shull Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 (edited) Just spied this classic. Loved it ..........Alias Smith and Jones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHge2ag6dTk Edited June 16, 2014 by shull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 (edited) 1. Shane - Set at the end of the "open range" period of the West it's about a gunfighter trying to leave his past life behind, contains the classic "man in black hat" performance from Jack Palance. Oh and Shane isn't Jesus/God! Bit of trivia - Shane is Woody Allens favourite Western. Come back Shane! ************* 2. Once Upon a Time in the West - Stars Henry Fonda (Leone's original choice to play The Man With No Name), Chuck Bronson and a film-stealing performance from Jason Robards as Cheyenne - three men fated to shoot it out at the end. More grown up then the Dollars trilogy as you are given some motivation for what is going on Cheyenne: Harmonica, a town built around a railroad. [laughs] Cheyenne: You could make a fortune. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hey, more than that. Thousands of thousands. Harmonica: They call them "millions." Cheyenne: "Millions." Hmm. Plenty other pithy dialogue too, a great soundtrack from Ennio Morricone and featuring the lovely Claudia Cardinale - what more could you want? **************** 3. Blazing Saddles - the fillum that killed the genre! Edited June 16, 2014 by Bud the Baker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Dickson Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Django Unchained. I normally hate the Western genre but Django was clever, witty and brilliantly shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Pityme Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Django Unchained. I normally hate the Western genre but Django was clever, witty and brilliantly shot. I'd have thought you were more of a John (I'm only dancing) Wayne fan..? He stood so proud when ever he heard.... "The Injuns are coming" With that pistol he was packing he'd regularly take two or three on at a time, or so legend has it..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky1 Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Young Guns 1 & 2 for me, also remembering watching a film with the auld man 'The Wild Bunch' many moons ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Buddie Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Bad Day at Black Rock, Spencer Tracy, you the man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 I absolutely love westerns and my favourite movie is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The Dook at his best. Shane was fantastic. I remember my folks taking me to see it at The Regal when it first came out. How I wanted to be Joey played by Brandon deWilde. The sunset scene at the end haunted me. And on TV, the very first western series I saw was Wyatt Earp with Hugh O'Brien playing him. Loved it to bits. I saw Django Unchained and to my surprise I really enjoyed it. Very funny and very violent. And great acting. Christoph Waltz was superb as was Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio. Yon young director Tarantino might have a big future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney63 Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 'The good, the bad and the ugly' - Clint at his best. How the West was Won for it's scope and cinematography ( i.e. nice views) and Winchester '73 both for Jimmy Stewart A Man Called Horse - for the nipple winch... Richard Harris did it for real, allegedly. What a man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud the Baker Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 'The good, the bad and the ugly' - Clint at his best. How the West was Won for it's scope and cinematography ( i.e. nice views) and Winchester '73 both for Jimmy Stewart A Man Called Horse - for the nipple winch... Richard Harris did it for real, allegedly. What a man. Famous for it's cinematography - the following quote has been lifted shamelessly from Wikipedia! How the West Was Won was one of only two dramatic feature films (the other being The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm) made using the three-strip Cinerama process. Although the picture quality when projected onto curved screens in theatres was stunning, attempts to convert the movie to a smaller screen suffer from that process's technical shortcomings. When seen in letterbox format the actors' faces are nearly indistinguishable in long shots. Henry Fonda as a buffalo hunter John Ford complained about having to dress such huge sets since Cinerama photographed a much wider view than the standard single camera process to which Hollywood directors had become accustomed. Director Henry Hathaway was quoted as saying, "That damned Cinerama. Do you know a waist-shot is as close as you can get with that thing?" An even more difficult problem was that the film had to be shot with the actors artificially positioned out of dramatic and emotional frame, and out of synchronization with one another. Only when the three-print Cinerama process was projected upon a Cinerama screen would the positions and emotions of the actors synchronize, such as normal eye-contact or emotional harmony between actors in a dramatic sequence. Because of the nature of Cinerama if film were shown in flat screen projection it would appear as if the actors were not making eye contact at all. One brief scene of Mexican soldiers was generously sourced by John Wayne from the 1960 version of The Alamo, which he starred in, produced, and directed. Stuntman Bob Morgan, husband of Yvonne De Carlo, was seriously injured and lost a leg during a break in filming a gunfight on a moving train while filming "The Outlaws" portion. Chains holding logs on a flat-bed car broke, crushing Morgan as he crouched beside them.[7] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted June 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 I liked the High Chaparal also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 western smt were my favourite bus company Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weetoonsaint Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 the 'duke' in true grit.' fill your hand you son of a bitch' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney63 Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Cheers Bud, clearly I should have said 'infamous'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 the 'duke' in true grit.' fill your hand you son of a bitch' 'The hell you will!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnextlifetime Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Deputy Dawg , that was a good 'un. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnextlifetime Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Deputy Dawg. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Deputy Dawg , that was a good 'un. . He always made me laugh but so did Alas Smith & Jones.............................................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murray street Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) The Searchers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049730/ Best Western ever made, John Wayne should have won the Oscar for this, but never even got nominated Edited June 17, 2014 by murray street Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TPAFKATS Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 western smt were my favourite bus companyAre McGills cowboys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnextlifetime Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Are McGills cowboys? Yes , but they are unique cowboys whom have a genetic line going back to Attila , apparently. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FS Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 The Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, Clint Eastwood trilogy are still my faves, picked them up cheap on blu-ray recently too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickman Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 A 1965 Western called For A Few Dollars More Stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as 2 bounty Hunters Directed by Sergio Leone Remember seeing it as a kid on tv and thinking this is one of the coolest films ever made. Probably seen it about 500 times since and still love every minute of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FS Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) A 1965 Western called For A Few Dollars More Stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as 2 bounty Hunters Directed by Sergio Leone Remember seeing it as a kid on tv and thinking this is one of the coolest films ever made. Probably seen it about 500 times since and still love every minute of it. Aye the 2nd of the Sergio Leone trilogy... 1:A Fistful of Dollars 2:For a Few Dollars More 3:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... Treat yerself to the blu-ray boxset, looks and sounds magic ! Edited June 17, 2014 by FS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TediousTom Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 The best western is actually a hotel chain however if we are discussing western themed films then I must plump for the best of all them Blazing Saddles If you have not watched this masterpiece then I urge you to do so now. You will thank me, you really will, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnextlifetime Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Of course James Bond and Han Solo , teamed up to be cowboys. . . .kinda messed with the genre , a bit. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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