Pre-1980 Westerns

byke

byke

Well-known member
Got any you like?

Once Upon A Time In The West is top notch, plus all the old Clint Eastwood flicks are fun.

Just watched Lawman last night, really enjoyed that one and it got surprisingly heavy at the end. Burt Lancaster was great.

I've seen some older John Wayne movies recently; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Cowboys, Cahill, El Dorado aaaand The Spoilers. I've enjoyed his stuff quite a bit. Any John Wayne recommendations?

Edit to include some recommendations:
Once Upon A Time In The West
Lawman
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Cowboys
Cahill
El Dorado
Rio Bravo
The Spoilers
The Secret Of Convict Lake
Hombre
Oxbow Incident
Hondo
The Searchers
The Big Country
Jeremiah Johnson
McCabe & Mrs Miller
Missouri Breaks
The Long Riders
Rio Lobo
Shane
Stagecoach
Wild Bunch
Fort Apache
Sons of Katie Elder
310 to Yuma (original)
Blazing Saddles
Three Godfathers, John Wayne’s Christmas movie....
Judge Roy Bean, with Walter Brennan, Gary Copper
Winchester 73
Man from Laramie
The Cowboys
Colt 45
War Wagon
The Alamo, John Wayne.....
Big Jake
McClintock
Chisum
Johnny Guitar
The Wild Bunch
The Long Riders
Barbarosa
My Name Is Nobody
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Little Big Man
High Noon
The Shootist
100 Rifles
Hannie Caulder
Culpepper Cattle Company
Bite the Bullet
Major Dundee
The Last Hard Men (might be porn)
Cat Ballou
Red River
True Grit
Paint Your Wagon
The Magnificent 7
 
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vio

vio

Cream Puff???
I watched Bonanza back in the day.

New western show The Son was good. I think it aired on HBO with Pierce Brosnan s/p. I was hooked on that. Supposedly they were going to start another season.... But it never came back on again. Shame... It was really good.
 
Johndicezx9

Johndicezx9

Rolls with it...
If you haven't seen "Hondo" or "The Searchers", those are a couple of John Wayne's best westerns.

"The Big Country" with Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, and Burl Ives. You'll never watch "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" the same way, but you'll have a new appreciation for "Ren & Stimpy"...

The 70's weren't exactly the best years for westerns, but 2 stand out to me, "Jerimiah Johnson" with Robert Redford and "McCabe & Mrs Miller" with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. "Missouri Breaks" is pretty good.

"The Long Riders" is another favorite, and even though it's really long and a bit slow, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" with Brad Pitt is one I really enjoy, although not "Pre 1980"
 
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littlebeast

littlebeast

get it while it's easy
it’s well before this time, but my favorite old-time western is red river (montgomery cliff and john wayne).

Cherry Valance: You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day.

Matt Garth: Could be. I wouldn't count on it.

fucking LOVE that movie!
 
i_am_the_koi

i_am_the_koi

Be Here Now
Searchers
Rio lobo
Shootist
Oxbow incident
High plains drifter (and I hate Clint Eastwood westerns)
El Dorado
Shane
Quigley down under
True grit, original and remake
Stagecoach
Wild bunch
Fort Apache
Rio bravo
Sons of Katie elder
310 to Yuma, original and remake

Don't knock the current stuff either

Hostiles
Open range
Valley of violence
Bone tomahawk
Magnificent 7 remake and original
 
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ontherearwheel

Well-known member
Blazing Saddles
Three Godfathers, John Wayne’s Christmas movie....
Judge Roy Bean, with Walter Brennan, Gary Copper
Winchester 73
Man from Laramie
The Cowboys
Colt 45
War Wagon
The Alamo, John Wayne.....
Big Jake
McClintock
Chisum
Johnny Guitar
 
aminalmutha

aminalmutha

Well-known member
Magnificent 7 remake was dogshit.

Pretty much all the Spaghetti Westerns were awesome. TGTB&TU was one of the greatest movies of all time.
 
M

MysterYvil

Mr. Bad Example
The Wild Bunch is my hands-down favorite.

The Long Riders was slow building but worth it. Fun fact: the brothers were played by brothers.

Barbarosa is from '82, but worth watching. Not your typical western.
 
budman

budman

General Menace
Staff member
Cool thread.
Lots of good stuff.

I still like the Good the Bad and the Ugly. The catchy music rings in my mind once in a while.
 
Eldritch

Eldritch

is insensitive
byke said:
Got any you like?

Once Upon A Time In The West is top notch, plus all the old Clint Eastwood flicks are fun.

Just watched Lawman last night, really enjoyed that one and it got surprisingly heavy at the end. Burt Lancaster was great.

I've seen some older John Wayne movies recently; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Cowboys, Cahill, El Dorado aaaand The Spoilers. I've enjoyed his stuff quite a bit. Any John Wayne recommendations?
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So, if you like The Duke. You have to see The Shootist. That one kills me every time, because of his condition during the film.
 
flying_hun

flying_hun

Adverse Selection
tuxumino said:
Oxbow incident


youtu.be/NjvhQm3M6vc
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Very much this.

Johndicezx9 said:
If you haven't seen... "The Searchers", those are a couple of John Wayne's best westerns.
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The Searchers, hands down. Follow that with any of the Monument Valley trilogy.

ontherearwheel said:
Blazing Saddles...
Winchester 73
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Great films for two very different reasons. The former as maybe the best satire of American myths since Huckleberry Finn. The latter because it's a great example of Jimmy Stewart bringing all of his darkness and rage to the role.

As for the remake of The Magnificent Seven being garbage, OMG TOTALLY!!! The remake of True Grit was brilliant. The remake of The Magnificent Seven was worse than the original in almost every way.
 
Climber

Climber

Well-known member
In honor of recently departed Burt Reynolds, 100 Rifles also starring Raquel Welch and Jim Brown.
 
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