[TV] Your favourite Western films and tv series

[Icy Gull]

Inspired by the tangent that the Michael Caine thread went off at..

It seems that Westerns are few and far between these days but they were a staple diet of my youth.

Off the top of my head, Wagon Train and Boots and Saddles stand out as the ones I loved when very young. Plenty more though, what were your favourites?

Gunsmoke and Bonanza too

This could well be an old codger thread

 

[Stat Brother]

This could well be an old codger thread

On NSC - I find that hard to believe.

 

[Icy Gull]

On NSC - I find that hard to believe.

No I mean REALLY old codger, not your young 50 something old codgers

 

[Is it PotG?]

Fillums is

Series is before their much lauded BBC comedy series

 

[shingle]

'The Big Country' with Gregory Peck (my favourite Western). should be required viewing for everyone.
'Tombstone' with Kurt Russell
Anything with Clint Eastwood

Favourite Western Series .... High Chapparel

Love Westerns, my old dad got me into them.

 

[Live by the sea]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a western , good old cowboys against Indians , probably not PC in these times anymore . Does Dallas count ? Used to enjoy that along with Dynasty.

 

[Icy Gull]

Of the more modern ones I enjoyed the remake of 3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe

Just remembered Once Upon A Time in the West, a great and atmospheric movie

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

Deadwood.

 

[Rugrat]

Butch Cassidy
Dances with Wolves
Good, Bad and Ugly

and even though it isn't I'll add it as it was brilliant and sounds like it might be on topic

Midnight Cowboy

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I remember The Virginian. One episode was all about rabies and it scared the life out of me as an impressionable child.

 

[AmexRuislip]

'The Big Country' with Gregory Peck (my favourite Western). should be required viewing for everyone.
'Tombstone' with Kurt Russell
Anything with Clint Eastwood

Favourite Western Series .... High Chapparel


Love Westerns, my old dad got me into them.

Another viote here for the High Chaparral.

 

[Barrow Boy]

 

[sams dad]

Film - The Magnificent 7
TV series - Lonesome Dove

 

[Acker79]

I've never been a big fan of westerns. I made myself watch a bunch when working through the IMDb top 250 a few years back, and it didn't really change my mind.

I have enjoyed a few:

Maverick (though I'm not sure I've watched it since Mel Gibsons 'troubles')
True Grit (the remake)
Back to the Future part 3

 

[Barrow Boy]

 

[Taybha]

Django Unchained

series = Bonanza

 

[Sussexscots]

El Dorado with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan.

Gunfight at the OK Corral with Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and DeForrest 'Dr McCoy' Kelley.

 

[Barrow Boy]

This was a lot better than I thought it was going to be.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

There’s plenty of modern Westerns worth mentioning;

True Grit
3:10 To Yuma
Hostiles
Open Range
Deadwood series and the recent follow up feature
Godless (very underrated Netflix series)
The Assassination of Jess James by the Coward Robert Ford
American Outlaws
Bone Tomahawk

Not sure these would be ‘modern’ any more but Tombstone, City Slickers, Last of the Mohicans and Dances with Wolves are all brilliant. In fact Tombstone is up there with the best films ever made in my book.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

This was a lot better than I thought it was going to be.

Class film. Does exactly what it says on the tin.