BEST WESTERNS

[AntonioDelLago]

THE BEST WESTERNS

1. The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah
2. Once Upon A Time In The West (1969) Sergio Leone
3. High Noon (1952) Fred Zinnemann
4. Shane (1953) George Stevens
5. Rio Bravo (1959) Howard Hawks
6. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill
7. Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray
8. Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood
9. The Searchers (1956) John Ford
10. Dances With Wolves (1990) Kevin Costner

BEST TRILOGY: Sergio Leone's A FIST FULL OF DOLLARS (1964), FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1966) and THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY (1966), featuring Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name.

COOLEST COWBOYS: John Wayne in RIO BRAVO; Clint Eastwood in THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY; Gary Cooper in HIGH NOON; Alan Ladd as SHANE; Paul Newman and Robert Redford as BUTCH and SUNDANCE.

BEST HEROINES: Sharon Stone in THE QUICK and THE DEAD; Claudia Cardinale in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.

BEST VILLAINS: Henry Fonda in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST; Gene Hackman's Oscar-winning turn in UNFORGIVEN.

BEST VILLAINESS: Mercedes McCambridge in JOHNNY GUITAR.

BEST OUTLAWS: THE WILD BUNCH, led by William Holden and Ernest Borgnine.

BEST SHOOTOUT: THE WILD BUNCH vs. Mexican Federales in the film's grand finale.

BEST DUEL: Charles Bronson vs. Henry Fonda in the finale of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.

[the night watchman]

I'm not too much into Westerns. I prefer Leone to Peckinpah, Spaghetti to American, and Eastwood to Wayne. So here is my highly biased list:

1. Near Dark (heh heh)
2. Unforgiven
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. High Plains Drifter
6. Fist Full of Dollars
7. For a Few Dollars More
8. Dances With Wolves
9. The Quick and the Dead
10.Pale Rider (High Planes Drifter, Part 2)

[rupert_pupkin]

great choices so far
also
Red River
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit