JaxComet

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
High Plains Drifter
The Unforgiven
Tombstone
The Wild Bunch

Geofferson

Strong agreement. When I bought the Peckinpah box set last year, this was the only title I've watched a second time. Highly underrated.

I'd like to add another underrated Western to this thread:

harrydoyle

I hate to say it but after watching Tombstone over the week of the 4th, I think it's a little worse than I remember. I still like it, but there's something about it...it feels almost like a book-to-movie translation where some of the scene cuts are awkward. I think for the first time I'd rank it below Young Guns for westerns, and well below Unforgiven.

sundog

I'm afraid I can't understand the appeal of Tombstone. Val Kilmer is worth watching, but the movie has always rubbed me the wrong way. It always seemed like all of its strengths are just built upon the cache of previous westerns (and in itself, that's hardly a terrible fault, as the genre embraces archetypes so warmly). But there was nothing beyond that.

It's been many years since I've seen it in its entirety. I've tried watching it again, but Kurt Russell keeps turning me off. Any moment he is on screen, he's hiding behind that moustache.

sundog

It's certainly the most energetic Peckinpah movie I've seen. Who would have thought that Robards could surpass his Cheyenne role in Once Upon a Time in the West?

will travel

One my favorites is "How the West was Won".
Great musical score by Alfred Newman.
One heck of a cast: Carrol Baker, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Robert Preston, John Wayne, Andy Devine, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones, and Eli Wallach. And Narrated by Spencer Tracy.
Plus many other actors.

B5Erik

My #1 Pick is still



One hell of a great movie from one of the greatest directors of all time with one hell of a great cast.

Must See DVD.

iexx

Three not mentioned including a great non-western western:

Barbarosa crappy cover, great film


The Proposition






The Road Warrior


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chris_sc77

hey i mentioned the Proposition!
But seriously it is a great film and you can even pick up a used copy at Movie Galery right now for only $3 which is great cause the disk even has great extras.

HE Pennypacker

Recently saw DEAD MAN, which would probably make my Top 50 Western list.

Hokeyboy

In no order:

The Wild Bunch
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Searchers
The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Mosskeeto

Red River
The Ox Bow Incident
Stagecoach
The Searchers
If a Civil War setting qualifies then An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge (although it's a featurette) and comedy too, Buster Keaton's The General.

iexx

Whoops, my bad. chris_sc77 is right- go out and pick this film up. A sweet blind buy!