My 100 Favorite Westerns

On Oct 16, 3:32 pm, "Jim Beaver" <jumble....RemoveThis@prodigy.spam> wrote:
> I've only posted ones that I didn't find on other people's lists. (I'm
> surprised at some of my very favorites which didn't make anyone else's
> list.) Frankly, though, despite the Western being my favorite genre, I had
> trouble finding 100 Westerns that I absolutely adore. Some of the ones on
> my list don't really fall into that category. But I like all of them. And
> probably adore around half (of my whole list, not this reduced version).
>
> TEXAS TERROR (1935)
> WAY OUT WEST (1937)
> MAN OF CONQUEST (1939)
> FRONTIER MARSHAL (1939)
> MY LITTLE CHICKADEE (1940)
> VIRGINIA CITY (1940)
> DARK COMMAND (1940)
> THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES (1940)
> WESTERN UNION (1941)
> THE SPOILERS (1942)
> A LADY TAKES A CHANCE (1943)
> ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947)
> TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
> YELLOW SKY (1948)
> THE WALKING HILLS (1949)
> COLORADO TERRITORY (1949)
> LUST FOR GOLD (1949)
> STARS IN MY CROWN (1950)
> THE GUNFIGHTER (1950)
> VIVA ZAPATA! (1952)
> THE LUSTY MEN (1952)
> HANGMAN'S KNOT (1952)
> TRACK OF THE CAT (1954)
> BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
> THE LAST FRONTIER (1955)
> BANDIDO (1956)
> NIGHT PASSAGE (1957)
> DECISION AT SUNDOWN (1957)
> THE HORSE SOLDIERS (1959)
> THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY (1959)
> SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (1960)
> THE ALAMO (1960)
> NORTH TO ALASKA (1960)
> THE MISFITS (1961)
> THE DEADLY COMPANIONS (1961)
> LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962)
> HUD (1963)
> A BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY (1966)
> STAGECOACH (1966)
> THE STALKING MOON (1969)
> TRUE GRIT (1969)
> TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE (1970)
> THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (1970)
> A MAN CALLED HORSE (1970)
> THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB (1970)
> MONTE WALSH (1970)
> VALDEZ IS COMING (1971)
> McCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971)
> J.W. COOP (1972)
> JUNIOR BONNER (1972)
> WHEN THE LEGENDS DIE (1972)
> BAD COMPANY (1972)
> ULZANA'S RAID (1972)
> BITE THE BULLET (1975)
> HEARTS OF THE WEST (1975)
> HEARTLAND (1979)
> CATTLE ANNIE AND LITTLE BRITCHES (1981)
> BARBAROSA (1982)
> RUSTLER'S RHAPSODY (1985)
> WYATT EARP (1994)
> THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998)
> OPEN RANGE (2003)
> THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (2005)
> 3:10 TO YUMA (2007)
>
> TV MOVIES:
> LONESOME DOVE (1989)
> EL DIABLO (1990)
> CONAGHER (1991)
> SODBUSTERS (1994)
> RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE (1996)
> MONTE WALSH (2003)
>
> Jim Beaver



That's a pretty good list, most of the ones I've seen there I've
liked. I guess over the years Westerns have been my favorite genre
over the years. It certainly was when I was a kid - The first Western
I remember seeing was _ Riders of the Purple Sage_ (1941 version) -
The scene that sticks in my mind for some reason is one of an
unconscious masked rider being unmasked and the discovery that it was
a girl.

For a long time the title of _Night Passage_ puzzled me as he seemed
to have no relationship to the plot, fairly recently I found what it
meant and it was quite valid.

For some reason _ Lonesome Dove _ didn't grab me - I'm not too crazy
about Larry McMurtry in general.

Dave in Toronto
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Dave in Toronto wrote:

> For some reason _ Lonesome Dove _ didn't grab me - I'm not too crazy
> about Larry McMurtry in general.

They hung Jake, their old pard, mostly for rustling. They began the move
north after securing an investment from over the border. By rustling.

