TOP 10 Westerns of all time...

Not necessarily in the preferential order:

Magnificent Seven (obviously)
Unforgiven
Tombstone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars Mors
Fist Full of Dollars
Young Guns
Rio Bravo/El Dorado (same plot...different characters...counts as one in my book, but both versions are awesome)
The Cheyenne Social Club (not a traditional Western, but a great movie...watching Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda play off of each other is amazing)
Silverado


Some may scream "Sacrilege! Where is "High Noon"? Where is "Red River"? Etc, etc."

<shrugs> I'm not saying these are the best of the best. These are 10 of MY best.

the gunfighter
my darling clementine
shane
destry rides again
stagecoach
winchester 73
4:10 to yuma (original)
culpepper cattle co.
will penny
butch cassiddy etc.
sorry no capitals, broken wrist.

Headly Lamarr

No particular order of preference...


High Noon....Cooper tossing the badge pissed the Duke off.
Unforgiven...More realistic than most.
Mark of Zorro....Old California, the real old west.
The Gunfighter...Peck plotted against the studios to keep the stashe. Very cool.
Wild Bunch...Body count of many small wars.
Lonesome Dove....My favorite western of all time.
Evil Roy Slade....Funniest Western Ever. So funny, you get tired of laughing.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...Great story for a great cast.
Stagecoach...All of Ford's westerns are great, but this is my favorite.
No Name On The Bullet..See this to see the closest thing to the REAL Audie Murphy. I love Audie. But he was not the nicest guy in the world.
And too many more really great ones to name....Seriously.


*EDIT* The Proposition- One of the best 'modern' westerns. It is set in Australia and Ray Winstone heads up a great cast. Highly recommended.
and
Barbarosa....Willie Nelson and Gary Busey. This a really good movie. If not for Post-Production in-fighting I bet it would have been a serious hit. It is very good at any rate and for a low budget film it is excellent. Funny, touching, violent, realistic.

"What does it do?" Do? "It doesn't DO anything. That's the beauty of it." Jacques Heim/Louis Reard

Not in any order

Magnificent Seven
Gunfight at OK Corral (1957)
For a Few Dollars More
Warlock
The Professionals
The Gunfighter
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
The Long Riders


"We're going to need a bigger boat..."

I came up with these 10 but not in any particular order.
Magnificent Seven
High Noon
Shane
Sons of Katie Elder
True Grit
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Outlaw Josie Wells
Man who shot Liberty Valence
My Darling Clementine (directors cut)
Winchester 73 (1950)

Shane, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Big Country, Lonesome Dove, High Plains Drifter, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (not sure if that fits the western criteria but what the hell). The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River and The Gunfighter. Oh and these with Randolph Scott: Ride the High Country, Seven Men from Now- then a notch lower: The Tall T, Ride Lonesome and Comanchee Station.

In no particular order, but a couple of titles not mentioned so far...
The Ox-Bow Incident
Once Upon A Time In The West
Support Your Local Gunfighter/Sheriff (Almost the same movie, both enjoyable)
The Searchers
High Noon
Unforgiven
Magnificent Seven
El Rio Dorado Bravo (Yeah, I combined them. Wayne, Mitchum, and Caan were the better combo for my money - but they're still really the same movie made seven years apart)
My Darling Clementine
Tombstone

Just started watching classic westerns but I think High Noon was pretty mediocre. And the music drove me nuts. Good, Bad, and Ugly is a great movie in its own right, and Searchers is like the big budget western turned up about as high as it can go. Its funny to see Dances with Wolves up next to How the West was Won, their portrayals of human beings on this continent couldn't be more different. "You speak good American." Aaargh!