Whats the greatest WESTERN ever ?

[Easy 10]

It was released in Italy in 66, but didn't come out in the UK till 68...

Hairy muff.

 

[Easy 10]

The Outlaw Josie Whales

wcnige

Wales surely.
Is that the one where Eastwood keeps gobbing chewed tobacco onto that dogs head ? Quality.

 

[Curious Orange]

Do re-makes of Akira Kurosawa samurai films actually count?

 

[Parson Henry]

Do re-makes of Akira Kurosawa samurai films actually count?

Yes why shouldn't they?

 

[Curious Orange]

Yes why shouldn't they?

Just wondering. So a Western version of a Shakespeare play would also be valid. Cool.

 

[Les Biehn]

Once Upon A Time In The West. Awesome, makes the bridge from traditional westerns to the modern, introspective western. The opening scene may be the greatest of any film ever and its just brilliant all round.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Missouri Breaks starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brandon is excellent and a little bizarre, Nicholson plays a horse thief and Brando the (very camp I should add - in one scene he is dressed in a womans frock with make up) lawman out to get him dead or alive.

Carry on Camping is the best English made western.

 

[Trufflehound]

Do re-makes of Akira Kurosawa samurai films actually count?

Star Wars Episode IV is also a remake of a Kurosawa film (The Hidden Fortress), but most people on here seem to have no problem worshipping that.

 

[Trufflehound]

Once Upon A Time In The West. Awesome, makes the bridge from traditional westerns to the modern, introspective western. The opening scene may be the greatest of any film ever and its just brilliant all round.

Agree about OUATITW's brilliance and put it only a shade below High Noon (both are in my top 5 films of any genre).

But it was High Noon that made the transition, 18 years before Leone.

 

[Curious Orange]

Agree about OUATITW...

 

[Trufflehound]

Which reminds me. No one's mentioned The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance yet. Another classic.

Westerns rock.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

The Outlaw Josey Wales is the greatest Western ever.

FACT.

 

[Trufflehound]

Edit. Whoops.

 

[Les Biehn]

Agree about OUATITW's brilliance and put it only a shade below High Noon (both are in my top 5 films of any genre).

But it was High Noon that made the transition, 18 years before Leone.

I didn't say it was the transition, its the bridge between the two era's which can mean something different.

 

[Parson Henry]

Just wondering. So a Western version of a Shakespeare play would also be valid. Cool.

A western is a western is it not. Men with hats on horses, dancing girls, saloons, gunfights, Red Indians, stagecoach chase through Monument Valley.. does it matter where the underlying storyline came from.

I couldn't care less if the western was based on a storyline from Fawlty Towers to be brutally honest.

 

[Parson Henry]

Edit. Whoops.

That was my favourite especially the last scene where the hero pledges his love for his wife..'dahlin, look after ma boy..n you sure look purrrty....

Would have done better at the flicks if it had a better title.

 

[On the Left Wing]

Does Dances With Wolves qualify as a western?

Cos that has to be up there as well....

 

[Trufflehound]

Do re-makes of Akira Kurosawa samurai films actually count?

Of course, there is also the fact that Kurosawa openly admits he got all his original inspiration from watching John Ford westerns...

 

[Mr Popkins]

The WESTERN ROLL, It is a far more cumbersome technique compaired to the Fosbury Flop ,But a more amusing.

 

[Trufflehound]

That was my favourite especially the last scene where the hero pledges his love for his wife..'dahlin, look after ma boy..n you sure look purrrty....

Would have done better at the flicks if it had a better title.

That's interfering executive producers for you. The director wanted to call it "Hot Asian Babes Go Wild For It in Deadwood", but he was overruled.