open range scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC6cnB-jpc0#)
Nobody could have played the scenes better than Robert Duvall {Boss Spearman} and Kevin Costner (Charley Waite).
...and Annette Bening. (Sue Barlow)
I hope this applies to this thread...but my fav western has to be The Searchers....
Ennio Morricone - Ecstasy of Gold (The Good, the Bad, the Ug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGe7iK1O-4#ws)
Which one did you like better, Lando?
One of the things that has always bugged me about these gunfight scenes is that Hollywood loses all sense of reality when it comes to how many bullets a SIX-SHOTTER can fire.
Open range was notorious for that. In one scene, Costner had as many as a extra-large 9mm clip.
Yes....Lonesome Dove was terrific.
Anything Robert Duvall does in the Western genre is a huge hit. Not that he made the series by himself.....
Way too much attention is paid to Brad Pitt and George Clooney, Roberty Duvall is 10 x the actor either man will ever be.
I thought Brad Pitt was very good in Legends of the Fall.
We'll call it a Western hybrid.
Blazing Saddles --Farting Cowboys- Greatest Fart Scene of All Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs#)
Can't help it!
For a Fistful of Dollars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYdbGHzaTk#)
Now THIS is a good one!
A Conservative Prayer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZUufk7KYQ#)
Shenandoah. Hollywood Endings! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IboJrIEDIoY#)
Darn you, Lando!
Clint Eastwood~Legend(Music by Ennio Morricone-Fistful of Dollars Soundtrack)(HD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6bjFNMJDc4#ws)
Good stuff. Whenever I see Lee VanCleef, I think of sinkspur. He used a LVC avatar for a long while.
greatest western shootout (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsA2UxYsgfQ#)
I would have thrown in the close of "The Shootist", the gunbattle on horseback from the original "True Grit", and the last fifteen minutes of "The Wild Bunch". :patriot:
I remember years ago reading an interesting commentary on Scott's westerns, or at least one of them, in which the author praised Scott's character for standing for what was right in the face of the relativism expressed by another character; something to the effect of choosing what is the right course and pursuing it to the end, whatever the outcome. I only wish I could recall where I read it so I could possibly find it (everything being on the net these days) and repost it here. Damn good article.
Aso, "The Wild Bunch" is one of my favorite all time films and I think Holden was perfect as the gang's leader. Another western on my favorite list is "Vera Cruz" with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. Both films, in their own way, deal with the concept of honor.
I hope this applies to this thread...but my fav western has to be The Searchers....
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/The_Searchers.jpg/220px-The_Searchers.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/The_searchers_Ford_Trailer_screenshot_%2831%29.jpg/220px-The_searchers_Ford_Trailer_screenshot_%2831%29.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/The_searchers_Ford_Trailer_screenshot_%284%29.jpg/220px-The_searchers_Ford_Trailer_screenshot_%284%29.jpg)
Agreed...no one's even close...MUD :patriot:
I'm a big Eastwood fan, but the Duke was simply larger than life...America was lucky to have him...MUD
I love a good western and have many DVDs in my collection. I find I am drawn to RANDOLPH SCOTT movies more than even John Wayne.
Joel McRea is also one of my favorites.
My favorite modern made westerns have already been listed by others.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the POTEET THEATRE in Oklahoma City! I and my niece did the murals on the walls. See them before they are painted over at the end of the run! 8888crybaby
Great thread, thanks for bumping it to the top, DCP...over a year old, too...COOL!!
Here's my favorite part of the movie ("Tombstone"), especially the scene at the train station.
Ever see James Garner's version of that scene in HOUR OF THE GUN.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061787/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sasVCtrFU8c
ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO
To hell with George Peppard and Dean Martin.
Give me Jeanne Simmons any day! {{{sigh}}} :thud:
I just love the words of DEAN MARTIN when they arrested a buffalo hunter........."We'll hang him right after the trial."
