There are a lot of Westerns I haven’t seen. How The West Was Won. The Searchers. Shane. Red River Valley. I could go on, but that’s a different list. Inspired by IGN’s Top 25 list, which they compiled in anticipation of the release of Red Dead Redemption (I am campaigning for a PS3), here are the Top 20 Westerns I have seen, in something resembling numeric order order.
20. Bells of San Fernando
19. The Quick and the Dead
18. The Long Riders
17. Run Man Run (Corri uomo corri)
16. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
15. The Wild Bunch
14. The Claim
13. The Ballad of Little Joe
12. The Outlaw Josey Wales
11. Straight To Hell
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
9. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
8. El Dorado
7. Once Upon A Time In The West
6. Open Range
5. Lonesome Dove
4. The Magnificent Seven
3. Stage Coach
2. Rio Bravo
1. Silverado
I originally intended to include some commentary with each title, but I think for now I’ll let the list stand on its own. Any thoughts on my list? Fierce disagreements? Lists of your own?
May 21, 2010 at 2:44 pm
LOVE me some Silverado! I can watch that movie over and over and over. Though my two favorite quotes Butch and Sundance I use often: “Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.” and “You just keep thinking, Butch, that’s what you’re good at.”
May 21, 2010 at 2:52 pm
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July 31, 2010 at 6:52 am
I like the more modern spin to your westerns. Although I’m partial to the golden age of the fifties (Shane and the Anthony Mann/James Stewart ones, etc.) and the spaghetti westerns (Once Upon a Time in the West is a fave) it gets a little dull to keep reading the same old same old on these lists.
Ballad of Little Jo–an excellent one! Blew me away.
Dead Man is my favorite “acid western.” Have you seen that?