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There are no less than eight Clint Eastwood movies amongst my Top 10 Westerns and the one thing I'll always remember about Clint is you should never ever make fun of his mule. Smile

My Top 10 Westerns (in chronological order)

1960: The Magnificent Seven - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZY_0tYmrs

1964: A Fistful of Dollars -

1965: For a Few Dollars More - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqLodn26CI

1966: The Good, the Bad & Ugly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCdwxmeM2A

1968: Hang 'em High

1968: Once Upon a Time in the West

1972: Joe Kidd

1973: High Plains Drifter -

1976: The Outlaw Josey Wales

1992: Unforgiven

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 01 2022 at 10:40

lazland wrote:

I don't have time to do a top ten at the moment, but, frankly, any list which does not include either Shane or The Searchers cannot possibly be a serious list.

I've never seen Shane or The Searchers. I don't generally watch films that are older than I am. Embarrassed

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 20 2022 at 10:13

True Grit (1969)

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In No particular order:

The Magnificent Seven
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
True Grit
Dances With Wolves
Little Big Man
High Plains Drifter
The Long Riders
The Shootist
The Searchers
Unforgiven

The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite. I'm also fond of (in no particular order):

Tombstone

Little Big Man

True Grit (2010)

Unforgiven

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

The Magnificent Seven

High Plains Drifter

Pale Rider

The Horse Whisperer

Jeremiah Johnson

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Cowboys

Once Upon a Time in the West

A Man Called Horse

Ride with the Devil

Slow West

Dances with Wolves

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The Searchers

The Magnificent Seven

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Blazing Saddles

High Noon

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Wild Bunch

Tombstone

Unforgiven

My dear friends, where is "The Wild Bunch"???? **

In Italy this western inspired the name of the most famous rock magazine:

"Il Mucchio Selvaggio"

A great, great masterpiece!

** except dwill

Edited by jamesbaldwin - October 22 2022 at 13:26

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moshkito wrote:

Hi,

Never really was a "Western" fan, me not having been born in America and seen so much of that time being romanticized into carboard and satire.

I tend to enjoy the difficult films that many like/don'tlike because they are so different from the mold, and they show a side that many did not like about the great American "heroes" as so many of these films tend to make them.

I like, for example, things like HEAVEN'S GATE, even though it is not quite a western, but shows the Westernized mentality of the rich folks that stole all the land in America. I could even deal with THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY, since it kinda was a serious setup and story, that was actually telling you that the Italian spaghetti westerns were crap, although fun to watch at the drive in during the days when you were on a drink or doobie and was more impressed with the girl that you were with the movie!

Of all the "westerns" there is only one for me that matters. THE WILD BUNCH ... it is much more than a movie and you know that you are getting a sight of real characters instead of cardboard mannequins.

One other film that stands out for me ... THE POSSE ... but I'm not sure that it will be appreciated for the excellent directing and cast in it! I have had thoughts that the film is "too black" for most viewers to appreciate ... so what? It's a great film!

Mosh.

I agree with you.

The Wild Bunch is much more than a movie, it is a vision of life!

As far as Spaghetti Westerns are concerned, as an Italian I think this:

They are commercial art films. They exploit emphatic, rhetorical scenes, they create characters, myths. Leone combines technique and artistry with a "low" style (a mix that Tarantino equaled only in his maturity, not in his early films), resulting in a winking, self-indulgent film that tends to overdo it. I like those films, I can't deny it, but it's a smug pleasure, cunningly achieved by clever use of the tricks of the trade. I do not consider them up to the standard of the best westerns, like

The Wild Bunch, or The Outlaw Josey Wales.

I grew up, like many Italians, seeing since childhood the two comic offspring of the Spaghetti Western: They Called Him Trinity /And They Kept Calling Him Trinity, starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, aliases of two Italian actors, director E. B. Clucher, where E stands for Enzo and B for Barboni: Enzo Barboni, not E. B. Clucher!

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In no particular order....

Little Big Man

A Man Called Horse

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Unforgiven

Tombstone

Blazing Saddles

Fort Apache

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Revenant

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A couple of comedies were mentioned so I thought I'd add another. Best western no, but an entertaining movie, "Cat Ballou". Lee Marvin won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Also, this was the last film that Nat King Cole worked in, as he died of cancer before this film was released.

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