Guess that means you haven't seen One Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando and Karl Malden. In my top ten.

I have not

the list of movies I want to see is pretty much endless spanning many ages and genres and it's getting bigger as interesting movies are being made at a quicker rate than I watch them.

I'll keep in mind your recommendation though and we'll see if we can get that one seen sometime

>no high plains drifter
what does this guy know about westerns?

Holy crap!

No mention of Pale Rider starring Clint Eastwood in this thread!

#11 The Wild Bunch (1969) just came up as a recommendation to watch for me on Netflix, think I will watch it. Doyle/Dalla talked about this in the tail end of video #2.

Maybe Netflix is adding some more of these titles to their catalog. I remember at time of thread creation, not a single title was available on Netflix, good to see some start to be available.

Yojimbo, a Japanese "samuraii" classic, was remade into a Western as Fistful of Dollars.

There is a vimeo which does a comparison, side by side.



There is an oddly unchanged scene comes when Clint Eastwood, for some reason, decides to pick up a sword and directly imitate Toshiro Mifune.

Directv recently had a free weekend of some movie channels, I think HDnet and others, and I came across some classic Westerns and recorded them.

I just finished watching Sergio Leone's Western "Trilogy", A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

My favorites in order were:

1) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2) For A Few Dollars More
3) A Fistful of Dollars

TBH I'm surprised For A Few Dollars More didn't make Doyle's list, as I thought it was superior to A Fistful of Dollars. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is simply an all-time Western classic.

Also, some of you may not realize, that song, or music I should say, that is played on the RIO Convention Center sound system at the WSOP before each day's bracelet events, is from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Anyone else catch up on some classic Westerns during the pandemic?

The ballad of Buster Scruggs deserves a place near the top. Classic.

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Nice Madlex.

Here is the actual scene that The Ecstasy of Gold is played. Geez that score just seems too big and beautiful to be in a low-budget Spaghetti Western lol, but it's nice hearing it at the halls of WSOP every year.

Kids these days and their streaming and recording. I watch them when I want, as I own them. But I'll admit to also having them on Plex so the actual Blu-Rays aren't needed.

Also the chronological order, FWIW, if one wants to try to put them together as a trilogy. But it still feels wrong to watch them in anything but their release order, which was reverse to that. And let's face it, they're a trilogy in modern name only.

Just finished watching For A Few Dollars More with our son this past weekend. Slow going getting through the trilogy with him - we watched A Fistful of Dollars several months ago. Hopefully get through the last soon - great movie.

It makes me sad, and feel old, to think the number of people this applies to is ever-growing.

28. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
48. Once upon a time in the west

lol this list if these movies don't make top 5 of GOAT westerns

Tombstone is top 5 period. Val Kilmer got robbed

Hell or High Water is one of the best movies of the last decade and beyond being a neo-western is a wider exploration of morality and the ideas of possession, ownership, transience and the circular nature of things.

Taylor Sheridan also wrote Sicario which is a classic. He appears in this movie as a cattle rancher herding cattle out of a fire. He says to no one in particular

"And I wonder why my kids won't do this ****"

Doc Holliday is such a brilliant character. In real life too he was riddled with tuberculosis and was very frail, and by some accounts only killed 2 or 3 people.

But everyone said he was fast as hell. He must have been something special with a pistol.

I'm more surprised that some of the Spaghetti greats made the list at all.
Personally, being Eurotrash myself, I rate them highly, of course, but I can see why old-school Americans wouldn't care for them too much.

Blood Meridian tho

Waiting for this to be made. Never will though.

He left out, Lust In The Dust?

Yea I'm sure a number of young-uns are like "Hey that's the music from the Modelo beer commercial lol.

How old is your son? Pretty sure mine is still a bit young for these at eleven.

So I just recently finished Once Upon A Time in The West (1968) with Henry Fonda & Charles Bronson. Great movie, kind of a slow burn but I find many Westerns to be like that. Was shocked when Henry Fonda just cold blooded murders that little boy in the beginning of the movie. I expect stuff like that from Tarantino, etc. in today's films, but back in '68? That was cold!

A film that's not on Doyle's list, that I just watched and loved, is The Man from Laramie (1955), with James Stewart. Great movie! Would recommend anyone to watch this classic Western.

I don't think Tom Hanks' News of the World will be competing for a slot in that list.
So disappointing, apart from the child actor who will probably be a star in years to come

the outlaw josey wales should be higher up

Top 60 western movies? Doyle must have had plenty of time to watch movies being semiretired and with the nosebleed mixed games not going much with the pandemic etc.

Yeah, probably wouldn't have been showing it to him at 11 - I suspect he wouldn't have been interested anyway. Our son is 18, so no limits any more.

I'm a sucker for epics, so this is a favourite of mine. It's actually the first of another extremely loosely related Leone trilogy - the "Once Upon A Time Trilogy". The second is "Duck, You Sucker" (also commonly known as A Fistful of Dynamite, and Leone's last western), and finally "Once Upon a Time in America" - an excellent but VERY long gangster movie. How they make a trilogy, I have no idea, aside from the names - Duck, You Sucker is apparently also known as Once Upon a Time... The Revolution, but I'm not sure by whom.

Nice, I'll try to catch that at some point. Hard to go wrong with Jimmy Stewart.

Awesome movie.