Saturday, January 06, 2007

Best Westerns (top 40)

  1. Shane
  2. Rio Bravo
  3. The Wild Bunch
  4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  5. The Naked Spur
  6. The Searchers
  7. High Noon
  8. Once Upon a Time in the West
  9. Red River
  10. My Darling Clementine
  11. Warlock
  12. One-Eyed Jacks
  13. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  14. The Big Country
  15. Ride the High Country
  16. The Man from Laramie
  17. Winchester 73
  18. 3:10 to Yuma
  19. Ride Lonesome
  20. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
  21. Unforgiven
  22. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  23. For a Few Dollars More
  24. Man of the West
  25. Stagecoach
  26. Fistful of Dollars
  27. Comanche Station
  28. El Topo
  29. Rio Grande
  30. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
  31. The Proposition
  32. Keoma
  33. The Last Movie
  34. Ride in the Whirlwind
  35. A Bullet for the General
  36. The Ox-Bow Incident
  37. Django
  38. The Tall T
  39. The Shooting
  40. The Professionals
honorable mentions: Blazing Saddles, Hud, The Last Picture Show.
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Ben Parker said...

John Ford: 5
John Wayne: 7
Henry Fonda: 4
Spaghetti Westerns: 7

11:12 PM
Anonymous said...

Let's call it an even 50: McCabe & Mrs. Miller; The Great Northfield, Minnesota, Raid; Dead Man; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Lonesome Dove; Little Big Man; and The Magnificent Seven.

But seriously, The Tall T & Randolph Scott over any of these?

5:31 PM
Ben Parker said...

You can tell I had a hard time with the B-Western and where to put it-- aside from the Leone westerns, and arguably "Ride the High Country" (which is mostly a "take" on B-westerns), there is no real B-movie until #27 ("Comanche Station"), and I made sure to get "Stagecoach" and "Fistful of Dollars" out of the way right before that--since I couldn't in good conscience put a Budd Boetticher film before John Ford and Leone's great first films. But I don't know...neither "McCabe & Mrs Miller" nor "Lonesome Dove" have the kind of rip-roaring psychological plot, nor the economy of means, that characterize the Boetticher/Scott westerns. I didn't want my list to be ALL the great Hollywood westerns first, then ALL the great spaghetti westerns, then finally the great Bs, since that hierarchy doesn't reflect my shared enjoyment of all of them--but I have to admit I was remiss in leaving off "Josey Wales" and "Little Big Man." My bad.

9:02 PM
C. Jameson Cryer said...

The Great Silence is completely ignored, what's up with that?

9:54 AM
Ben Parker said...

it was actually number 41...i wrote a huge list and lopped off the last 5 or 6. The Great Silence was 41, and I think Tombstone was also on there, and Open Range.

9:57 AM

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