while lonesome dove may be the best western novel ever, the best western film is the man who shot liberty valance.
mgj
If your talking westerns then I’d have to say Tombstone ,American Outlaws and Open Range are the 3 best westerns IMHO! later Matt
To each there own !
- The Searchers
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- Rio Grande
By the way JC, what’s the Water Buffalo password???
You instead could have become the Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler of the Raccoons and been entitled to be interred at the Raccoon National Cemetery in Bismarck, ND.
Best western?
Unforgiven
How did we get from Grand Poobah to Gilbert and Sullivan to Lonesome Dove to Rio Bravo to John Wayne to Don Quixote to rating westerns?
Anyway, I like Maestro over Grand Poobah and Rio Bravo, Ride the High Country and Joe Kidd in that order.
It was my fault, I already apologized, I didn’t want it to turn to this, and if we are doing our top 3 its Rio Bravo, Sons of Katie Elder, and Silverado. The Quiet Man is a great movie, but I don’t consider it a western, Maureen O’Hara is a beautiful woman. But I also like any movie with Dean Martin (my hero),and John Wayne movies are great, I would put the Three Godfathers (I never know if I get the title right) as one of my all time favorites. Ok again I am sorry, and I will refrain from any movie discussion again.
Drew
A bum-legged old man and a drunk. That’s all you got?
That’s WHAT I got.
OK…How about TV series…GUNSMOKE
HMMMM, tv shows, now thats different than movies.
A bum-legged old man and a drunk. That’s all you got?
That’s WHAT I got.
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- The Searchers
3.Centennial (the series)
my .03 RC
“Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught!” author unknown
I love old movies, love westerns, when good guys wore white hats (except Hoppalong Cassidy), and bad guys wore black hats.
Shane was a classic movie, that created a new style of western,just as "Star Wars created a new style of Science Fiction movies.
As for “Rio Grande”, and “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”, they were the two movies (of a three movie deal) that John Ford did so he could finally make “The Quiet Man”.
Most of the cast of “Rio Grande” and “She Wore a Yellow Ribbion” were the same cast as “The Quiet Man”. John Ford, had bought the movie rights to “The Quiet Man” back in 1936 when it was run as a serial, in the “Saturday Evening Post”, and it took him 14 years for find a movie studio, willing to let him film the movie.
There are many interesting cast members in “The Quiet Man”. The Protestian Minister was Berry Fitzgerald’s brother, as the elderly dying man (who got up off his death bed for the the fight) who was John Ford’s older brother. The children on the wagon, during the horse race with Maureen O’Hara, were John Waynes children, as was the dark hair depot clerk (John Wayne Agent), who was getting into a fight with the train engineer, over “…not knowing your Irish history!”
I loved “Lonesome Dove” and “Free Range”, Robert Duval is one of my favorite actors. Both owe their story line to “Shane” for the style.
~Parnelli
“Momma, don’t you let your babies, grow-up to be Cowboys…”
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Favorite western movies of all time:
High Noon
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Wild Bunch
Now for a new sub-sub-thread:
Worst western movie of all time - The Quick and the Dead
Jim
The worst movie of westerns is Little Moon and Jud Mcgraw or something like that, it had Sammy Davis Jr. and James Caan, it was horrible, no story it was filmed like an amature family vacation, uggh
A bum-legged old man and a drunk. That’s all you got?
That’s WHAT I got.
Paint Your Wagon.
Loved that flic…
Kerry,
You’re right…Paint Your Wagon is great…another one I liked was Cat Ballou & also Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart.
What was the serial with James Arness as the mountain man…was it How the West Was Won? Also like Selleck & Sam Elliott in those “Sackett” movies…for tv, I think.
Can’t beat a good western, can ya??
Mike
How about this. Lonesome Dove was a made for t.v. movie. So i guess it fits both criteria for t.v. and movie. Also I think Paint Your Wagon falls under musical… Just a thought.
That being said… Lets fish.
I’ve kept my peace too long. You have all missed the best western ever!!
Blazing Saddles
There is something in there to offend everyone. Mel Brooks once commented that the kind of regretted Blazing Saddles. He wished his best movie would have been later in his career. But he wasn’t actually complaining.