Dust off your six-shooters, choose the Top-Gun Western ever!

[cinemalover]

Howdy pardners!

In a follow up to our popular Choose the Best Movie of All-Time competition , it is time to have a shoot-out for your Bestavorite (a mildly disturbing combination of best and or favorite to avoid all those discussions again) Western ever made.

You, as the participant, will have to define the western genre for yourself. Can it include comic westerns you ask? You betcha'! How about silents, B-westerns or "modern" westerns? Yes, yes and yes. And anything else that you feel would fall into this category.

The rules:
Everyone that would like to particpate (and all members, past, present and future are equally invited) must submit a list of their top 15 westerns. You may choose to order them or not, as you see fit. I will say that we learned with the last competition that if you feel strongly about certain films you will want to number them because it could well be the difference for a film making the cut-off or being eliminated. If you choose not to number your films they will all be given a value of 7 when it comes time to add up their worth and determine their seeding. Please don't number them if you don't want them prioritized.

All entries must be submitted by February 1st at 11:59 pm (Pacific). As with last time if you suibmit a list you can alter it right up until the deadline. I will tally all the votes and take the top 32 films and seed them accordingly (just like last time, only with 32 films instead of 64). We will then match them all up (#1 vs. #32, #2 vs. #31, etc...) and do an elimination vote for each round.

In our Best Movie competition our community had two westerns that survived until the final four, which bodes well for interest in the genre here.

Good luck, and start posting your lists right here, whenever you're ready.

[MissGoddess]

Gidde y'up!

1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. The Searchers
3. Rio Grande
4. Man of the West
5. 3 Bad Men
6. Stagecoach
7. High Noon
8. My Darling Clementine
9. Hondo
10. Rio Bravo
11. Shane
12. The Far Country
13. Garden of Evil
14. The Hanging Tree
15. Fort Apache


THAT was tough!! I wanted to include one of my most beloved westerns, Angel and the Bad Man but I leaned more toward westerns that were impressive in some way as well as entertaining. I guess I just don't think this little movie is very "impressive", much as I adore it.

EDITED to include 3 Bad Men (sacrifice: The Hanging Tree)

[cinemalover]

Great list, Miss Goddess.
A nice way to start us off. I suspect that many on your list will make it into the 32 team competition.

[Dewey1960]

Deal me in, pardner...
1. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
2. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
3. JOHNNY GUITAR (1954)
4. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
5. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943)
6. WINCHESTER '73 (1950)
7. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1966)
8. THE NAKED SPUR (1953)
9. RED RIVER (1948)
10. MY NAME IS NOBODY (1974)
11. DEVIL'S DOORWAY (1950)
12. RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (1962)
13. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
14. SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (1956)
15. PURSUED (1947)

[cinemalover]

Dewey,
Another wonderful list. You and I seem to agree on some Spaghetti Westerns. I think Once Upon a Time in the West is superb! Henry Fonda gone bad! It also contains one of my favorite Charles Bronson performances.

[Mr. Arkadin]

1.The Wild Bunch (1969)
2.McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Shane (1953)
The Oxbow Incident (1943)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
For a Few Dollars More (1967)
Unforgiven (1992)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Firecreek (1968)
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Stars in My Crown (1950)

[ken123]

1. Fort Apache
2. The Searchers
3. The Ox - Bow Incident
4. My Darling Clementine
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
6. Red River
7. Wagonmaster
8. The Big Country
9. The Gunfighter
10. Winchester ' 73
11. Rio Grande
12. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
13. Shane
14. Two Rode Together
15. The Far Country

[melwalton]

1 Oklahoma! 1955
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
3 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955
4 Calloway Went Thataway 1951
5 Rhythm on the Range 1936
6 Annie Get Your Gun 1950
7 the Paleface 1948
8 My Little Chickadee 1940
9 Lust For Gold 1949
10 Ruggles of Red Gap 1936
11 Viva Villa 1934
12 Come and Get It 1936
13 Buck Benny Rides Again 1940
14 Girl of the Golden West 1938
15 Girl Crazy 1932

I think I spent more time trying to ascertain whether any of these was a western than whether it belonged on the list. .... mel

[raftfan]

1). The Ox-Bow Incident

2). The Shootist

3). Fort Apache

4). Stagecoach (1939)

5). Three Godfathers (1936)

6). Red River

7). The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

. Shenandoah

9). The Cowboys

10). My Darling Clementine

11). Jesse James

12). 3:10 to Yuma (Ford and Heflin)

13). Dodge City

14). The Violent Men

15). Santa Fe trail

[Bogie]

Hmm let's see here

High Noon
Firecreek
Shane
The Shootist
The Man who shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach (the original version)
Way Out West
The Searchers
Lonely Are the Brave
3 Godfathers (the original)
Gunman's Walk
Winchester '73
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Violent Men
Tombstone

[mrsl]

This is harder when you have to stay in one category. I'm with Miss Goddess when it comes to which ones to list. A big part of my love of westerns is my equal love of history, so I get a lot of my history out of the good westerns. Well, no matter what or how, here is my list for now:


1. The man who shot Liberty Valence
2. The Searchers
3. Two Rode Together
4. Westward the Women
5. Fort Apache
6. The Way West
7. Northwest Passage
8. Across the Wide Missouri
9. The Alamo (1960)
10. Cheyenne Autumn
11. Warlock
12. Magnificent Seven
13. Ox-Bow Incident
14. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
15. Stagecoach

Chances are likely I'll be back before this time frame closes. Sorry about the size of the letters, I was practicing.

Anne

[ChiO]

Here's a few of the unusual suspects:

1. Stars In My Crown
2. Forty Guns
3. The Naked Spur
4. Great Day In the Morning
5. Silver Lode
6. Johnny Guitar
7. Pursued
8. Canyon Passage
9. 7 Men From Now
10. Broken Arrow
11. Dead Man
12. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
13. Bad Day at Black Rock
14. Once Upon a Time in the West
15. McCabe and Mrs Miller

[Mr. Arkadin]

Rats ChiO, I forgot "Stars". I'll have to make a change here and find a place.

[Ann Harding]

I am not a great fan of 'top-lists', but I find this one rather fun, being a fan of westerns.

Without any particular order:

• Devil's Doorway (1950)
  Pursued (1947)
  Colorado Territory (1949)
  Stars in My Crown (1950)
  Lonely Are the Braves (1962)
  Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
  Johnny Guitar (1954)
  The Last Hunt (1956)
  Red River (1948)
  The Searchers (1956)
  They Died With Their Boots On (1940)
  Duel in the Sun (1945)
  Rio Bravo (1958)
  Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
  The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

[Moraldo Rubini]

Wow, everyone was rarin' to go! I thought I'd be amongst the first to post, but y'all got here before me.

Westerns are my weakest genre. My list will probably seem lame to the afficianados. I'm betting I'm the only one who'll add The Harvey Girls to the list. I'm sure there are many that I could have listed (High Noon, My Daughter Clementine, etc.), but it's been decades since I've seen them so it's difficult for me to judge.

1 C'era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West)
2 Red River
3 Stagecoach
4 The Searchers
5 Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter)
6 Girl Crazy (1943)
7 Shane
8 The Harvey Girls
9 Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai)
10 Brokeback Mountain
11 Destry Rides Again
12 Giant
13 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
14 A Man Called Horse
15 Silverado