What's your favorite western?

[red dog 1]

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The question is "What is your favorite western?"
and since I only get 10 slots to fill, I did the best I could.
If your favorite western isn't among those listed in the poll, please post it in a reply, and, if it gets multiple votes, maybe we can include it among the poll choices.
["Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is considered a "neo-western" so I didn't include it, and
"Blazing Saddles' is a "spoof" of westerns, so it is considered to be a "comedy" more than a western]

15 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Unforgiven (1992)
	1 (7%)
	The Searchers (1956)
	0 (0%)
	High Noon (1952)
	1 (7%)
	Shane (1953)
	2 (13%)
	The Magnificent Seven (1960)
	0 (0%)
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
	1 (7%)
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
	3 (20%)
	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
	3 (20%)
	Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
	2 (13%)
	Silverado (1985)
	2 (13%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[pdxflyboy]

1. Silverado

[yallerdawg]

24. "Silverado" is the perfect western!

"Once Upon a Time in the West" came close to perfection, but it gets a little (more) longish and distracting in places with the Jason Robard's character in particular.

[red dog 1]

26. Silverado was a great western

If it gets any more mentions, I may try to add it as a poll choice.

[yallerdawg]

74. Right from the beginning...

when Scott Glenn was framed in the doorway of that shack in homage to John Wayne's "The Searchers" iconic scene, "Silverado" got the western fan's juices flowing!

Writer Lawrence Kasdan pushed every button (except the Native American one)!

Brian Dennehy's best role!

[red dog 1]

73. You can now vote for Silverado

(It's up there as poll option # 10)

[red dog 1]

72. Silverado is now up there as a poll option

so you can vote for it now

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. So much excellence.

When westerns are rote (think of an endless stream of Randolph Scott westerns), they're "meh." When they're good, they're great.

I have "The Wild Bunch" in my DVD player now. I've seen "Once Upon a Time in the West," for which I voted, a bunch of times. I never did get the DVD.

I've seen "The Searchers" a couple of times. I don't get it yet. So many people like it, that I must be wrong. Maybe after another viewing I'll see what all the brouhaha is about.

Thanks for the poll.

[SummerSnow]

3. Tombstone (1993)

[red dog 1]

27. I'm your huckleberry!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

30. One of mine too.

Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday was classic......"I'm your Huckleberry."

The Best portrayal yet.

[Docreed2003]

83. ...

“Why, Johnny Ringo...you look like someone just walked all over your grave.”

[Tribalceltic]

4. Blazing Saddles

[samnsara]

9. Gene Wilder.. i had such a crush on him!!

[red dog 1]

15. He died way too young,

and so did Gilda.

(I loved him especially in The Producers)

[mucifer]

78. me too!!

[lastlib]

47. +1!

(number 2 would be True Grit, the ORIGINAL (goes w/o saying).

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Once Upon a Time in the West

But Unforgiven and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly are in a close race for 2nd.

[GWC58]

7. Same here👍

[left-of-center2012]

6. The Outlaw Josey Wales

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw_Josey_Wales#Plot

[Alpeduez21]

17. +1

[Va Lefty]

18. This!

Also one of my top 10 movies. So many quotable lines.

[earthshine]

36. +1 We got us the Josey Whales! nt

[samnsara]

8. Cat Ballou!

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. True Grit.

[mpcamb]

94. Outstanding cast. Always surprised Kim Darby didn't get good roles.

[FuzzyRabbit]

11. 1930s and 1940s B-westerns are my guilty pleasure.

But some of my other favorites are:
The Professionals
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rooster Cogburn
True Grit (John Wayne version)
True Grit (Jeff Bridges version is even better)
Tombstone
Appaloosa
and let's not forget Cat Ballou

[red dog 1]

14. I thought about putting Tombstone up there, since it's a great western,

that I've probably seen at least 20 times.

Let's see if it gets any more mentions.

[flying rabbit]

85. Tombstone! nt

[Codeine]

21. The Jeff Bridges True Grit was fantastic.

One of the best modern westerns.

[FuzzyRabbit]

12. How about some TV mini-series?

Lonesome Dove
Open Range
Broken Trail
(All starring Robert Duvall)

[red dog 1]

16. While I do like Robert Duvall, I don't think TV mini-series belong in the poll as choices

But thanks for the comment on those 3 anyway.

