I think one of my biggest gripes with Wild Wild West is that it was intended to be a successor of the old tv show. With that in mind (if you liked the show) then it’s quite fun. Otherwise, it’s nothing but questions of “why” rolling through your mind.
Well, Maverick turned out pretty well combining elements of several episodes into one movie. Maybe they figured that with a few revisions,it would work again.
Tried to sit through that one. Emphasis on "tried". What made it worse is that this was the return of the Lone Ranger in a century. A Century! Story I've been told was that some copy right non-sense went on and no one was to touch the Lone Ranger. Not even the original cast were allowed to embody their characters! Sigh... I can't even.
Or the 1981 Lone Ranger which may not be bad but it's still the most hated movie in history because there's no #claytonmoore to be found and he was censored from wearing his mask.
Come on man that movie was awesome I loved it. But that's about all I normally watch is westerns but I do like a good alien movie every once in awhile but when they combine the two I was very excited. I even thought old 007 made a pretty good cowboy and this one. But just like Santee said it wasn't for everybody
Ok, now this one doesn't make my worst because I just kept chuckling at it. Also made me think of the old broadsheet stories of "The Flying Outhouse" (Old UFO stories) I've come across in my reading of actual history. Now I don't know if they meant outhouse in our way of saying that small building that we put over a pit for relieving biological functions into or just a building out away from the house but the idea of an advanced alien race covering the truly mind blowing distances of interstellar space only to peruse the Sears and Roebuck catalogue as they flew by overhead has always made me laugh.
A few good bad movies for humor, 'Buddy Goes West', 'Blood Money', 'It Can Be Done Amigo', 'Life is Tough, Eh Providence', 'Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid'.
My Favorite Western TV Shows: Gunsmoke - Bonanza - The Rifleman - The Virginian - Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen - Rawhide with Clint Eastwood - Cheyenne with Clint Walker - Death Valley Days with Ronald Reagan - Here Comes The Brides with Bruce Lee - Sugarfoot with Kurt Russell - Heck Ramsey with Richard Boone - Nichols with James Garner - The Deputy with Henry Fonda, Robert Redford, James Coburn, LeeVan Cleef, and Mary Tyler Moore - Riverboat with Burt Reynolds - The Iron Horse with Dale Robertson - Whispering Smith with Audie Murphy - Deadwood (series) - The Wild Wild West - Maverick - Bat Masterson - Kung Fu - Daniel Boone - Wagon Train - The High Chaparral - Tells of Wells Fargo - The Lone Ranger - The Big Valley - Davey Crockett - Lawman - Laramie - The Sacketts - Zorro - Hopalong Cassidy - Little House on the Prairie - How the West Was Won (series) - Hell On Wheels - Alias Smith and Jones - Branded - The Rebel - The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp - Longmire - The Guns of Will Sonnett - F Troop - Laredo - The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin - The Magnificent Seven (series) - The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams - The Roy Rogers Show - The Cisco Kid - Godless - Cimarron City - Return to Lonesome Dove - Centennial - The Young Riders - Hondo (series) - Hondo and the Apaches - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Shane (series) - The Son - Bronco - Annie Oakley - Tombstone Territory - Fury - Walker, Texas Ranger - The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok - Yellowstone - The Texan - Firefly - Lancer - Yancy Derringer - The Adventures of Jim Bowie - My Friend Flicka - The Tall Man. D, Anderson USMC 2/9/3 68-69
Thank you for your service! I was U.S. Navy 1976 to 1984. One of my best friends was a Marine Sergeant! Which should prove that Marines and Navy do get along.
Funny you should mention that. I have that in my A****** cart right now. That's one I never saw but that I heard of. We had one channel, Black and White, CBS, until 1969. I never even got to watch Bonanza until 1969 when we finally got 3 channels and a Color TV. So I missed a LOT of great shows as a kid. Maybe that's why I'm still trying to collect Western TV shows on DVD and I'm pushing 65!
Wow. The only one of those I have actually seen is Billy the Kid vs Dracula on TNT about 30 years ago as a young teenager. The funniest scene is when the sheriff, after being told by the vampire Dracula that his gun will have no effect, unloads his pistol into the undead supernatural creature. Sure enough, no effect on him...but then Billy grabs the sheriff’s empty gun and, in classic B Western style, throws and smacks Dracula in the face knocking him out. 6 shots of .45 Colt no effect, thrown pistol knocked cold. (Btw, I think after I saw that one, TNT showed Jesse James Vs Frankenstein that same night as part of their 100% Weird lineup)
I liked Bone Tomahawk. It's a rough one, but well done. It had a realism about it that made me cringe! Cowboys & Aliens was entertaining and Daniel Craig kicked some outlaw butt in it. So, it made me happy.
Read the novel too. It's written by Glendon Swarthout, who wrote "The Shootist", which was made into a screenplay by his son and starrs John Wayne in one of his best roles and his last. (Top 3 western for me alongside "The Searchers" and "Lonesome Dove". I can watch it again and again. And if the studio would have promoted this movie at least a little, John Wayne could have gotten another Oscar, he was already close in the polling to being nominated.) It's a very good read and will stay in your mind.
@@Sven_E07 believe me, I’ve seen nearly every John Wayne movie ever made. A few of his black-and-white ones haven’t caught my attention yet, but I’ll get to them eventually. That’s not including “stagecoach “. I thoroughly enjoyed that film.
Really enjoyed this topic. I've noticed, the more I've learned the more critical I've become and the more my list changes. Unfortunately, that's not always a good thing. After all, it's just entertainment. Thanks Santee.
Loved it! And I am really glad you took a minute to recognize the "Depression Western" genre as a real thing. I thought I was just making it up. But certainly I prefer to avoid them if I can.
OMG .... "The Terror of Tiny Town". Had completely forgotten about that one. Have to agree with Dan, it has gone from worst to favorite on my list. Looks like it's time to watch that one again. Thanks for the reminder.
For me, some of my worst westerns are: The Rideback: a movie about a lawman taking a bandit back to town to face justice. Along the way, the two form an unlikely bond. I appreciate what the film set out to do but it was weighed down by poor characters and bad development. Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson: outside of having the most awkward title in existence, I remember nothing about this film aside from how cripplingly bored I was watching it.
Remember that "The Terror of Tiny Town" was the movie playing in the background of Hal Ketchum's "Small Town Saturday Night" video. Texas Rangers actually scared me more than "Prince of Darkness"where post graduate students were studying a Church that had captured the Devil & people were getting possessed. Who gave Ashton Kutcher a loaded gun?I have never hidden behind ballistic cover while watching a movie before.
Shalako with Sean Connery was pretty bad. Until Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot came along no one could really do a Louis L'amour Western justice. Most times a good story and good acting can help you suspend disbelief with historical inaccuracies. Political correctness and revisionist history ruin a movie for me. On the other side of the coin, a movie that gets panned by woke critics, but is actually very historically accurate and a very good movie was Ride with the Devil with Toby McGuire.
In terms of talent wasted, I'd have to put "McKenna's Gold" near the top. It seemed like the whole cast was famous, but the story never amounted to anything. The hero and heroine try to escape the bad guy by climbing a sheer cliff, but then an earthquake starts and they all just climb back down again. Omar Sharif was also a weird choice for the villain. A Western comedy that was much better than I remembered was "The Shakiest Gun in the West" starring Don Knotts.
McKenna's Gold was a good idea, and had some decent action. It suffered in the special effects department. If it was remade today I bet it would work better.
I agree, those “table cloths” around their necks are rather distracting. All I could think, what the hell is that! It’s a sight I’ll never be able to unsee.
