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In Reply to: The best western is..... posted by danj on February 26, 2002 at 23:32:35:
Those are my faves, too. I'll add "Red River", "Santa Fe Trail", "They Died With Their Boots On", "The Long Riders", "One-Eyed Jacks", "Once Upon A Time In The West" and "Cheyenne Autumn".
Has anybody seen William Shatner in "White Comanche"? What a laugh riot!
Follow Ups:
I thought she would like it because she enjoyed "The Magnificent Seven" and "Siverado," and Red River's rousing score by Dmitri Tiomkin is second to none, but after we watched it together, to my surprise, this was her critique of the movie (i.e., which, BTW, had me doubled-up with laughter for quite some time):Me: "Well, honey what did you think?"
Wife: "That has to be the most boring western of all time!"
Me: "Wha-? But "Red River" is one of Howard Hawk's greatest! What didn't you like about it?"
Wife: "This was the movie we just watched -- Openning credits, men talking, wagons, woman, more talking, river, indians, more talking, cows cows, cows, lots of men talking, more cows, men riding horses, even more cows, steely jawed men saying manly things, cows, cows cows, men riding horses, more cows, woman stops fight between manly men, The End."
This is paraphrased just a bit, but it's pretty close to her verbatim review; in retrospect, I guess I can't really argue with her synopsis too much even though I still like the movie! :o)
Audiophilander
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Hombre.
Silverado or The Wild Bunch.
The Wild Bunch is on my list. Silverado is on of my favs. You gotta leave something off or the list will get might long.
Yeah, I just love Silverado and The Wild Bunch, too. Jim.
How about "Ride The High Country", "Major Dundee", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"....
All excellent choices.
Also, we probably should include the epic TV mini-series "Lonsome Dove." This would also be a good topic for expansion into silent cinema and even serials!Audiophilander
"Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro," even "Ran" and "Throne of Blood" (may not be Kurasawa) essentially "westerns" with samurai instead of cowboys...
Yes. An excellent film.If I were to choose the all-time best television western LONESOME DOVE would be the certain choice.
Add to the listThe Man From Laramie
The Naked Spur
True Grit
Blazing SaddlesSpecial Small Screen award to Lonesome Dove
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