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Post by norseman on Oct 15, 2018 19:58:32 GMT -5
What are your top three westerns of all time?
Mine:
1) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
2) True Grit - John Wayne
3) Tombstone - Kurt Russel
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Post by volkssturm on Oct 15, 2018 23:24:16 GMT -5
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Post by norseman on Oct 16, 2018 0:08:12 GMT -5
Yakima Canutt was born on a ranch on the snake river just outside Colfax, Wa.
He taught John Wayne how to be a cowboy and was the stunt man that did the scene climbing through the teams while the stagecoach was racing full bore. He wrote the book for stuntmen in Hollywood.
Great 1st choice!
Lonesome Dove is a classic too! And ill have to watch the third choice! Thx!
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Post by volkssturm on Oct 16, 2018 1:21:17 GMT -5
Gary Cooper was born in Helena Montana to English immigrant parents. His father was a fairly well to do lawyer and rancher. His mother took him and his brothers to England to get a proper start at education, but he spent his teen years working on his father's ranch, so he probably qualifies as a genuine cowboy. One biographer said he wasn't overly fond of horses. He had enough injuries that riding wasn't comfortable.
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Post by norseman on Oct 16, 2018 12:33:50 GMT -5
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 18, 2018 0:18:31 GMT -5
For me:
She wore A Yellow ribbon. Actually the whole Col Nathan Brittles trilogy
Forgiven
3 Mules for Sister Sarah
True Grit (both versions were great)
Rio Lobo
The movie where John Wayne goes after his niece captured by Apaches
I guess thats more than 3!
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Post by norseman on Oct 18, 2018 0:30:35 GMT -5
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Post by volkssturm on Oct 19, 2018 12:24:31 GMT -5
"The Searchers" is maybe Wayne's best movie (imho).
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Post by norseman on Oct 19, 2018 12:32:19 GMT -5
"The Searchers" is maybe Wayne's best movie (imho). He had so many. Hondo was great. McClintock? Amazing. And as a kid I loved “The Cowboys”. The idea that John Wayne could rip you out of school and take you on a cattle drive? My hand was in the air. My favorite scene.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 23, 2018 17:36:58 GMT -5
The shootist was also a great movie and perhaps John Waynes best. This thread really got me thinking about all the great westerns. Some "modern" westerns that I really liked are No country for Old Men and Windriver. Set in the west, rural landscapes and essentially follow the template of a typical western but in contemporary times.
Another "Western" but set in Australia that I liked was Quigley with Tom Selleck who has several really credible westerns.
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Post by norseman on Oct 24, 2018 0:40:04 GMT -5
Hmmm yes, contemporary! I would have to say my favorite modern western would be “Last of the Dogmen”. youtu.be/znHjT9Av8Gw
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Post by norseman on Oct 24, 2018 0:41:27 GMT -5
And I liked the Sacketts too with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot! They do look like brothers!
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Post by aj czarkowski on Oct 24, 2018 17:40:30 GMT -5
Young guns
Tombstone
The Beguiled
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Post by volkssturm on Nov 3, 2018 12:15:45 GMT -5
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Post by norseman on Nov 4, 2018 11:27:08 GMT -5
Cool find!
Barabara Stanwyck goes on to become famous as the patriarch in “Big Valley”.
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Post by volkssturm on Nov 9, 2018 16:00:35 GMT -5
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Post by norseman on Nov 9, 2018 22:30:03 GMT -5
Thats too bad!
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Post by norseman on Apr 20, 2019 1:07:37 GMT -5
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Post by 2nd Bat on Apr 20, 2019 21:21:52 GMT -5
I thought the best Western movie opening scene waz Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: "Rules" there are no rules in a knife fight. "
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Post by norseman on Apr 20, 2019 23:07:37 GMT -5
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Post by volkssturm on Apr 21, 2019 10:58:52 GMT -5
The only problem with that scene is that in real life Butch could never turn his back on Logan again for fear of getting knifed. There was a made for TV western, "The Tracker" (1988) starring Kris Kristofferson with a sort of similar scene where Kristofferson's son, just back from college in the East where he learned to box, wins a fist fight with a loudmouth bully. Kristofferson tells him to kill the guy because he's been humiliated and will want revenge. The son refuses, because it wouldn't be honorable according to Harvard and Yale rules, and later the guy tries to kill him. Another pretty good film.
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Post by Dracul on Apr 21, 2019 11:44:06 GMT -5
Not the biggest western buff, and honestly, haven't heard half the flicks you guys are talking about. So, you'll have to excuse my ignorance on the genre, haha, but here we go!
1. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. 2. Hateful Eight. 3. Django Unchained.
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Post by 2nd Bat on May 16, 2019 21:56:06 GMT -5
The essence of this thread is there were a lot of great westerns. It's a pitty to me that the genre has died out.
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Post by volkssturm on Jun 28, 2019 15:00:15 GMT -5
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Post by norseman on Jun 28, 2019 16:10:32 GMT -5
I found this channel called William brooks. All about John Wayne and his ranch 26 bar. youtu.be/4VbgZl_kJdo
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