2006-06-10 18:59:31 · 12 answers · asked by masked_man 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Movies:
1) The Searchers (1956)- John Ford - The greatest ever made, and the Duke's greatest performance
2) The Wild Bunch(1969) - Sam Peckinpah - Peckinpah reinvents the genre
3) Red River(1948) - Howard Hawks - The Cattle Drive!
4) Stagecoach (1939)- John Ford - Ford makes the genre respectable and The Duke a star.
5) Ride the High Country (1962)- Sam Peckinpah - The western as elegy; McCrea & Scott were never better
6) Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood - Clint reinvents the genre again
7) 3:10 to Yuma (1957)- Delmer Daves - Glenn Ford & Van Heflin superb in an Elmore Leonard story
8) High Noon (1952) - Fred Zinneman - Coop at his best in 24 like real time
9) Pale Rider(1985) - Clint Eastwood (also a superb ghost story)
10) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)- Sergio Leone - The spaghetti western as art
Honorable Mention: Shane - George Stevens - conscious myth-making plus Jack Palance as the villain of villians
TV:
1)Lonesome Dove
2)Have Gun Will Travel
3)Gunsmoke
4)Maverick
5)Bonanza
6)The Lone Ranger
7)The Westerner
8) Cheyenne
9) The Rifleman
10) Wanted Dead or Alive
2006-06-10 19:24:29 · answer #1 · answered by Theatre Guy 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Man With No Name Trilogy: (A fistfull of dollars; The good the bad and the ugly; For a few dollars more)
Unforgiven
Quigly Down Under
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Alamo (the recent one)
The Magnificent Seven (the original one)
Dances with Wolves
Hang 'em High
Joe Kidd
Stagecoach
High Noon
Two Mules for Sister Sara
True Grit
Rooster Cogburn
The Sons of Katie Elder
Major Dundee
Will Penny
Ok, so thats more than 10, but those are all great westerns. They are all worth watching over and over.
2006-06-11 06:14:16 · answer #2 · answered by Bradly T Weatherford Jones 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are my choices. McClintock, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, True Grit, Chisum, Rooser Cogburn, Once Upon a Time in The West, Bad Girls, True Women, Big Jake, and Fort Apache.
2006-06-11 02:33:26 · answer #3 · answered by wolflady 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cowboys
Lonesome Dove
Big Jake
The Comancheros
Pale Rider
ElDorado
The good the bad and the ugly
Young guns
Two mules for sister sarah
The man who shot LIberty Valance
2006-06-11 02:26:35 · answer #4 · answered by dixieprincess@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate Westerns...but for some reason I watch Young Gun I & II. Alot. I think I was Billy the Kid in another life or something. I have no idea why I frequently watch it.
2006-06-11 03:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by zenkitty27 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not in tis order
eldorado
the good the bad and the ugly
outlaw josey wales
rio bravo
red river
the cowboys
the shootist
support your local gunfighter
gunfight at ok corral
young guns
as far as movies go as far as tv shows
gunsmoke
bonanza
have gun will travel
the guns of will sonnet
laredo
high chapperell
matt dillon
rifleman
branded
maverick
2006-06-11 02:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by plato 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my list:
Shane
Firecreek
Tombstone
Young Guns
High Noon
Magnificent 7
Rio Bravo
War Wagon
High Plains Drifter
Shootist
2006-06-11 02:17:59 · answer #7 · answered by macybluedawn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything done by john Wayne
2006-06-11 03:29:27 · answer #8 · answered by raven blackwing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the shootest!
true grit
the rest to john wayne/clint eastwood
2006-06-11 02:05:17 · answer #9 · answered by I Bleed Black & Gold 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HIGH NOON, THE SEARCHERS, SHANE, RED RIVER, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, THE WILD BUNCH, THE SHOOTIST, TRUE GRIT, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE, DUEL IN THE SUN.
2006-06-11 02:31:41 · answer #10 · answered by arrow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