For a Few Dollars More is superb, the initial uneasy partnership between Clint and LVC slowly grew throughout the movie until its satisfying culmination in the end. Loved it.
@boomer3150 it's not a trilogy. Few Dollars More is not a sequel to Fistful Of Dollars. Each of the three movies that are known as "the dollars trilogy" are completely separate movies. Clint Eastwood plays a different character in each film. I know it's hard to believe but it's a fact, look it up. The "man with no name" thing was just a publicity stunt.
Josey Wales for me is better than Unforgiven, for me I feel it has alot more elements to it's story than Unforgiven and I find it more entertaining aswell.
@@castlerock58 Tombstone is easily in top 3. From production, acting and top level actors, to the action and fight scenes. That scene alone of them walking to the OK Coral with the music was so dramatic and nothing I've seen in any other movie.
I really didn't like Tombstone, it was so cheese to me. Magnificent 7 I really enjoyed and I think should be in the top 5 honestly. Ofcourse I'm talking about the original.
Why isn't Shane at the top of this list? And what about "The Big Country," for which folk-singer Burl Ives deservedly won an Oscar as best supporting actor?
Life long western fan here. Unforgiven is the best ever made. A near perfect western. The Shootist is the best one left out. I'll give to give Django Unchanged another chance. Didn't finish it. Seemed very contrived. I'm a big Tarantino fan though and it's so well rated, I'll have to see it.
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2. Once Upon a time in the west 3. Unforgiven 4. For a few more dollars 5. Django Unchained 6. Butch Cassidy and the sundance Kid 7. The searchers 8. High Noon 9. A Fitful of dollars 10. A fistful of dynamite 11. The Outlaw Josey Wales 12. True Gritt (Both) 13. The hateful 8 14. The great silence 15. Rio Bravo
1. Unforgiven 2. The Searchers 3. The Good the Bad & the Ugly 4. Once Upon a Time in the West 5. 3:10 to Yuma (2007) 6. My Darling Clementine 7. Shane 8. The Gunfighter 9. High Noon 10. Stagecoach
1) The Good The Bad and The Ugly ; 2) Rio Bravo ; 3) Tombstone ; 4) The Alamo ( original ) ; 5) The Revenant ; 6) The Outlaw Josey Wales ; 7) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ; 8) Ride The High Country ; 9) The Professionals ; 10) Appaloosa
Calavera in The Magnificent Seven, served as an early prototype of Tuco (the Good the Bad and the Ugly) as did the more anglicized Charlie Gant (How the West was Won). IMHO, without Eli as Tuco, G,B&U would not be on this list.
A terrific list of Westerns for sure…….The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gets my vote. In more recent times Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall has become one of my major favourites.
@@mantislake4141 Tombstone is the most popular western in the last 30 or so years. I get people have a soft spot for Clint Eastwood but Tombstone was the best action western produced, maybe ever with a bunch of top level actors.
My Top 5 western movies are 1 Broken Arrow- James Stewart 2 The good the bad and the Ugly - Eastwood 3 '73 Winchester- James Stewart 4 3:10 to Yuma - Glen Ford (1957) 5 Gunfight at O.K Corral - Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Honorary mentions to Actors John Wayne, Henry Fonda Lee van Cleefe and Randolph Scott.
I saw “Gunfight at O.K Corral” when I was 9 years old and liked it a lot. When I saw it again as an adult, I tripped over a factual error. Early in the movie, Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holiday, “Where you been hangin’ out lately, Doc?” Doc replies, “Oklahoma City.” WOW!!! The gunfight occurred in 1881. Oklahoma City arose on April22, 1889 in the Oklahoma Land Run! As an Oklahoman, I appreciate Hollywood giving us a nod, but how is it possible that NOBODY working on this movie knew enough history to say, “Wait a minute!” I immediately turned the movie off.
While I love the entire Trinity series and their slapstick humor, I could never place them on a list of the best western movies. That being said, they are still awesome .@@trhansen3244
I AGREE WITH YOU 100% WHAT A STAR CAST WITH YUL PLAYING A LEAD ROLE OTHERS WERE MORE OR LESS INTRODUCED AND WENT ON TO BECOME STARS IN THEIR OWN RIGHTS AND SUPERBLY DIRECTED BY JOHN STURGES WHO ALSO DIRECTED GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL AND LATER LAST TRAIN FROM GUNHIL
@huilang838 too cliche TODAY. just as most of these films don't hold up if you're watching them for the first time in 2024. but they are revolutionary in their own right (yes, i know M7 was based on 7 samurai but it's still pretty unique THEN) that said, there are too many great westerns that it's ok to have M7 just outside of the top 10. it's still great if it falls between 11-20
All great movies, but I submit two more for consideration: The Magnificent Seven (original) and The Outlaw Josey Wales. But I will have to say that my two favorites to watch multiple times are Silverado and Big Jake.
Outlaw Josey Wales is a great western. Silverado is so close to being a top western but I think they included a few too many characters and I usually love Jeff Goldblum but I think he was wasted in that film.
I agree with your nrs one and two, but only one of the rest of your top ten. My personal top ten is: 10 Gunfight at the OK Corral 9 Tombstone 8 The Big Country 7 The Outlaw Josey Wales 6 Shane 5 Unforgiven 4 Stagecoach 3 The Searchers 2 Once Upon a Time in the West 1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Thanks for a great video!