And if you want so-bad-it's-good check out the Doctor Who story "The Gunfighters" (1966). Cockney actors trying to fake American cowboy accents- what's not to luv...?
@@clayidavis860 Thanks. I remember the ambush in the canyon, where all the Rangers were wiped out. All except the man who would become the Lone Ranger. He was nursed back to health by Tonto, I believe.
"South of Heaven West of Hell" is actually one of my guilty pleasures. My number one worst Western is easy "The Power of the Dog', hard to watch once. I took it as a challenge to finish the movie, my wife left the room fifteen minutes in , She is the smart one.
The worst, albeit a C-grade movie, is _American Gunslingers_ (2017). The review I wrote on the IMDB is titled "Drunk Rednecks Make a Movie". I still feel cheated out of my buck fifty I spent to rent it. I wasn't even able to watch the entire film. Now, you'd need to _pay_ me at least $300 _to watch it_ . Even then, if there's a heaven, during your life review, god or whoever is going to make you answer, " _Why_ did you watch that movie?"
Very interesting, and intriguing video, I really liked and enjoyed. Great job and well on the list, it was entertaining. I got inspiration for my old West inspired novella collection series Mysteriarch Mythos horror anthology I’m writing.
Hey Santee, i know you have mentioned ties in a lot of your videos but what about a video on ties in general? some history on it, the material they used, etc.
You haven't seen nothing yet, Santee! The realy worst Western movie ever is "Giù la testa... hombre" (english title: "A Fistful of Death") by Demofilo Fidani. Fidani by the way was known to be the worst Spaghetti-Western director ever, he got nicknames like: "the Anti-Leone" or "the Ed Wood of Westerns".
I've never even given a thought to the worst. Have you ever seen the over the hill gang movies ? I really enjoyed them because I like Walter Brennan. One guy from terror of tiny town was in high plains drifter, and he played in an episode of gunsmoke where he had a bunch of elephants to pawn off on people by claiming he would turn into one at night.
You totally forgot the latest iteration of The Magnificent Seven. That had a barf factor at least three points higher than the last word in the title, in my opinion.
Wouldn't say it's a bad Western but I have a very VERY vague recollection of a western starring nothing but children...like Abe Lincoln was played by a kid...I remember it from the way back time in my mind as something I saw on a VHS tape that had something from the TV recorded and it just kept going. Now Abe was in shadowed by being in front of the sun but I distinctly remember him being played by a kid and all the other characters being kids too....maybe I'm just misremembering it as a western and it was something else entirely but it seemed to be set in an old west kinda thing...can't remember the name for the life of me though and it may have been a literal dream in my head that I've remembered for decades...THAT'S how unsure I am of if it was real or not.
Context. Before about 1970 Hollywood was a reliable producer of Westerns. The market changed, production moved on to European (Spaghetti), ultraviolent and/ or revisionist domestic fare and the occasional comedy. Just found your channel today, so don't know if you've addressed best/ worst by era, sleepers, overrated, etc. Thanks!
Believe me, there are plenty more 'worst' western movies out there...my husband's on a western kick right now and I think I've seen at least two dozen terribles in the past month! The old sixties westerns were cheesy, and the women's hair...how'd they keep it so fluffy without aresol spray???!!!
I liked "God's Gun" and feel that Lee Van Cleef ought to have been awarded two Oscars - one for best performer and one for best supporting player. And Walter "Jack" Palance was in it also doing his very best. Now for "A Gunfight" - well every unknown supporting player came out of "Our Community Playhouse" and looked like it too.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I did suffer through "South of Heaven..." I remember it beginning with a Turn-of-the-Century preacher proclaiming that these new motion pictures were "a sinful abomination"! And after viewing the rest of that movie I decided he might be right! (Surprised you didn't mention Pee Wee Herman as a perverted badguy!) I still think "Quick & the Dead" is the WORST American Western EVER MADE!! But it plays out like an ancient Japanese Samurai revenge tail, which it probably is based on. (Remember "Magnificent Seven" was an Americanized "Seven Samurai".)
My list and yours are very similar. I despise The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp, just awful over and over again. Somebody should make a decent version of this story.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Thanks for the personal reply. Enjoy the channel. Yep, better than Depp's lame version but I think a really good movie could be made of this story and I'm still waiting.
Love your channel folks. You don't suppose you can do a video on the most beautifully crafted gun of the old west, the Merwin Hulbert revolver? Dean from New England.
My all time worst western in my opinion was the hateful eight. What is in my opinion the worst thing about this movie, is I watched it. One that made your list, is one I like, A Gunfight, I have to admit the reason I like it is I am a Johnny Cash fan. One of my favorite movies, also has Kirk Dougles . The Big Sky. We may disagree on this one some, but ya'll always make good videos, on that I think we all agree.
George, you're right. Hateful 8 probably should have been in there. It was predictable and too profane. However, the cast all did a really good job of acting, in my opinion.
I got suckered in a bet about A Gunfight. When it was to be shown on network television I made a bet with my sergeant who would win. He didn't know I'd seen it in the theater. What I didn't know was that two endings were filmed, one in which Johnny Cash won and the other in which Kirk Douglas wins. I didn't know that the network chose the alternate ending (Douglas) and I bet wrong. The Apache tribe that financed the movie idolized Cash and insisted that he win, the version that was shown theatrically. Douglas wins in the TV version-- actually the original ending that so upset the tribe when they watched that the ending was reshot with Cash the victor. I'm still confused.
I brought that one up in a discussion on Errol Flynn films with a friend of mine. He'd mentioned They Died With Their Boots on, and I pointed out that Flynn had played Jeb Stuart along with Ronald Reagan as George Custer. I then listed some of their classmates, and he just about went crosseyed in confusion, and when I explained some of the plot he almost had a stroke.
Yes, they were both filmed there. Sadly, the Sheriff's office was burned in the fire. However, many buildings from the movies still stand. I have walked in their footprints many times on that set.
the only western that has been able to successfully incorporate another genre (sci-fi, horror) was 'Back to the Future 3'. Of course it helps that ZZ Top was in it.
Terror of Tiny Town needs a remake. Center it on a retired little person circus performer using his measurable investments to found a town for little people out. Bad guys want plot against the town, and the neighboring communities rally to defend "Tiny Town".
I nominate "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold", which tried to rip off Indiana Jones. Memorable for its sassy heroine and it's extreme tonal whiplash between kid-friendly homages to old matinee movies and scenes with disturbing, R-rated gore. (It's a weeeeeird movie.)
10. "The Wild Wild West" (1999) 9. "The Terror of Tiny Town" (1938) 8. "South of Heaven, West of Hell" (2000) 7. "White Comanche" (1968) 6. "The Homesman" (2014) 5. "A Gunfight" (1971) 4. "Haunted Gold" (1932) 3. "Texas Rangers" (2001)? 2. "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" (1966) 1. "God's Gun" (1976)
The worst western I've ever seen was a South African western about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. All the men sounded alike; regardless of the line, they snarled at each other in operatic tones. The worst line in movie history was the final line of the movie: "He was destined to die." Of course, that's true of all of us.
Well as with any genre there has been some real stinkers over the years so picking The Top 10 Worst Western Movies will give you plenty to pick from. But picking the 10 worst is no easy task. I have to agree with Dirty Dan about The Terror of Tiny Town. If you take it for what it is, a comedy film, it is not that bad and I don't think it should have been included. It is on TH-cam so I will have to watch it again soon. Interestingly it did have a $100,000 budget which is pretty respectable for 1938. Also it was released on the 1st December so it is almost a Christmas film. Shelako, the one with Sean Connery, was pretty bad. But on the up side it was more authentic than many American westerns. For one thing the oil lamps were not bought from a department store.