It abused coincidence considerably. You'd see someone at St Joe and then
they'd bump into them again up in Montana, and here come John Chishulm
and Wes Hardin meeting out in the open, and Famous Shoes was everywhere,
even though he was always on foot.

You think maybe McMurtry overdid the legectomy bit? How many times does
that happen out on the lone prairie? They whittled Gus down by one and
would've taken the other had he allowed it, and then in the sequel, here
comes the Captain and another leg off. What's that mean?



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On Oct 15, 11:39 am, Joe Gillis <FloatingInTheP....RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Top 20:
>
> Ride the High Country
> The Tall T
> 3:10 to Yuma
> Johnny Guitar
> The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
> Rio Conchos
> The Searchers
> Red River
> Silver Lode
> The Wild Bunch
> The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
> Ride Lonesome
> The Magnificent Seven
> The Oklahoma Kid
> One-Eyed Jacks
> Man Without A Star
> The War Wagon
> The Man from Laramie
> The Shooting
> Son of Paleface
>
> The Rest (in no particular order):
> Fury At Showdown (1957)
> The Day Of The Outlaw
> Bend Of The River
> Forty Guns
> Hombre
> Union Pacific
> The War Wagon
> Law And Order (1932)
> Cowboy
> The Law And Jake Wade
> Reprisal! (1956)
> Apache Drums (1952)
> The Big Sky
> For a Few Dollars More
> El Dorado
> The Virginian (1929)
> The Left Handed Gun
> Dodge City
> Silver River
> Warlock
> Texas (1941)
> No Name On The Bullet
> Flaming Star
> Seven Men From Now
> Shane
> High Noon
> Stagecoach
> She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
> Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
> The Far Country
> The Shootist
> The Big Silence
> My Darling Clementine
> Fort Apache
> The Westerner
> Winchester '73
> Destry Rides Again
> Will Penny
> Bandolero
> The Last Train from Gun Hill
> A Fistful of Dollars
> Broken Arrow
> Man of the West
> The Violent Men
> The Naked Spur
> They Died With Their Boots On
> The Mark of Zorro
> Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
> Once Upon a Time in the West
> The Big Trail
> The Professionals
> Blazing Saddles
> Vera Cruz
> The Unforgiven (1960)
> Northwest Passage
> Hour of the Gun
> The Hanging Tree
> The Big Country
> Wells Fargo
> The Plainsman
> Escape from Fort Bravo
> Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
> Cat Ballou
> Hondo
> The Last Hunt
> Drums Along the Mohawk
> The Iron Horse (1924)
> Rio Grande
> The Lone Ranger (1956)
> The Comancheros
> The Paleface
> Support Your Local Sheriff
> My Pal Trigger (1946)
> The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926)
> Tumbleweeds (1925)
> The Great Train Robbery (1969)
> Devil's Doorway
> The Scalphunters
> There Was a Crooked Man
> Comanche Station
> Day Of The Evil Gun
> The Marauders