Good list. I don't feel Sierra Madre is a western in the traditional sense, so I would probably include The Magnificent Seven instead. Also, I'm sure many feel The Searchers belongs on there (but I don't necessarily agree). Overall I agree with your list, especially #1 and 2.
Bogart never really did Westerns. I wonder why ? Shame, as he would've made a great cowboy. Great though it is, Sierra Madre isn't a Western. It doesn't have any of the criteria.
Top 10 on my lists: 10. 3:10 to Yuma 9. Django unchained 8. The Quick and the Dead 7. The fastest gun in the West 6. Young Guns 5. Gunfight at the Ok Corral 4. High Noon 3. Once upon a time in the West 2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1. The Gunfighter
Django Unchained is the big one on this list that sticks out, it's decent but not top 10 and I also don't think Dances with Wolves belongs on this list.
@@EddieHenderson92 A matter of taste I guess, I've seen it once, but wouldn't watch it again. While I can watch many other westerns over and over again.
Tombstone, The 3 Amigos, Fort Apache, How The West Was Won, Jeremiah Johnson, Blazing Saddles, Outlaw Josef Wales, The Magnificent 7, War Wagon. Best series Lonesome Dove, Hell On Wheels, Deadwood, The Lone Ranger/Gunsmoke/Yellowstone.
1. Tombstone 2. Good the bad & the ugly. 3. The Searchers 4. Outlaw Jose Wales 5. El Dorado 6. True Grit (original) 7. The Unforgiven 8. Stagecoach 9. Man in the Wilderness 10. Dances With Wolves
the Scalphunters -Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters; Cowboy -Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon; the Wild Bunch - William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan...usually get overlooked, but they´re first rate !!
I have the following as my top 5, according to my Imdb rating - outside those listed above: 1, Face to Face 2. The Ox-Bow Incident 3. Companeros 4. The Hateful Eight 5. True Grit (2010)
Popularity is not the best measure of a great western. It is a poor metric which requires no contribution containing insight or understanding on your part and so what is the point of your channel? I could get this lineup of westerns from people in an elevator or lobby. Here is a more esoteric list in no particular order: Joe Kidd, Jeremiah Johnson, Ulzana’s Raid, The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, Buster Scruggs, Open Range, Rio Bravo, McLintock, Tombstone. The spaghetti western should be a separate category. Westerns are an American genre. Although I enjoy the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, some of the soundtrack could gag a maggot and the distortion of history and the horrible dialogue is the exact opposite of the clean, direct beauty of Ride Lonesome. I don’t like the portrayal of Indians in Ride Lonesome but the movie is otherwise perfect.
Quiggly Down Under is also a great "western" movies and I didn't read anyone else mentioning it. Tom Selleck has some outstanding westerns in his filmography.
@@GladiusOstentis It still works for me. I've watched the movie about ten times, and still like it just as much as the first time I saw it. Planning on another session soon.
Good list, but simply switch #1 and #2 and there you have it. Once Upon a Time in the West is an amazing film, for me, #1. And a lot of people have never seen it.
In my opinion Unforgiven deserve a place amongst top 3. And Clint Eastwood ‘s Outlaw Josey Wales deserve to be in top three.Then the guy has missed more deserving movies like The Professionals, Open Range, Magnificent Sevens, movies made on Gun fight at O K Corral and few others ( at the moment I am unable to remember)...
I saw “Gunfight at O.K Corral” when I was 9 years-old and liked it a lot. When I saw it again as an adult, I tripped over a factual error. Early in the movie, Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holiday, “Where you been hangin’ out lately, Doc?” Doc replies, “Oklahoma City.” WOW!!! The gunfight occurred in 1881. Oklahoma City arose on April 22, 1889 in the Oklahoma Land Run! As an Oklahoman, I appreciate Hollywood giving us a nod, but how is it possible that NOBODY working on this movie knew enough history to say, “Wait a minute!” I immediately turned the movie off.
High Noon, The Searchers,The good bad and the ugly,Gunfight at the ok corral,My Darling Clementine, The Magnificent Seven, True Grit,Tombstone ,3:10 to Yuma
I agree with you. I think the movie The good, the bad and the ugly and the movie Once upon a time in the west are tide for first place. In my opinion only. Awesome video!
Thanks for the list, which includes many gems. My Darling Clementine is a very great film and this western and should feature in more Top 10 Western lists than it does.
Great list!!! Love them all!!! And love the western genre!!! However, Outlaw Josey Wales needs to be in here also!!! And even perhaps High Plains Drifter. (For just its uniqueness)
My personal 10 favorite Westerns: 1. The Wild Bunch 2. My Darling Clementine 3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 5. Once Upon a Time in the West 6. Unforgiven 7. The Searchers 8. Rio Bravo 9. The Hateful Eight 10. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Dances w Wolves feels beautifully derivative of a 'wagon train' episode: 'woman who walks with wolves' ("the Ruth Marshall story")... actually fell asleep watching it as a kid; but to anyone else w similar recollection, I strongly suggest a revisit(!)
Only a couple of these would make my top 10. Hardly any of the classics are in this list. Most would fall into the 'revisionist' category, which points to a younger audience, the sort of people who go on imdb and rate films. It's not a very good guide.