I remember enjoying... well, that might be a strong word... i remember being entertained by Wild Wild West when i first saw it in theaters. I recently tried to watch it again and, well, i just couldn't.
I'd add Django Kill, which might be one of the worst things I watched for Tomas Milian's sake. It's really just a bad, over-the-top horror masquerading as western. Not that the two genres couldn't mix well in the hands of a skilled director, but this movie is just wtf.
The worst-rated Western film (based off IMDb) that I've seen is 'Breaker! Breaker!'. It's a very strange action-comedy-Western-trucker film about a town run by a corrupt but popular judge who entraps truckers so he can force them to pay bogus fines. One truck driver refuses to pay and gets holed up in the jail, but it turns out his brother is Chuck Norris who comes to save the day and "take on the whole damn town, Smokeys and all" with his karate skills. It's really stupid but I actually enjoyed it quite a lot.
You know, for a adaptaion of a stage musical, I thought it was pretty good. No offense to Clint, but the movie might have been better with a Ricky Nelson who had a stronger singing voice.
@@ArizonaGhostriders My niece was reading for a part in what turned out to be the True Grit remake. After a while the remaining young ladies were told that they were being considered for the role of Mattie Ross. She didn't get the part because a 6' tall redhead wasn't how Charles Portis described her. Plus my niece can handle a Heritage Rough Rider single action revolver. And Dakin Matthew was a good choice for Colonel Stonehill. I have no idea if he's still alive but he is a good fit for Strother Martin roles.
Westerns are an amazing genre which went world wide. Good or bad becomes more than confused with the extreme variety of products. All know of Spaghetti Westerns. I also collect Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Canada, Hawaii, England, South African, several Japanese (I have an original poster of my favorite both filmed in Arizona), an Indian tribe financed one, scifi versions, and others of which I am not aware. They are all entertaining to me since none of them portray the daily normal events which total the historic experience. The normal daily 12 hour work day and the lack of all modern refinements would make a dull documentary at bedt. Tall Tales and movies exaggerate reality to create emotional drama. That is their value world wide. They are the modern versions of the European medieval morality plays for the villagers. My favorite actor is Harry Carey Sr. My favorite films are Saddle Tramp with Joel McCrea and at the opposite end of the Western spectrum is Call of the Wild with the wonderful character actor John Diehl. In the middle is the outstanding Angel and the Badman. I can't remember a bad Western, perhaps, that is for the best. Let there always be good guys and bad guys in cowboy hats.
Oh man, there's a lot of terrible Spaghetti Westerns out there. Some great ones for sure, but also some real stinkers. It's hard to really quantify what's so bad it's good vs. so bad it's bad! For me, "It Can Be Done... Amigo" is like Terror of Tiny Town. It's not a very well-made movie, but it's just goofy fun that's good to watch when you're sick or tired.
Terror of Tiny Town in mentioned in a episode of MASH, I looked it up and was really surprised to find it was a real move. I love the Wild Wild West TV show, and that movie was a huge disappointment and just downright stupid. Nothing against Will Smith but casting a black guy as James West makes about as much sense as a remake of Shaft with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Shaft.
Hmm, ya got Billy the Kid vs Dracula, but not Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter? Those belong together like spam and powdered eggs! Anyway I haven't seen those two or The Terror of Tiny Town since the 90s (or maybe 80s) but they probably all deserve to be on any such list. Since I don't really remember them, here's my list of stuff I do remember 1. Hell at My Heels (2011) - super-cheap and incompetent Canadian production from Brett Kelly, among the worst directors out there 2. Mackenna's Gold 3. The Lone Ranger (2013) - yup, the Johnny Depp film 4. Apache Blood 5. Jesse James: Lawman (2015) another Brett Kelly film but with 2 recognizable actors, Kevin Sorbo and Peter Fonda 6. Wild Wild West 7. Shenandoah 8. Jonah Hex 9. North West Mounted Police 10. McLintock! - because I have to have a John Wayne film here also
"Aim low, they're riding Shetlands!" The worst Western I ever saw was a Filipino made Western. Myself and bunch of my military buddies went to see it at one of those theaters in LA that showed old movies and just plain weird stuff. No it was not a porn theater. They drove jeeps, the Indians wore gaudy feather headdresses and worn out jean shorts..the cavalry were wearing fatigues and they were armed with M-1 carbines, 1911s, and Garands. However, the more wine we drank the funnier the movie got. Alcohol has been known to make a lot of things seem better than they are.
Santee, I would have to rate the "modern" LONE RANGER with Johnny Depp & Armee Hammer right up there with SMITH & KLINE's clunker of the Wild Wild West. Just awful and an insult to the original LONE RANGER.
A dishonorable mention goes to HEAVEN’S GATE, starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken, and directed by Michael Cimino. That movie destroyed United Artists.
YOU HAD ME SCARED FOR A MINUTE when you said the Texas Rangers I thought you was talking about the one from 1951 that had George Montgomery and Gale storm and Noah Beery in it which was a good movie I haven't watched the version you had yet didn't know they made it
Star Trek TOS S3 E3, ''The Paradise Syndrome,'' had Kirk as an amnesia victim on a doomed planet inhabited by Indigenous tribes paralleing Earth's North American natives. When the dazed ex-starship skipper staggers out from the force-field of an ancient obelisk, he is hailed as a diety by the locals. ''Kirok'' quickly establishes his command authority on the tribe -- looking strangely similar to a White Comanche. Naturally, ''Space Indians'' speak perfect American-accented English.
Carry on Cowboy (1965), from the British 'Carry On' team: multiple comedy movies from the 1950s to 70s with lots of historical episodes (even a Beau Geste send up with Phil Silvers). Anyway, they tried their hand at a Western in their fashion, entirely shot in England. Mid-1960s was the Carry On peak years with several comedy classics and this one rates as a middling effort, not their best but not a poor one either, however, one for admirers of outrageous British humour.
Yeah, I've watched a couple of these but to me the single worst western,and it is as packed with top Hollywood stars, was Maccena's Gold. The underwater fight scene with Julie Newmar and Camilla Sparv couldn't even save this stinker.👎
From the many very questionable westerns it must've been a struggle to select these few. The film A Gunfight is s unique effort since it was financed by the Jicarilla Apache tribe to cash (pun intended) in on western movie popularity of that era. Side note - Do youse remember the film (s) written and acted on by the original Old Tucson stuntmen? I only remember the Super Veteran Actor James Hong had a role. I remember it being a decent effort.
There is an old color movie set during the French and Indian war here on youtube. Cant remember the name and really dont want too but the side arms are all Colt single action army and the muskets are trapdoor Springfields. Instead of lush hardwood forests of Pennsylvania and New York you get Malibu Creek State Park as the filming location.
Two I can't believe didn't make this list: "Cowboys and Aliens" and "The Quick And The Dead." The former I saw in the theater, expecting it to be so bad it was good. Surprisingly engrossing. The latter an excuse for a cheesecake western, leaning too heavily on the quick draw cliche.
I'd have included the ambitiously dumb 'The Quick and the Dead'. Other than the a (mostly) accomplished cast and interesting premise, it was weighed down by annoying Dutch angles, overused extreme zoom shots, a perpetually scared looking yet wooden Sharon Stone, and the complete WASTE of Gene Hackman as a heavy. It was a collection of parts far less than the sum of its whole.
I gotta add one. My cousin and I watched one called Against a Crooked Sky one summer. That's 90min I'll never get back, and my personal vote for Suckiest Western With Worst Costuming Ever.
