Western Movie Classic

3 Amigos? Yuck!

Hard Right,

I never saw El Diablo. Will have to look into it.

And even though this isn’t from a movie, how could Flopping Aces let this thread stand without a mention of this:

Couldn’t find the later seasons, colorized versions.

And we raped the horses (YAY!!) and rode off on the women (YAY!!!)…

How can you not like the 3 amigos? Just because that a**hole Chevy Chase is in it doesn’t bother me enough not to watch it.

In the late 50’s & Early 60’s every small boy had to have a cowboy suit & cap guns, duel pistols if you were a “gunslinger”. We never could figure out way back then why they had to keep putting in scenes with, “dumb ol’ girls in them to slow down the action”, LOL. (No offense intended ladies, but to 6-year old mentalities, the kissin’ scenes were “shear hell”).

Of course, GB&U, any of the Trinity series, and about anything by The Duke (Rooster, Grit, The Mountain Men, Angel & Badman, etc).

Also watched a lot of Roy Rogers & Gene Autry as a kid (Our Mom loved the singing cowboys)

Movies:
Cat Ballou (Yeah I know Jane Fonda yeech!, but just loved Lee Marvin’s classic duel roles as the old gunslinger Kid Shaleen & the heavy, especially where they were getting “the kid” off the wagon & back up to snuff)
Son of Paleface
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Little Big Man
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tombstone
Long Riders
The Over The Hill Gang (Walter Brennan)
Evil Roy Slade (John Astin)

TV Series (in no particular order):
Wild Wild West
F-Troop
Lone Ranger (& Tonto)
Gunsmoke (We could have done without “Miss Kitty” back then though LOL)
Paladin, Have Gun Will Travel
Rawhide (Because Clint was in it)
Maverick
Branded
Does Kung Fu count?

Didn’t really care much for Bonanza, The Great Valley, Death Valley Days, or Wagon Train as we found them too boring (more like western soap operas). All I can recall from High Chapparal is the name.

I can’t believe you all overlooked the most patriotic American cowpoke (off the screen) of all, and a British born naturalized immigrant to boot:

“The Paleface” & “Son of Paleface” star: Leslie Townes (AKA. Bob) Hope

Then there’s the stars of “The Merry Mavericks” “Out West” “The Outlaw sIs Coming” “Pals And Gals” “Shot In The Frontier” “Horses’ Collars” “Goofs And Saddles” “Rockin’ Through The Rockies” “Phony Express” “Punchy Cowpunchers” “Yes We Have No Bonanza”

Appearing also in a multitude of other films spanning 40 years, these starred a trio of short and dumpy Jewish fellows, (actually a variety of guys,) better known as The Three Stooges

And a lot of others:
“Pardners” (Martin-Lewis)
“Ride ‘Em Cowboy” “City slickers” & “The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap” (Abbot & Costello)
“The Shakiest Gun In The West” (Don Knotts)
“The Apple Dumpling Gang” & “The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again” (Don Knotts & Tim Conway)
“Support Your Local Sheriff!” & “Support Your Local Gunfighter” (James Garner)
(1971) VHS
“The Villain” (Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret & Arnold Schwarzenegger.)
“My name is Nobody” “They Call Me Trinity” “Trinity Is Still My Name” (the last two previously mentioned) “Lucky Luke” (Terrence Hill)

Your list looks like one my husband would write. he also likes Bruce Willis movies. He recently dug all his movies out of storage, I noticed they were scattered about down in his barn. Unfortunately, my memory was wiped out in the early 90’s because of allergy medication, most of it has come back, but old movies and songs are like watching and listening for the first time. So, I appreciate threads like this, sometimes it trips something up there.

Like your quote:

“A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”

This is similar to what my husband explains to the grandchildren *every single time* they target practice with him. Now I’m going to ask him if that’s where it came from.

Ditto on “any John Wayne movie,” especially El Dorado, Rio Lobo, and The Undefeated. Throw in Hellfighters with the bad guys being played by well fires. For others, don’t leave out Silverado and Jeremiah Johnson, the movie that said more with fewer words than anything in recent memory.

I looked, but not exhaustively, for one of what I consider a classic Western—which began in
Texas and ended in the true last frontier, Australia (until they went insane and banned firearms
to the elation of the criminals–dumbass pols). The movie? “Quigley Down Under.”
Classic wrong-righting, suffering of the innocent, and final justice for the guilty in an
soul-warming shootout!! In spite of all the competition, it ranks right up at the top for me.
Add—anything based on a Louis L’Amour opus.
Marcel….

Agreed on the ‘any John Wayne’ choice.

I’m also a big fan of ‘The Quick and The Dead’. Great newer western movie. Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe among others. Great movie about duels in a lawless frontier town.

Here’s one that’s a classic at this blog:

Second the motion on Quigley Down Under and raise you:

The Grey Fox – Richard Farnsworth

Breakheart Pass – Charles Bronson

Blazing Saddles, opening scene where they sing and dance like idiots. Funny!

I did chime in before to say True Grit. But I am going to tell you, as a kind of r&r from all the more serious thoughts of the political present, y’all have provided quite a list of unfamiliar movies for me to rent over the long cold winter!

Back in the day, I actually was a teeny bopper. LOL So Cowboy Shoot ‘em Up flicks were not something I even tried, exception being True Grit. My daddy encouraged me to watch that one with the bait that Glen Campbell was in it! LOL

Daddy loved the Westerns. He watched ‘em all and checked out every single Western book at the public library.

I had no idea how much the true and right values were being expressed in much of his movie genre. So now I have a good list from all of you and am going to share them with my kids.

@Lurkin’no-mo:

In my book, the best western movie is “The Outlaw Josie Wales”. “Dying ain’t much of a living, son.”

Definitely another great movie. The line reminds me of one of the songs from Bon Jovi’s “Blaze of Glory” soundtrack. I don’t remember much of the actual movie (”Young Guns”? “Young Guns II”?), but I somehow ended up with the album and liked much of the lyrics. And he used the line, “dyin’ ain’t much of a living” on one song:

One of my favorites is “Santa Fe”:

I like the whole album. Miracle. Blood Money:

You know….there’s also “The Magnificent Seven” (Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson…), which is based upon the Kurosawa classic “The Seven Samurai”…..which in turn was inspired by American westerns. Same goes for “A Fistful of Dollars” (”Yojimbo”).