Misc Your Favorite Westerns? - Page 9

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois:
There is a movie with Gregory Peck, Charlton Hesston, Burl Ives and Chuck Conners that was pretty epic. I think the name was "Big Country"

The musical scores of some of those old westerns were magnificent.

Peck and Heston have a pretty good fist fight in that if I recall.
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Great cartoon clip, picker

I miss those old cartoons sooo bad, that I told Ma just a few weeks ago that if she only got me one Christmas gift this year... it HAD to be a multi-disc collection of those old WB cartoons like you see at Best Buy etc

No question I'd get my moneys worth out of them, those old guys were brilliant
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Not sure if it counts as a western or a war movie, but Ride With The Devil is a pretty good flick, albeit a bit slow.

I always get a big grin on my face during the Lawrence scene. :-)
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Originally Posted by Frazod:
Not sure if it counts as a western or a war movie, but Ride With The Devil is a pretty good flick, albeit a bit slow.

I always get a big grin on my face during the Lawrence scene. :-)

I love that flick.

Directed by Ang Lee.
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I've been re-watching some old Gunsmoke episodes this week. I've already listed my favorite Gunsmoke radio episodes, so I might as well list my top 30 tv episodes too.

My Final Top 30 List of Gunsmoke tv episodes:

01 "Thirty a Month and Found" - Season 20
02 "The Busters" - Season 20
03 "Danny" - Season 15
04 "The Round Up" - Season 2
05 "Matt Dillon Must Die" - Season 20
06 "The Noose" - Season 16
07 "Stark" - Season 16
08 "The Widow-Maker" - Season 19
08 "The Violators" - Season 10
10 "With a Smile" - Season 8
11 "Abe Blocker" - Season 8
12 "Trafton" - Season 17
13 "The Mark of Cain" - Season 14
14 "Mannon" - Season 14
15 "Reward for Matt" - Season 1
16 "The Tarnished Badge" - Season 20
17 "Island in the Desert" - Season 20
18 "Cleavus" - Season 16
19 "Anybody Can Kill a Marshal" - Season 8
20 "The Guns of Cibola Blanca" - Season 20
21 "Hawk" - Season 15
22 "Mistaken Identity" - Season 12
23 "No Hands" - Season 9
24 "The Cabin" - Season 3
25 "Crowbait Bob" - Season 5
26 "Charlie Noon" - Season 15
27 "The Raid" - Season 11
28 "Long, Long Trail" - Season 7
29 "Cow Doctor" - Season 2
30 "There Never Was a Horse" - Season 4

A couple of outtakes:

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If you have kids, don’t forget about the Trinity Trilogy (Boot Hill, They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name)

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Mickey Mouse comics

In Death Valley
Race to Riches

Every John Wayne western

Big Iron is the best western song. Marty was a genius. Great mention, OP
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Sorry if already posted but I thought this was really cool news.

Nicolas Cage is starring in his first ever Western film called The Old Way and then another Western called Butcher's Crossing

The 57-year-old actor is set to star in his first two movies in the genre as he'll shooting the latest project back to back with previously announced 'Butcher's Crossing' in Montana.

He told Deadline: "After 43 years in cinema, I’m only now being invited to the important and storied genre of the Western with both 'The Old Way' and 'Butcher’s Crossing'.

"Being born and raised in the West, this is another good match and long overdue.

"I’m excited and compelled by the complex characters of both Briggs and Miller, and to find new ground to play at 57 is indeed galvanizing.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ern/ar-AAOfISY

I can't believe he hasn't been in a Western before. He was born to star in one

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This is a fascinating thread. While westerns are not my favorite genre, I have enjoyed a few of them such as Dances with Wolves, the original Westworld, and Back to the Future 3, which I don't think anybody else has mentioned. Nor has anyone mentioned Little Big Man, which is kind of a slog of a movie but it's fun to see Dustin Hoffman playing an Indian and in 120-year-old makeup.

Some people have even said that Breaking Bad qualifies as a modern-day western and yeah, it does. And yes, Brokeback Mountain also qualifies.
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Originally Posted by JolieMolie:
This is a fascinating thread. While westerns are not my favorite genre, I have enjoyed a few of them such as Dances with Wolves, the original Westworld, and Back to the Future 3, which I don't think anybody else has mentioned. Nor has anyone mentioned Little Big Man, which is kind of a slog of a movie but it's fun to see Dustin Hoffman playing an Indian and in 120-year-old makeup.

Some people have even said that Breaking Bad qualifies as a modern-day western and yeah, it does. And yes, Brokeback Mountain also qualifies.

I think a thread ban might be in order here.
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I forgot about Red Sun. I saw it once in the 90's. I'm going to watch it again to see if it holds up.
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Originally Posted by JolieMolie:
This is a fascinating thread. While westerns are not my favorite genre, I have enjoyed a few of them such as Dances with Wolves, the original Westworld, and Back to the Future 3, which I don't think anybody else has mentioned. Nor has anyone mentioned Little Big Man, which is kind of a slog of a movie but it's fun to see Dustin Hoffman playing an Indian and in 120-year-old makeup.

Some people have even said that Breaking Bad qualifies as a modern-day western and yeah, it does. And yes, Brokeback Mountain also qualifies.

I almost mentioned Little Big Man....it's worth a look, personally I loved it. It's Arthur Penn, right after Bonnie and Clyde, and equally counter-culture.

Westworld upset me when I was 8 years old in the theater...the blood-letting was over the top and definitely not G rated :-)
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I saw Old Henry tonight at the local theater. It's not going down as a classic but it has good suspense and mood in it's favor.

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I was going to go see Old Henry but it apparently had a very limited release. I think I saw somewhere that it was showing in about a dozen states, but I don't know if that's accurate. I'm surprised that it wasn't immediately made available for streaming.
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I'm going to combine dad genres here for a question.

Why don't more people talk about how great Richard Jordan was?

Dude played an alcoholic bank robbing cowboy in Rooster Cogburn (Hawk), the President's National Security Advisor in Hunt for Red October (Jeff Pelt), A Civil War General in Gettysburg, the inspiration for Duncan Idaho's screenname in Dune (which I only just now realized) and somehow Jean fucking Valjean in Les Mis.

The guy was awesome and seems largely forgotten to history. He's like a poverty John Cazale.
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