Movies

The outlaw Josie Wales
Unforgiven
High Noon (I think that was the name of it with Gene Hackman)

Only Western themed video game I know of is Tombstone, but I am also old
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Movies (be prepared for lots of John Wayne):

Red River
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
Big Jake
Chisum (if only because they make murder on horseback seem so lighthearted)

Josie Wales and Unforgiven

The Magnificent 7

Blazing Saddles counts, right?

Modern era: Open Range, Tombstone, 3:10 to Yuma, The Quick and the Dead (Unforgiven is an Eastwood movie, not a modern western). Django isn't quite a western, I don't suppose, nor is The Last of the Mohicans, at least not by my calculus.

But if I'm picking one, it's Red River. Friggen love that movie. I'd have probably said The Searchers a few years back but nah - I was wrong. It's Red River.
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I've already mentioned three of my favorite westerns (Lonesome Dove, Unforgiven, and Warlock) but there are a ton more. I'll break them up into various categories. Usually by the movie's main star but also into groups like Spaghetti westerns and comedies.




Favorite Audie Murphy westerns:

No Name on the Bullet (1959)
Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
Drums Across the River (1954)
Gunsmoke (1953)
Gunpoint (1966)

Randolph Scott:

Comanche Station (1960)
Coroner Creek (1948)
Decision at Sundown (1957)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Seven Men from Now (1956)
Carson City (1952)

Clint Eastwood:

Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo aka "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966)
Per un pugno di dollari aka "A Fistful of Dollars"(1964)

Fred MacMurray:

Face of a Fugitive (1959)
At Gunpoint (1955)


Glenn Ford:

3:10 to Yuma (1957)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Jubal (1956)

Gary Cooper:

High Noon (1952)
Man of the West (1958)
Vera Cruz (1954) (Cross posted with Burt Lancaster)

Gregory Peck:

The Gunfighter (1950)
The Bravados (1958)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Billy Two Hats (1974)

Jimmy Stewart:

The Man From Laramie (1955)

Kirk Douglas:

Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)

Burt Lancaster:

The Professionals (1966)
Vera Cruz (1954) (cross posted with Gary Cooper)


Joel McCrea:

Fort Massacre (1958)
Colorado Territory (1949) (cross posted under "noir westerns")
Ramrod (1947) (cross posted under "noir westerns")


Charles Bronson:

Chato's Land (1972)
C'era una volta il West aka "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968)
La Bataille de San Sebastian aka "Guns for San Sebastian"(1968)


Comedies:
The Gunfighter (2014)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Horses Collars (1935)
Lightning Jack (1994)
Three Amigos! (1986)
The Law West of Tombstone (1938)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (Obviously not an all out comedy but a lot of it is pretty light)



Spaghetti Westerns (non Sergio Leone):

El chuncho, quien sabe? aka "A Bullet for the General" (1966)
Da uomo a uomo aka "Death Rides a Horse" (1967)
Une corde, un Colt... aka "Cemetery Without Crosses" (1969)
Il Grande silenzio aka "The Great Silence" (1968)
Bandidos (1967)

Noir Westerns:

The line between film noir and the new "psychological" western of the 50s blurred in the the late 40s.

Pursued (1947) (Robert Mitchum)
The Badlanders (1958) (Based on The Asphalt Jungle. Alan Ladd and Ernest Bornine.)
Colorado Territory (1949) (Based on High Sierra. Joel McCrea)
Ramrod (1947) (Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake)

Gregory Peck's "Yellow Sky" has noir-ish lighting but the plot is based on The Tempest
If you like these noir westerns you might also like Robert Mitchum's "Blood on the Moon" too. It's not one of my favorites but different strokes for different folks.





