Whats your favourite western film?

[rustyroger]

The Culpepper Cattle Company I think one of the best movies both as a coming of age movie and depicting the West as it probably really was.
Unforgiven has a case for being the best Clint Eastwood Western. It also showed the west as the dirty, disease ridden, lawless, hardscrabble struggle that was probably much nearer the reality than any John Ford western depicted.
Blazing Saddles and Cat Ballou are two great comedy westerns, The Ballad of Cable Hogue deserves consideration too, along with Support Your Local Sherriff, with Kenneth More in a most unlikely leading role.
Paint Your Wagon gets my vote for the best Musical Western.
My favourite? depends on the mood I'm in at the time.

Roger.

 

[slow scot]

Re Once Upon a Time in The West. I just played the sound track.....very very moving**
I love the harmonica but the actual sound track...WoW. if you google it for reviews people choose it for funeral music.

Fabulous film and music.

 

[Hitchington]

The criminally underrated 'Hombre' starring Paul Newman.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

The criminally underrated 'Hombre' starring Paul Newman.

Double like! Recognise my sig line quote?

 

[Dave7]

The criminally underrated 'Hombre' starring Paul Newman.

Brilliant.... wonderful film.

 

[MontyVeda]

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Paint Your Wagon gets my vote for the best Musical Western.
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Better than Calamity Jane??? Surely not! 😲

 

[VelvetUnderpants]

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is my favourite. I also rate The Wild Bunch.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Just about all my candidates for favourite have been mentioned above, especially under the 'anything with Clint in' banner. This nomination is much more recent (2017) and arguably not a film, but I see it as a very long film (7.5 hours) as I watched it in a single sitting and it's very much like a film divided into sections. 'Godless', a Netlfix production. Failing that, 'Unforgiven'.

 

[Drago]

Of the historic setting westerns, that's be Unfogiven.

Of the modern ones, Hell or High Water.

 

[Mrs M]

True Grit with “The Duke” some great lines
Also quite like films with Randolph Scott and Errol Flynn

 

[Dave Davenport]

Of the historic setting westerns, that's be Unfogiven.

Of the modern ones, Hell or High Water.

Hell or high water is a great film, I'd be torn to pick between Unforgiven and Outlaw JW for the historic one though.

 

[Saluki]

I always liked ‘The Cowboys’ with John Wayne. True Grit, the proper one not the new one. Seen both dozens of times. My parents were into westerns.

 

[StuAff]

Bought Unforgiven years back on VHS, just finally upgraded to Blu-ray & got it with Josey Wales & Pale Rider in a triple pack…

Apart from those already mentioned, Django Unchained. Hateful Eight I thoroughly enjoyed too, but Django has the magnificent Christoph Waltz.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Bought Unforgiven years back on VHS, just finally upgraded to Blu-ray & got it with Josey Wales & Pale Rider in a triple pack…

Apart from those already mentioned, Django Unchained. Hateful Eight I thoroughly enjoyed too, but Django has the magnificent Christoph Waltz.

Sorry, but although a fan of much else of QT's output, I thought Hateful Eight was tripe.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Just remembered 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' liked that.