Van Cleef's two Israeli westerns, God's Gun (mentioned) and Kid Vengeance, both from 1976, I find unwatchable. Depressing wastes of story and talent considering the actors involved. I am curious how the actors were lured to Israel, not the first place I'd think to film a low budget western.
The best and worse western of all time is BLAZZING SADDLES it has every cheap and best cliques of all time, that gun fanning was the best, best long distance shot too. Ha ha
You left out possibly the worst movie ever made "The Master Gunfighter" where Tom Loughlin, flush with cash from "Billy Jack" turned out this samurai-western that is an enormous steamer, It is difficult to even watch this film because the plot is simply Loughlin announcing " I am leaving the hacienda" and the following two hours is spent finding out why. By the end of the film you don't care.
How are Hateful Eight and Bone Tomahawk not on this list? Your friend liked Terror in Tiny Town....I guess you short-changed it.....and you overlooked the actors, as well. I guess you looked down on Terror in Tiny Town as a Western film; you belittled it.
Good puns. You might say, the height of comedy. Bone Tomahawk was great. It received positive reviews and won a bunch of awards. Hateful 8 was a success at the box office ($156 million dollars). Also got good reviews. I didn't love it, but it didn't make the list.
Legend has it Lee van Cleef's wig is still out there, somewhere in the night... Watching... Waiting.
HAHAHA!
“A golden haired angel watches over that wig…”
Waiting to sink it’s spikes into the next poor bald headed fellow.
Lol lol lol
😂😂😂
I think one of my biggest gripes with Wild Wild West is that it was intended to be a successor of the old tv show. With that in mind (if you liked the show) then it’s quite fun. Otherwise, it’s nothing but questions of “why” rolling through your mind.
Yeah, it had elements of what we loved about the tv show, but it was also very "goofy" which I think sunk it. Like it was making fun of the show.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I agree 👍 💯.
@@ArizonaGhostriders When I saw the steampunk spider I said NOPE.
Well, Maverick turned out pretty well combining elements of several episodes into one movie.
Maybe they figured that with a few revisions,it would work again.
@@ArizonaGhostriders The movie existed to make Smith more money.
Artemus Gordon was the more interesting of the two original characters.
Brave episode, Santee. Always a risk to put one's opinion out there. Much respect, and excellent list!
Thanks. I had a blast with it.
Just remember what to say to people who get bent because you express your own opinions,
" YOUR HURT FELLINGS END WHEN MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH BEGINS "
@@ArizonaGhostriders Right up to the moment when Dirty Dan spoke up, eh?
I'm all for more videos like this :)
Brave perhaps, but much was low hanging fruit…VERY low hanging.
Kinda surprised you forgot about *The Lone Ranger. (2013)*
Not Johnny Depp's finest performance.
I didn't think it was that bad. Very entertaining. I have issues with the "Goofy leading the Goofy", though.
Tried to sit through that one. Emphasis on "tried". What made it worse is that this was the return of the Lone Ranger in a century. A Century! Story I've been told was that some copy right non-sense went on and no one was to touch the Lone Ranger. Not even the original cast were allowed to embody their characters! Sigh... I can't even.
Worse than *The Legend of the Lone Ranger* (1981)?
@@Cliff_Dixon_42 Probably not. Still very... disappointing.
Or the 1981 Lone Ranger which may not be bad but it's still the most hated movie in history because there's no #claytonmoore to be found and he was censored from wearing his mask.
For a modern western, "Cowboys and Aliens" gets my nod.
Wasn't for everyone!
Come on man that movie was awesome I loved it. But that's about all I normally watch is westerns but I do like a good alien movie every once in awhile but when they combine the two I was very excited. I even thought old 007 made a pretty good cowboy and this one. But just like Santee said it wasn't for everybody
As westerns go, yep. As syfy it was okay.
Ok, now this one doesn't make my worst because I just kept chuckling at it. Also made me think of the old broadsheet stories of "The Flying Outhouse" (Old UFO stories) I've come across in my reading of actual history. Now I don't know if they meant outhouse in our way of saying that small building that we put over a pit for relieving biological functions into or just a building out away from the house but the idea of an advanced alien race covering the truly mind blowing distances of interstellar space only to peruse the Sears and Roebuck catalogue as they flew by overhead has always made me laugh.
1000 ways to die in the west
Sometimes a bad movie is just what you need, I'm definitely gonna look up terror of tiny town now
It's a good one for humor.
Maybe Acquasanta Joe isnt needed
A few good bad movies for humor, 'Buddy Goes West', 'Blood Money', 'It Can Be Done Amigo', 'Life is Tough, Eh Providence', 'Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid'.
@@kirbyculp3449 I had to do a double take reading that last one hahaha
I love the Terence Hill and Bud Spencer ones 😁
Yeah, they are in a class of their own.
I think there where hard and funny ones !
I loved them as a boy.. I can't stand them now, the acting is so bad.
You forgot that Billy The Kid vs Dracula was a double film the other was Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter.
You have got to be kidding? Seriously?! Someone paid for another one of these?!?!
They were made back-to-back at Corriganville (RIP)
Nope, just chose the one I thought was worse.
Could have been worse ‘Pat Garrett Meets Victor Frankenstein’s Girlfriend’
I remember seeing this double feature as a kid.
My Favorite Western TV Shows:
Gunsmoke - Bonanza - The Rifleman - The Virginian - Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen - Rawhide with Clint Eastwood - Cheyenne with Clint Walker - Death Valley Days with Ronald Reagan - Here Comes The Brides with Bruce Lee - Sugarfoot with Kurt Russell - Heck Ramsey with Richard Boone - Nichols with James Garner - The Deputy with Henry Fonda, Robert Redford, James Coburn, LeeVan Cleef, and Mary Tyler Moore - Riverboat with Burt Reynolds - The Iron Horse with Dale Robertson - Whispering Smith with Audie Murphy - Deadwood (series) - The Wild Wild West - Maverick - Bat Masterson - Kung Fu - Daniel Boone - Wagon Train - The High Chaparral - Tells of Wells Fargo - The Lone Ranger - The Big Valley - Davey Crockett - Lawman - Laramie - The Sacketts - Zorro - Hopalong Cassidy - Little House on the Prairie - How the West Was Won (series) - Hell On Wheels - Alias Smith and Jones - Branded - The Rebel - The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp - Longmire - The Guns of Will Sonnett - F Troop - Laredo - The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin - The Magnificent Seven (series) - The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams - The Roy Rogers Show - The Cisco Kid - Godless - Cimarron City - Return to Lonesome Dove - Centennial - The Young Riders - Hondo (series) - Hondo and the Apaches - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Shane (series) - The Son - Bronco - Annie Oakley - Tombstone Territory - Fury - Walker, Texas Ranger - The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok - Yellowstone - The Texan - Firefly - Lancer - Yancy Derringer - The Adventures of Jim Bowie - My Friend Flicka - The Tall Man.
D, Anderson USMC
2/9/3 68-69
Good choices. Thanks for your service, Marine. I'd like to share this video with you on my father: th-cam.com/video/h83B0zLLsnU/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for your service! I was U.S. Navy 1976 to 1984. One of my best friends was a Marine Sergeant! Which should prove that Marines and Navy do get along.
you missed the sam peckinpah created the westerner starring brian keith
Funny you should mention that. I have that in my A****** cart right now. That's one I never saw but that I heard of. We had one channel, Black and White, CBS, until 1969. I never even got to watch Bonanza until 1969 when we finally got 3 channels and a Color TV. So I missed a LOT of great shows as a kid. Maybe that's why I'm still trying to collect Western TV shows on DVD and I'm pushing 65!