B Movies and Oddities:

Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) (Jimmy Cagney)
The Ride Back (1957) (Anthony Quinn and William Conrad)
Rough Night in Jericho (1967) (Dean Martin and George Peppard)
Hell's Heroes (1929) (An oldie. Starts slow, ends well)
Barbarosa (1982) (Willie Nelson and Gary Busey)
Relentless (1948) (Robert Young)
The Furies (1950) (Barbara Stanwyck)
Rebel in Town (1956) (John Payne)
Black Spurs (1965) (Rory Calhoun)
Fury at Showdown (1957) (John Derek)
Hardcase (1972) (Clint Walker)
A Day of Fury (1956) (Dale Robertson)
Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956) (Richard Long)
Three Hours to Kill (1954) (Dana Andrews)
Two Flags West (1950) (Jeff Chandler and Joseph Cotten)
Taggart (1964) (Dan Duryea and Tony Young)
He Rides Tall (1964) (Dan Duryea and Tony Young)
Barquero (1970) (Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, and Forrest Tucker!)
A Gunfight (1971) (Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash)
The Law and Jake Wade (1958) (Robert Taylor)
Gunman's Walk (1958) (Van Heflin and Tab Hunter)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953) (John Ireland and Joann Dru. Impossible to find uncut)


Semi-westerns:

I don't usually like westerns that take place after 1890 or so. There are some that still have a western feel so I'll include them anyway.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Walking Hills (1949) (Randolph Scott)






Seen every western ever made? Why not try some Easterns?
Yeah, they aren't the same, but some of them have a similar vibe imo.


Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Beau Geste (1926)
Beau Geste (1939)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Deceivers (1988)
Northwest Territory (1951)
The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
Brat Doktora Homera (1968)
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Are you thinking of The Quick and the Dead (1995)? High Noon came out in 1952. There was a sequel called High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane made in 1980. It starred Lee Majors and David Carradine.
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McCabe and Mrs Miller
Stagecoach
The Searchers
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
My Darling Clementine
Red River
Once Upon a Time in the West
High Noon
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Shit.

Mennonite likes him some Westerns...
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I was going to say Brokeback Mountain, but didn't think it would compete with this level of trolling.
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Has anyone had any interest in this new western coming out? Old Henry?


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High Plains Drifter
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Big fan of the genre

1. Unforgiven - Probably my favorite Clint Eastwood film AND performance. Its a masterpiece imo

2. Tombstone - Insanely loaded cast of heavy hitters. Its baffling that Val Kilmer wasn't nominated for an Oscar for his performance in this. He stole the show.

3. The Assassination of the Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Brad Pitt was so great in this.

4. The Proposition - This is an incredibly underrated western that takes place in Australia.
Plot: In 1880s Australia, a lawman (Ray Winstone) offers renegade Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother (Danny Huston), who is wanted for rape and murder.

Its violent as hell but really entertaining. Definitely check it out if you haven't already.

5. 3:10 to Yuma (remake) Christian Bale facing off against Russell Crowe was entertaining to watch. Ben Foster was also such a scene stealer in this as the crazy psychopath Charlie Prince


As far as tv shows or mini series go, I'll go with the obvious mention of HBO's Deadwood (that is one of my favorite shows ever , regardless of genre)

Netflix has a great mini series that was released a few years ago called Godless. Jeff Daniels is an evil bastard in it and thought it was really well done.
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I wanna catch The Assassination of Jesse James - I've heard really good things.
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Years ago there was a fanedit combining a couple of different cuts of my favorite part of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. It began with James Coburn recruiting Slim Pickens and Katy Jurado and ended with the "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" scene. Those two scenes are so good and tell such a complete story they can stand alone as its own movie, imo.
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I like all your recommendations, sully, but The Assassination of Jesse James -- that was painfully slow. Terrence Malick said it was too slow! Now that's when you know you've hit some level of glacial speed in cinema not seen outside of art houses.

I don't believe the Coen's True Grit or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance have been mentioned yet -- they make my list of favorite westerns.
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I'll never forgive the Coens for getting "FILL YOUR HANDS, YOU SONOFABITCH!" wrong.

Good movie that would've been fine standalone, but you can't gack one of the more iconic scenes in the genre like that.

In tangentially related news: Kim Darby sucks.
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