Growing up in the 60s, I watched western citcoms, and movies quite a bit. I still like them. My own favorites are some of the classics. Shane, with Alan Ladd. High Noon- Gary Cooper. Any James Stewart western too. My all time fave John Wayne movie is the Searchers, and he made many more. I really wish they would bring back western movies. Many had great acting, good scenery, and could be watched by everyone. I'll always love em. What are some of your favorite westerns, actors, gunfight scenes, etc? They just don't make movies like this anymore

I grew up in the 60s too. On TV, the reruns of The Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, and The Roy Rogers Show were my favorites. One of the first movies I remember seeing, again on TV, was “The River of No Return” with Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. I believe that was the movie that let me know that I liked girls. Been partial to blondes ever since. 

 

 "I don't believe in surrenders. Nope, I've still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't beat it into no plowshare, neither".

 

1 minute ago, Catt said:

Catt, that's one of my favorites. I've read about Doc Holliday. He was dying, and knew it, so he didn't care who he shot it out with. When other guys might back off, he would rise to the challenge. They say he was really a deadly shot with a pistol. And because he didn't care, a little cocky too

What about Shane? One of my favorite gunfighter scenes. He calls out Jack Palance, who plays the Wyoming gunfighter Wilson. A pretty menacing dude. " I've heard your a low down yankee liar".  Wilson says " prove it". Shane let's him have it! Of course he has to spin his gun 3 times before it goes back in his holster. I've watched so many times I've got it memorized by now

Some more recent ones, too. I like Open Range with Costner and Duvall, have seen it several times. And, the movie All the Pretty Horses based on Cormac McCarthy's work.

 

If you like to read, you ought to read every word McCarthy has ever written. Forgive him for his punctuation (almost absent), and there is an old joke that he might have been abused by a comma as a child. Ha!

 

Speaking of Kevin Costner, if you haven't seen the TV series that just completed its second season, Yellowstone, you are missing one of the best contemporary "westerns" imaginable. The casting choices are superb, the acting off the charts. Do yourself a favor, begin at Season 1, Episode 1.

 

One last memory: Lucas McCain at the end of most of the episodes of The Rifleman giving son, Mark, sort of a lesson in ethics. Whew, did a lot of us ever soak up a lot of that! It was more fun than Sunday School, too, might have been more effective being imbued with such lessons.

 

Brad

Lonesome Dove is my favorite "newer" western.  Really liked the relationship between Gus and Woodrow.

25 minutes ago, Randy Price said:

Lonesome Dove is my favorite "newer" western.  Really liked the relationship between Gus and Woodrow.

Lonesome Dove is a great movie. Based somewhat on fact too, and the real Texas Rangers

Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Youtube.

 

I watch episodes of Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and Have Gun Will Travel. There are a lot of good movies too. I like Last Train From Gun Hill, Quigley Down Under, and Silverado.

Saw all the above mentioned movies. All were great to watch..Not to forget Hop along Cassidy, Gunsmoke, Palidin, ect.

 

The last western that I saw wound up being one of my all time faves..Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid. I seldom watch TV, and movies anymore..

 

Opps, almost forgot Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. And the Lone Ranger.

Unforgiven......

 

 

Crossfire Trail is a pretty good one with Tom Selleck, Wilford Brimley, and Mark Harmon 

I loved the movie "Posse," with Mario Van Peebles.

Love my movies. Early John Wayne in the Searchers and later in The Cowboys, True Grit (great book) and The Shootist.

I grew up with all the late 50's and 60's TV series.  I like Outlaw Josey Wales, Open Range, Unforgiven, Dances With Wolves.  If you've never seen The Homesman with Tommy Lee Jones, that's a good flick as well. Another is Hostiles with Christian Bale.  It's the only movie he's actually good in. I don't do spaghetti westerns though.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

 

This is my favorite. Searchers is a close second, Lonesome Dove also. Also Dances with wolves and the last of the Dog men, El Dorado, the undefeated, hang em high, Open range, Qiugley down under, Jeremiah Johnson ,  the list goes on.

I grew up in the 60s too, With Gunsmoke, bonanza being my favorites. I still watch Gunsmoke reruns several times a week. If it wasn’t for westerns I wouldn’t watch TV much, except for SEC football , of course.

A little bit younger than some of you guys but my mom was a huge John Wayne fan so of course I became one.

 

Randomly clicking through channels this past year and ending up watching both The River of No Return and also The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance for the first time(s). Good stuff!!

My favorites will always be any of the Eastwood movies...especially "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly", and "For a Few Dollars More".  I did enjoy some of the newer westerns out recently - "The Son" and "Godless" (I think that's what it was called).

Watching “ How the west was won “ as I write. Had forgotten how good it was... Any Western with James Arness in it was good.

Last night I watched 3:10 to Yuma. The new one with Russel Crowe. The old one is good too. I'll watch The Magnificent Seven this weekend. I.like the original the best.

I thought 3:10 to Yuma was good. 

I know I mentioned it before, but one of my favorites is Last of the Dog men with Tom Beringer and Barbara Hershey. The plot is a little far- fetched ( not quite as much for the 90s ) but close enough to reality to be interesting. I give it a 3 out of 4 .