Best Movies: Westerns

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Texas Across the River.
Paint Your Wagon.
My Name is Nobody.

 

Hey, two pages on this thread and nobody has cited RANDOLPH SCOTT!

 

Everybody knows when you go to the show you can't take the kids along
You've gotta read the paper and know the code of GPG and R and X
And you gotta know what the movie's about before you even go
Tex Ritter's gone and Disney's dead and the screen is filled with sex.

Whatever happened to Randolph Scott ridin' the train alone
Whatever happened to Gene and Tex and Roy and Rex the Durango Kid
Oh, whatever happened to Randolph Scott his horse plain as could be
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the best of me.

Everybody's tryin' to make a comment about our doubts and fears
True Grit's the only movie I've really understood in years
You gotta take your analyst along to see if it's fit to see
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the industry.

Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown and Alan Rocky Lane
Whatever happened to Lash LaRue I'd love to see them again
Whatever happened to Smiley Burnette Tim Holt and Gene Autry
Whatever happened to all of these has happened to the best of me.

Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the industry...

 

The Searchers & Red River

I Loved Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time In America (get the longest version you can find, this movie has been cut up so many times for TV that's it ought to have beebn a crime)

Stagecoach, only the Original with John Wayne is worth watching

One I'd see but not buy is War Wagon with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas

High Plains Drifter & Hang'm High

 

I agree with all the selections. A note: "Lonesome Dove" is a must.

But if you want a treat, read the book first. My favorite of all-time. It's a beast of a book, and I spent all last summer reading it, but it's an astounding piece of writing.

 

Wild Wild West [/sarcasm font]

 

That movie kicked so much ass! ;D

 

H_A,

Here's a fairly comprehensive year-by-year list.

http://www.cinemacom.com/westerns.html

Has no one suggested High Noon* or Left-Handed Gun yet?

Edit: *I see Mr. Jitters did so early on.

 

Sons of Katie Elder is one of my favorites Wayne westerns. El Dorado with Wayne and Robert Mitchum is up there too.

Outlaw Josey Wales is a movie that I'll watch anytime I come across it.

 

Geez, just about ANYTHING with Clint Eastwood in it is a must:

1) High Plains Drifter

2) Pale Rider

3) Hang 'em High

4) For A Few Dollars More

5) A Fistful of Dollars

 

I was wondering the same thing ... Has anybody got a dime???

 

We're gonna need a whole shitload of dimes!