No at all a classic, but one of the best western in the last couple of years:

The Ballad of Lefty Brown (Bill Pullman as an aging sidekick of a once well known gunslinger). Pullman delivers a very strong performance, this one really suprised me.

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971)

I love this one a whole bunch, but it never seems to get mentioned much when discussing great westerns:

Young Guns II

I've heard of this, but never realized the unique casting. Luckily this is on Netflix!!

Lest not we forget





And a couple I love

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streaming on HBO Max.

For those who may be interested, the Hoopla digital streaming service included with some public library memberships has a ton of old westerns from the 30s, 40s, and 50s (and more recent ones, too).

Back to the Future part III. Seriously. It's essentially a comedy western. It has heart, spirit and pluck and ends the trilogy in a satisfying way.

I haven't seen it either (Westerns are not my "go-to" genre of film) but all you need to see on that poster is "directed by Walter Hill" to know it will be good. I'll be checking it out sometime this summer as well.

Hombre, starring Paul Newman is a good one.

I just watched this for the first time, on NETFLIX, a few nights ago.

Magnificent. 8 out of 10. Action packed and great performances. If the studio hadn't demanded 20 minutes of excised character moments, it might have been a classic. But as it's stands, it's really, really good.

Here's a great sequence from Warlock (1959)...

(DeForest Kelley is a scene stealer throughout the movie!)

Hell or High Water. It’s like it got accolades and no one talks about it anymore. Like a lost great modern western.

The French adaptation of Lucky Luke with Jean Dujardin as Luke. I have the French BD import and it is awesome and hilarious at the same time:

I feel like the Cheyenne Social Club is never talked about as much as it should be, James Stewart and Henry Fonda are fantastic in it.

Lonesome Dove
McCabe and Mrs. Miller

I think you're talking underappreciated not underrated.

Another vote for The Gunfighter (1950):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV0uPiAswSc

This movie was really ahead of its time by stripping away the romance of being the top gun and examining the price of fame. I believe critics weren't too kind to it upon its release while audiences stayed away in droves.

Even now, it doesn't get much love. You know a movie has been forgotten when multiple copies have been posted online but the studio doesn't bat an eye.

It's odd how few fans talk about The Long Riders considering a) the inspired casting and b) that it's a Walter Hill joint. He directs the hell out of the Northfield bank robbery...easily one of the most memorable sequences I've ever seen in a western. I'm not sure what the critical consensus was back in 1980, but modern reviews seem to like this one well enough.

The Good, The Bad, and The Weird. Not only is it a western, but steampunk vibes all around.

Yeah, The Gunfighter is a great movie. Probably underrated, but more overlooked or forgotten.

Au contraire, THE GUNFIGHTER was a critics' favorite. Bosley Crowther, the New York Times' chief critic for decades, didn't always like westerns, but he gave this one a rave review back when his raves meant something. So did Variety. Its screenplay was nominated for an Oscar. When I first started reading film books about westerns when I was a kid, the three westerns considered classics back then were THE GUNFIGHTER, HIGH NOON and SHANE. Then, in college in the '70s I fell under the sway of auteurists who gravitated more to Ford, Hawks, Anthony Mann, Robert Aldrich et al and looked with disdain upon anything directed by Henry King, Fred Zinnemann, George Stevens and William Wyler, so those films and THE BIG COUNTRY were looked upon unfavorably by film teachers and younger critics when I was coming up. Since then, I've seen them all again and think THE GUNFIGHTER is the best of that bunch.

Here's Crowther's review of THE GUNFIGHTER (for some reason, the title is misspelled in the headline):
https://www.nytimes.com/1950/06/24/a...hter-with.html

Underrated,, and definitely under-appreciated, IMO



Available on Warner Archive. Kino, Scorpion (now OoP) Bds, respectively.

I'm half remembering a video about The Gunfighter's reception back in '50 and might be thinking of the reaction of studio executives rather than movie critics. Glad to hear at least someone appreciated the film back then. I guess reviewers were happy to see something different after sitting through countless westerns that were copying from one another.