What Was The Last Western You Watched?

[chester7777]

High Todd

You guess right I hate both Young guns one and two and indeed most modern westerns with the exception of 'Unforgiven' and possibly 'Open Range' (despite its many flaws).

Robbie,

What do you think of the modern western Monte Walsh, with Tom Selleck? We really enjoyed that movie quite a bit.

Chester

[The Ringo Kid]

"Westworld"

A great early '70's sci-fi western. Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as tourists at a futuristic amusement park where you get to play cowboys and fight robot outlaws. Everything is great until the robots start acting out there roles for real.
Yul Brynner (in Magnicent Seven costume) costars as a android gunslinger

Saw this one recently as well on TMC? Also, if interested, it is out on DvD. Yul Brynner is one of my top ten favorite actors. Damn shame that cancer killed him at such a young age. I can only just imagine what great movies he would have made had cancer not killed him.

I wonder whatever happened to Richard Benjamin? He seems to not have acted in quite a few years?

[DakotaSurfer]

I just bought a 6-DVD set of Branded which includes all 48 episodes in two seasons. Plus I've working on getting all The Rifleman 168 episodes.

[Phantomstranger]

"El Dorado"

Highly entertaining re-telling of "Rio Bravo", Great story, great actors in a wonderful film. Not quite as good as "Rio Bravo" but still one of Wayne's best movies.

And to "The Ringo Kid" I was watching "Westworld" on a DVD. I didn't know it had played on TCM recently, and I agree Brynner was a damn fine actor.

[SXViper]

Watched Chisum, I have been on the Billy the Kid kick here lately.

[The Ringo Kid]

"El Dorado"

Highly entertaining re-telling of "Rio Bravo", Great story, great actors in a wonderful film. Not quite as good as "Rio Bravo" but still one of Wayne's best movies.

And to "The Ringo Kid" I was watching "Westworld" on a DVD. I didn't know it had played on TCM recently, and I agree Brynner was a damn fine actor.

Hi Phantom, glad you have it on DvD, it's going to be one of my next purchases. Also, here is the name of a great film that I think you will like Yul Brynner was in and who played the part of a Russian Army Major Surov. The movie is called: The Journey, and was made in 1959. I remember the story seemed to be about a group of foreign tourists somehow were "detained" for some reason by the Russian officers men. Anyway, I know the movie has not been release but, if you ever get a chance to watch it, it is an excellent Yul Brynner film.

[The Ringo Kid]

Today I watched the Duke in: The Fighting Kentuckian, on AMC and then saw him in: The Dark Command on TCM. :-D

[SXViper]

Bandidas with Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. It takes place in Mexico in the late 1800's. Not a great movie but watchable.

[etsija]

Charlie Chaplin, Gold rush, twice, the spoken 1940's version and the (better) original silent from 1925. I loved it when I was 5 and love just as much today.

Sam Peckinpah, The Wild bunch, good story and well told, without excessive lingering on violence. There are two key scenes, I don't like though - which probably means I don't get the whole movie, not in the way Peckinpah meant anyway. First is the bunch leaving Angel's home village, they are so popular all of a sudden, even though they haven't done or promised anything particularly good to the villagers. Not very likely behaviour. And second is the bunch deliberately walking to their death in the end. Doesn't make any sense to me. I know it's supposed to be of the end of an era with no place anymore for the men like these outlaws, but still it doesn't make sense

[Robbie]

Chester

I have yet to see that particular movie but I did however enjoy Tom Selleck's 1990 western 'Quigley down under', it probably wouldn't be in my top 50 or even top 100 list of best westerns ever made but I still really enjoyed it, I will however lookout for that movie you mentioned in the future.

Etsija

I didn't get 'The Wild Bunch' full stop, while I realise the violence was innovative for its time and the movie did have a host of great actors, I simply found the entire movie drawn out, tiresome and over the top. I much preferred Peckinpah's earlier and in my opinion superior western namely 'Ride the high country'.

[chester7777]

Just watched another Cheyenne TV series DVD with three episodes from around 1955, very entertaining.

Chester

[Jay J. Foraker]

[quote=Robbie;3711
I didn't get 'The Wild Bunch' full stop, while I realise the violence was innovative for its time and the movie did have a host of great actors, I simply found the entire movie drawn out, tiresome and over the top. I much preferred Peckinpah's earlier and in my opinion superior western namely 'Ride the high country'.
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I would have to agree with you, Robbie. "Ride the High Country" was a great movie - from there Peckinpah went downhill. "The Wild Bunch" was innovative, but I have never been able to warm up to it.
Cheers - Jay

[Phantomstranger]

The Big Trail (1930)

Breck Coleman (John Wayne) leads a wagon train of pioneers through Indian attack, storms, deserts, swollen rivers, down cliffs and so on while looking for the murder of a trapper and falling in love with Ruth.

For it's time , this was a true film epic and even now it still holds up pretty well. The only thing I find strange about this movie is seeing this young skinny 20 year old kid walking around and hearing John Wayne's voice coming out of his mouth. I guess we were all young once.

Now lets jump ahead 31 years to my next movie of the day:

The Comancheros (1961)
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros

Very entertaing fun western adventure. Good cast lots of action.

[The Ringo Kid]

Watched The Undefeated this morning on AMC.

[SXViper]

Watched "The Naked Spur" tonight. I just love those Anthony Mann directed and Jimmy Stewart starring in western's. Good stuff. In fact I saw at a local store tonight they had "The Man from Laramie" on sale for $9.99. I will have to stop and pick that one up.