(Imo, Robert Duvall was superb in The Great Santini)

[Glorfindel]

13. I voted for "Shane" but my actual favorite is "MacKenna's Gold"

It's absolutely spectacular!

[red dog 1]

23. Wow! What a cast!

[TuxedoKat]

81. Never saw this one

but I absolutely love Gregory Peck (he was great in The Big Country, btw). Will have to watch out for this one.

[TuxedoKat]

82. The Sea of Grass

Just remembered this was another one of my favorites, with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Oops, just posted this in the wrong place!

[dhill926]

19. Would McCabe and Mrs. Miller count....

and for best in any medium...Deadwood.

[red dog 1]

25. It definitely counts as a western

[Codeine]

20. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. nt

[Paladin]

22. "Red River" original version with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.

Best cattle drive movie ever.

[Hoyt]

28. McLintock. Personally, not big western fan, but my late wife loved this and we watched it often.

If The Treasure of the Sierra Madre qualifies, I really liked that movie -- greed has always been an issue.

[House of Roberts]

29. The Cheyenne Social Club

Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda!

[mainstreetonce]

31. The man who shot Liberty Valence

...

[red dog 1]

63. It's now poll option # 6, (so you can now vote for it)

[CanonRay]

32. Jeremiah Johnson, Dances with Wolves, remake of True Grit

[ornotna]

76. Not your standard western

Jeremiah Johnston was a great movie.

[CanonRay]

84. It inspired me to move out west.

[MiltonBrown]

33. My attention span is too short for movies but I like to watch TV westerns like

Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick and most of the rest of them.

[red dog 1]

34. "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "The Rifleman", "Rawhide", "Wanted, Dead or Alive," "Rin Tin Tin"

Also:

- The Lone Ranger
- The Cisco Kid
- Death Valley Days
- Gene Autry
- Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Zorro

I could go on...

[MiltonBrown]

35. All good ones. The only TV western I didnt like is Laramie.

[Leighbythesea]

37. Tombstone

I'm your huckleberry.

And hell's comin with me.

[Generic Brad]

38. I like 'The Shootist'

One of John Wayne's best!

[First Speaker]

39. The best performance he ever gave...

...he was acting, not playing "John Wayne"...

[Pope George Ringo II]

54. Definitely.

A grown-up Western in so many ways.

[First Speaker]

40. The Man From Laramie...

...and indeed, any of the Stewart/Mann films. Another good one with Stewart: Firecreek, with Henry Fonda.

[Stuart G]

41. The best #1 Western is: "High Noon".. truly great film !!!

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It is the one that kept my attention. And it had it all; it had
great acting, great direction, well paced, and great script..

1952 - High Noon. Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly ..directed by Fred Zinnemann
1 hour 25 minutes.

If you have not seen this, then you are in for a wonderful movie going experience

Gary Cooper got the Academy Award for best actor
and 4 other awards. Nominated but did not win, best picture, best director, best written film.

It is a wonderful movie that defines what a Western is. One of the greatest movie dramas ever made, You get hypnotized by this film, and then it is over. That is it moves so fast, so smooth, that you are in from beginning to end. And once the plot is laid out, you want to know, the story, the players, and how the problem is solved. No, I won't tell you more. Some say it is the greatest western ever made.

See on a big screen at some revival theater, if you can. No small screen does this film justice..oh and that is part of the film too. Cooper plays a town marshal,.and....ops.... that's all folks...........

[hibbing]

42. Who Shot Liberty Valance n/t

[red dog 1]

64. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is now up there as poll option # 6

(so you can now vote for it)

[rurallib]

43. "Destry" comes to mind as does "Cat Ballou"

[MrScorpio]

44. Little Big Man

[mpcamb]

93. Agree. Always like the story-within-a-story format.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

95. Great minds and all that Mr. S

Little Big Man is my favorite too..............

[geardaddy]

99. +1

Love that movie!

[ProfessorGAC]

45. Lots Of Good Ones But Not My Fave

Silverado!
Great cinematography, engaging characters, hateable bad guys, good side stories...
Love that movie!

[blue neen]

46. I do think you should consider "Lonesome Dove".

It is superb. If it can't be included, then I'd say "Jeremiah Johnson".

[rzemanfl]

52. +1 n/t.

[Nay]

91. That was my choice. I'm surprised it wasn't on the list. Such a wonderful Western!

[blue neen]

92. The acting, the writing.

It's a work of art!

