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Movie Theater Old cowboy movies
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Bonanza anyone?
Anything with Clint or JW
Tombstone and Lonesome Dove are probably the all-time greatest.
Dances with Wolves, Open Range, Unforgiven would have to rank right up there.
Cheyenne (Clint Walker)
James Garner was in some good ones.
Anything with Clint or JW
Tombstone and Lonesome Dove are probably the all-time greatest.
Dances with Wolves, Open Range, Unforgiven would have to rank right up there.
Cheyenne (Clint Walker)
James Garner was in some good ones.
Shenandoah is one of my all time favorites but it doesn't seem to be on any of the streaming services, I can't even find a bootleg.
here is a site with tons of old western movies
https://westernstv.com/western-movies-to-watch-free/john-wayne-western-movies-to-watch-free/
https://westernstv.com/western-movies-to-watch-free/john-wayne-western-movies-to-watch-free/
I pretty much read most of the posts here, but was disappointed that there wasn't enuff about the OLDE cowboy movies. Hasn't anyone heard of William S. Hart or Tom Mix and his Wonder Horse Tony? Hoot Gibson who used to carry a gun in his boot and would get the drop on the bad guys whenever he got captured. Gibson was also a Champion at the Pendleton Rodeo, as was Ben Johnson (Oscar winner). Anybody else remember Tim McCoy (well versed in Indian culture) or Buck Jones? How about William Boyd, better known as Hopalong Cassidy? They all made movies, silent as well as talkies...and remember, to be a silent film star you really had to know how to act, using all kinds of facial expressions to get your feelings across!
Now I know that most of you are all big John Wayne fans, but I think that the best two western actors were Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott! McCrea in particular was a great but under appreciated actor. McCrea and Scott made a movie together and it was twice as good!
However, the best performance by an actor who was not really a western star was by Gary Cooper in High Noon and the best western film ever, with the haunting melody by Tex Ritter (who made a few westerns himself) "Do not forsake me oh my Darlin'"!
So let's not forget these really OLDE time cowboy stars...
Now I know that most of you are all big John Wayne fans, but I think that the best two western actors were Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott! McCrea in particular was a great but under appreciated actor. McCrea and Scott made a movie together and it was twice as good!
However, the best performance by an actor who was not really a western star was by Gary Cooper in High Noon and the best western film ever, with the haunting melody by Tex Ritter (who made a few westerns himself) "Do not forsake me oh my Darlin'"!
So let's not forget these really OLDE time cowboy stars...
Another vote for both versions of True Grit.
Also, Blazing Saddles is hilarious.
Also, Blazing Saddles is hilarious.
If TV, then the series Have Gun Will Travel, the Guns of Will Sonnet, and Wanted; Dead or Alive (McQueen)
Val Kilmer is awesome as Doc in Tombstone
Nevada Smith
Val Kilmer is awesome as Doc in Tombstone
Nevada Smith
A few of my favorites:
Barbarosa with Willie Nelson. The last 5 to 10 seconds makes the whole movie, at least to me. Really the whole last scene, but especially the last little bit.
I can't believe nobody mentioned The Three Amigos. Classic western
Going South with Jack Nicholson.
A more modern western is A Million Ways To Die In The West.
Paint Your Wagon is another classic.
Barbarosa with Willie Nelson. The last 5 to 10 seconds makes the whole movie, at least to me. Really the whole last scene, but especially the last little bit.
I can't believe nobody mentioned The Three Amigos. Classic western
Going South with Jack Nicholson.
A more modern western is A Million Ways To Die In The West.
Paint Your Wagon is another classic.
I love westerns. Start with these...
Hondo
The Searchers
True grit (original only with the Duke)
Big Jake
Rio Bravo
Eldorado
Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale rider
Joe Kidd
High Noon
Shane
Bend of the river
Winchester '73
The man from Laramie
Night Passage
Rare breed
Quigley down under
Crossfire trail
Monte Walsh
Shadow riders
Conagher
The Sacketts
Lonesome Dove
Open Range
Broken Trail
Dances with wolves
Silverado
Destry
Apache rifles
The fastest gun alive
The sheepman
Sergeant Rutledge
River of no return
Hondo
The Searchers
True grit (original only with the Duke)
Big Jake
Rio Bravo
Eldorado
Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale rider
Joe Kidd
High Noon
Shane
Bend of the river
Winchester '73
The man from Laramie
Night Passage
Rare breed
Quigley down under
Crossfire trail
Monte Walsh
Shadow riders
Conagher
The Sacketts
Lonesome Dove
Open Range
Broken Trail
Dances with wolves
Silverado
Destry
Apache rifles
The fastest gun alive
The sheepman
Sergeant Rutledge
River of no return
Modern Western: Wind River
Series: Yellowstone, Longmire
Comedy: They Call Me Trinity or anything with Terrence Hill
Series: Yellowstone, Longmire
Comedy: They Call Me Trinity or anything with Terrence Hill
I have watched all of these movies many times and still love em.
