What is your favorite Western motion picture?

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: What is your favorite Western motion picture?

Which of the following or do you have one of your own?

[wryter2000]

1. The Ballad of Cat Balou

What can I say? I don't really like Westerns.

[Superfly]

2. Tom Horn

Best western ever.

[Jim Sagle]

3. Ride in the Whirlwind

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. No High Planes Drifter?!??!

WTF!?!

[Guy_Montag]

5. Once Upon a Time in the West

The opening scene is fantastic (and the rest of it)

[NuckinFutz]

6. once upon a time in the west

Henry Fonda as the villain...awesome flick.

[Zero Gravitas]

7. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

wah WAH waaaaah

[Twenty3]

8. Tombstone

Val Kilmer should've got at least an Oscar nomination (if not the Oscar) for his Doc Holliday.

[Mistress Quickly]

9. The God the Bad and the Ugly

along with A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.


Does Oklahoma count as a western?

[SCantiGOP]

10. Shenendoah

Jimmy Stewart, set in Virginia during the civil war, it is a great anti-war movie.

[gpandas]

11. western

one eyed jacks

[SaveElmer]

12. Open Range

Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. Before this I would have said Dances with Wolves!

[villager]

13. "Wild Bunch" tied with "Once Upon a Time in the West..."

...though "High Noon" -- especially the way it speaks to the present moment of cowering Americans -- is pretty great, too...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. Seven Samurai

or Yojimbo


Or the Magnificent Seven or Fistful of Dollars, as they're known in the States

[VelmaD]

15. Paint Your Wagon...

ok, not really. :-)

Actually it's probably a tie between The Cowboys, True Grit, and Blazing Saddles.

[Westegg]

16. I love several, and they are:

Once Upon a Time In the West, The Wild Bunch, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Searchers, Red River, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

Own them all except Pat Garrett, as it's not out on DVD.

[ohiosmith]

17. Ride the High Country w/Randolf Scott & Joel McCrea. Dir/Peckinpaw

[LTR]

18. WHAT??? You didn't add "Tombstone"

Puts all that John Wayne crap to shame.

Runner-ups would be the Eastwood spaghetti westerns.

[WI_DEM]

20. that's why I have other

Can't possibly list all the great westerns. I agree "Tombstone" is wonderful. I think the John Ford-John Wayne stuff is pretty good too if we can get past Wayne's right wing politics in his real life.

[Bridget Burke]

19. Stagecoach is the classic, to me....

But "Silverado" is a good modern look on the genre. I bet the actors enjoyed riding horses & being good/bad guys--better than playing a yuppies undergoing mid-life crises.

"Tombstone" was pretty fine; Val Kilmer really throws himself into a part.

"Blazing Saddles" can't be beat.

My own nominee from left-field? "McCabe & Mrs. Miller".

[blindpig]

21. the good, the bad & the ugly n/t

[Rowdyboy]

22. "Little Big Man" and "How the West Was Won"

[TN al]

23. The Long Riders

[TheMightyFavog]

24. Bad, bad WI_DEM!!!!

You did not put the Man With no Name trilogy down on your poll, bad, BAD!!!! :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[Commendatori]

25. The Outlaw Josey Wales

[mitchum]

26. "The Wild Bunch"

[peacefreak]

27. Blazing Saddles

:evilgrin:

[Nailzberg]

28. I'm gonna have to join with "The Wild Bunch" voters

[7 Lazy P]

29. Heaven's Gate

Unfairly maligned, IMO

[flaminbats]

30. seven brides for seven brothers...

[Shrek]

31. Lonesome Dove

Yes, it's a miniseries and not a movie, but it's still the best.