Best Western

[DavidM]

High Noon

The Outlaw Josey Wales

High Plains Drifter 

Unforgiven  

Rio Bravo 

My dad was a westernaholic so I spent so much time watching them with him . He loved anything with Clint or John Wayne in 

[Shadow]

7 hours ago, gingerjon said:

Jane Fonda ... *faints*

*wakes*

Thinks of Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou again

*dies happy*

It is also a brilliant film.

What else was Jane Fonda in?

Oh yes

Barbarella

(listens for sound of Gingerjon exploding)

 

Yes I know it's not a western

[longboard]

2 hours ago, Shadow said:

What else was Jane Fonda in?

Oh yes

Barbarella

(listens for sound of Gingerjon exploding)

 

Yes I know it's not a western

Jon, is also something of a Milo O'Shea fan  apparently.

[gingerjon]

7 hours ago, longboard said:

Jon, is also something of a Milo O'Shea fan  apparently.

Yes ... Milo ... that's it ...

[Exiled Townie]

1. The Searchers

2. Rio Grande

3. The Outlaw Josey Wales

4. The Wild Bunch

5. Blazing Saddles

6. Stagecoach

My choices are a bit John Wayne/John Ford heavy, but hey, they made great Westerns.

[graveyard johnny]

the thing with westerns is for me - i always worry about the welfare of the real horses in real times- not the ones in the films that were magnificent beasts bred for the movies - but thats just me

[Futtocks]

24 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

the thing with westerns is for me - i always worry about the welfare of the real horses in real times- not the ones in the films that were magnificent beasts bred for the movies - but thats just me

The early ones are very problematic to watch for this reason. Yakima Canutt's cruel "Running W" hobble is now outlawed, but killed and crippled many horses over the years. Sadly, it remained in use up 'til the early Eighties.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

On 27/11/2020 at 12:26, Bleep1673 said:

Spaghetti westerns, filmed in Spain.

So why aren't they called 'paella westerns'?  Just wondering!

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

On 27/11/2020 at 13:47, Irish Saint said:

The Searchers.

Saw them once at Batley Variety Club!

[GUBRATS]

My name is Trinity

[DavidM]

I wonder if people from Wild West times were actually in early westerns a few decades later

[GUBRATS]

Paleface , Son of Paleface 

Jane Russell

[HawkMan]

Even though not a fan of Western movies,  I love the tv series Wild Wild West, and spent a fair bit over £100 getting the DVDs from the States. 

 

 

 

[Wiltshire Rhino]

 

 

A few that haven't been mentioned yet

[Futtocks]

Of course Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid! How could I have forgotten that one.

I remember watching it when I was very young, and just assumed that, when they were surrounded in the final scene, our two happy-go-lucky heroes would escape somehow. The actual ending blew my tiny mind.

[Exiled Townie]

15 hours ago, DavidM said:

I wonder if people from Wild West times were actually in early westerns a few decades later

From the wilds of West Lancashire maybe -

BBC website -  Forget Hollywood - the world's first Western was shot in the countryside of Lancashire, new research has suggested.  

Artist Jamie Holman made the link to Lancashire in a study of records by the British Film Institute .

Mr Holman said the information, which showed a filming location close to Blackburn, was "hiding in plain sight".

Kidnapping By Indians was filmed in 1899, four years before 'The Great Train Robbery' from the USA, which until now was widely seen as the genre's first film.

[redsi42]

Not a film but still my fav western deadwood

[Futtocks]

16 hours ago, DavidM said:

I wonder if people from Wild West times were actually in early westerns a few decades later

I don't know about movies, but Buffalo Bill Cody's live "Wild West", while being a collection of cliches, included quite a few of the genuine article, including Geronimo and Chief Sitting Bull.

[DavidM]

7 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

I don't know about movies, but Buffalo Bill Cody's live "Wild West", while being a collection of cliches, included quite a few of the genuine article, including Geronimo and Chief Sitting Bull.

I was just reading that Wyatt Earp was a movie consultant in the 20s

[Futtocks]

Wild Bill Hickok was on Cody's show, but not for very long. He hated attention, so often hid behind other people or scenery, and allegedly once shot out a spotlight that was trained on him.

Annie Oakley was fired for getting drunk and starting fights.

[silverback]

always seemed to be a decent western on while we had dinner sunday afternoon as a nipper. and even a game rugby up park had to stop to rush home for bananza.boss hoss was the man.

[Bleep1673]

21 hours ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:

So why aren't they called 'paella westerns'?  Just wondering!

Because the crew were Italians.

[Futtocks]

15 minutes ago, Bleep1673 said:

Because the crew were Italians.

And because without Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone, they probably wouldn't have been so good. Not their nationality, but their talent - if The Good, the Bad and the Ugly had been directed by Claudio Fragasso and scored by Goblin, nobody would remember it. Except maybe bad movie buffs like me.

[Oxford]

On 27/11/2020 at 12:13, tonyXIII said:

OR any that depict the mass murder of native americans.

Wow that must leave about 4.

Little Big Man  &  Judge Roy Bean

[Stirlin]

Lawman , with Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan.