I love westerns, seems a lost art now. No more western heroes like John Wayne, Randolph Scott or even Clint Eastwood ( Clint has "retired" from acting ). To me the Western genre "grew up" in the 50's and we got thw wonderful "spaghetti westerns" of the 60's and although we got a few classic movies in the 70's the genre just started to die off. Changing times or young people just didn't care for a good western and wanted SF and Horror movies instead.
I have a wonderful memory of watching John Wayne and Kirk Douglas in The War Wagon at the local theater back in 1967.
Here's a list of Western movies i think are classic or just a good film to watch. Most are on DVD i think.
Fort Apache
Seven Men From Now
Wild Bunch
Big Hand For A Little Lady
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Shootist
The War Wagon
Rio Bravo
The Searchers
High Plains Drifter
Ride Lonesome
For A Few Dollars More
Sabata
Magnificent Seven
100 Rifles
Cat Ballou
The Professionals
Unforgiven
Train Robbers
True Grit
Hombre
Big Country
and many more.
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Man, great list - but the western will never die. I'm a western writer and I'm counting on that.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're right. It'll never die as long as there are fans.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope so...but are there any actors left who look good in a cowboy hat, on a horse?
ReplyDeleteI think George Clooney could be a good western star but he seems too busy making films no one wants to go see.
ReplyDeleteKarl - me I look good in a stetson on a horse. I can also ride standing up
ReplyDeleteHigh Plains Drifter is one of my all-time favourites. Mostly I don't like westerns all that much, although I do enjoy spaghetti westerns like Django.
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