***.....and then he shoots him. FIVE TIMES! LOL!
edit: SIX TIMES!
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And when shown on Tv, after the de-violencing of TV in 1968, due to the murder of Bobby Kennedy, You see him pull his pistol and fire ONE SHOT. Then cut to the dead man laying there with six bloody holes in him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0vqQjaXLOU
How many of you can name the magnificent seven?
Yul Brynner.....James Colburn...Steve McQueen....Robert something or another.......LOL!
Watching a 1950's Western on cable right now....about an army outpost that was just notified that the Civil War had commenced with the attack on Fort Sumter.
Anyway, half the soldiers were born in the South and are allowed to leave the camp with Honorable discharges.
They run into the Sioux Indian chief, Red Cloud, who attacks the convoy....to the point that now the Union soldiers left behind at the fort are needed to rescue their Southern fellow soldiers.
The Southern convoy put up a defense alongside a 100 ft wide slow moving river/stream. The Indians had to cross the water to reach the convoy wagons, etc..
They are on horses. They are in the middle of ***king nowhere.
Since your ammunition is limited....WHY NOT SHOOT THE HORSES? Then they are at a minimum slowed down where you can take longer to aim your gun at them....and furthermore....it's a helluva long walk back to your teepee back at home.
I'll be the historical record will show the horses were the first targets, but in 1950's USA...on television? No way, Jose.
Watching a 1950's Western on cable right now....about an army outpost that was just notified that the Civil War had commenced with the attack on Fort Sumter.I'd venture a guess that it was a logistics issue. Horses are not as good at acting as humans, and getting one to act like it's been shot would've been pretty close to impossible.
Anyway, half the soldiers were born in the South and are allowed to leave the camp with Honorable discharges.
They run into the Sioux Indian chief, Red Cloud, who attacks the convoy....to the point that now the Union soldiers left behind at the fort are needed to rescue their Southern fellow soldiers.
The Southern convoy put up a defense alongside a 100 ft wide slow moving river/stream. The Indians had to cross the water to reach the convoy wagons, etc..
They are on horses. They are in the middle of ***king nowhere.
Since your ammunition is limited....WHY NOT SHOOT THE HORSES? Then they are at a minimum slowed down where you can take longer to aim your gun at them....and furthermore....it's a helluva long walk back to your teepee back at home.
I'll be the historical record will show the horses were the first targets, but in 1950's USA...on television? No way, Jose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqyojnM9tlc
Charles Bronson takes a trip to Boot Hill.
Great thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyA49IOXVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtI1KECVOUw
Just happened to catch an episode of MAVERICK, with James Garner and Wayde Preston titled THE SAGA OF WACO WILLIAMS.
Was not surprised...well, okay, I was surprised...that it was the #1 Maverick episode in terms of viewers of all time.
In the episode, Maverick runs into Waco Williams on the trail and Bret plans on getting a $2500 reward for turning in a wanted man that Waco is planning to meet in Bent City.
Bent City is a cattle town and there is a growing rift between them and the the settlers coming in to farm the land.
Waco Williams is the fastest draw that the town...and Bret has ever seen. One catch. He's NOT a gunslinger. His morals are unquestionable and he NEVER backs down from a fight...no matter the odds.
This episode took me right back to my childhood..the episode came out in 1959. It serves as a starting reminder on just how far we've fallen as a society and also how tidy things were back then. The good guys always deserved to 'win' and in 45 minutes without commercials...he did.
A truly enjoyable episode. Check it out.
http://www.primewire.ag/watch-793995-Maverick-The-Saga-of-Waco-Williams (http://www.primewire.ag/watch-793995-Maverick-The-Saga-of-Waco-Williams)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayde_Preston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayde_Preston)
BTW... This is a great thread.
Watching GUNSMOKE reruns....and just noticed that Doc Adams was actually a pretty sh*tty doctor.
