Doctor Gonzo

Wild West Magazine has published a special guide of their choice of the 100 greatest westerns of all time. You can find it in the magazine section at Barnes & Noble, borders...

Some interesting picks (and others quite odd) also includes reviews, ratings and best DVD extras




1. High Noon (1952)
2. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
4. Ride the High Country (1962)
5. Rio Bravo (1959)
6. Seven Men From Now (1956)
7. The Searchers (1956)
8. Shane (1953)
9. Tombstone (1993)
10. Red River (1948)
11. Winchester 73 (1950)
12. Stagecoach (1939)
13. Hang ’Em High (1968)
14. The Wild Bunch (1969)
15. Fort Apache (1948)
16. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
17. My Darling Clementine (1946)
18. Unforgiven (1992)
19. The Tall T (1957)
20. Destry Rides Again (1939)
21. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
22. Bend of the River (1952)
23. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
24. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
25. Blazing Saddles (1974)
26. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
27. Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
28. The Shootist (1976)
29. Major Dundee (1965)
30. The Professionals (1966)
31. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
32. The Unforgiven (1960)
33. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
34. Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
35. Dances With Wolves (1990)
36. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
37. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
38. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
39. Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
40. Last of the Mohicans (1992)
41. Little Big Man (1970)
42. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
43. Hombre (1967)
44. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
45. The Naked Spur (1953)
46. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
47. Quigley Down Under (1990)
48. The Gunfighter (1950)
49. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
50. The Alamo (2004)
51. True Grit (1969)
52. Heartland (1979)
53. Virginia City (1940)
54. Maverick (1994)
55. Duel in the Sun (1946)
56. The Westerner (1940)
57. Hondo (1953)
58. The Paleface (1948)
59. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
60. The Big Trail (1930)
61. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
62. Way Out West (1937)
63. Broken Arrow (1950)
64. The Big Country (1958)
65. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
66. The Far Country (1954)
67. Appaloosa (2008)
68. The War Wagon (1967)
69. The Missing (2003)
70. El Diablo (1990)
71. Ride Lonesome (1959)
72. Open Range (2003)
73. Jesse James (1939)
74. The Mark of Zorro (1920)
75. Yellow Sky (1948)
76. Will Penny (1968)
77. Lone Star (1996)
78. The Virginian (1946)
79. How the West Was Won (1962)
80. Two Rode Together (1961)
81. Hearts of the West (1975)
82. The Covered Wagon (1923)
83. A Thunder of Drums (1961)
84. Man From Snowy River (1982)
85. Dead Man (1995)
86. Ride With the Devil (1999)
87. They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
88. Blood Simple (1984)
89. Posse (1993)
90. Cat Ballou (1965)
91. Blood on the Moon (1948)
92. The Way West (1967)
93. El Mariachi (1992)
94. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
95. Johnny Guitar (1954)
96. Tall in the Saddle (1944)
97. Santa Fe Trail (1940)
98. The Great Silence (1968)
99. Riders in the Sky (1949)
100. The Man From Laramie (1955)

Solid Snake

debateable on some of them..but I do watch so few westerns. It's a genre that grows slowly for me...god, I love Leone.

Supermallet

No Leone in the top 10? Baffling. Also, Dances With Wolves should be number one on the list of worst westerns.

NoirFan

They rank The Great Train Robbery ahead of Johnny Guitar. That should tell you all you need to know.

RagingBull80

Should've been higher...

No High Plains Drifter?

Solid Snake

Hrm....Once Upon a Time In The West should be higher too. Probably the best example of a western being a literal art form.

DthRdrX

GBU at 42 debunks the entire list.

Dr Mabuse

Two, no three complaints leap out at me.

No 'Wyatt Earp'? Please... This is a glaring error that is really unforgivable. The fact that a complete failure of a movie like 'The Missing' makes it on a list with no 'Wyatt Earp' is a joke. Pathetic.

No 'Lawman'? A landmark film that is considered by many the turning point from myth/metaphor westerns into the realist western. Tour de force by Lancaster. This is the movie that would inspire and lead to films like 'Unforgiven', and 'Wyatt Earp', and 'Open Range'.

'Tombstone' at #9?

'TOMBSTONE'!?!?!

Over 'The Wild Bunch'?

Over 'One Eyed Jacks'?

Over 'Once Upon A Time In the West'?

ManWithNoName

The placement of Tombstone automatically flushes whatever credibility this list may have had down the proverbial crapper.

Super X

Any list where "Hang 'Em High" rates higher than "The Magnificent Seven" loses all credibility in my book.

Gerry P.

Any Top 100 Westerns list not including William S. Hart's Tumbleweeds is not to be trusted.

EDIT

It also has the mediocre remake of 3:10 to Yuma (clear up at #21!!!) with the original classic version nowhere in sight. Oof!

Brian Shannon

"Last of the Mohicans" a western?

Wrong historical period, wrong genre, wrong list.

SunMonkey

Wrong geographical region, too. I guess they figured because it had Native American characters that it was a Western. Certainly is out of place on the list.

No Country For Old Men?

GoldenJCJ

I would have liked to see Open Range, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Jeremiah Johnson higher on the list.


Last of the Mohicans? Blood Simple? What the hell?!

But any "Greatest Westerns" list that includes The Missing, Posse, and Maverick doesn't have a lot of credibility in the first place.

ytrez

Agreed. That's just silly.

superdeluxe

Tombstone invalidates the entire list.

Breakfast with Girls

I can't believe Wild Wild West (1999) isn't even on the list!

Geofferson

Seven Men From Now is good, but #6?

Mountain Biker

No High Plains Drifter (!), Pale Rider, or Young Guns?

List fails.

costanza

any list where one movie is ranked higher than another invalidates the whole thing for me. booo!

inri222

Torchur317

Mediocre remake? C'mon now it was one of the best remakes in recent years....
IMO it kills the original in every way....

Torchur317

I'm confused....
None of you like this film?

Solid Snake

I've never seen it to be honest...so I can't really say much about it. Though based on it's history of being popular...it's just not as heralded as...Unforgiven or Once Upon a Time in The West (a film that more people need to know about cuz it's really not mainstream with the general public).

superdeluxe

I liked it, just don't think its a all time top 10 western.

heck I liked Wyatt Earp better than I did Tombstone.