100 westerns

[Cthulhu]

41. Jesse James meets Frankenstein's daughter

[Ozzymandias]

Ozzymandias speaks: The problem is there are so many good Westerns. I'm glad someone else got Hang'em High. That is one of my favorites.

I left a comedy Western off of my post: The Villain with Kirk Douglas, Ann Margaret, Arnold Swartzenger, Mel Tillis and Paul Lynde.

I love the conversation between AH-Nold and M-m-mel. I saw Tillis in Branson MO at Christmas time and we see Swartzeneger on the news, and I can safely say this scene wouldn't be as funny today because both men have improved their speaking abillities.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

[the ghoul]

Before we go any further, let's not forget where it all began.

43.  A Fistful of Dollars

[Raffine]

44. THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY

[ChuckSplatt]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

310 to Yuma (the remake is BETTER than the original, but watch 'em both as they have DIFFERENT endings!)

Once Upon a Time in the West
A MUST SEE
'Just Bronson arriving in the train scene alone is enough to own the DVD...

The Unforgiven

[RCMerchant]

47.Another comedy....BLAZING SADDLES!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPcLPzItOQs

"Whut in th' Wide,wide world 'o' Sports is goin' on?!" 

[AndyC]

48. Support Your Local Sheriff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgtHl08mI0U&feature=related

[RCMerchant]

48. Support Your Local Sheriff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgtHl08mI0U&feature=related

James Garner is always good! He was swell as well in SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER.

[the ghoul]

49.  Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTutD6OkTo

[Rev. Powell]

50. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE



I think the sequel's actually better than the original.  Great one-upmanship between Eastwood and Van Cleef. 

[Psycho Circus]

51.

[RCMerchant]

52. Sam Peckinpah's the WILD BUNCH

You can almost feel the bullets slamming into your body....!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3fLdqM_Ix8

[Neville]

I'd add these:

"Face to face" (Sergio Sollima, 1967) --> An spaghetti western starring Gian Maria Volonté and Tomás Milian, about a wimpy school teacher taken hostage by a bandit. It's a character study, because they eventually end up trading attitudes and philosophies, but it also has a terrific Morricone score and great action bits.

"Tepepa" (Giulio Petroni, 1968) --> IMHO, the best non-Leone spaghetti western ever. It involves an American rescuing a Mexican revolutionary from the gallows just to obtain revenge himself. Worth watching alone for seeing Orson Welles in a villainous role, but it also has a very clever script, rich in politics and irony, and great acting.

"The professionals" (Richard Brooks, 1966) --> Great western starring Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster. It has plenty of action, playing almost like a predecessor of "The dirty dozen", but the script is much better, with deeper characters and a few unexpected twists.

"Bite the bullet" (Richard Brooks, 1975) --> Not as good as the previous one, but still one of the most entertaining films I've ever seen. Plus it has Gene Hackman and James Coburn.

"Major Dundee" (Sam Peckinpah, 1965) --> This early Peckinpah film about an US Cavalry unit pursuing indian renegades well into Mexico is truly a mess, even in its restored encarnation, but there's plenty of stuff to like here, like the terrific performances by Charlton Heston and Richard Harris and the action scenes.

"Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) --> Watch it expecting a conventional story and you'll end up cursing everyone involved. But if you're looking for a sometimes quirky, sometimes sloppy and sometimes moving story about how the west was lost and how best friends sometimes make worst enemies, go no further. Just try to get the 1988 or the 2005 restorations, the original theatrical cut sucks.

[RCMerchant]

54. ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO (1967) is a great western with Dean Martin and Slim Pickens as the heavies....and John McIntire,George Peppard and Jean Simmons as the white hats. Great action...and Dino is a real scumbag!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sasVCtrFU8c

I had read the novel waaaaay back in 1981 while doing a weekend in jail fer drunk driving...and bein' as I had seen the movie on Superstation TBS earlier that year....it was quite a treat!

[the ghoul]

Karma to Neville for adding "Tepepa" and "Face to Face."  Those were going to be my next two.  Both are incredible films.