Rocketdog2000

Ok folks, been on a westerns kick lately - which is sort of surprising, as I was never much a fan of the genre before. Still, I was hoping to get some recommendations of some "Classics" I should check out, that I may not have seen yet. Pretend I haven't seen anything, and just give your Top 5 films to see, and I'll form a consensus of what to check out from there.

Thanks in advance!

Cosmic Bus

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Great Silence
Django
Seven Men From Now
Companeros

chris_sc77

1.Once Upon A Time In The West
2. The Good The Bad & The Ugly
3.The Searchers
4.The Proposition
5.Tombstone

plus a few more if you are interested:
6. Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8. The Magnificient Seven
9. Pale Rider
10. 3 Godfathers
11. My Name is Nobody
12. For a few Dollars More

Also Deadwood (seasons 1-3) is very good. and I havn't got around to watching all of it but El Topo looks really good.

dhmac

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Once Upon a Time in the West

Red River

The Searchers

The Wild Bunch

Apone

Dances with Wolves
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Johnny Guitar
The Searchers
Unforgiven

Joe Molotov

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Searchers
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. Tombstone
5. Unforgiven

Guilty Pleasure Pick: The Quick and the Dead

Ginwen

I second this list, although it saddens me there is no place for For A Few Dollars more on it.

Al_Tahoe

1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. The Wild Bunch
4. The Searchers
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales

Basically, any western that starts with 'The'

Manco

Since everyone else named some of the standards I'll throw in some others.

Warlock
Shane
3:10 to Yuma
One-Eyed Jacks
High Noon


A few others others:
Ride the High Country
The Shootist
The Gunfighter

HE Pennypacker

I'm surprised to see not one mention of OPEN RANGE, which is one helluva film.

cfloyd3

If it is directed by Sam Peckinpah then see it.
If it is directed by John Ford then see it.
If it is directed by Sergio Leone then see it.

Others...

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Forty Guns
Red River

FiveO

I'd second Open Range.

Also agree with Unforgiven.

Charlie Goose

All very true

AND

If it stars Clint Eastwood then see it.


A few others, maybe lesser known

The Fastest Gun Alive
Johnny Concho
The Sons of Katie Elder
Five Card Stud
Young Billy Young
Nevada Smith

d2cheer

Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Tombstone
Unforgiven
Chato's Land/ Silverado (tie)

Banky

Some that no one has listed:

Winchester '73
Broken Arrow
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

wendersfan

Rio Bravo
The Searchers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Once Upon a Time In the West
Winchester '73

dick_grayson

The Searchers
High Noon
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon A Time in the West
Red River

Mountain Biker

1. Tombstone
2. High Plains Drifter
3. For A Few Dollars More
4. Ride the High Country
5. Pale Rider

Geofferson

No mention of Shane?

My list:
The Searchers
Shane
Once Upon a Time in the West
High Noon
My Darling Clementine
(My #6 would be Butch Cassidy and Sundance... I appreciate it more with each viewing)

ktown

maverick


honorable mention:
shanghai noon
wild wild west (will smith)
bad girls
quick and the dead

naitram

Stagecoach
The Searchers
The Furies

I really enjoyed Broken Trail recently too, though it's a made-for-tv thing.

wendersfan

I really don't care much for Shane. Lovely to look at, but kinda static and stagy IMO. High Noon bores me to tears, but I'm glad you posted My Darling Clementine since it would be in my top 10 easily, along with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (talk about stagy... )

Zen Peckinpah

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. The Wild Bunch
4. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
5. Dead Man

Also be sure to watch any other Western directed by Leone or Peckinpah. Unforgiven and Butch & Sundance are honorable mentions.

souvenir

Winchester '73
Bend of the River
The Naked Spur
The Far Country
The Man from Laramie

If you haven't seen the Mann-Stewart westerns then you've missed some key films from the genre.

f1shf00d

This is what I would watch if I had a weekend for it:
Wild Bunch
Unforgiven
Blazing Saddles (not officially a western)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (not offically a western)
The Good, the bad and the ugly
(actually, none of these are officially "westerns" in the traditional sense)

I want to catch True Grit again and The Long Riders and Bite the Bullet...so it would be a really long weekend.

I've never seen that Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid movie.