Starting a fight I'm sure...

[smltooner]

In no particular order:

John Wayne's True Grit
Jeramiah Johnson
The Quick And The Dead - Gotta love Sharon Stone
Sons Of Katy Elder
McClintock

[Ironbear]

What! No Apple Dumpling Gang fans!?

[mamabearCali]

You missed me! Second post I said apple dumpling gang!

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[JamesRK]

I'm pretty much in agreement with the original post, but one of my favorites near the top of the list is Ride The High Country - Joel McCrea.

[Reverenddel]

See? I don't really count "Quigley Down Under" even though it's in my top 20 movies of all time, simply because it's not "The Old West".

Jeremiah Johnson is more "Mountain Man" than "Western", but I can repeat that movie from beginning to end...

And I don't count Back to the Future III, even thought TECHNICALLY it IS a western... and a fairly good movie, but the plot was not traditional.

The fact that most of these movies have been ON TV this weekend? TIckles me plumb silly... because it validates that INDEED! We do like some good westerns.

Now, "High Plains Drifter" with Clint Eastwood as "The Ghost" was an AWESOME movie, but a little unconventional to be a traditional.

McClintock is a FINE movie, and might I say, Maureen O'Hara in her hayday was a HOTTIE! Flat out!

But that's still not in my top 5...

Another Western that I completely forgot about, and LOVED? "Once Upon A Time In The West" with Jason Robards, Charlie Bronson, and Henry Fonda as "Frank" who inspired The Who to write the song "Behind Blue Eyes".... But it's in my Top 20 movies of all time.

[WRW]

That's seven for you. Why didn't you just make it a top ten list?

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[WRW]

Make that eight. I forgot about your tie for #5.

There's a "Mountain Man" genre? I do declare!

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[Reverenddel]

Top FIVE! If I went higher than that? i would be lost...

HELL YEAH THERE IS A MOUNTAIN MAN GENRE!!!

The mountain man genre can include "last of the mohicans", Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, etc. etc. It's basically "Cap and Ball" rifle movies showing exploration of the new country.

I only have five, but I have 20 movies that need to come with me in a spaceship because they could play indefinitely, and I wouldn't tire of them.

[Palladin]

now that's funny!

[WRW]

Well,don't hold back. What 20?

BTW, Once Upon A Time In The West would definitely make my top 40 countdown. Jack Elam and Woody Strode with bit parts? Who saw that coming?

Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, and Cooper's writings were predominatly East of the Mississippi, weren't they.

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[Reverenddel]

1 Jeremiah Johnson
2 The Shawshank Redemption
3 Once Upon A Time In The West
4 Singing In the Rain
5 Conan The Barbarian: Extended
6 Kingdom of Heaven
7 Braveheart
8 The Godfather
9 Quigley Down Under
10 The Last Samurai
11 Dracula (Coppola/Stoker)
12 Fight Club
13 The Outlaw Josey Wales
14 Red Dawn (old)
15 Stargate
16 The Crow: Collectors Edition
17 Circle Of Iron
18 Blazing Saddles
19 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
20 Gladiator

That's an old list, I may have to revisit, but I know for a fact, if those movies are on, and I have to work in the morning? I'm gonna be tired because I'm gonna watch it.

[SHMIV]

Johnny Depp or Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, Rev? I'm gonna guess Wilder...

Singin in the Rain is a great movie for improving ones attitude. Better than Calvin Coolidge... put together.

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[WRW]

There are a couple in there I'll have to watch for. Obviously, you have discriminating taste.

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[WRW]

Only fair, since I asked for a list of twenty to take to space, to give my list(subject to updating):
1. Rain
2. Thunder Road
3. The Big Country
4. The Westerner
5. How The West Was Won
6. High Noon
7. Judge Roy Bean
8. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
9. Midway
10. From Here To Eternity
11. Absence Of Malice
12. Gladiator
13. The Two Jakes
14. Jeremiah Johnson
15 The Maltese Falcon
16 Master And Commander
17. The Egyptian
18. Moby Dick
19. The Bourne Identity
20. Apollo 13

And I'll apologize for the derail.

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[Palladin]

No need to apologize, I see a few I need to catch up on...

[Taggure]

I have not seen the Circle of Iron in a long long while what a good B-rated movie

[graybeard321]

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2.The Shootist
3. True Grit
4. Big Jake
5. McClintock
6 high noon
7 How the west was won.

[Reverenddel]

Taggure, the fact you even KNOW it? Earns you cool points!

What sucks? David Caradine wasn't even supposed to play it. Bruce Lee original penned the idea, and they ran with it, when they got funding, he turned it down. He was making a fortune with Run-Run Shaw and his own movie company.

Could you have pictured BRUCE LEE in those roles? That would have been incredible! Or even in the role of CORD!