Author Topic: OK! What is your favorite western? (Read 11754 times)

Cosmoline · « **Reply #25 on:** December 27, 2006, 09:57:54 PM »

Quote from: Antibubba on December 27, 2006, 08:43:44 PM

Not my favorite (Unforgiven has that tied up) but a fun one is Paint Your Wagon(I think that's the title). It's a musical. What makes it memorable (and painful) is that both Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood have singing parts! shocked

Now see, THIS is a high crime. And I deny ever singing "Hand me down that can of beans" in the shower.

S_O_Laban · « **Reply #26 on:** December 27, 2006, 10:56:13 PM »

Quote from: wmenorr67 on December 27, 2006, 08:32:59 PM

Another good one I like is "A Fistful of Dollars."

I too, am a big fan of the "spaghetti westerns," but much prefer "For a Few Dollars More" and (one I haven't seen mentioned yet) "Shalako" with Brigitte Bardot and Sean Connery.
I Think the musical scores and the rather raw directing are what I like about them.

I like The Duke also, and consider "Stagecoach", "The Searchers" and "Rio Bravo" among my favotites.

"Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is definetely a classic.

When it comes down to old fashioned revenge..... "High Plains Drifter" is right at the top.

Actually "Mavrick" was kinda fun to watch, and speaking of fun, my wife and I love Bob Hope's Paleface movies. More slapstick comedy than western. cheesy

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #27 on:** December 28, 2006, 03:05:01 AM »

Quote from: S_O_Laban on December 27, 2006, 09:56:13 PM

Quote from: wmenorr67 on December 27, 2006, 08:32:59 PM

Another good one I like is "A Fistful of Dollars."

I too, am a big fan of the "spaghetti westerns," but much prefer "For a Few Dollars More"

And just when I was finally getting some respect. angry

No, I agree with you, SO. FFDM is better. If this weren't the Westerns thread, though, I would also recommend Yojimbo.

mustanger98 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 28, 2006, 12:46:34 PM »

Quote from: Antibubba on December 27, 2006, 08:43:44 PM

Not my favorite (Unforgiven has that tied up) but a fun one is Paint Your Wagon(I think that's the title). It's a musical. What makes it memorable (and painful) is that both Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood have singing parts! shocked

I recall somebody said that's the most violent movie Clint Eastwood ever made. They said when Clint sings, that's violence. IIRC, that was at a B-day roast they did right after Clint had filmed the one where he played Gunny Hiway... also IIRC, I think it was Don Rickles that got up there and asked him if he got a haircut from Stevie Wonder.

Waitone · « **Reply #29 on:** December 28, 2006, 04:26:29 PM »

For TeeVee westerns can't beat Rawhide. Eastwood made his start. However the best western star in my view was Eric Fleming (Gil Favor in Rawhide). By the story line he was a Philadelphia dandy who went west. I think he just epitomized what a western character ought to be. He died shooting a movie somewhere in South America.

mustanger98 · « **Reply #30 on:** December 28, 2006, 06:29:45 PM »

I always enjoyed watching Rawhide when I was a kid back in the late 1970's and '80's. grin

My sister and I both... we liked Clint Eastwood's "Rowdy Yates" character a whole lot better than some of his later stuff.

Gil Favor... I recall the episode where his two daughters joined them on the drive. They told some about him having a family... that was the first time I ever heard about that. As for him being a dandy, I wouldn't have thought of it. Seemed to me he was a little too cool in the way he handled some of the situations.

Eric Fleming... he was 41 when he died.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281661/

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He filmed "The Glass Bottom Boat" in 1965 and contracted with MGM-TV to film the two-part adventure series "High Jungle" in Peru. During the shooting of location shots on the Huallaga River on September 28, 1966, Fleming dove from a dug-out canoe after paddling it beyond the rapids. His body was lost in the turbulent water and was not recovered until three days later.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #31 on:** December 29, 2006, 04:32:26 AM »

Quote from: Antibubba on December 27, 2006, 08:43:44 PM

Not my favorite (Unforgiven has that tied up) but a fun one is Paint Your Wagon(I think that's the title).

I tried watching that once, but I couldn't get past the, uh, full-figured lady who was hoping to be raped.

Silver Bullet · « **Reply #32 on:** December 29, 2006, 08:55:33 AM »

If we're including tv ...

High Chaparral

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #33 on:** December 29, 2006, 09:48:04 AM »

We watched "Broken Trail" on AMC the other evening, starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Hayden Church ("Lowell" from Wings). Nicely done.

slzy · « **Reply #34 on:** December 29, 2006, 10:28:21 AM »

from the sublime to the ridiculous, Fort Apache and F Troop.

Ben · « **Reply #35 on:** December 29, 2006, 11:18:44 AM »

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starring Robert Duvall

I was never a big fan of Duvall, until the Westerns he's done these past few years. Broken Trail, Open Range -- he's the consummate knowing, older cowboy.

Silver Bullet · « **Reply #36 on:** December 30, 2006, 08:28:49 PM »

Rustler's Rhapsody is a terrific parody.