Man or woman....they all die. Nobody ever heals except Matt..
hmmmmmm.........
The radio Doc was better that the TV one. In one episode, Doc got shot and he directed Matt to get the bullet out of him.
LOL!
I thought I saw that on the TV version too. Maybe not.
How long was it on the radio?
The radio Doc was better that the TV one. In one episode, Doc got shot and he directed Matt to get the bullet out of him.I think part of it was that they wanted to make Gunsmoke as realistic as possible—and quite frankly, frontier doctors didn't have a lot of resources at their disposal to help people out.
1952 - 1961. Used a lot of the radio scripts for tv.Indeed, and the original Matt Dillon was none other than William Conrad, later famous as Frank Cannon. Obviously Conrad didn't fit the physique of what they needed for a sheriff on TV.
So, as the story goes, they asked John Wayne (for advice, as he was believed to be too much of a star to consider stooping to the then-new technology of TV), who recommended James Arness…and the rest is history.
I love the Western genre.
Hollywood is sitting on a gold mine and isn't acting on it.
Maybe they have to wait until we die off, so they can make the Indians the good guys in the history books. :laugh:
Agree. My favorite genre also, sci-fi being a close second.For a time while I was still getting the Encore Western channel, I viewed a number of Indian war themed movies from the fifties and early sixties (can't think of any right now). Many of them were very sympathetic to the Indian point of view . But the left spread the lie that all Indian themed westerns prior to "Little Big Man" were anti-Indian and depicted Indians as sub-human savages. Simply not true.
The western genre gets a bad rap sometimes for always putting down the Indians. An awful lot of them showed a real respect for them though, which seems to have been buried in Hollywood history.
For a time while I was still getting the Encore Western channel, I viewed a number of Indian war themed movies from the fifties and early sixties (can't think of any right now). Many of them were very sympathetic to the Indian point of view . But the left spread the lie that all Indian themed westerns prior to "Little Big Man" were anti-Indian and depicted Indians as sub-human savages. Simply not true.
The 57 Greatest Westerns Ever, Ranked (Moviefone) (http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/the-57-greatest-westerns-ever-ranked/ar-BBtuzQp?li=BBnb7Kz#page=1)
Interesting. Thanks for the link. Would have had High Noon up in the top two or three though.
Interesting. Thanks for the link. Would have had High Noon up in the top two or three though.
Don't know what the ranking criteria was. Like yours, mine would have been different. It does make for conversation though.
I love the Western genre.It's the same reason you didn't see any war movies during the height of the Iraq War that depicted American soidiers in a positive light. All we got were a rash of anti-war movies that bombed, no pun intended. Anti-American, anti-white male liberals run things in Hollywood.
Hollywood is sitting on a gold mine and isn't acting on it.
Maybe they have to wait until we die off, so they can make the Indians the good guys in the history books. :laugh:
Some of the crap on that list shouldn't be IMHO and to say that I would rearrange it is a gross understatement! Lonesome Dove at #16??? You've GOT to be kidding me!"Last Train From Gun Hill" one of the greatest westerns ever is missing. Brokeback Mountain is on the list? You've got to be kidding me. Treasure of the Sierra Madre is one of my favorite movies, but sorry, it's not a western.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTJQYGkf-cc
Here's another one of my all time favorites....right up there with Shane!
"Why you're the most handsomest woman I ever saw!"
See my tag line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtblCZQXRsASergio Leone planned it that way. He wanted to the music to be a huge part of the movie. In the scene near the end of TGTBTU where Tuco is running in the cemetery looking for the grave with the loot, Leone deliberately extended the scene so the music of "The Ecstasy Of Gold" could fully play.
IMHO, the music score by Ennio Morricone in the "Spaghetti Western" series was a HUGE factor delivering Clint Eastwood his key to stardom.
Don't forget....we had only seen him in RAWHIDE up to that point.