If he found room for Treasure of the Sierra Madre (not truly a western) he could have found room for Shane. It's got some corny parts by today's standard but the story holds up well and Jack Palance is still the best bad guy ever. Once upon a Time in the West is a good film, but hardly different than Leone's others. The Searchers is different and Wayne plays a dark character unlike his usual.
Unforgiven gets the number 1 spot. Its just brilliant on so many levels. Most of clints films should be in the top 10 also Young Guns should be in there.
My top 10 966 Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1968 Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West 1969 Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch 1992 Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven 1990 Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves 1973 Sam Peckinpah - Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1972 John Houston - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1972 Sydney Pollack - Jeremiah Johnson 1967 Martin Ritt - Hombre 1939 John Ford - Stagecoach
Tombstone should be here. It's forever quotable, and hits so many classic western notes. An honorable mention , for me, goes to 1969's True Grit, if for nothing else the final scene where John Wayne takes on four outlaws in a horseback gunfight.
i think silverrado deserves to be mentioned.. along with true grit..buut i have no argument with the list. i wish we would see a return to westerns on network tv,,some reboots of classic shows from the 50's and 60's
I would rate The Searchers and Tombstone ahead of Django Unchained and even Unforgiven. I'd also include Silverado and The Professionals ahead of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which isn't a Western in the truest sense.
Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns with the signature Ennio Morricone scores are the best Westerns. 1. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968) 2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 3. For a Few Dollars More (1965) 4. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) In your Top 10 I would’ve included: - The Magnificent Seven (1960) - The Wild Bunch (1969) - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Shane, High Noon, The Big Country, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Lonesome Dove (TV if allowed), The Magnificent 7, Dances With Wolves, For A Few Dollars More, Tombstone, The Last Of The Mohicans and, if LD not allowed, The Searchers. Beat that lot!!
Well that’s the best list of the top 10 westerns I’ve seen. Got it pretty much right. Honorable mentions to Outlaw Josey Wales, Open Range and HPD as well as Lonesome Dove and the remake of 3:10 to Yuma
Interesting list, especially the ones you didn't include! Glad to see Butch & Sundance - it's often missed out by would-be gatekeepers because it isn't vicious or nihilistic enough. I think John Wayne's point about High Noon was that any town that didn't stand by their sheriff in similar circumstances would soon be overrun by outlaws, so the film was unrealistic?
It's because most of those involved in the creation of the film were suspected Communists. N.B. this was height of the Red Scare and long before Hungarian Uprising and Prague Spring - so some of the most intelligent and thoughtful people had communist sympathies.
Good choice n selection.But where to accodomate such great classic western movies such The Searchers,Big Country,The Bravados,My Darling Clementine,Oxbow Incident,Shane n 3:10 to Yuma(1957)!
This list isn't so bad as far as top 10 lists go. The Unforgiven is probably the only modern western that deserves to be on there. The problem with IMDB is that any recent movies (that came out in the internet age) get rated relatively better than older movies.
Yes, Django is grossly overrated and doesn't deserve to be on this list. Especially considering the lack of some real classics like True Grit and even some more modern classics like Tombstone.
@ericcouch - it's subjective and we're all fans of Westerns but I love Django Unchained and think Tombstone is overrated (bloated cast and a last act that's sloppy compared to the rest - still like it though). Can I ask what you dislike about DU?
The good, the bad and the ugly is a pleasant movie, nothing else. It is not even in the same league as Once upon a time in the west, which is not only the greatest western film but the best film ever made.
Good list but no Sam Peckinpah? Not one? And yet Tarantino makes the list? If that is a reflection of the IMDB scores than it is a sad scoreboard indeed. Take out the Tarantino and one of the Leone films and include Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch. Just my humble opinion.
nah, Once Upon A Time in the West and The Good The Bad and The Ugly are two of best western movies of al time, no Sam Peckinpah westerns can surpass those two.
#1- The Shootist #2- Tombstone #3- True Grit og #4- Young Guns #5- The Magnificent Seven #6- Man who shot liberty valance #7 - Geronimo an American Ledgend #8- Stagecoach #9- lonesome dove #10 - Maverick HONERABLE MENTIONS Open range, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Cowboys, Butch Cassy and the Sundance kid, Wagons East
Ten personal favourites - Yellow Sky (1948) The Searchers (1956) The Ox Bow Incident (1943) Red River (1948) Shane (1953) Rio Grande (1950) Destry Rides Again (1939) 3.10 To Yuma (1957) The Magnificent Seven (1960) The Red Badge Of Courage (1951)
I love westerns as my Father did, so I was brought up properly. The Searchers simply is the finest western ever made. I have lost count of how many times I gave watched it, and it moves me in so many ways. For me Wayne’s finest performance and the role he should have undoutably won an Oscar for. That it is not in the top Ten is some sort of sick joke. Django Unchained……please.
'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' was one of those few movies that completetly lived up to the hype imo. It was great my first time watching it; over 50 years since its release, it's held up amazingly well.
My three favourite westerns are entertaining before anything else. 1. Tombstone, 2. Silverado, 3. The magnificent seven (2016). Then you have movies like Wind River, Thunderheart, The quick and the dead, Young guns, Josey Wales et cetera.
