I'll add the original 3:10 to Yuma. Glenn Ford absolutely owned that role.

I got a few.

Stage Coach "39"
Tall In The Saddle "44"
Angel and the Badman "47"
Fort Apache "48"
She wore a Yellow Ribbon ""49"
Hondo "53"
The Rounders "65"
The Cheyenne Social Club "70"
Missouri Breaks "76"
Heading South "78"

Honorable mention :
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Originally posted by parabellum:
The thing for me about The Shootist is that the ending of the film and the ending of the book are radically different in one respect. Once you start reading the books these films are made from, it can really change your perspective on the films, and that's the case for me of the The Shootist.
I think some members might be shocked at the ending of the book.

The movie ending did not ring true to me. I prefer that of the book.

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Originally posted by bendable:
I got a few.

Stage Coach "39"
Tall In The Saddle "44"
Angel and the Badman "47"
Fort Apache "48"
She wore a Yellow Ribbon ""49"
Hondo "53"
The Rounders "65"
The Cheyenne Social Club "70"
Missouri Breaks "76"
Heading South "78"

Honorable mention :
Support your local sheriff

Is that your top 10?

It's not written in stone , but pretty much.

I have seven others that I like as well .

But those are the films I'd take with me to live as a recluse in a 5000 sq. Ft. penthouse suite for five years.

But I also have 25 other non western movies that I enjoy a lot

Three pages and not one mention of my favorite, Old Henry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eiuk4uBJfo

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Originally posted by xd45man:
Three pages and not one mention of my favorite, Old Henry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eiuk4uBJfo

Man, I forgot that one. Excellent movie!

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Originally posted by xd45man:
Three pages and not one mention of my favorite, Old Henry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eiuk4uBJfo

I need to watch it again I guess, but my initial reaction to that movie was that it suffered from two things:
- cutting away from beautiful shots too quickly
- the relationship between the father and the son felt poorly written - it felt like forced conflict to me, and therefore it felt cheap and weightless

^ The relationship between the Father and Son reminds me of my relationship with my teenage daughter. She knows everything and I am a bumpkin. The way I see it, is the Son is looking at his father and wondering how he chose this hard life for himself. Why would you want to dig rocks out of a field when you could go hunting like the Uncle or live a city life?

The line in the movie by Henry when the Son says he doesn't want this life: "I'm sure you will find worse arrangements than this.", says it all. Henry would rather do this back breaking work than the alternative(avoiding spoilers here).

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Originally posted by bendable:
It's not written in stone , but pretty much.

I have seven others that I like as well .

But those are the films I'd take with me to live as a recluse in a 5000 sq. Ft. penthouse suite for five years.

But I also have 25 other non western movies that I enjoy a lot

Interesting selections, including one or two that I’ve never seen before. Thanks

You are welcome .
I watched them time and time ,

again.

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Originally posted by AUTiger89:
I don't get the love for Unforgiven.

Because it's a great film, very contemplative, more so than it appears at first glance, and it shines the bright light of realism on the most American of genres. It strips away all the sentimentality, removes all the artifice of the clearly drawn lines of hero and villain. The film pulls the lid off of the genre and says "This is how it really was."

This is especially significant because it came (necessarily) at the end of the cycle of the traditional Western film, and because this was done by one of the American western icons, Clint Eastwood, which validates the film's point of view.





And if this revelation is not enough reason, then, let's just say that Unforgiven has one of the best climaxes of any Western, ever.