Which are your top five Favorite Western Movie Films?

The Outlaw Josie Wales
True Grit
Lonesome Dove
Dances With Wolves
Little Big Man

(My husband is glued to the set every time Quigley Down Under comes on TV and I think we all know why. ;) )
 

Lady said:
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit
Paint Your Wagon
Shenandoah
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The scene that most stands out in my memory from Magnificent Seven is the one where many villagers are buried with only their heads exposed, and then are trample by riders on horses. Another is Steve Macqueen telling the youngest member of the Magnificent Seven to treat the Mexican girl gently because men should treat women very gently. The member of the Seven which impressed me most was the one who was skilled in throwing the knife.
 
IrisSenior said:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dances with Wolves
Lonesome Dove
The Unforgiven
How the West was Won

I could have named more...
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Naturally said:
Those listed so far would be in my list of top contenders
Perhaps #1 would be Jeremiah Johnson ... "And some folks say, 'He's up there still'."
EDIT: Wait ... is that a Western? ... Wiki says it's a Western
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Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp. It is based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's 1965 novel Mountain Man.
 
Really don't care for westerns...
except for..
"The good, the bad, and the ugly"..
but,maybe it's that haunting theme..
that intrigues me.
And.. C E isn't 'hard to take'!😉
 
I see True Grit listed on a few lists. I am guessing that most are referring to the original 1969 True Grit. Personally I prefer the 2010 remake and it would be in my top ten. One other remake I preferred over the original was the 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma.
 
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. While LASTING LESS THAN A MINUTE, the gunfight has been the subject of books and films into the 21st century
 
I wasn't much into Westerns but did manage to come up with five of them.

The Long Riders
Unforgiven
Silverado
The Learning Tree (didn't know this was considered a Western, but it's on Indie Wire's 100 Best Westerns list)
The Magnificent Seven
 
MarkinPhx said:
I see True Grit listed on a few lists. I am guessing that most are referring to the original 1969 True Grit. Personally I prefer the 2010 remake and it would be in my top ten. One other remake I preferred over the original was the 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma.
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That's a good question in itself. I love both versions of True Grit and I had read the book before I saw either one. It's just a very good story and I like certain actors best in the old one and other actors best in the new one.
 
MarkinPhx said:
In no particular order....

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
High Noon
Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
Treasure of Sierra Madre

Bonus for The Lonesome Dove miniseries
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Agree with all your choices but would maybe put Treasure of Sierra Madre in another category as it's "modern."

I really like Shane, The Professionals, The Magnificent Seven, Hombre, Stagecoach, and Hondo. Two good ones I haven't seen mentioned are The Tin Star (excellent Henry Fonda) and my favorite, Winchester '73 with James Stewart.
 
Della said:
Hah! The second I read "James Stewart," I thought of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", too.
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Did you ever see James Stewart in the film Firecreek?
 

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