You missed the best Western TV series EVER! The Dakotas.
Watch Shane and take a drink every time the kid says Shane‘s name and by the end of the movie you won’t remember your own damn name 😂
Done that!
For weeks!!
That
debacle with Hackman, Stone and DiCaprio.
Quick and the Dead? That movie is gold. But I understand some not liking it.
Yeah, not my favorite. I hated it for a long time, but it's weirdly grown on me over the years. Kind of like broccoli I guess
@@Chris_the_Dingo HAHAHA!
It's one of those bad movies you find yourself watching over and over...Gene Hackman is so good he could make bad movies good...
You're absolutely spot on with every one of these.
Thank You!
Wow. The only one of those I have actually seen is Billy the Kid vs Dracula on TNT about 30 years ago as a young teenager. The funniest scene is when the sheriff, after being told by the vampire Dracula that his gun will have no effect, unloads his pistol into the undead supernatural creature. Sure enough, no effect on him...but then Billy grabs the sheriff’s empty gun and, in classic B Western style, throws and smacks Dracula in the face knocking him out. 6 shots of .45 Colt no effect, thrown pistol knocked cold.
(Btw, I think after I saw that one, TNT showed Jesse James Vs Frankenstein that same night as part of their 100% Weird lineup)
Sounds about right. Those two movies were made right after each other on the same set.
I just love the bat on a string.
Two more movies going on the October watch list hahaha
Remember it well…
watched Billy the Kid vs Dracula at a drive in in Alamogordo NM 1971. I remember that scene. Classic!!
Sounds like those George Reeves' Superman episodes. When the hood tossed the empty gun, George would DUCK, illogical and hilarious!
I'm surprised Bone Tomahawk didn't make this one. Or that one that had cowboys vs. UFOs and aliens or something.....😆👍
I liked Bone Tomahawk. It's a rough one, but well done. It had a realism about it that made me cringe!
Cowboys & Aliens was entertaining and Daniel Craig kicked some outlaw butt in it. So, it made me happy.
Bone Tomahawk was just WEIRD. (Of course the Merwin Hulbert the cowboy carried did redeem it some!
I enjoyed Cowboys and Aliens, quite a bit, if they had only tied it in to Skinwalker Ranch…
I was hoping for Billy the Kid vs Dracula. 🙄🤣🧟♂️
The bat on a string is about the best thing in the world.
If John Carradine is in it, then it's no longer bad.
I thoroughly enjoyed 'The Homesman". It's well acted and has a unique story.
It is well acted and has a unique story. I just didn't like the way it was directed and the feel it portrayed at all.
Read the novel too. It's written by Glendon Swarthout, who wrote "The Shootist", which was made into a screenplay by his son and starrs John Wayne in one of his best roles and his last. (Top 3 western for me alongside "The Searchers" and "Lonesome Dove". I can watch it again and again. And if the studio would have promoted this movie at least a little, John Wayne could have gotten another Oscar, he was already close in the polling to being nominated.) It's a very good read and will stay in your mind.
@@Sven_E07 believe me, I’ve seen nearly every John Wayne movie ever made. A few of his black-and-white ones haven’t caught my attention yet, but I’ll get to them eventually. That’s not including “stagecoach “. I thoroughly enjoyed that film.
Lol you picked on terror of Tiny town...... that hurt lol. As a kid I thought that little chef chasing that goose around was the funniest thing ever
Yeah, the chef with the weird accent and the Tom Mix hat?
@@ArizonaGhostriders ge had on a tall chef's hat that was about the same height as he was
You have convinced me to watch TTOTT.
@@kirbyculp3449 Good
Really enjoyed this topic. I've noticed, the more I've learned the more critical I've become and the more my list changes. Unfortunately, that's not always a good thing. After all, it's just entertainment. Thanks Santee.
Well, it could be a bit of a curse, but you do learn to find things that are good even in the bad ones.
Loved it! And I am really glad you took a minute to recognize the "Depression Western" genre as a real thing. I thought I was just making it up. But certainly I prefer to avoid them if I can.
Hostiles headed that way, but the ending surprised me and turned it around...mostly.
OMG .... "The Terror of Tiny Town". Had completely forgotten about that one. Have to agree with Dan, it has gone from worst to favorite on my list. Looks like it's time to watch that one again. Thanks for the reminder.
It's actually pretty comical.
For me, some of my worst westerns are:
The Rideback: a movie about a lawman taking a bandit back to town to face justice. Along the way, the two form an unlikely bond. I appreciate what the film set out to do but it was weighed down by poor characters and bad development.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson: outside of having the most awkward title in existence, I remember nothing about this film aside from how cripplingly bored I was watching it.
Interesting and good choices!!
Remember that "The Terror of Tiny Town" was the movie playing in the background of Hal Ketchum's "Small Town Saturday Night" video.
Texas Rangers actually scared me more than "Prince of Darkness"where post graduate students were studying a Church that had captured the Devil & people were getting possessed.
Who gave Ashton Kutcher a loaded gun?I have never hidden behind ballistic cover while watching a movie before.
HAHA!
Terror was mentioned on Mash
Shalako with Sean Connery was pretty bad. Until Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot came along no one could really do a Louis L'amour Western justice. Most times a good story and good acting can help you suspend disbelief with historical inaccuracies. Political correctness and revisionist history ruin a movie for me. On the other side of the coin, a movie that gets panned by woke critics, but is actually very historically accurate and a very good movie was Ride with the Devil with Toby McGuire.
Now, I liked Ride with the Devil because it gave us insight to the smaller guerilla bands that roamed the south.
In The Shadow Riders, there is a scene where a modern air conditioner I clearly visible.
Ah, Hondo was a Louie L’amour story
@@josephknaak9034 Good movie. Didn't care for the female lead.
In terms of talent wasted, I'd have to put "McKenna's Gold" near the top. It seemed like the whole cast was famous, but the story never amounted to anything. The hero and heroine try to escape the bad guy by climbing a sheer cliff, but then an earthquake starts and they all just climb back down again. Omar Sharif was also a weird choice for the villain. A Western comedy that was much better than I remembered was "The Shakiest Gun in the West" starring Don Knotts.
McKenna's Gold was a good idea, and had some decent action. It suffered in the special effects department. If it was remade today I bet it would work better.
I agree, those “table cloths” around their necks are rather distracting. All I could think, what the hell is that! It’s a sight I’ll never be able to unsee.
I thought they were all going to a barbecue with those on.
Spaghetti Westerns should feature classic red-and-white Italian bistro tablecloths for kerchiefs. Maybe red-check vs. blue-check gang!
I know bandanas got a lot of different uses, but I never imagined a tent could be one.
Those table cloths were supposed to be bandanas but they were too big.
And if you want so-bad-it's-good check out the Doctor Who story "The Gunfighters" (1966). Cockney actors trying to fake American cowboy accents- what's not to luv...?
I will now! Thanks.
The Legend of the Lone Ranger from 1981 had its problems.
Yeah, but I really liked the guy playing Tonto. By and large all of the Lone Ranger movies to date have have some issues.
Was that the one with Christopher Lloyd as the bad guy?
@@oldwestguy yes and Jason Robards as President Grant.
@@clayidavis860 Thanks. I remember the ambush in the canyon, where all the Rangers were wiped out. All except the man who would become the Lone Ranger. He was nursed back to health by Tonto, I believe.
In my opinion all westerns made after 1964 (except those made by the Duke) stink. Too much artsy-farsty post-structural anti-heroism horse hockey.
Yup, your opinion!
