100 westerns

[the ghoul]

55.  Curse of the Undead

I love this movie.  Best horror western ever.

[the ghoul]

56.  Companeros

Another excellent Sergio Corbucci spaghetti western.  It's stylish, action packed, thought provoking, violent, crazy, extremely entertaining, and has a healthy dose of humor.  It also has a great Morricone score with one of the best movie theme songs ever. These great eurowesterns were so undervalued and under-rated when they were first released in the US, and oftentimes butchered to make them shorter.  Luckily the Anchor Bay DVD shows the complete film in all its glory.  As an example of the shoddy treatment these movies got when first released in the US, listen to how the guy mispronounces the name of the movie in the first trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBfzZQhX-OI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4AssMb_eDk

[Raffine]

57. CAT BALLOU

One of my top guilty pleasures:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABVf_1pq5k

[schmendrik]

58. THE SHOOTIST

John Wayne's last movie. I like every character in this movie.  I proposed this earlier but it got left out of the count because it was buried in one of my overly wordy posts.

I do tend to run on, don't I?

[MilkManPictures]

59. Shane

60. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

[the ghoul]

61.  Billy the KIid vs. Dracula.

OK I know it's not great cinema, but I can't help but love an old western with Dracula in it.

[Cthulhu]

62. Terror of tiny town

[the ghoul]

63.  Stranger's Gundown (aka Django The Bastard)

This spaghetti western has a strong eurohorror vibe to it, even though I wouldn't go as far as calling it a horror western.  Rumor has it that this film was the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter," and there are enough similarities to indicate that it may be true, but this is a much better film in my opinion.

[Nightowl]

64.)Death Rides A Horse

By far my favorite western.

[Neville]

63.  Stranger's Gundown (aka Django The Bastard)

This spaghetti western has a strong eurohorror vibe to it, even though I wouldn't go as far as calling it a horror western.  Rumor has it that this film was the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter," and there are enough similarities to indicate that it may be true, but this is a much better film in my opinion.

And this is not the only "Django" sequel / copycat worth watching. "10.000 dollari per un massacro" (Romolo Guerrieri, 1967) and "Django Kill - If You Live, Shoot!" (Giliuo Questi, 1967) are very interesting films in their own right, specially the second. Still, I wouldn't place this one over "High Plains Drifter".

[Pilgermann]

65. My Name is Nobody -- A mix of parody and homage to other Westerns, this one's pretty funny, and oddly touching in the end.  A couple of parts are too silly but overall I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOanX_TSE5U

[the ghoul]

66.  Blindman

This is a quirky, incredibly entertaining spaghetti western about a tough-as-nails blind man who is trying to rescue 50 women who have been sold to a bandit.  Tony Anthony is great, as usual, in the lead role.  It has a great music score that's like Morricone with sitar, lots of scantily-clad women, a great story, and is very well-made.  Definitely a must-see western.   

[JJ80]

No.67 - "Ulzana's Raid"



No.68 - "Duel At Diablo"

[the ghoul]

69.  El Topo

This movie IS a western, regardless of what the pretentious trailer says.  Just look at the scenes the very same trailer shows, and listen to the spaghetti western style music from the film.  That's not a dream sequence, the whole movie is like that.  (If it walks like a duck.....)  In fact, I think the best way to watch this movie is to take it at face value as a whacked-out western.  It's a great movie when you watch it that way.  Trying to find some deeper meaning just takes all the fun out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtGUx4kXIEY

[Nightowl]

70.Cain's Cutthroats