My top 5 westerns are 1. Once upon a time in the west. 2. The Long riders . 3 A big hand for the little lady . 4. The Outlaw Josey Wales. 5. From Noon till Three
Hard to fault the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as the selection for #1. Everything about that movie is superb and has stood the test of time. In my opinion, anyway.
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For a Few Dollars More is superb, the initial uneasy partnership between Clint and LVC slowly grew throughout the movie until its satisfying culmination in the end. Loved it.
I agree. I like it a lot more than the first film and it's at least a match for the third.
Thank you! I catch so much crap for placing For a Few Dollars More as my favorite of the trilogy.
@@mantislake4141 It is indeed the finest of the trilogy.
Yesss I think it's wayyy better than the good the bad and the ugly in both pacing, character dynamics and villains
@boomer3150 it's not a trilogy. Few Dollars More is not a sequel to Fistful Of Dollars. Each of the three movies that are known as "the dollars trilogy" are completely separate movies. Clint Eastwood plays a different character in each film. I know it's hard to believe but it's a fact, look it up. The "man with no name" thing was just a publicity stunt.
I would have included "The Outlaw Josey Wales". The scene with Josey and Ten Bears (Will Sampson) is one of my favorite movie scenes ever.
"Now spit"
I reckon so.@@ericcouch
"You gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie"
Josey Wales for me is better than Unforgiven, for me I feel it has alot more elements to it's story than Unforgiven and I find it more entertaining aswell.
@@ericcouch
Buzzards need to eat, so do worms.
I'd like to see Tombstone, The Magnificent 7 & Silverado in the top 10....at least for me they should be in there.
They aren't top ten caliber. They are very good movies but they are up against masterpieces.
@@castlerock58 Tombstone is easily in top 3. From production, acting and top level actors, to the action and fight scenes. That scene alone of them walking to the OK Coral with the music was so dramatic and nothing I've seen in any other movie.
my guess is you chose these more for the actors in them then actually best ever.
Magnificent 7 is such a great movie
I really didn't like Tombstone, it was so cheese to me. Magnificent 7 I really enjoyed and I think should be in the top 5 honestly. Ofcourse I'm talking about the original.
Once upon a time in the West is #1 for me. Bronson, Jason Robards and Henry Fonda, all at their best!
Agreed
One of the best films ever made...and the best western.
But it was CC's movie.
Open Range deserves a spot on that list
great movie
Absolutely. But a Top 10 Westerns list is very hard..... one almost has to do it by decades!
@@TwoTonePictures it is hard, and most of the listed films would not be on it.
Not as top 10
Absolutely that's one of the best🎉
Tombstone needs to be in the top 10
True . Although there is a bit of overacting going on in it
I enjoy Tombstone and think it was better than one or two on this list. That said, I could name 20 better westerns
Based on imdb ratings, so it's not really the best 10 westerns. Online lists are always skewed more modern films to an extent (Django Unchained).
@@matthewsanders5460 ok let’s hear them, I’ve been on a western binge lately, I need some recommendations.
It was aight, I just watched Red River it was great
Great list! Was surprised not to see "Searchers" or "Outlaw Josey Wales"
It's not a great list at all, it's clickbait content mass produced.
@@101mazzThat explains why the Coen‘s „True Grit“ didn‘t make it.
That the searchers was omitted invalidates the entire list
I agree. Any list of great westerns that does not include both of these films cannot be taken seriously.
What are your guys top 5. Been plying red dead redemption. I’ve become obsessed w the western era Can you guys put me on w good movies
Best western, best adventure, best buddy movie, best musical score and best movie ever, all in one. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
not about the American west - about Italian attitudes and history
@@StephenRyder-w3q here you are pretty wrong. Leone was a history buff and way of showing the west - in this case during the civil war - is damn good.
My favorite all-time film, and best music score ever. I was fortunate to see this first-run in the theater in 1968.
Cannot agree with you more!
True.... But FIST FULL OF DOLLARS achieves the same with a shorter and simpler story..... So.......? 😉😉
Why isn't Shane at the top of this list? And what about "The Big Country," for which folk-singer Burl Ives deservedly won an Oscar as best supporting actor?
Shane best western ever
The Big Country is an amazing film , a western that is often overlooked . I love the scene where James McKay makes the decision to ride Old Thunder
Any history of the very best western movies *must* include Stagecoach, Red River, Rio Bravo, and The Searchers.
Red River is a western Mutiny on the Bounty(Clark Gable version)
Rio Bravo.
Why is not a single person mentioning "The Wild Bunch"? The greatest Western ever made.
Agreed
His listing is wrong. Yes, The Wild Bunch is top two. And The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is not a western!
@@frederickpando9444the treasure of sierra madre is an adventure western
Not to mention Broken Trail, Open Range, The Searchers, Tue Grit (both versions), Tombstone. I could go on.
Red river
Life long western fan here.
Unforgiven is the best ever made. A near perfect western.
The Shootist is the best one left out.
I'll give to give Django Unchanged another chance. Didn't finish it. Seemed very contrived. I'm a big Tarantino fan though and it's so well rated, I'll have to see it.
Yes: Contrived...... Over the top too
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Once Upon a time in the west
3. Unforgiven
4. For a few more dollars
5. Django Unchained
6. Butch Cassidy and the sundance Kid
7. The searchers
8. High Noon
9. A Fitful of dollars
10. A fistful of dynamite
11. The Outlaw Josey Wales
12. True Gritt (Both)
13. The hateful 8
14. The great silence
15. Rio Bravo
I like a lot of those. I stopped watching Tarantino films several years ago so I won't bother with him.
