What's your favorite western?
I don't care if it's the low-budget spaghetti westerns or the most elaborate prodcution ever.
Just your favorite and why.
Mine is: Hell Bent for Leather.
I love the character that Audie Murphy and how he has to fight to clear his name and develops a sweet relationship with the girl he basically kidnaps.
2007-03-13 08:28:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I've seen most of the movies mentioned. I didn't know that there were so many western fans.
2007-03-14 09:52:29 · update #1
1) The Searchers. The most intense role in John Wayne's career. Beautifully shot as well.
2) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Hollywood westerns at their modern finest. Not very gritty but lots of fun.
3) The Wild Bunch. The best violent western ever.
4) Unforgiven. Great introspective piece for Clint, awesome ending.
5) The Gunfighter. While the least amount of action, maybe the smartest written western.
honorable mentions:
The Magnificent Seven
Fort Apache
Stagecoach
Bend of the River
My Darling Clementine
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Red River
True Grit
Pale Rider
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
High Noon
Winchester '73
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Professionals
many more...
2007-03-14 04:16:24 · answer #1 · answered by Bob Mc 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood says in the DVD featurette that the film is everything he always wanted to say about the Western. I like the movie, because it has an anti-hero in the character of Bill Munny (played wonderfully by Clint Eastwood). I like that the film has some feminist qualities to it -- the prostitutes stand up for themselves. I like the character of the biographer; he creates impossible myths about the greatness of Bill Dagget (excellently performed by Gene Hackman).
In the end, Unforgiven turns the Western on its head: The sheriff (Dagget) is evil and immoral, and the outlaw (Munny) goes out killing one more time in order to set things right, to do justice. Nonetheless, the viewer gets the feeling that he knows he's hell-bound as he rides off, not into the sunset, but into a dark and stormy night.
2007-03-13 09:32:23 · answer #2 · answered by God_Lives_Underwater 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is easy for me because I just watched High Noon with Gary Cooper. Gary Cooper plays Marshal Will Kane. He has spent years cleaning up his town and was ready to settle down with his pacifist Quaker fiancee. As he's getting married and ready to move away from his town he hears of an outlaw that he had sentenced to death was just pardoned and is coming back to town seeking revenge.
The rest of the movie Will is trying his best to rally together a posse to defend the town but no one wants to fight this killer. They're all afraid. Even his deputies are yellow.
The movie was controversial because it is said to reflect the Hollywood Blacklisting of the time. John Wayne was so taken aback by the film that he filmed Rio Bravo 7 years later as a response.
It's an intense realistic film that predates the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti westerns and I really love it.
I have a Wiki link here that talks about the film, but I recommend you see it and read the article later because it's rife with spoilers.
2007-03-13 09:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by njjet200 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Once Upon a Time in the West"
Sergio Leone's masterpiece, and the greatest Western ever. Impeccable casting (including Henry Fonda as about the baddest bad guy in movie history), a phenomenal score by Ennio Morricone, a brilliant opening titles sequence...it's got it all.
2007-03-13 10:37:23 · answer #4 · answered by shkspr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vengeance Valley with Burt Lancaster. It's a Cain and Abel story.
No, wait. Santa Fe Trail with Erroll Flynn.
Oh, I choose both.
Blazing Saddles, hands down.
2007-03-13 08:43:08 · answer #5 · answered by Britney S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The grittiest and most realistic western I've ever seen is LAWMAN with Burt Lancaster. He portrays a town marshall who pursues a gang of young thugs to another town to bring them to justice. When they resist, Lancaster shows them that they're making a big mistake. Excellent oater!
2007-03-13 23:11:24 · answer #6 · answered by goaltender 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite Western would have to McLintock. I love Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne. I also love Patrick Wayne's character in it. If you haven't seen it, try it. The scene is of the Wayne's walking out of the den (after playing chess) to the music room is awesome...something about the way those men walked....:-)
2007-03-13 08:58:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything with Clint Eastwood is good. I'm also kind of partial to "High Noon." Western or not, that was just a great story.
2007-03-13 08:32:59 · answer #8 · answered by Film Jedi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Bridge Too Far.
This is because my Grandad's name was mentioned as he was one of the British Para Troops who were in that battle. There is a line that something like 'Corporal Brown!
That's my Grandad!!! X
2007-03-13 08:51:26 · answer #9 · answered by Fairy Dust :*:*: 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is The Good The Bad and the Ugly. Second place is True Grit.
2007-03-13 09:27:06 · answer #10 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