27 Dec 16
I second "High Noon," which John Wayne panned because he said the hero character wasn't manly enough. Pfui! I'll take a Cooper film over Wayne any day. Wayne played chess though: I guess that redeems him.
"Once Upon A Time In The West," one of the few westerns with a real role for a woman ("Johnny Guitar" is another) and Henry Fonda atypically cast as a bad guy.
"Broken Trail," w/ Robt. Duvall.
"My Darling Clementine," John Ford dir., w/Henry Fonda, Victure Mature, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt. Little known, unjustly under-rated, top cast, good story.
"Treasure of the Sierra Madre," is hard to classify, but if it qualifies as a western, then that's my top favorite.
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Originally posted by moonbusI published few essays on western, Orson Welles, and a "special" dedicated to Home Alone 1 and 2, beginning with review of East German remake of Home Alone, so as to show differences between East European mentality and Western, Protestant mind. At the end of "special" I wrote that non such remake was made. But I expressed my point by that.
I second "High Noon," which John Wayne panned because he said the hero character wasn't manly enough. Pfui! I'll take a Cooper film over Wayne any day. Wayne played chess though: I guess that redeems him.
"Once Upon A Time In The West," one of the few westerns with a real role for a woman ("Johnny Guitar" is another) and Henry Fonda atypically cast as a b ...[text shortened]... erra Madre," is hard to classify, but if it qualifies as a western, then that's my top favorite.
I reply here regarding High Noon and that some disliked the film, also Wayne. Other claimed it was "communist" and "leftist" film which is idiotic statement. In essay on westerns I quoted some expert on strategic that Cooper character did well to hide in the city and wait for the gang, because he will be sitting duck in the open area. And that he was not coward, he only asked fellow citizens to do what real Americans do!
Speaking of High Noon and sheriffs gerilla account, I remember "The Gaunlet" with Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. The couple was chased by chopper in the city, and they left the city, they rode the bike out to the desert to become open target to chopper - so stupid! The writer(s) probably'd read reviews of "High Noon"...
So, yeah, "High Noon" is good western, although one has to wait long to star dead count.
27 Dec 16
Originally posted by vandervelde"High Noon" is great not only for Cooper's performance (Coop had more acting talent in his little finger than Wayne had in his whole career), but also for the supporting characters: the old and retired sheriff, played by Lon Chaney Jr., who would help but has arthritic hands and can't shoot; the whole cast of locals who are too cowardly to support their sheriff in his time of need; and the Grace Kelly character, a pacifist by religious conviction, who discovers in the crucial scene that her love for Coop is stronger than her religious conviction--now there's a powerful dilemma, and an often over-looked aspect to the story.
I reply here regarding High Noon and that some disliked the film, also Wayne. Other claimed it was "communist" and "leftist" film which is idiotic statement. In essay on westerns I quoted some expert on strategic that Cooper character did well to hide in the city and wait for the gang, because he will be sitting duck in the open area. And that he was no ...[text shortened]...
So, yeah, "High Noon" is good western, although one has to wait to long to star dead count.
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Originally posted by vanderveldeI love Westerns.
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Sam Peckinpah directed the best three::::
[b]The Ballade of Cable Hogue
The Wild Bunch
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Pat Garett And Billy The Kid
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Not many more so good.[/b]
Unfogiven is a fav.
28 Dec 16
Originally posted by SuzianneYep.
Another good one is Winchester '73 (1950) with Jimmy Stewart.
And how about Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) with Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine?
In fact it's more difficult to think of abad Western!!!
Strange how that short period of US history can capture the imagination of the world!