The best western films of all time?

[JJP]

What western films are your favorite? Who is the best western film actor? Is it John Wayne, Clint Eastwood or someone else?

My favorite westerns are Spaghetti westerns: Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Unforgiven from Eastwood is also very good.

Favorite western film actor is Clint Eastwood.

 

[Darkness]

I like Eastwood's Unforgiven best.

 

[SunTzu]

The good, the bad and the ugly

 

[carlosMM]

good, bad, ugly, high noon.

(maverick )

 

[Pangur Bán]

Once Upon A Time In the West

 

[ellie]

The good the bad and the ugly ;p
got me into westerns!

 

[Flak]

Tombstone is the best OK Coral movie ever.

I voted for several above that are obvious greats. I also enjoyed The Quick and the Dead. And you can't forget the comedies! The Three Amigos is hilarious. These are the only three 'Westerns' I own on DVD.

Another favorite of mine, that I was surprised wasn't on your list, is Blazing Saddles.

 

[JJP]

Originally posted by Flak
Another favorite of mine, that I was surprised wasn't on your list, is Blazing Saddles.

I thought adding Blazing Saddles to the list but then I decided to drop it. There are so many westerns that you just have to leave most of them out.

 

[cromagnon]

Good, Bad Ugly.

 

[ApocalypseKurtz]

Fav actor: Clint Eastwood
Fav movie: the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly (Unforgiven in 2nd)

 

[thestonesfan]

"El Diablo", easy.

"For A Few Dollars More" is my fave of those listed.

 

[wilbill]

"The Left-Handed Gun" with Paul Newman.

 

[Yoda Power]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the only western I have ever seen, and it was last night. So I voted that.

 

[Shaka Naldur]

who shoot liberty wallance, without a doubt

"recoge mis bistek jhonny"

 

[Jeratain]

Dances With Wolves counts as a western? Well not in my book.

For me it's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Although I'm not a huge fan of westerns.

 

[Deep_Thought76]

I enjoyed "the Magnificent Seven", and "Dances With Wolves" and "Quick and the Dead" were ok. Westerns aren't really my favorite type of movie, so I haven't seen too many of the others.

 

[gr8ful wes]

1. Once upon a time in the west
2. The wild bunch
3. Unforgiven

My other favs:
Butch cassidy and the sundance kid
Jeremayah Johnson
The Cowboys
Blazing Saddles
The Eastwood spaghetti westerns

 

[CruddyLeper]

I scanned down the list and couldn't find a bad selection.

But "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" struck me as the finest contender. Superb direction and musically very catchy, very memorable.

"Blazing Saddles" would have just beaten it IMHO if it had made the list.

 

[Greadius]

I watched my first real western, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" today. Though it got a little boring at times, Eastwood's antihero character was decades ahead of his time. The overwriting "The good" ect. was really cheesy though, especially seeing that all the characters were bad & ugly, and very little good.

Still, I put "Fistful of Dollars" on my rental queue because it was an intoxicating image fill.

Oh, yeah, that quintessential western music is so annoying its still stuck in my head, though when they went into "Ectasy of Gold" it threw me because I'm familiar with the Metallica cover of that song

 

[Mongrel]

I'm surprised Tombstone is not on your list. Going South with Jack Nicholson and Mary Steenbergin is not a gunslinger movie, but definitely a western. And you can't forget Support Your Local Sherriff and Support Your Local Gunfighter, both with James Garner.