@@trhansen3244 I agree Django is not worth watching. Tarantino makes very low IQ reverse scenario films
Where would you rate The Magnificent Seven?
Hostiles , 310 to Yuma, Young Guns, They still call me Trinity, Jeremiah Johnson
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1. Unforgiven
2. The Searchers
3. The Good the Bad & the Ugly
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
6. My Darling Clementine
7. Shane
8. The Gunfighter
9. High Noon
10. Stagecoach
I agree with all of those except 1, 6, 7 and 9. The Gunfighter is an excellent film, doesn't get near enough attention.
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Best list yet,but I also like Hombre with Paul Newman
1) The Good The Bad and The Ugly ; 2) Rio Bravo ; 3) Tombstone ; 4) The Alamo ( original ) ; 5) The Revenant ; 6) The Outlaw Josey Wales ; 7) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ;
8) Ride The High Country ; 9) The Professionals ; 10) Appaloosa
Not even close
Great list
What about the wild bunch?
Not The Revenant! Please no!
Nice
Loved The Magnificent Seven, but spot on with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Like you said, one of the best movies ever made.
Magnificent Seven is ok but so inferior to Seven Samurai I just can't rank it near the top
I do like it though
Calavera in The Magnificent Seven, served as an early prototype of Tuco (the Good the Bad and the Ugly) as did the more anglicized Charlie Gant (How the West was Won). IMHO, without Eli as Tuco, G,B&U would not be on this list.
@@Querymonger So sick of hearing about Seven Samurai, when 9 out of 10 film lovers would rather watch The Magnificent Seven.
@@trhansen3244Wrong. Theres a reason you keep hearing about it
@@Querymonger Because people want to be appear more sophisticated than they really are.
Liked your video, I'm 67 For a few.......was my first western at age 15 on my birthday, enjoyed all westerns and continuing movies I missed. Thank you
A good list. You are correct in saying that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the best Western as well as a top movie in general.
The Outlaw Josey Wales was a favourite as a kid. For me, it took Clint Eastwood to a new level. Great list though! Thanks for the video.
the sergio leone triology was top tier!!
A terrific list of Westerns for sure…….The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gets my vote. In more recent times Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall has become one of my major favourites.
Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Open Range should all be on this list.
We're gonna need a bigger list. 😉
You had me 'til Tombstone.
Wyatt Earp stinks! :D
@@PandyBong for the record out the ones I listed it is my least favorite.
@@mantislake4141 Tombstone is the most popular western in the last 30 or so years. I get people have a soft spot for Clint Eastwood but Tombstone was the best action western produced, maybe ever with a bunch of top level actors.
My Top 5 western movies are
1 Broken Arrow- James Stewart
2 The good the bad and the Ugly - Eastwood
3 '73 Winchester- James Stewart
4 3:10 to Yuma - Glen Ford (1957)
5 Gunfight at O.K Corral - Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
Honorary mentions to Actors
John Wayne, Henry Fonda Lee van Cleefe and Randolph Scott.
I saw “Gunfight at O.K Corral” when I was 9 years old and liked it a lot.
When I saw it again as an adult, I tripped over a factual error.
Early in the movie, Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holiday, “Where you been hangin’ out lately, Doc?”
Doc replies, “Oklahoma City.”
WOW!!! The gunfight occurred in 1881. Oklahoma City arose on April22, 1889 in the Oklahoma Land Run!
As an Oklahoman, I appreciate Hollywood giving us a nod, but how is it possible that NOBODY working on this movie knew enough history to say, “Wait a minute!”
I immediately turned the movie off.
Excellent examples - except for the Italian lesson in Vendetta.
I would find a place for They Still Call Me Trinity.
While I love the entire Trinity series and their slapstick humor, I could never place them on a list of the best western movies. That being said, they are still awesome .@@trhansen3244
Once upon a time is the greatest western ever. I was surprised that the Magnificent Seven didn’t get a mention.
The Magnificent Seven should be here, as well The Oxbow Incident, Red River and The Wild Bunch.
The Magnificent Seven never even gets a mention...criminal
I AGREE WITH YOU 100% WHAT A STAR CAST WITH YUL PLAYING A LEAD ROLE OTHERS WERE MORE OR LESS INTRODUCED AND WENT ON TO BECOME STARS IN THEIR OWN RIGHTS AND SUPERBLY DIRECTED BY JOHN STURGES WHO ALSO DIRECTED GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL AND LATER LAST TRAIN FROM GUNHIL
@huilang838 too cliche TODAY. just as most of these films don't hold up if you're watching them for the first time in 2024. but they are revolutionary in their own right (yes, i know M7 was based on 7 samurai but it's still pretty unique THEN) that said, there are too many great westerns that it's ok to have M7 just outside of the top 10. it's still great if it falls between 11-20
I'm a western addict, my favourite film is 'veracruz' Burt Lancester, must see film, great movie...
The Outlaw Josey Wales , Shane, The Searchers, True Grit...
All great movies, but I submit two more for consideration: The Magnificent Seven (original) and The Outlaw Josey Wales. But I will have to say that my two favorites to watch multiple times are Silverado and Big Jake.