[pressbox69]

48. Shane without a doubt.

[TuxedoKat]

49. The Big Country

with Gregory Peck and Jean Simmons.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

68. Great one. Years ago there was a terrible print being used on TV.

Had this whine like a euro police siren in the audio track through the whole movie.

[MerryBlooms]

50. Lots of favorites, but Evil Roy Slade starring John Astin, is at the top.

[unblock]

51. What? No three amigos?

[Proud liberal 80]

53. Young guns

[Jane Austin]

55. Blazing saddles

For me, too.

[sarge43]

56. My Darling Clementine and Fort Apache n/t

[red dog 1]

62. Nobody voted for My Darling Clementine yet, so it may be coming down soon,

to make way for another one

[Cartoonist]

57. Maverick

No contest.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

67. The Maverick movie was one of the best treatments of a TV show I can think of, western or otherwise.

They captured the spirit of the show and added some action you can only do well on a movie budget.

Compare it to tragic messes like The Lone Ranger and Wild, Wild West.

[Mike Nelson]

58. I picked...

...High Noon but was torn between it and Shane. I never liked the "fat Indian wife" segment in The Searchers... otherwise a good movie. I like the John Wayne formula movie - with Rio Bravo probably the best would have to see them again. For TV westerns, I like The Rifleman for the great way they wrote the Connors/Crawford father/son relationship. Roy Rogers was a great singing cowboy and very authentic - even if his stories were low budget and uneven.

[GP6971]

59. I always enjoy

John Ford's cavalry trilogy when they come on;

Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande

[argyl]

60. My two are the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Ox Bow Incident.

I voted for “High Noon.”
Twenty years from now a list like this could include “Hostiles.” I really liked it a lot but these are some great works of filmmaking and they’ve withstood the test of time quite well. And “Hostiles” is still in the theatres.
I also liked “Pale Rider” a lot, although it obviously borrowed a lot from “Shane.”

[Brother Buzz]

61. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

[red dog 1]

66. You can now vote for Liberty Valance

it's poll option # 6

[jmowreader]

65. No Country for Old Men is about as close to Western as I get

[JonLP24]

69. DJango

The one with Jamie Foxx.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

70. Some of my faves not listed: Silverado, Hondo, Monte Walsh (orig), Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean

[red dog 1]

71. Silverado is now up there as poll option # 10, (so you can now vote for it)

[NotASurfer]

75. Omelet

Guess I'm food-motivated

[jodymarie aimee]

77. Purgatory

Sam Shepherd allegory.....brilliant....lots of stars in it....

[El Supremo]

79. Ride The High Country should be on the list.

And not Once A Time In The West. I don't like watching people looking too intense and sweaty.

[TeamPooka]

80. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[kwassa]

86. Destry Rides Again, My Darling Clementine, anything John Ford ...

[Tikki]

87. "Home From the Hill" (1960)

I guess it would have been called a modern Western back then.



Tikki

[area51]

88. I can't resist:

Firefly.

[VOX]

89. Sam Peckinpahs western films work for me...

“Ride the High Country” Awkard in parts, but mainly bittersweet and poetic.

“Major Dundee” Kind of a dry run for “The Wild Bunch,” doesn’t work well overall.

“The Wild Bunch” Forever the greatest “the-West-is-fading-out-and-so-are-we” western. misogynistic in parts; unforgettable images.

“The Ballad of Cable Hogue” Peckinpah with a lighter touch. A bit sexist but also very silly. Vastly underrated. Another top “the West is dying out” western.

“Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” Drifts along lazily, something like a “European Western.” You can almost feel the New Mexican grit in your teeth. An incredible supporting cast that instantly evokes the old West, including Katy Jurado, Slim Pickins, Chill Wills, L.Q. Jones, Harry Dean Stanton, to name only a few.

[Shrek]

90. Big Jake

"This is going to be a very harsh and unpleasant business, and will take an equally harsh and unpleasant person to see to it."

Actually Lonesome Dove is my favorite but from your poll I think you meant only movies.

[kairos12]

96. The Professionals. Burt Lancaster at his finest.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

97. "High Noon" is coming up later this month on one of those over-the-air

all-western, all the time, TV channels I watch. The ad for the movie has an Amtrak air horn dubbed in for the locomotive whistle.

[red dog 1]

98. Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)