he interacts with a late Western setting.
Well, El Topo was on the shelf at my local video store so I grabbed. That was one wierd movie.