Outlaw Josey Wales is a great western. Silverado is so close to being a top western but I think they included a few too many characters and I usually love Jeff Goldblum but I think he was wasted in that film.
@@footbru I don't think anyone really cares about any silly Samurai movies. That's why no one mentions it.
I agree with your nrs one and two, but only one of the rest of your top ten. My personal top ten is:
10 Gunfight at the OK Corral
9 Tombstone
8 The Big Country
7 The Outlaw Josey Wales
6 Shane
5 Unforgiven
4 Stagecoach
3 The Searchers
2 Once Upon a Time in the West
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Thanks for a great video!
Good list. I don't feel Sierra Madre is a western in the traditional sense, so I would probably include The Magnificent Seven instead. Also, I'm sure many feel The Searchers belongs on there (but I don't necessarily agree). Overall I agree with your list, especially #1 and 2.
I think The Searchers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach are a few I would have included.
the final scene of stagecoach when they are escaping on the wagon is EPIC ! just saw it recently @@trhansen3244
Bogart never really did Westerns. I wonder why ? Shame, as he would've made a great cowboy. Great though it is, Sierra Madre isn't a Western. It doesn't have any of the criteria.
Top 10 on my lists:
10. 3:10 to Yuma
9. Django unchained
8. The Quick and the Dead
7. The fastest gun in the West
6. Young Guns
5. Gunfight at the Ok Corral
4. High Noon
3. Once upon a time in the West
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1. The Gunfighter
Glad to see Once Upon a Time in the West at number 2, and your high praise. One of my favorite movies of all time. Period.
Some odd choices, much better ones missing.
Lol😂
Django Unchained is the big one on this list that sticks out, it's decent but not top 10 and I also don't think Dances with Wolves belongs on this list.
@@EddieHenderson92 A matter of taste I guess, I've seen it once, but wouldn't watch it again. While I can watch many other westerns over and over again.
Young Guns is the Western I've watched the most over the years
One of the best!
Tombstone, The 3 Amigos, Fort Apache, How The West Was Won, Jeremiah Johnson, Blazing Saddles, Outlaw Josef Wales, The Magnificent 7, War Wagon. Best series Lonesome Dove, Hell On Wheels, Deadwood, The Lone Ranger/Gunsmoke/Yellowstone.
1. Tombstone
2. Good the bad & the ugly.
3. The Searchers
4. Outlaw Jose Wales
5. El Dorado
6. True Grit (original)
7. The Unforgiven
8. Stagecoach
9. Man in the Wilderness
10. Dances With Wolves
Oh ... MAN IN THE WILDERNESS ... one of the most underrated westerns. Along with THE LAST HUNT, WESTWARD THE WOMEN, YELLOW SKY and THE UNFORGIVEN.
the Scalphunters -Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters; Cowboy -Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon; the Wild Bunch - William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan...usually get overlooked, but they´re first rate !!
I have the following as my top 5, according to my Imdb rating - outside those listed above:
1, Face to Face
2. The Ox-Bow Incident
3. Companeros
4. The Hateful Eight
5. True Grit (2010)
Love the vids! It's rad to have a channel just for one of my favorite genres! Looking forward to more cool stuff in 2023!
Popularity is not the best measure of a great western. It is a poor metric which requires no contribution containing insight or understanding on your part and so what is the point of your channel? I could get this lineup of westerns from people in an elevator or lobby. Here is a more esoteric list in no particular order:
Joe Kidd, Jeremiah Johnson, Ulzana’s Raid, The Tall T, Ride Lonesome, Buster Scruggs, Open Range, Rio Bravo, McLintock, Tombstone. The spaghetti western should be a separate category. Westerns are an American genre. Although I enjoy the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, some of the soundtrack could gag a maggot and the distortion of history and the horrible dialogue is the exact opposite of the clean, direct beauty of Ride Lonesome. I don’t like the portrayal of Indians in Ride Lonesome but the movie is otherwise perfect.
The harmonica payoff in once upon is just so damn good.
Quiggly Down Under is also a great "western" movies and I didn't read anyone else mentioning it. Tom Selleck has some outstanding westerns in his filmography.
It's in my western top . Such a great one. And selleck is one of my most favorite western actors.
Barf me
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I liked Quigley Down Under when it hit video rental shelves. I have no idea if I would like it as much today.
@@GladiusOstentis It still works for me. I've watched the movie about ten times, and still like it just as much as the first time I saw it. Planning on another session soon.
And the sacketts
Great list! I would have included The Searchers, Shane, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and High Plains Drifter. IMHO.
Good list, but simply switch #1 and #2 and there you have it. Once Upon a Time in the West is an amazing film, for me, #1. And a lot of people have never seen it.
Where in the hell is The Wild Bunch?
Yes where?
For me the wild bunch is number 1
😀😀😁😁😂😂Thanks buddy! That movie is my NUMBER ONE !😎😎
@@ronaldpatterson1177 “We’re dealing with men. And I wish to God I was with them.” - Deke Thornton
In my opinion Unforgiven deserve a place amongst top 3. And Clint Eastwood ‘s Outlaw Josey Wales deserve to be in top three.Then the guy has missed more deserving movies like The Professionals, Open Range, Magnificent Sevens, movies made on Gun fight at O K Corral and few others ( at the moment I am unable to remember)...
