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Always kind of interesting to read a best of..in this case: Westerns.

posted 8 years ago by bigkingtut2000
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some of which I have to say: 'slap iron, you sonsabitches!' I don't believe movies that take place in the forties/fifties/sixties...like Hud, Bad Day at Black Rock..etc.. are NOT westerns in the truest sense. Call me a purist, ok. lol

for your reading pleasure:
http://movies.prettyfamous.com/stories/19384/best-western-films-wayne-eastwood?utm_medium=cm&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=ao.cm.ob.dt.11158#Intro

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[–] OldAussie 8 years ago

I'd forgotten there was a sequel to The Man from Snowy River.

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[–] koskiewicz 8 years ago

...The Proposition...

[–] MikeF-6 8 years ago

Some great ones in chronological order

Riders of the Purple Sage (1925) / Lynn Reynolds
In Old Arizona (1928) / Irving Cummings
Hell's Heroes (1929) / William Wyler
Billy the Kid (1930) / King Vidor
The Last of the Mohicans (1936) / George B. Seitz
The Plainsman (1936) / Cecil B. DeMille
Stagecoach (1939) / John Ford
Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939) / William Witney and John English
The Mark of Zorro (1940) / Rouben Mamoulian
Dark Command (1940) / Raoul Walsh
They Died with Their Boots On (1941) / Raoul Walsh
Along Came Jones (1945) / Stuart Heisler
My Darling Clementine (1946) / John Ford
Red River (1948) / Howard Hawkes
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) / John Huston
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) / John Ford
The Gunfighter (1950) / Henry King
High Noon (1952) / Fred Zinneman
The Naked Spur (1953) / Anthony Mann
Shane (1953) / George Stevens
Johnny Guitar (1954) / Nicholas Ray
Vera Cruz (1954) / Robert Aldrich
The Last Command (1955) / Frank Lloyd
The Searchers (1956) / John Ford
The Tall T (1957) / Budd Boetticher
Cowboy (1958) / Delmer Daves
Ride Lonesome (1959) / Budd Boetticher
Comanche Station (1960) / Budd Boetticher
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966) (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly) / Sergio Leone
C'era una volta il West (1968) (Once Upon A Time In The West) / Sergio Leone
True Grit (1969) / Henry Hathaway
The Wild Bunch (1969) / Sam Peckinpah

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[–] Confection_Pictures 8 years ago

The Searchers? Seriously?

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[–] MikeF-6 8 years ago

Seriously.

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[–] koskiewicz 8 years ago

...IMO, The Searchers is easily the best western of the 1950's...

[–] rcocean3 8 years ago

Really? I like Wagon Master and Rio Grande better. And that's just the Ford movies.

A lot of Peeps love "The Searchers" because they can rattle on about "racism".

[–] Confection_Pictures 8 years ago

I don't get the love for the film. The only character I liked was Scar, due to his complexity, despite making no attempt at hiding the fact he's a white man in redface. He's a mirror of Ethan. Other than that, they don't really dwell too much on the racism theme as they should. Once Upon A Time In The West and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly were far better films to me. Heck, Stagecoach, another Ford film, I feel was way better.

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