"South of Heaven West of Hell" is actually one of my guilty pleasures. My number one worst Western is easy "The Power of the Dog', hard to watch once. I took it as a challenge to
finish the movie, my wife left the room fifteen minutes in , She is the smart one.
Have not seen that one.
The worst, albeit a C-grade movie, is _American Gunslingers_ (2017). The review I wrote on the IMDB is titled "Drunk Rednecks Make a Movie". I still feel cheated out of my buck fifty I spent to rent it.
I wasn't even able to watch the entire film. Now, you'd need to _pay_ me at least $300 _to watch it_ . Even then, if there's a heaven, during your life review, god or whoever is going to make you answer, " _Why_ did you watch that movie?"
HA!
Terror of Tiny Town was in the Hall Ketchum music video Small Town Saturday Night.
Really?
@@ArizonaGhostriders th-cam.com/video/7D2LKCvx3KQ/w-d-xo.html
Very interesting, and intriguing video, I really liked and enjoyed.
Great job and well on the list, it was entertaining.
I got inspiration for my old West inspired novella collection series Mysteriarch Mythos horror anthology I’m writing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks😎🌟👍🏼
The 2 I saw was Billy the Kid vs Dracula on ME-TV and Cowboys VS Alians. Oh well, didn't think they were that good.
I enjoyed Cowboys....
Daniel Craig kicked some butt and he was really good at gun handling. Worth it for that....and Olivia Wilde.
Hey Santee, i know you have mentioned ties in a lot of your videos but what about a video on ties in general? some history on it, the material they used, etc.
Sure!
@@ArizonaGhostriders completely agree, this would be a cool one.
You haven't seen nothing yet, Santee! The realy worst Western movie ever is "Giù la testa... hombre" (english title: "A Fistful of Death") by Demofilo Fidani. Fidani by the way was known to be the worst Spaghetti-Western director ever, he got nicknames like: "the Anti-Leone" or "the Ed Wood of Westerns".
Oh no....I probably saw it. Awhile ago one station put out an entire weekend of just Spaghetti Westerns. After about 4 I had enough.
I've never even given a thought to the worst.
Have you ever seen the over the hill gang movies ?
I really enjoyed them because I like Walter Brennan.
One guy from terror of tiny town was in high plains drifter, and he played in an episode of gunsmoke where he had a bunch of elephants to pawn off on people by claiming he would turn into one at night.
I never thought about that actor from High Plains Drifter!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Billy curtis.
The worst western I ever saw was also the absolute worst movie I ever saw: "Cannibal! The Musical".
HAAH!
You totally forgot the latest iteration of The Magnificent Seven. That had a barf factor at least three points higher than the last word in the title, in my opinion.
Opinions are all ours, right? 🤠
The clip showing Lee Van Cleef 's rug gave me the chills, for alll the wrong reasons. Once you see it you can't unsee it. 😨😨
HAHAH!
Wouldn't say it's a bad Western but I have a very VERY vague recollection of a western starring nothing but children...like Abe Lincoln was played by a kid...I remember it from the way back time in my mind as something I saw on a VHS tape that had something from the TV recorded and it just kept going. Now Abe was in shadowed by being in front of the sun but I distinctly remember him being played by a kid and all the other characters being kids too....maybe I'm just misremembering it as a western and it was something else entirely but it seemed to be set in an old west kinda thing...can't remember the name for the life of me though and it may have been a literal dream in my head that I've remembered for decades...THAT'S how unsure I am of if it was real or not.
The little rascals/our gang possibly
Interesting...
In all seriousness, Heaven's Gate was about as bad as it is possible to make a MOVIE, let alone a Western...
It was pretty rough. Christopher Walken and one or two others did a commendable performance.
Context. Before about 1970 Hollywood was a reliable producer of Westerns. The market changed, production moved on to European (Spaghetti), ultraviolent and/ or revisionist domestic fare and the occasional comedy. Just found your channel today, so don't know if you've addressed best/ worst by era, sleepers, overrated, etc. Thanks!
You're welcome.
Believe me, there are plenty more 'worst' western movies out there...my husband's on a western kick right now and I think I've seen at least two dozen terribles in the past month! The old sixties westerns were cheesy, and the women's hair...how'd they keep it so fluffy without aresol spray???!!!
Static electricity. LOL!
@@ArizonaGhostriders 🌩
I liked "God's Gun" and feel that Lee Van Cleef ought to have been awarded two Oscars - one for best performer and one for best supporting player. And Walter "Jack" Palance was in it also doing his very best. Now for "A Gunfight" - well every unknown supporting player came out of "Our Community Playhouse" and looked like it too.
OK!
I was surprised- and disappointed- the 1995 abomination "The Quick & the Dead" (with Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman) was NOT included!
Because compared to the Homesman and South of Heaven, West of Hell it was entertainment.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I did suffer through "South of Heaven..." I remember it beginning with a Turn-of-the-Century preacher proclaiming that these new motion pictures were "a sinful abomination"! And after viewing the rest of that movie I decided he might be right! (Surprised you didn't mention Pee Wee Herman as a perverted badguy!)
I still think "Quick & the Dead" is the WORST American Western EVER MADE!! But it plays out like an ancient Japanese Samurai revenge tail, which it probably is based on. (Remember "Magnificent Seven" was an Americanized "Seven Samurai".)
Now, because I love your videos, in every way, I have a hankering to see these best, worst Westerns, Santee. 😂🤠😉
It's worth it to see them.
Just be sure to "hanker" with an open mind.
My list and yours are very similar. I despise The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp, just awful over and over again. Somebody should make a decent version of this story.
For as much as it was panned, I thought the one in 1981 was faily good. Still not terrific.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Thanks for the personal reply. Enjoy the channel. Yep, better than Depp's lame version but I think a really good movie could be made of this story and I'm still waiting.
Love your channel folks.
You don't suppose you can do a video on the most beautifully crafted gun of the old west, the Merwin Hulbert revolver?
Dean from New England.
I will at some point, Alex. Thanks!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Looking forward to it. See y'all down the trail.
I do like the Homesman. What is a mark against it is the closeup shot of the 1851 Navy with no caps on the nipples.
It had some heavy hitters in it. Just a depressing movie is all.
I haven't watched this channel for a while but
I can see clearly that its still going strong 😃
Thanks and welcome back!
@@ArizonaGhostriders and thank you for teaching me about the West 👍
@@Daniel_Plainview_1911 You're welcome.
@@ArizonaGhostriders No you're welcome
I've never seen any of them. Looks like I didn't miss anything 🤣
Watch Tiny Town. You'll hate it and like it!
My all time worst western in my opinion was the hateful eight. What is in my opinion the worst thing about this movie, is I watched it. One that made your list, is one I like, A Gunfight, I have to admit the reason I like it is I am a Johnny Cash fan. One of my favorite movies, also has Kirk Dougles . The Big Sky. We may disagree on this one some, but ya'll always make good videos, on that I think we all agree.
George, you're right. Hateful 8 probably should have been in there. It was predictable and too profane. However, the cast all did a really good job of acting, in my opinion.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I agree on the acting , of the cast they are the reason I kept watching, and hoping.
I got suckered in a bet about A Gunfight. When it was to be shown on network television I made a bet with my sergeant who would win. He didn't know I'd seen it in the theater. What I didn't know was that two endings were filmed, one in which Johnny Cash won and the other in which Kirk Douglas wins. I didn't know that the network chose the alternate ending (Douglas) and I bet wrong. The Apache tribe that financed the movie idolized Cash and insisted that he win, the version that was shown theatrically. Douglas wins in the TV version-- actually the original ending that so upset the tribe when they watched that the ending was reshot with Cash the victor. I'm still confused.
