Whats your Favourite Western??

[Over The Hill]

About 100 movies suggested so far and no mention of

High Noon!

It is a fantastic film - really unlike any other western before or since. It is shot in real time (film starts at about 11 am and finishes just after noon). The tension builds fantastically up to the inevitable noon deadline. The tension makes the film rather than the shoot out.

Clint probably gets the vote for his westerns as they were a good ten years later than most westerns (I think he was making them when westerns were rather out of fashion) so the later production wins through well. So many funny lines in them too.

Best funny western was the one with Goldie Horne marrying a mormon.

 

[delb0y]

Had the Clint spaghetti western box set and the Magnificent Seven box set for Christmas. Good times!

Del

 

[potsy]

Wild Wild West- Today at 5pm ITV2

 

[domd1979]

Here's my favourite Western....

D1015 Western Champion.

 

[potsy]

FISTFUL OF DOLLARS

about to start on Channel 5.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[ComedyPilot]

Blazing Saddles..........

 

[mikeitup]

My Darling Clementine & Stagecoach

 

[Cubist]

"That's mighty bold talk for a one eyed fat man."
"Fill your hand you sonovabitch!"

They don't do dialogue like that any more.

"Badges? We don't need no steenking badges."

 

[Crankarm]

Without wanting to be a contravershalist - Carry on Cowboy?

For the rest,

Gunfight at the OK Coral.
Dodge City
Billy the Kid
The Treasue of the Sierra Madre
Man Without a Star
The Naked Spur
Destry Rides Again
How the West was Won.

 

[DJ]

3:10 to Yuma
Hondo
The Searchers
The Assasination of Jesse James by coward Robert Ford.

 

[Happiness Stan]

Red River (1948) with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift

 

[thegrumpybiker]

Lots of great ones, The "Dollars" films, Unforgiven, Dances With Wolves, Deadwood.
I think the best one I've seen in a long time is less a western than a "far, far eastern". It's set in the Australian outback and called The Proposition.

 

[Happiness Stan]

Red River (1948) with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift

Scratch that. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

[Debian]

For me it's too close to call between:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dances with Wolves
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Tombstone

 

[Andy in Sig]

My favourite western is the one wear John Wayne has a monologue to the effect of, "Twenty years ago I would have hit you but I'm not going to hit you now ... the hell I'm not!" and then he belts the bloke. Then there is an almighty mass scrap on a mudslide. I think the film is called McClintock.

There was another good comedy western where Robert Mitchum (if memory serves) plays a drunken sheriff who has to sober up to resolve a crisis.