Sergio Leone planned it that way. He wanted to the music to be a huge part of the movie. In the scene near the end of TGTBTU where Tuco is running in the cemetery looking for the grave with the loot, Leone deliberately extended the scene so the musice of "The Ecstasy Of Gold" could fully play.
I frequently play the themes from the spaghetti westerns in chonological order including The Ecstasy Of Gold. Great listening. To my mind, Morricone is the greatest western music composer ever.
P.S. The Ecstasy Of Gold is now the background music to some national tv ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PXlUjWz5M
I'm your huckleberry Tombstone scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbAFgD2mLo#ws)
One of the good ones in the Western genre! Of this generation anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PXlUjWz5M
I'm your huckleberry Tombstone scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbAFgD2mLo#ws)
One of the good ones in the Western genre! Of this generation anyway.
The Magnificent Seven (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0vqQjaXLOU#ws)
Which one did you like better, Lando?
One of the things that has always bugged me about these gunfight scenes is that Hollywood loses all sense of reality when it comes to how many bullets a SIX-SHOTTER can fire.
Open range was notorious for that. In one scene, Costner had as many as a extra-large 9mm clip.
For a Fistful of Dollars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYdbGHzaTk#)
Now THIS is a good one!
The hero never runs out, but the bad guys do!
Yep, that first one, that starts the whole Spaghetti Western genre, a good one, indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0vqQjaXLOU
How many of you can name the magnificent seven?
Yul Brynner.....James Colburn...Steve McQueen....Robert something or another.......LOL!
Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Robert Vaughn, Horst Bucholtz. :patriot:Dexter is the one I could not remember
Dexter is the one I could not remember
...For “Godless,” executive producers Casey Silver and Steven Soderbergh took Scott Frank’s screenplay, which was originally written as a film, and expanded it into a seven-part limited series for Netflix.Full article (http://www.dailynews.com/2017/11/17/why-netflixs-godless-is-the-western-youve-been-waiting-for/)
The series is a wild ride, an old-fashioned Western with a contemporary edge. It carries the sweep and breadth of a grand tale with the larger-than-life ornery characters you expect to find living and dying in that rugged, lonely land...
The entire series – which plays like a seven-hour movie – was directed by Scott Frank from his screenplay. He keeps the tension throughout without over-hyping scenes. Death is bad enough. Using natural light, the cinematography from Steven Meizler, who has filmed for Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh, infuses the scenes with the unease of vulnerability...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0743118/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0743118/)I never saw this episode. This was a great series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrOvtTGLlGg
Ronald Reagan as Capt Paul Winters.
Dexter is the one I could not remember
I have been home this week. Sick since Sunday. I only had a 3 day work week, so it hasn't been all bad. Getting over some respiratory virus thing. Got to watch a few old good westerns again on cable.
Jubal
(Under appreciated- Filmed in Wyoming, great scenery. The cast has Glenn Ford, Ernest Borginine, Charles Bronson, Rod Steiger)
Original True Grit
Man from Laramie
I also saw a really bad one, with one of my favorite Western actors, sorry to say. Ben Johnson in "Return to Bonanza" . The bad guy actually pulled an automatic pistol. The train boxcar was a modern metal one. Just terrible. Felt sorry for Ben Johnson.
All good ones, @GrouchoTex !Stewart remains my favorite actor of all time. Only rival I can think off the top of my head is Henry Fonda.
Anything Jimmy Stewart did was worth watching.
...even noticed a remake of 'his' Winchester 73 this week, but Stewart is a tought act to follow.
Stewart remains my favorite actor of all time. Only rival I can think off the top of my head is Henry Fonda.I just watched, "Once upon a time in the West" again, With Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.
No coincidence he could act in Westerns, dramas and of course Alfred Hitchcock movies.
If you like westerns and horror, and haven’t seen Bone Tomahawk, do yourself a favor and get on it.
Will look into it..... thanks.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuGmtoQBPEM#)
Damn!! :patriot: