tell me some good western movies?

Answer 1

My favorite: The Cowboys

John Wayne stars as a rough and tough ranch owner who has to get his cattle to market. Unfortunately, gold was found in California, so all of the men are gone to find their treasure. So the only people around to help him herd the cattle is a group of boys. The movie is awesome. It even has some people who go on to bigger and better things later in life.

You won't regret watching this movie. If you watch it, e-mail me to let me know what you thought.

Thanks!

Answer 2

Unforgiven is probably the best western I've ever seen. The last 20 minutes are just chilling.

The Young Guns movies are quite entertaining and I liked the Quick and the Dead too although that was slightly hokey.

Then theres the classics like the Good the Bad and the Ugly and all those Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns.

...and lets not forget Blazing Saddles either....

Answer 3

There are a lot of great Westerns - heres a variety of some great ones:
Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood's best performance
Man Who Shot Liberty Valence - (the myth)
Both of these movies exam the Western Myth and are just great movies
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Humphrey Bogart in a great story about the effect of greed
Shane - the quiet, reluctant hero who uses violence only as a last resort
Tombstone - a fun, action packed western
Lonesome Dove - Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones in some of the best acting in a Western you will ever see
The Searchers - John Wayne in a tale about obsession
True Grit - John Wayne at his comedic best
Silverado - pretty good 90s western
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - one of the great Westerns directed by John Ford, the genre's greatest director
and of course - Blazing Saddles - the funniest movie ever made
This is a good list - and theres hundreds more

Answer 4

McClintock, Big Jake, Rio Lobo, Rio Bravo, Chisum, Tombstone, Dances With Wolves, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Ft. Apache, Rio Grande, Bad Girls, True Women, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Two Mules For Sister Sarah, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, True Grit. Just to name a few.

Answer 5

My favorite Westerns:

1. The Searchers (1956): The legendary John Ford's greatest film, which is a psychological epic, revered for its for its visual richness and profoundly ambiguous critique of the genre's (and America's) racism.

2. The Wild Bunch (1969): Sam Peckinpah's classic appropriately pitched to the violence and nihilism of the times, The Wild Bunch presents a relentlessly pessimistic view of frontier life in 1913 as it gives way to modernity.

3. Rio Bravo (1959): Howard Hawks' story of men (and women) and a town under siege, which was actually created as an inversion to the 1952 film High Noon, to which both John Wayne and Howard Hawks felt great outrage.

4. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968): One of Sergio Leone's many revisionist Westerns, where an average revenge story is changed into a contemplation of the Western past, as the standard Western plot is changed through the visual impact of widescreen landscapes and the figures who populate them.

5. My Darling Clementine (1946): Considered one of the greatest classical Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine turns an idealized version of the Earp/Clanton shootout at the OK Corral into a story of how the West was won for the good of civilization.

6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962): In his elegy to the Western hero, John Ford reveals the facts while printing the western legend. To examine what was at stake in transforming the western wilderness into a civilized garden, Ford sets up the opposition between James Stewart's Eastern lawyer Ranse Stoddard and Lee Marvin's brutal outlaw Liberty Valance, with John Wayne's archetypal hero Tom Doniphon forced to intervene.

7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. The movie covers familiar territory about the end of western myths, but rather than in the Wild Bunch, it expresses its revisionism with tongue firmly in cheek instead of with brutal violence.

8. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971): Deconstructing the Western, Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller defied conventional myth-making with an oblique narrative steeped in Vietnam-era mistrust of American institutions.

9. Red River (1948): Howard Hawks' examination of capitalism and dueling masculinities in the rousing context of a Western cattle drive.

10. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966): The last and best film in Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy features Clint Eastwood reprising his role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner, or The Good, searching for a cache of stolen gold against rivals The Bad (Lee Van Cleef as a brutal bounty hunter) and The Ugly (Eli Wallach as a Mexican bandit). While the titular trio's quest seems simple, Leone renders the proceedings epic through the constant intrusions of a chaotic, war-torn universe.

Answer 6

Any movie with John Wayne is a good western and most movies with Clint Eastwood were good western movies.

Answer 7

True Grit
The Long Riders
The Cowboys
The Outlaw and Jose Wales
Wild Bill
The Legends of Frank and Jesse James
Rio Diablo
Outlaw Justice

Answer 8

'Little Big Man' - fantastic performances by Dustin Hoffman and Chief Dan George. 'The Wild Bunch', a real ode to the end of the Western era (film wise and time wise). 'Soldier Blue' a look at mistreatment of naitive Americans. 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly' - finest spaghetti western

Answer 9

"Culpepper Cattle Company" is the western I most liked out of the westerns that I've seen. Although I haven't seen more than maybe two dozen westerns in my life. I thought the story was pretty well told and engaging and many of the characters quite memorable.

Answer 10

High Plains Drifter
A small frontier town is worried and scared for it's future. Three men who murdered the sheriff in front of the whole town have been released from jail and are heading back to take revenge on the town. When a stranger comes into town, he is offered anything he wants if he will help defend them against the men. The stranger accepts but both he and the townsfolk have hidden agendas.

my fav by Clint Eastwood...Outlaw Josey Wales is good too.

Once Upon a Time in the West
Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
even western fans miss this classic. Once seen, you understand. Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Henry Fonda and Woody Strode.
Red hot! written by Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci ....directed by Sergio Leone...of course.


The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.
The classic film about lynch mob justice in the old West. Its hard to look away once the movie gets going. And it doesn't get any prettier. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn...Harrowing bit of celluloid.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The teaming of Humphrey Bogart and John Huston in six films beginning with The Maltese Falcon in 1941 is one of the great collaborations of actor and director in American films.
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre is the very best work of both of these film legends. It is easily one of the ten greatest American films of all time.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is a classic tale of the elusive search for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains by a trio of ill-matched prospectors...an intense character study showing the corruptive and cancerous effects of greed on the souls of men. It is the definitive film on greed in the western genre. An unforgettable piece of work.

Warlock (1959)
This is a landmark western--a powerful, haunting western that gets inside you like termites to a tree. Featuring dark, complex performances from Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn, and Dorothy Malone, Director Dmytryk has crafted a film that must stand alongside the best of Ford, Hawks, and Mann.
There are no heroes in the town of Warlock, only victims and those that take advantage of victims. The town is being ravaged by a group of cowboys that take law into their own hands and take pride in knocking off every new sheriff that stands up to them. Enter Fonda, a gun-slinging marshal hired by the town council to do what a legal sheriff cannot--kill the killers.
There are few speeches in "Warlock." People talk like they belong with the dust and tumbleweeds and nobody stops to explain themselves. With a couple of audacious cuts in the opening ten minutes, the filmmakers immediately establish that we're entering a place where you're never going to feel comfortable. Perhaps influenced by the jump cutting of the French new-wave emerging at the time, Dmytryk does not completely jump, but he does distract--and the same effect is created. Motivations will be unclear, loyalties will be questioned, and no one will be trusted.

The Professionals (1966)
Wealthy Texan Ralph Bellamy hires four mercenaries (Lancaster, Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode) to track down his kidnapped wife and return her to safety. The kidnapper, Palance, just happens to be a leader of the Mexican revolution, hiding in the desert.
There are plenty of twists and turns as you would expect of the genre, but so much terrific character development that you would never expect. What other action film can you think of where the climactic confrontation turns out to be a conversation about human nature and the self-serving motivations of revolution? And it actually works? Man, what a movie. Smoking!!!