Surly clint Eastwood should be in there at some point.
Naw, this is "worst" movies.
now one of the best was "Santa Fe Trail" 1940 , it was like a historical documentary it was so accurate 🤣🐎🐈🦖
I brought that one up in a discussion on Errol Flynn films with a friend of mine. He'd mentioned They Died With Their Boots on, and I pointed out that Flynn had played Jeb Stuart along with Ronald Reagan as George Custer. I then listed some of their classmates, and he just about went crosseyed in confusion, and when I explained some of the plot he almost had a stroke.
Missouri Gambler was up there, too. 🤣
@@ArizonaGhostriders Warner Brothers never let facts get in the way of a good script!
Billy the Kid vs Dracula, the first adaptation to feature a vampire being killed by a cowboy since… the original Bram Stoker novel
That was made at the same time as Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter.
I have never done this before but I have to agree with your list. Have you ever seen the worst western at a best western?
I have not. I have also not seen the Hateful 8 at a Super 8.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Jeremiah Johnson at a Howard Johnson's?
Is it true that both Rio Bravo and El Dorado were shot in old Tucson studios? If so, is the jail still there?
Yes, they were both filmed there. Sadly, the Sheriff's office was burned in the fire. However, many buildings from the movies still stand. I have walked in their footprints many times on that set.
Always look forward to your Saturday vid drop Santee!
Thank You!
the only western that has been able to successfully incorporate another genre (sci-fi, horror) was 'Back to the Future 3'. Of course it helps that ZZ Top was in it.
HAHAH!
Yo Santee, how do you feel about Sukiyaki Western Django, though?
I thought it was a bit much for me. Although...it was entertaining.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Surprised it didn't make this list, lol
Terror of Tiny Town needs a remake. Center it on a retired little person circus performer using his measurable investments to found a town for little people out. Bad guys want plot against the town, and the neighboring communities rally to defend "Tiny Town".
OK!
I nominate "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold", which tried to rip off Indiana Jones. Memorable for its sassy heroine and it's extreme tonal whiplash between kid-friendly homages to old matinee movies and scenes with disturbing, R-rated gore. (It's a weeeeeird movie.)
Wow, never heard of it!
Now I'm going to have to watch them just to see if I agree with ya. Cool video Santee!
You should. Don't look at the holsters or you'll want to make them!
@@ArizonaGhostriders yup, you just talked me out of it!
10. "The Wild Wild West" (1999)
9. "The Terror of Tiny Town" (1938)
8. "South of Heaven, West of Hell" (2000)
7. "White Comanche" (1968)
6. "The Homesman" (2014)
5. "A Gunfight" (1971)
4. "Haunted Gold" (1932)
3. "Texas Rangers" (2001)?
2. "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" (1966)
1. "God's Gun" (1976)
Thank You!
The worst western I've ever seen was a South African western about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. All the men sounded alike; regardless of the line, they snarled at each other in operatic tones. The worst line in movie history was the final line of the movie: "He was destined to die." Of course, that's true of all of us.
Wow!
Well as with any genre there has been some real stinkers over the years so picking The Top 10 Worst Western Movies will give you plenty to pick from. But picking the 10 worst is no easy task.
I have to agree with Dirty Dan about The Terror of Tiny Town. If you take it for what it is, a comedy film, it is not that bad and I don't think it should have been included. It is on TH-cam so I will have to watch it again soon. Interestingly it did have a $100,000 budget which is pretty respectable for 1938. Also it was released on the 1st December so it is almost a Christmas film.
Shelako, the one with Sean Connery, was pretty bad. But on the up side it was more authentic than many American westerns. For one thing the oil lamps were not bought from a department store.
The idea is funny, but the acting is atrocious. That's what earned it a place on the list. even Dirty Dan agreed that it's so bad it's good.
I remember enjoying... well, that might be a strong word... i remember being entertained by Wild Wild West when i first saw it in theaters. I recently tried to watch it again and, well, i just couldn't.
It had its moments.
I'd add Django Kill, which might be one of the worst things I watched for Tomas Milian's sake. It's really just a bad, over-the-top horror masquerading as western. Not that the two genres couldn't mix well in the hands of a skilled director, but this movie is just wtf.
Have not seen that!
The worst-rated Western film (based off IMDb) that I've seen is 'Breaker! Breaker!'. It's a very strange action-comedy-Western-trucker film about a town run by a corrupt but popular judge who entraps truckers so he can force them to pay bogus fines. One truck driver refuses to pay and gets holed up in the jail, but it turns out his brother is Chuck Norris who comes to save the day and "take on the whole damn town, Smokeys and all" with his karate skills. It's really stupid but I actually enjoyed it quite a lot.
HAHA!
Great video Santee,
The movie : Paint Your Wagon wasn't very good either, at least Jo-Ann and I didn't think so.
Have a great weekend my friend.
JT
You know, for a adaptaion of a stage musical, I thought it was pretty good. No offense to Clint, but the movie might have been better with a Ricky Nelson who had a stronger singing voice.
@@ArizonaGhostriders
Ricky Nelson was good in Reo Bravo.
What about westerns that have been remade?
3:10 to Yuma & Monte Walsh come to mind.
Both versions are well done.
True Grit, too. Something to think about. Thanks.
@@ArizonaGhostriders My niece was reading for a part in what turned out to be the True Grit remake.
After a while the remaining young ladies were told that they were being considered for the role of Mattie Ross.
She didn't get the part because a 6' tall redhead wasn't how Charles Portis described her.
Plus my niece can handle a Heritage Rough Rider single action revolver.
And Dakin Matthew was a good choice for Colonel Stonehill.
I have no idea if he's still alive but he is a good fit for Strother Martin roles.
True grit remake very disappointed
Westerns are an amazing genre which went world wide. Good or bad becomes more than confused with the extreme variety of products. All know of Spaghetti Westerns. I also collect Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Canada, Hawaii, England, South African, several Japanese (I have an original poster of my favorite both filmed in Arizona), an Indian tribe financed one, scifi versions, and others of which I am not aware. They are all entertaining to me since none of them portray the daily normal events which total the historic experience. The normal daily 12 hour work day and the lack of all modern refinements would make a dull documentary at bedt. Tall Tales and movies exaggerate reality to create emotional drama. That is their value world wide. They are the modern versions of the European medieval morality plays for the villagers. My favorite actor is Harry Carey Sr. My favorite films are Saddle Tramp with Joel McCrea and at the opposite end of the Western spectrum is Call of the Wild with the wonderful character actor John Diehl. In the middle is the outstanding Angel and the Badman. I can't remember a bad Western, perhaps, that is for the best. Let there always be good guys and bad guys in cowboy hats.
Interesting.
Oh man, there's a lot of terrible Spaghetti Westerns out there. Some great ones for sure, but also some real stinkers. It's hard to really quantify what's so bad it's good vs. so bad it's bad! For me, "It Can Be Done... Amigo" is like Terror of Tiny Town. It's not a very well-made movie, but it's just goofy fun that's good to watch when you're sick or tired.
There are a few stinkers out there
Terror of Tiny Town in mentioned in a episode of MASH, I looked it up and was really surprised to find it was a real move.
I love the Wild Wild West TV show, and that movie was a huge disappointment and just downright stupid. Nothing against Will Smith but casting a black guy as James West makes about as much sense as a remake of Shaft with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Shaft.
Hmmmm....!
Thanks again, good start for my weekend!
You're welcome, Norman
I once saw a double-feature that unintentionally included both THE best Western EVER and the WORST Western ever… Unforgiven/Posse
Hmmm. Which Posse? The 1970s one or the one with Mario Van Peebles?