I saw “Gunfight at O.K Corral” when I was 9 years-old and liked it a lot.
When I saw it again as an adult, I tripped over a factual error.
Early in the movie, Wyatt Earp asks Doc Holiday, “Where you been hangin’ out lately, Doc?”
Doc replies, “Oklahoma City.”
WOW!!! The gunfight occurred in 1881. Oklahoma City arose on April 22, 1889 in the Oklahoma Land Run!
As an Oklahoman, I appreciate Hollywood giving us a nod, but how is it possible that NOBODY working on this movie knew enough history to say, “Wait a minute!”
I immediately turned the movie off.
Agree Good Bad Ugly, a complete movie, Eli Wallach should of received an academy award!
Should have not of or should've.
Lee van Cleef too!
All 10 of them are masterpieces, great movies ❤❤🎞🎞👍👍
I’ve always loved “the man who shot liberty valance”…..lee Marvin’s liberty valance is up their with Val kilmers Doc Holliday
Great minds think alike 💯👍
It's a brilliant western, with three great actors at their very best.
It's a masterpiece.
I miss Vera Cruz, Winchester 73, Rio Bravo and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
The Searchers is definitely a top 10 film for me
High Noon, The Searchers,The good bad and the ugly,Gunfight at the ok corral,My Darling Clementine, The Magnificent Seven, True Grit,Tombstone ,3:10 to Yuma
I agree with you. I think the movie The good, the bad and the ugly and the movie Once upon a time in the west are tide for first place. In my opinion only. Awesome video!
Thanks for the list, which includes many gems. My Darling Clementine is a very great film and this western and should feature in more Top 10 Western lists than it does.
Great list!!! Love them all!!! And love the western genre!!! However, Outlaw Josey Wales needs to be in here also!!! And even perhaps High Plains Drifter. (For just its uniqueness)
I've seen every one of these westerns and you're correct. They're all great films. A couple of my favorites are "The Long Riders" and "Rango."
Great list! Very surprised The Searchers didn't make it!
I think it should have.
Fantastic list. I probably would have slid "True Grit" into the list somewhere but choices, choices. Great stuff kid.
The outlaw Jose Wales has to be in top 10 if not no 1
My personal 10 favorite Westerns:
1. The Wild Bunch
2. My Darling Clementine
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Unforgiven
7. The Searchers
8. Rio Bravo
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
LVC is and always will be the man!!
Number 1 and 2 are just absolute best, watch it so many times 😎
Dances w Wolves feels beautifully derivative of a 'wagon train' episode: 'woman who walks with wolves' ("the Ruth Marshall story")... actually fell asleep watching it as a kid; but to anyone else w similar recollection, I strongly suggest a revisit(!)
Great list. "The Hateful Eight" is even better than "Django Unchained" in my opinion.
Well that’s certainly a very very left field choice, it’s not even in my top 50
Only a couple of these would make my top 10. Hardly any of the classics are in this list. Most would fall into the 'revisionist' category, which points to a younger audience, the sort of people who go on imdb and rate films. It's not a very good guide.
If he found room for Treasure of the Sierra Madre (not truly a western) he could have found room for Shane. It's got some corny parts by today's standard but the story holds up well and Jack Palance is still the best bad guy ever. Once upon a Time in the West is a good film, but hardly different than Leone's others. The Searchers is different and Wayne plays a dark character unlike his usual.
Unforgiven gets the number 1 spot. Its just brilliant on so many levels. Most of clints films should be in the top 10 also Young Guns should be in there.
Young Guns is entertaining but also silly. It's the 1980s MTV version of a Western.
My top 10
966 Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1968 Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West
1969 Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch
1992 Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
1990 Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
1973 Sam Peckinpah - Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
1972 John Houston - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 Sydney Pollack - Jeremiah Johnson
1967 Martin Ritt - Hombre
1939 John Ford - Stagecoach
If you can find it, try to watch the extended edition of dances with wolves, explains more details.
Young guns will always be my favorite. You should make your own top 10 or 20 list!
Tombstone should be here. It's forever quotable, and hits so many classic western notes. An honorable mention , for me, goes to 1969's True Grit, if for nothing else the final scene where John Wayne takes on four outlaws in a horseback gunfight.
Not a huge fan of Tombstone, though I think Kilmer was brilliant in it but I think the original True Grit is oddly overlooked.
the 2010 remake of True Grit is also oustanding
Great Job!!! Excellent Effort. Thanks
i think silverrado deserves to be mentioned.. along with true grit..buut i have no argument with the list. i wish we would see a return to westerns on network tv,,some reboots of classic shows from the 50's and 60's
Seen them all, and loved them all. Would have liked to have seen the Magnificent Seven on the list.
I would rate The Searchers and Tombstone ahead of Django Unchained and even Unforgiven. I'd also include Silverado and The Professionals ahead of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which isn't a Western in the truest sense.
Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns with the signature Ennio Morricone scores are the best Westerns.
1. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
3. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
4. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
In your Top 10 I would’ve included:
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
STAGECOACH not being in here is a mortal sin man
THANK YOU!
Shane, High Noon, The Big Country, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Lonesome Dove (TV if allowed), The Magnificent 7, Dances With Wolves, For A Few Dollars More, Tombstone, The Last Of The Mohicans and, if LD not allowed, The Searchers. Beat that lot!!