I just rewatched Unforgiven, which I forgot to mention. Holy Ba-log-na, that movie pegs the needle in Grittiness.

gunsmith · « **Reply #37 on:** December 31, 2006, 01:44:37 AM »

I can not believe no one even mentioned "Once Upon A Time In The West"!!!

The good guy is about to rape the heroine but stops when he realizes
theres a guy that needs killing.
The Evil railroad owner tells the bad guy "I told you to scare them"
he replies "People scare better when they're dead"

I've seen some great Italian westerns, really grim and violent.
One memorable one has a Raquel Welch look alike
& in one scene the blows open her poncho...no undies!
If any a you kin recall the name of that one I sure would preciate it..yup!

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one of my fave's too

grislyatoms · « **Reply #38 on:** December 31, 2006, 04:43:30 AM »

When I was a kid, "Gunsmoke" was my favorite. I loved how Festus would always butcher the English language.

My favorite part was probably when the snake oil salesman came to town. Festus tells the snake oil dealer "You can't go sellin' that around here until we're sure it's fit for public conniption."

Movies?

I really liked "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Two mules for Sister Sara". "Unforgiven" gets an honorable mention.

I also have to confess to enjoying "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams". Can't imagine why. laugh

Another little Festus tidbit, from IMDB:

Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: [Festus offers to buy Doc a beer with a silver dollar that he earned from shoeing horses in episode "Whelan's Men".] Why don't you take that money and invest it in something? Why don't you do that?
Festus Haggen: Invest it in what?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: There's wonderful land values outside of Dodge. Now why don't you go out there someplace, look around, and buy yourself a lot?
Festus Haggen: A lot of what?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: A lot! A lot of land!
Festus Haggen: Well fiddle, I can't afford to buy a lot of land. You probably could the way you've been a bilking and gouging...
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: Oh, hush up! I'm trying to help you, for heaven sakes. It don't cost a whole lot to buy a little lot.
Festus Haggen: What do you mean it don't cost a whole lot to buy a little, or a whole lot to buy a lot, what do you mean?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: Well, I mean,... a little lot of land!
Festus Haggen: But there ain't no such a thing. A little's a little, and a lot's a lot, there ain't no little lot, or lot of little, don't you see? Now you want that beer or don't you?
Dr. Galen 'Doc' Adams: No I'm... I'm all worn out.
Festus Haggen: [and as Doc walks away Festus Hollers] If you change your mind me and Newly will be over at the Longbranch having a whole lot of little beers.
[Chuckles and flips his silver dollar]
Festus Haggen: Now I'm buying.

RocketMan · « **Reply #39 on:** January 01, 2007, 12:59:10 PM »

Lots of good stuff mentioned so far.
How about "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" with Paul Newman. A funny movie, that one.

Silver Bullet · « **Reply #40 on:** January 01, 2007, 01:15:49 PM »

I forgot to mention McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Very edgy realism, one of those movies from 1968-1972 that made me feel like I was right there in the middle of the action.

In most movies, only one actor is talking at one time. Not as bad as stage theater, where one actor is talking center stage and the other actors are all looking at him. In McCabe, though, in many scenes the actors on the sidelines are all having their own conversations; very lifelike.

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #41 on:** January 01, 2007, 05:08:57 PM »

Quote from: gunsmith on December 31, 2006, 12:44:37 AM

I've seen some great Italian westerns, really grim and violent.
One memorable one has a Raquel Welch look alike
& in one scene the blows open her poncho...no undies!
If any a you kin recall the name of that one I sure would preciate it..yup!

Are you sure it wasn't Hannie Caulder? That was Raquel Welch, poncho and all.

-Jack

CAnnoneer · « **Reply #42 on:** February 10, 2007, 03:32:32 PM »

the Sergio Leone trilogy; Tombstone; Unforgiven. Everything else is derivative or sub-par.

Maser · « **Reply #43 on:** February 10, 2007, 03:41:12 PM »

Favorite movie is Unforgiven.

Favorite show is Gunsmoke.

Lee · « **Reply #44 on:** February 10, 2007, 05:04:29 PM »

That's a tough question. Once Upon A Time In the West and just about anything with Eastwood. But I have to say that the Lonesome Dove mini-series ranks right at the top of my list.

griz · « **Reply #45 on:** February 11, 2007, 03:45:13 AM »

Most of my favorites are already listed. But for a comedy western try El Diablo.

One exchange:

Hero to what is presented as a Villian at first: "You shot him in the back!?!"
Villian, "His back was to me".

Laurent du Var · « **Reply #46 on:** February 11, 2007, 04:49:48 AM »

"The good, the bad and the ugly"

"My name is nobody"

Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, anybody ?

Iain · « **Reply #47 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:19:08 PM »

Saw some of El Dorado today. Always liked it.

280plus · « **Reply #48 on:** February 11, 2007, 04:25:56 PM »

Unforgiven

Antibubba · « **Reply #49 on:** February 11, 2007, 09:25:15 PM »

Does Blazing Saddles count? laugh

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Author Topic: OK! What is your favorite western? (Read 11754 times)