Hmm, ya got Billy the Kid vs Dracula, but not Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter? Those belong together like spam and powdered eggs! Anyway I haven't seen those two or The Terror of Tiny Town since the 90s (or maybe 80s) but they probably all deserve to be on any such list. Since I don't really remember them, here's my list of stuff I do remember
1. Hell at My Heels (2011) - super-cheap and incompetent Canadian production from Brett Kelly, among the worst directors out there
2. Mackenna's Gold
3. The Lone Ranger (2013) - yup, the Johnny Depp film
4. Apache Blood
5. Jesse James: Lawman (2015) another Brett Kelly film but with 2 recognizable actors, Kevin Sorbo and Peter Fonda
6. Wild Wild West
7. Shenandoah
8. Jonah Hex
9. North West Mounted Police
10. McLintock! - because I have to have a John Wayne film here also
I thought of those two, Billy the Kid was worse.
"Aim low, they're riding Shetlands!" The worst Western I ever saw was a Filipino made Western. Myself and bunch of my military buddies went to see it at one of those theaters in LA that showed old movies and just plain weird stuff. No it was not a porn theater. They drove jeeps, the Indians wore gaudy feather headdresses and worn out jean shorts..the cavalry were wearing fatigues and they were armed with M-1 carbines, 1911s, and Garands. However, the more wine we drank the funnier the movie got. Alcohol has been known to make a lot of things seem better than they are.
Yeah, I've found a lot of things I thought were funny as a kid aren't so much anymore.
Santee, I would have to rate the "modern" LONE RANGER with Johnny Depp & Armee Hammer right up there with SMITH & KLINE's clunker of the Wild Wild West. Just awful and an insult to the original LONE RANGER.
I just didn't like that they made both Tonto AND the Lone Ranger goofy. Both accidental "heroes"
Didn't work for me.
A dishonorable mention goes to HEAVEN’S GATE, starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken, and directed by Michael Cimino. That movie destroyed United Artists.
Sad. Though it had some good moments.
Dude, the Terror of Tiny Town rocks. It's like "High Noon" for little people.
Navajo Joe with Burt Reynolds is very, very bad.
"High Noon for little people." that is funny. Too bad the acting wasn't as good as High Noon!
Santee, I hate you. 🤠 Now I have to watch Terror of Tiny Town.
HA!
You shouldn't fret over little things. Lol.
🤠
YOU HAD ME SCARED FOR A MINUTE when you said the Texas Rangers I thought you was talking about the one from 1951 that had George Montgomery and Gale storm and Noah Beery in it which was a good movie I haven't watched the version you had yet didn't know they made it
HA!
Star Trek TOS S3 E3, ''The Paradise Syndrome,'' had Kirk as an amnesia victim on a doomed planet inhabited by Indigenous tribes paralleing Earth's North American natives. When the dazed ex-starship skipper staggers out from the force-field of an ancient obelisk, he is hailed as a diety by the locals. ''Kirok'' quickly establishes his command authority on the tribe -- looking strangely similar to a White Comanche.
Naturally, ''Space Indians'' speak perfect American-accented English.
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Carry on Cowboy (1965), from the British 'Carry On' team: multiple comedy movies from the 1950s to 70s with lots of historical episodes (even a Beau Geste send up with Phil Silvers). Anyway, they tried their hand at a Western in their fashion, entirely shot in England. Mid-1960s was the Carry On peak years with several comedy classics and this one rates as a middling effort, not their best but not a poor one either, however, one for admirers of outrageous British humour.
Interesting!
Top 10 huh? It’s like me saying I give too 10 worst Chinese movies and I can’t, cuz there are too many! Hahahaha
LOL!! Kung Fu movies?
Yeah, I've watched a couple of these but to me the single worst western,and it is as packed with top Hollywood stars, was Maccena's Gold. The underwater fight scene with Julie Newmar and Camilla Sparv couldn't even save this stinker.👎
Yeah, that had some bad effects too.
From the many very questionable westerns it must've been a struggle to select these few. The film A Gunfight is s unique effort since it was financed by the Jicarilla Apache tribe to cash (pun intended) in on western movie popularity of that era. Side note - Do youse remember the film (s) written and acted on by the original Old Tucson stuntmen? I only remember the Super Veteran Actor James Hong had a role. I remember it being a decent effort.
I knew Black Jack Young, who we lost a few years ago. He was the fella dripping blood into the beer stein who gets shot off the balcony of the saloon.
There is an old color movie set during the French and Indian war here on youtube. Cant remember the name and really dont want too but the side arms are all Colt single action army and the muskets are trapdoor Springfields. Instead of lush hardwood forests of Pennsylvania and New York you get Malibu Creek State Park as the filming location.
Cool.
Two I can't believe didn't make this list: "Cowboys and Aliens" and "The Quick And The Dead."
The former I saw in the theater, expecting it to be so bad it was good. Surprisingly engrossing. The latter an excuse for a cheesecake western, leaning too heavily on the quick draw cliche.
I liked both. You missed the idea of Quick and the Dead. Sam Raimi made it like a graphic novel on purpose.
I'd have included the ambitiously dumb 'The Quick and the Dead'. Other than the a (mostly) accomplished cast and interesting premise, it was weighed down by annoying Dutch angles, overused extreme zoom shots, a perpetually scared looking yet wooden Sharon Stone, and the complete WASTE of Gene Hackman as a heavy. It was a collection of parts far less than the sum of its whole.
It was more like a graphic novel, and was very entertaining. Excellent action.
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (from the 70s, not the newer one). When Silver rears up on 'his' hind legs, we can CLEARLY see that ain't no stallion.
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I gotta add one. My cousin and I watched one called Against a Crooked Sky one summer. That's 90min I'll never get back, and my personal vote for Suckiest Western With Worst Costuming Ever.
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Van Cleef's two Israeli westerns, God's Gun (mentioned) and Kid Vengeance, both from 1976, I find unwatchable. Depressing wastes of story and talent considering the actors involved. I am curious how the actors were lured to Israel, not the first place I'd think to film a low budget western.
Well, it may have been money.
Pretty sure I remember seing some of the cast members from Terror of Tiny Town in an episode of Bonanza, at least a couple of 'em.
I don't doubt it.
Beyond a doubt "Billy the Kid" filmed in 2013 was the worst western that I have ever seen.
I never saw it, but it got a whopping 1 star out of 5...so, yeah!
Gods Gun White Comanche
Yul Brynners Sabata The Grand Fuel Django Unchained Hateful Eight. Custer of the West Oklahoma Kid Blind man
Good choices.
The best and worse western of all time is BLAZZING SADDLES it has every cheap and best cliques of all time, that gun fanning was the best, best long distance shot too. Ha ha
You seem to have your list!
You left out possibly the worst movie ever made "The Master Gunfighter" where Tom Loughlin, flush with cash from "Billy Jack" turned out this samurai-western that is an enormous steamer, It is difficult to even watch this film because the plot is simply Loughlin announcing " I am leaving the hacienda" and the following two hours is spent finding out why. By the end of the film you don't care.
I think I saw that one....don't recall.
How are Hateful Eight and Bone Tomahawk not on this list? Your friend liked Terror in Tiny Town....I guess you short-changed it.....and you overlooked the actors, as well. I guess you looked down on Terror in Tiny Town as a Western film; you belittled it.
Good puns. You might say, the height of comedy.
Bone Tomahawk was great. It received positive reviews and won a bunch of awards.
Hateful 8 was a success at the box office ($156 million dollars). Also got good reviews. I didn't love it, but it didn't make the list.