Western Movie Blog

I know i have too much time on my hands because i keep thinking of starting a Western movies blog. Does the blogverse really need another blog about Western movies?, probably not.
I really don't blog as much here on the E Banana or at the Macabre Drive-In Theater, i figure i'll probably slack off on any new blog(s), I love westerns and would probably have a great time but i think i'll let that idea sit awhile (like a few other ideas i've had here and at Macabre that i've never got around to doing).
The picture above is Lee Van Cleef in "The Big Gundown".
Van Cleef is one of my favorite Western actors.

Classic Western Movie Titles

Had to post some more movie titles, again we stick to the westerns pardner.

Westerns

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.

Best TV Western

The best tv western ever made was "Have Gun Will Travel" starring Richard Boone as Paladin. Running for 6 seasons from the late 50's to the early 60's the show never failed to entertain and sometimes make you think. Paladin a man of honor, worked for a fee but a lot of times he didn't ask for payment, not as a hired gun but more like a western era Knight righting wrongs. Intelligent scripts and intense acting by Boone made this series unique among the dozens of westerns on American tv at the time.
The first 3 seasons are on DVD and worth looking for and buying, sadly Paramount has stopped releasing the series to DVD, so may never get the final 3 on DVD.