Favourite Western's

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by theequestrian

Seven Samurai - better known to western audiences as The Magnificent Seven or to younger western audiences as Star Wars.

"The Magnificent Seven" is spectacular. Part of it is the clever characterizations; no one character gets a lot of screentime, but they each get their own story arc. And of course, its got one of the best musical scores. Elmer Bernstein is a name that often gets overlooked in film music history, but he's spectacular, and this score manages to define "The Western"

Here's Elmer himself, conducting the score at the proms, probably 15 years ago now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND4oiuJCCjw

[daddyrock]

Little Big Man (DUSTIN HOFFMAN)
Hidalgo
The Train Robbers
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
The Alamo

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by daddyrock

Little Big Man (DUSTIN HOFFMAN)
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue

I concur and would add The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and a weird time travel/western movie called Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, starring Fred Ward and Peter Coyote

[daddyrock]

Check Out;
The Assassination Of Jesse James
Rio Lobo
Chism
McClintock
And One I Really Thought Was Quite Interesting - Open Range.

[DJ Kool JB]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
For A Few Dollars More
Unforgiven
Buck and The Preacher
Tombstone
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Blazing Saddles

[screwthief]

Rio Bravo, but not the savagely cut one that gets shown on TV , it's worth looking for the original 141 minutes version on e-bay.

[drdialtone]

The Westerner

Bend of the River

The Sons of Katie Elder

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

[tamsmith]

Crossfire Trail was pretty good tonight.

[scoundrel]

It is at once farcical and devilishly clever, with considerable violence which one almost fails to notice because it is comic and cartoonish in tone. The sight gags work and the key players all have good timing. It is badly dubbed from the original Italian, but if anything this adds to the comic value; we aren’t supposed to take it seriously and we don’t.

Terence Hill plays Trinity, a lazy and shiftless bounty hunter who wears filthy, ragged cloths because he likes to, and travels the land sleeping in a travois, towed by a horse which is no mean actor itself; the hang-dog, put-upon air of the horse as it tows him is hilarious, as is its disdainful whinny whenever it has arrived at a stable and it is time for Terence Hill’s character to move his lazy arse and feed the horse.

Bud Spencer plays Bambino, an obese, clownish and invincible outlaw posing as a sheriff until the rest of his gang shows up and he can go off to rob some banks. He is also Trinity's brother, and wishes he wasn't. He shot the real owner of the sheriff's badge, but it was a misunderstanding; Bambino thought the sheriff was following him but they were only travelling in the same direction. Now the sheriff, on crutches, is following Bambino around for real, like the crocodile following Captain Hook in Peter Pan. Ironically, Bambino is a better sheriff than his predecessors and a growing thorn in the side of the town villain, an effete CSA Major played with laid back cynical polish by Farley Granger.

The Major is also a fine comic creation, along the lines of Dick Dastardly, but with none of the Dick Dastardly temper. The Major, despite the constant and absurd failure of his various evil schemes, never loses his temper and always, in a darkly cynical way, appreciates the funny side; Trinity even more than Bambino is the Major’s nemesis, and yet a recurring theme is that while the Major does find the sheriff most annoying, he really doesn’t dislike Trinity and Trinity really doesn’t dislike the Major.

I enjoy the whole thing, and I also like the ending, in which the Major sort of gets away, the two anti-heroes are foiled in their separate schemes of selfish personal advantage, and the insufferably smug pacifist Mormons, whose seeming purpose in life is to be victims, end up with all the spoils. The film’s cynical last word is that there is nothing fair about the meek inheriting the earth...

[nancial]

Only Bud Spencer & Terence Hill )).
To be completely honest for some reason I just stopped watching westerns with the end of VHS era.