High Noon is one of the best movies ever made.
High Noon is a communist film. Total garbage
Well that’s the best list of the top 10 westerns I’ve seen. Got it pretty much right. Honorable mentions to Outlaw Josey Wales, Open Range and HPD as well as Lonesome Dove and the remake of 3:10 to Yuma
Interesting list, especially the ones you didn't include! Glad to see Butch & Sundance - it's often missed out by would-be gatekeepers because it isn't vicious or nihilistic enough.
I think John Wayne's point about High Noon was that any town that didn't stand by their sheriff in similar circumstances would soon be overrun by outlaws, so the film was unrealistic?
It's because most of those involved in the creation of the film were suspected Communists.
N.B. this was height of the Red Scare and long before Hungarian Uprising and Prague Spring - so some of the most intelligent and thoughtful people had communist sympathies.
I really can't care what that coward thought about High Noon.
High Noon is anti-communist in a way that it is anti-collectivist and about the triumph of the individual
Good choice n selection.But where to accodomate such great classic western movies such The Searchers,Big Country,The Bravados,My Darling Clementine,Oxbow Incident,Shane n 3:10 to Yuma(1957)!
Sons of Katie Elder?
The Big Country really should have made this list.
Hombre with Paul Newman Fasted Gun with Glenn Ford Unforgiven Clint Eastwood Shootist Jonh Wayne is my Favorites
The Outlaw Josie Wales and Soldier Blue!!
This list isn't so bad as far as top 10 lists go. The Unforgiven is probably the only modern western that deserves to be on there. The problem with IMDB is that any recent movies (that came out in the internet age) get rated relatively better than older movies.
This is a well-known fact.
No love for Django Unchained? Not my list either but it's respectable.
Yes, Django is grossly overrated and doesn't deserve to be on this list. Especially considering the lack of some real classics like True Grit and even some more modern classics like Tombstone.
@ericcouch - it's subjective and we're all fans of Westerns but I love Django Unchained and think Tombstone is overrated (bloated cast and a last act that's sloppy compared to the rest - still like it though). Can I ask what you dislike about DU?
The good, the bad and the ugly is a pleasant movie, nothing else. It is not even in the same league as Once upon a time in the west, which is not only the greatest western film but the best film ever made.
Well, I think that Eli Wallach made the best role in movie history as a role of Tuco, and Morricone's soundtrack is also the best in history.
Leone showed (and Eastwood continued) what cowboys really looked like, the rest were caricatures, especially Wayne
respect to Sam Peckinpah westerns
Good list but no Sam Peckinpah? Not one? And yet Tarantino makes the list? If that is a reflection of the IMDB scores than it is a sad scoreboard indeed. Take out the Tarantino and one of the Leone films and include Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch. Just my humble opinion.
nah, Once Upon A Time in the West and The Good The Bad and The Ugly are two of best western movies of al time, no Sam Peckinpah westerns can surpass those two.
@@g.panitikan1929 never said they did :)
Pale Rider needs to be in the Top Ten !!
#1- The Shootist
#2- Tombstone
#3- True Grit og
#4- Young Guns
#5- The Magnificent Seven
#6- Man who shot liberty valance
#7 - Geronimo an American Ledgend
#8- Stagecoach
#9- lonesome dove
#10 - Maverick
HONERABLE MENTIONS
Open range, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Cowboys, Butch Cassy and the Sundance kid, Wagons East
Ten personal favourites -
Yellow Sky (1948)
The Searchers (1956)
The Ox Bow Incident (1943)
Red River (1948)
Shane (1953)
Rio Grande (1950)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
3.10 To Yuma (1957)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Red Badge Of Courage (1951)
the dates of these classics betray your age.....at least they do mine........ah those were the days
@@danmalic6688 I'm not quite as old as that, Dan but I have always loved the classic films.
First mention of yellow sky iv seen on any western list a forgotten gem bravo sir👏
@@slaneydog9182 It's a great film.
I'm at least a bit younger than you, but that seems to be a great list!
Django unchained is a fine film,though not one of the best westerns. Not even tarantinos best western. Hateful 8 was far better.
I love westerns as my Father did, so I was brought up properly. The Searchers simply is the finest western ever made. I have lost count of how many times I gave watched it, and it moves me in so many ways.
For me Wayne’s finest performance and the role he should have undoutably won an Oscar for.
That it is not in the top Ten is some sort of sick joke. Django Unchained……please.
Lee Van Cleef is in four of them
'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' was one of those few movies that completetly lived up to the hype imo. It was great my first time watching it; over 50 years since its release, it's held up amazingly well.
My three favourite westerns are entertaining before anything else. 1. Tombstone, 2. Silverado, 3. The magnificent seven (2016). Then you have movies like Wind River, Thunderheart, The quick and the dead, Young guns, Josey Wales et cetera.
Thank you for mentioning Silverado.
My top 5 westerns are 1. Once upon a time in the west. 2. The Long riders . 3 A big hand for the little lady . 4. The Outlaw Josey Wales. 5. From Noon till Three
Hard to fault the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as the selection for #1. Everything about that movie is superb and has stood the test of time. In my opinion, anyway.
No country for old men technically is a western. I love that movie