Red River
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Wild Bunch
Ride The High County
High Noon
Winchester '73
Once Upon a Time In the West
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Wild Bunch
Ride The High County
High Noon
Winchester '73
Once Upon a Time In the West
LOLA few of my favorites:
Barbarosa with Willie Nelson. The last 5 to 10 seconds makes the whole movie, at least to me. Really the whole last scene, but especially the last little bit.
I can't believe nobody mentioned The Three Amigos. Classic western
Going South with Jack Nicholson.
A more modern western is A Million Ways To Die In The West.
Paint Your Wagon is another classic.
I've glazed over this thread, and found no mention of:
The Rounders- 1965
Glen Ford, Henry Fonda, and arguably one of the greatest rodeo cowboys to live, Casey Tibbs.
Another sort of off the beaten path is:
The Good Old Boys- 1995
Tommy Lee Jones, Sam Sheppard, an another great rodeo legend, Larry Mahan.
The Rounders- 1965
Glen Ford, Henry Fonda, and arguably one of the greatest rodeo cowboys to live, Casey Tibbs.
Another sort of off the beaten path is:
The Good Old Boys- 1995
Tommy Lee Jones, Sam Sheppard, an another great rodeo legend, Larry Mahan.
Watching Rooster Cogburn...
John Wayne... Katherine Hepburn... a mean drunken cat and a Gatling gun... Is there a better Western?
Yeah... there probably is. But not right now.
Watched The Shootist yesterday. That is a superlative movie by any measure. I think Wayne found out he was dying of cancer just after making the Shootist... I think he was making Brannigan when he found out.
But an amazing movie with so many great messages about the passing of the Frontier. That and Liberty Valance.
Sirhr
John Wayne... Katherine Hepburn... a mean drunken cat and a Gatling gun... Is there a better Western?
Yeah... there probably is. But not right now.
Watched The Shootist yesterday. That is a superlative movie by any measure. I think Wayne found out he was dying of cancer just after making the Shootist... I think he was making Brannigan when he found out.
But an amazing movie with so many great messages about the passing of the Frontier. That and Liberty Valance.
Sirhr
They shot Rooster Cogburn in part in the Deschutes national forest where I lived back then. John Wayne was as kind a man as you could possibly imagine. He bought dinners for people at restaurants. Just like, I'm buying that families dinner tonight.
We get old Hopalong Cassidy movies every Saturday at 6:30 AM. There are enough of them that you can watch for over a year and not see the same movie twice.
Watch his eyes - they tell you whom the bad guys are and what the lies are early in the films.
Watch his eyes - they tell you whom the bad guys are and what the lies are early in the films.
Born in Nebraska, then spent my early childhood in Torrington WY. I still remember the joy of getting my 1st double holster & cap guns! My mom said I wouldn't answer unless she called me Cheyenne Body, if that doesn't date me...
So, about the only channel we get at our deer lease is True Grit. I'm sitting in the cabin after eating some terrible pizza (Never, ever, order from Pizza Hut) and Red River comes on. This is a pre-technicolor John Wayne flick (1948). Anyway, it purports to tell the tale of Tom Dunson and the first cattle drive out of Texas- along the Chisholm Trail. I'll not bore you with the plot, as I didn't stick around for most of the story. But, there are some story panels in the beginning. He joins up with a wagon train out of St Louis, but leaves when it nears the northern border of Texas (the Red River). I should note, that the movie goes to length to have them cross the river and then have Wayne exclaim "We're in Texas!" As the panel reads, he heads south, across the Texas Panhandle, beyond the Pecos, and near the Rio Grande. There, they show him and Walter Brennan eyeing a wide expanse of grassland, good for cattle. I didn't make it much further than this. It is like the writers had never seen a map, but had heard various geographical names associated with Texas. For those that don't know, this would place you squarely in "The Big Bend," a more arid and desolate region you are not likely to find in Texas, and surely not good land for raising cattle- at least not compared to the land they would have traversed to get there, or what they would find if they had headed due south towards central and south Texas. I won't even mention that the Chisholm Trail didn't meander anywhere close to the Trans Pecos. It did, however, begin somewhere south of San Antonio, in a region of Texas that IS good for raising cattle- and big antlered whitetail deer...
Well, that's my rant. Carry on.
Well, that's my rant. Carry on.