Great list! You've probably forgot about more Westerns than I've seen!
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"Jim Beaver" <jumblejim.RemoveThis@prodigy.spam> wrote in message
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> I've only posted ones that I didn't find on other people's lists. (I'm
> surprised at some of my very favorites which didn't make anyone else's
> list.) Frankly, though, despite the Western being my favorite genre, I
> had trouble finding 100 Westerns that I absolutely adore. Some of the
> ones on my list don't really fall into that category. But I like all of
> them. And probably adore around half (of my whole list, not this reduced
> version).
>
> TEXAS TERROR (1935)
> WAY OUT WEST (1937)
> MAN OF CONQUEST (1939)
> FRONTIER MARSHAL (1939)
> MY LITTLE CHICKADEE (1940)
> VIRGINIA CITY (1940)
> DARK COMMAND (1940)
> THE RETURN OF FRANK JAMES (1940)
> WESTERN UNION (1941)
> THE SPOILERS (1942)
> A LADY TAKES A CHANCE (1943)
> ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947)
> TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
> YELLOW SKY (1948)
> THE WALKING HILLS (1949)
> COLORADO TERRITORY (1949)
> LUST FOR GOLD (1949)
> STARS IN MY CROWN (1950)
> THE GUNFIGHTER (1950)
> VIVA ZAPATA! (1952)
> THE LUSTY MEN (1952)
> HANGMAN'S KNOT (1952)
> TRACK OF THE CAT (1954)
> BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
> THE LAST FRONTIER (1955)
> BANDIDO (1956)
> NIGHT PASSAGE (1957)
> DECISION AT SUNDOWN (1957)
> THE HORSE SOLDIERS (1959)
> THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY (1959)
> SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (1960)
> THE ALAMO (1960)
> NORTH TO ALASKA (1960)
> THE MISFITS (1961)
> THE DEADLY COMPANIONS (1961)
> LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962)
> HUD (1963)
> A BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY (1966)
> STAGECOACH (1966)
> THE STALKING MOON (1969)
> TRUE GRIT (1969)
> TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE (1970)
> THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (1970)
> A MAN CALLED HORSE (1970)
> THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB (1970)
> MONTE WALSH (1970)
> VALDEZ IS COMING (1971)
> McCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971)
> J.W. COOP (1972)
> JUNIOR BONNER (1972)
> WHEN THE LEGENDS DIE (1972)
> BAD COMPANY (1972)
> ULZANA'S RAID (1972)
> BITE THE BULLET (1975)
> HEARTS OF THE WEST (1975)
> HEARTLAND (1979)
> CATTLE ANNIE AND LITTLE BRITCHES (1981)
> BARBAROSA (1982)
> RUSTLER'S RHAPSODY (1985)
> WYATT EARP (1994)
> THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998)
> OPEN RANGE (2003)
> THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (2005)
> 3:10 TO YUMA (2007)
>
> TV MOVIES:
> LONESOME DOVE (1989)
> EL DIABLO (1990)
> CONAGHER (1991)
> SODBUSTERS (1994)
> RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE (1996)
> MONTE WALSH (2003)
>
> Jim Beaver

I've seen only a small percentage of the above.
Re:
"Riders of the Purple Sage". My father would have loved it.
He loved the Zane Gray books.

I remember a movie about an Indian who kidnaps a
woman and the movie seemed to be about a "cowboy"
who chases him. At one point the Indian tends to his horse,
giving it water, then when finished, turns to the woman, and
gives her water in the same way, outlining his priorities,
and her position in his world.
I loved this film.

Anyone remember the name of this film?
Whatever, it rates high in any list I could offer.

"Two Mules for Sister Sarah". The only Easwood Western
which has aged well for me.

"Guns For San Sebastian"
"Viva Villa"

I find it interesting that "Chisum" isn't mentioned much.
The character Wayne played was not an easy one to
like, but I thought it typical of a number of characters found
in Westerns, and the "Chisum Trail" seems to be part of the
mythology of the West. Wayne made a number of films in
which I detected the same character traits.

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"Stone me" <stranger.RemoveThis@corrall.msx> wrote in message
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> I find it interesting that "Chisum" isn't mentioned much.
> The character Wayne played was not an easy one to
> like, but I thought it typical of a number of characters found
> in Westerns, and the "Chisum Trail" seems to be part of the
> mythology of the West.

It's Chisholm Trail, and it's a different guy.

John Chisum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chisum

Jesse Chisholm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Chisholm

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"Jim Beaver" <jumblejim RemoveThis @prodigy.spam> wrote in message
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> "Stone me" <stranger RemoveThis @corrall.msx> wrote in message
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>>
>> I find it interesting that "Chisum" isn't mentioned much.
>> The character Wayne played was not an easy one to
>> like, but I thought it typical of a number of characters found
>> in Westerns, and the "Chisum Trail" seems to be part of the
>> mythology of the West.
>
> It's Chisholm Trail, and it's a different guy.
>
> John Chisum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chisum
>
> Jesse Chisholm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Chisholm
>
> Jim Beaver
Thanks for the correction and the links.

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