I am not a werstern movie fan, so I haven't seen many of them, but those are really great, IMO:

Once Upon a Time In The West
Magnificent Seven
Butch Cassidy And Sundance Kid

Great wertern commedies are:

Man Of The East
Support Your Local Sheriff!

You know what we need? A Western/Zombie movie... or maybe a Cowboys and Aliens movie... ah... hmmmm.... on second thought... never mind.

Unforgiven
Jeremiah Johnson
Little Big Man
High Plains Drifter

"A big hand for a little lady" has something going for it too I guess...

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Not many here would remember, but Cheyenne with Clint Walker was popular.

Yep I remember that one.

Anyone remember "Branded" with Chuck Connors?

"What do you do when you're branded and you know you're a man?".

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Not many here would remember, but Cheyenne with Clint Walker was popular.

Yep I remember that one.

Anyone remember "Branded" with Chuck Connors?

"What do you do when you're branded and you know you're a man?".

When they broke his sword!! man, that would piss me off!!

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Not many here would remember, but Cheyenne with Clint Walker was popular.

Yep I remember that one.

Anyone remember "Branded" with Chuck Connors?

"What do you do when you're branded and you know you're a man?".

When they broke his sword!! man, that would piss me off!!

Yeah.. knocked his hat off.. ripped his lapels off.. and then torn off his buttons...

Then his sword (which snapped rather easily).

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Not many here would remember, but Cheyenne with Clint Walker was popular.

Yep I remember that one.

Anyone remember "Branded" with Chuck Connors?

"What do you do when you're branded and you know you're a man?".

When they broke his sword!! man, that would piss me off!!

Yeah.. knocked his hat off.. ripped his lapels off.. and then torn off his buttons...

Then his sword (which snapped rather easily).

Yeah, that guy must have been strong... still he was a dick!

Brokeback Mountain

Cowboys vs Aliens ticked all my boxes, I couldn't wait to see it.

However, it turned out to be crap.

Has anyone ever seen the Western TV series that Rod Serling wrote after the Twilight Zone went off the air? I forgot the name of it. I would love to see it as he was such a great writer.

Rob

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Has anyone ever seen the Western TV series that Rod Serling wrote after the Twilight Zone went off the air? I forgot the name of it. I would love to see it as he was such a great writer.

Rob

I think that is "The Loner"?

"Following the Civil War, former Union soldier William Colton rides through the West trying to find himself and helping out people with their problems along the way."

I never saw it but it sounds interesting.

Yes Shane is very good, Alan Ladd is just great. One of my fave westerns.

Film

5. The Outlaw Josey Wales
- flawed masterpiece...just like a post '81 Stones album!
4. Th Wild Bunch
- influential epic
3. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- the one movie I've seen more times than my actual age!
2. The Searchers
- IMHO...the best John Wayne...not True Grit
1. Unforgiven
- just simply the best...great moving script

Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.

or

Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.
Will Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.


TV

5. Wagon Train

4. Maverick

3. Rawhide

2. Bonanza

1. Gunsmoke

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Unforgiven
Man who shot Liberty Valance
The Good the Bad and The Ugly

Did anyone mention "Kung Fu" with David Carridene?

I used to watch it his 15 second burst of Kung Fu - usually near the end when he was p*ssed off enough to kick ass.

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no one ever said anything about my comment earlier.

can we all agree john wayne is the most iconic male american actor of all time?

Isn't it Bogart?

Steve Mcqueen, Marlon Brando and James Dean would also be in the running.

Alias Smith and Jones, watched that a lot growing up.

Pat Garret and Billy The Kid is a 1973 Westerndrama film directed by Sam Peckingpah and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan, who also composed several songs for the movie.

Rawhide for me was the first outstanding western series on tv, Clint Eastwood was very cool in this western and was asked in 1963 by Serge Leone for A Fistfull of Dollars. Gil Favor " Eric Flaming" Played a great role as well.

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Alias Smith and Jones, watched that a lot growing up.

I loved that program.. the death of Pete Duel was a blow.

I wanted to learn how to play "Montana Red Dog".

Anyone remember that episode?

Was it even a real card game?

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Blazing Saddles

The Hallelujah Trail (1965) - an even better spoof on westerns. lee remick, burt lancaster, and donald pleaseance as one of my all-time fave characters: oracle jones.

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Dances with Wolves

Yep.

total rip-off of a much better movie: a man called horse.

Another One; The Proposition is a 2005 Western film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave

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I love cowboys...didn't Keith want to be a cowboy when he grew up?

Here are some of my favs:

How the West Was Won
True Grit - original with John Wayne
Unforgiven
Lonesome Dove - the miniseries

Lonesome Dove - the miniseries

so good. the DVD is great..

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Did anyone mention "Kung Fu" with David Carridene?

I used to watch it his 15 second burst of Kung Fu - usually near the end when he was p*ssed off enough to kick ass.

Yeah I used to love that show- sadly you can't see it on tv anymore. Bruce Lee was pissed when he was passed over for the lead role.

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Brokeback Mountain

I wish I could quit you.

I second the Long Riders. Great film.

Also thought Tombstone and Silverado were excellent films too.

I will toss this one out there with a recommendation: The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr. starring the enjoyable Bruce Campbell with a fine supporting cast. It's a good-natured, amusing, fun, western TV series that lasted one season back in the early '90's. It also has a touch of sci-fi weirdness to boot. It was the last western shot on the southern California sets that were used for many of the old classic shows.

But that reminds me of the great sci-fi western series which also lasted only one season, Firefly. Despite all...it is a western.

Nice list of classics mentioned, above. Nice to see The Mag 7 and McCabe & Mrs. mentioned.

Someone above mentioned a western TV series that Rod Serling did after Twilight Zone. But what was really great was the western episode he did during Twilight Zone: The Grave, with Lee Marvin [season 3, episode 72; original air date: October 27, 1961].

The story opens when an outlaw called "Pinto" Sykes is gunned down in the street by the men of the town. A short time later, gunslinger Conny Miller arrives, ready to kill Sykes and collect the bounty offered. As he enters the town saloon, he meets the men who sent for him only to discover that they have already killed Sykes themselves. Uneasy because of a vow Sykes had made with his dying breath, and leery of Miller whom they'd double-crossed, the men dare Miller to make a midnight visit to Sykes' grave, who, as they tell him, had vowed to reach up and grab Miller if he ever came near his grave. Miller is told to leave a knife pushed into the grave as proof that he'd been there. Never turning down a challenge, Miller rides out in the cold, windy night to the cemetery and right at midnight kneels down to plant the knife. But as he attempts to rise, he suddenly drops to the ground.

The next day the townsmen, accompanied by Sykes' sister Ione, visit the cemetery in the safety of daylight. There they find Miller lying dead atop Sykes' grave, with the knife pushed through his coat, pinning him to the ground. One of the men says it's obvious what had happened: the wind blew Miller's coat over the grave, he unwittingly stuck the knife through his coattail, and as he stood to leave, mistook the pinned coat's resistance for Sykes, and fell dead from a heart attack. Frightened to death. Sykes' sister, however, sees the illogic of this scenario.

"From which direction was the wind blowing last night?" she asks.

"From the south," one of the men replies.

"Same as now?" she asks.

They all agree that's so.

As she stands in the spot where Miller would have stood before planting the knife she says, "Look at my cloak! Is the wind blowing it across the grave?"

All watch as Ione's long cloak blows behind her, suddenly resembling the Grim Reaper.

Ione laughs chillingly.

The Rifleman
Colt 45
Sugarfoot
Have Gun Will Travel

There were several from Disney and Warners in the
era of those I mentioned.
I liked most of'em