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Though it is slightly "pre-western", I have to throw Jeremiah Johnson in the ring for consideration.

Since you brought it up, you need to check the song my buddy and Nashville song writer did for Willie Nelson. Wynn came and played at my birthday party this summer. He said he “retired” this song.

Laugh and enjoy!

Hope somebody mentioned Stagecoach. The movie that established John Wayne as a serious actor.

The Crazy Cora is too stupid to be believed. Roy! STFU!

Also it is hard to believe that a guy is going to sail across the Pacific in the belief that he will be paid big bucks to shoot wild dogs. The entire plot is BS.
But Tom Selleck did look realistic as a badass cowboy.

Most of the above and Lawman, with Burt Lancaster. 'Sketti westerns are ok, mostly for giving Clint a career, but the sound effects drive me nuts watching them. Buddy of mine used to call them "ricochet westerns". Have CDs of those, plus Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Joe Kidd and a few other Eastwood oaters. There ain't a John Ford/John Wayne flick I can't watch, especially their Cavalry Trilogy.

I have a three CD set of Selleck westerns at the cabin:Monte Walsh, Crossfire Trail and Last Stand at Sabre River. Also Quigley, but haven't watched it lately. A forty episode set of CDs, mostly Wayne's old B westerns prior to Stagecoach,

Open Range and Broken Trail. Watch them often, no longer get broadcast TV signal up there..

The Shootist and the second True Grit are two of my favorites.

Appaloosa starts at 7:00 (central time) on INSP, channel 364 on Directv.

Matt has to clear Miss Kitty of attempted murder first.

There are many good westerns although a lot of us like the same ones there seems to be a different one on everyone list.

To me, The Shootist was John Wayne's best western - JMO, and I still truly believe that Val Kilmer was robbed of an Oscar for his role as Doc Holiday.

Oh yeah

That scene always makes me think how much fun it would be, having Curly firing buckshot mere inches from my right arm, while banging away with the M92 up there?

If we can count Quigley the best Aussie settlement period movie is the Proposition. Another is the Tracker. Both with Ray Winstone.

Expanding it to British colonial could take us to Zulu

I don't believe I've ever seen Stagecoach, but plan to now.

LOL

That Slim Whitman on the reins or Gabby Hayes?

No dry West shoot-out, at high noon.

Sorry, Walter Brennan and John Wayne fans...




However, plenty of backdrop and realism in this one:

Young guns I & II not not bad. I like Whaytt Earpp a bit better than Tombstone , Frank & Jesse kicks ass , bit of family & local history ..

Monte Walsh...............either version.

The Wild Bunch

Tombstone

Lonesome Dove

MM

Along with the many good ones already mentioned I'd add:

"Valdez is Coming"


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Neither... it's the not-too-slim Andy Devine.

I may be the only one on Earth, but I can't stand "Lonesome Dove". I have TRIED to watch it, but it is positively dreadful.

I don't think "Tombstone" is actually that great a movie in itself. It's the characters and actors that make the movie. It wouldn't be worth much if it starred anyone other than Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell. People don't really remember the movie... they remember the characters and their iconic dialogue.