Not sure if you could consider this a western flick, but I'd recommend High Noon.

High Noon is definatley a western...a good one at that...

to chime in on the spaghetti western scene...these films also treated the west like a real place....where murder for gold was alright...as opposed to the classic good guys wear white hats....bad guys wear black hats.....

the diffrence is...clint eastwood will shoot a man in the back...john wayne wouldn't...

lot of good stuff here...keep it coming

Hey, Hey--the Duke shot LOTS of guys in the back . Three in one scene in The Searchers, and then that other movie, which would be a spoiler if I even mentioned the title.

I think you could argue that John Wayne played some darker characters than Eastwood ever did, actually--although I think they're both fantastic actors.

My vote goes to:
- Last Train from Gun Hill

Sam Fuller's Forty Guns is amazing - it's coming out on DVD (R1) this year.

Some favorite Italian westerns of mine:

Day of Anger
Django
Django, Kill...
Vengeance
Companeros
Boot Hill
Stranger's Gundown
The Great Silence

3 pages before somebody mentions The Searchers, and that's just in passing to prove a point.

THAT my friends is a damn shame.

nevermind...caught this on the first page.

Only a couple of decent modern westerns:

I'm a big fan of Tombstone. It's flashy, but you've just gotta love Kilmer's take on Doc Holiday. Plus it's a great DVD.

Unforgiven is terrific, and is by far my favorite Eastwood western. I like to think that it's the conclusion of the "Dollars" movies.