The best westerns ever I saw
In this list I confirm the westerns that in my opinion are superior for his screenplay and production
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- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsAlan LaddJean ArthurVan HeflinAn ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.the archetypal romantic hero Shane is represented by a gunman
I tired very fast killing tries to change his life as a farmer pawn pressured by those who own the land are created. Shane is a family like never took farmers, learns to love ... and return to your old weapons but now to defend those he loves .... typical romantic hero who still believes in a form of love - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a newer outlaw known simply as The Schofield Kid.Clint Eastwood cleverly plays with the legend of his own filmography in the western ... that force embodies a name William Munny ... the most ruthless murderer ... all now old and partirdel labor of love that his wife Claudia and dead he succeeded in abandoning the cruelty and aimless life . Another archetype of the romantic hero ... who reuses the old weapons for the sake of their children and the memory of his friend viciously murdered
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckJean SimmonsCarroll BakerA New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.Smart and refined western whose theme is out of the common western .... because a man must prove that he is man , why and to whom? Jim McKay does not need to prove anything to himself , but the ship captain from the east and is in another country ... the broad western prairie with other , more brutal and primitive social customs which however fail to twist your way think even he transforms into his vision to others
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsKirk DouglasAnthony QuinnCarolyn JonesA marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.Exciting western defense on each family of two old friends, a marshall of a village where almost nothing happens and the arrogant owner of a large cattle ranch and thus head of puebloque used to be imposed ; now the Marshall Morgan (Kirk Douglas) will only fully meet these people justice for the murder of his wife no less than by the spoiled son of his old friend (Anthony Quinn) John Sturges is an intimate and passionate filmmaker westerns
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsBurt LancasterAudrey HepburnAudie MurphyThe neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.Great western Huston, intimate even more desolate landscape scale by John Ford , where a small family of Zachary kept a terrible secret that puts the Kiowa tribe and their white neighbors ... all
against , but united by the love they have that love implies loyalty fight for survival - DirectorNicholas RayStarsJoan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridgeAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.A western superpersonal the great Ray ... at times you do not know what environment is ... like roulette scenes Saloon ... ; roles convencionales..para no time will have been strange and desetabilizante to the public. ..Guitar (Hayden ) to a sensitive and delicate man at times ... Vienna (Crawford ) a tough and self-sufficient woman owner of Casino scarcely populated area ; hatred , jealousy and revenge with an erotic background and fears of a character that does not fit the role of a woman, Vienna ... passionately hated by many and loved by Johnny Guitar artist ... ..a gunman almost in my opinion a ' troubadour " ... all this makes this great film very attractive so mysterious ; The above and excelebntes movies that are on the list ... are the Western format ... even The Big Country ... but in this remarkable , personal pelicula..Ray dares to be alone ... Orson Welles style
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsCharlton HestonRichard HarrisJim HuttonIn 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.One of the first films known by the general public of Sam Peckinpah and already the whole idea and personality of this great artist ...
a chaotic history where most of the characters are complex
and to pass bastards heroes and with a good dose of madness ... but despite this chaos achieve a goal join común.La film is redigitalizada and parts that were removed added: more cavalry ... herido..borracho and dancing in his underwear with the Mexican girl who works in the canteen where while the wound is healing; It is a military genius ... but is unable to adapt to peace and hold your hand to a woman he has fallen in love. It is remarkable the performance of Charlton Heston because this complex character is not even Moses Cid and yet has its heróico.Ahora side could be Peckinpah..también film thanks to Charlton Heston at the time did not collect his salary to help finance it, as the Director did not understand the label ..is a miracle and an achievement for the film to have this remarkable dramatic work and not excenta humor.Brilliant - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.Diligence transported over a territory that is made
Abstract a group of characters who are human archetypes :
the criminal, the prostitute , the knight , the lady, the drunken Dr. ... for example ... and including a clash of ways of life that finally necessarily lead to a common alliance against the common enemy ... brilliant . ..excelentes dialogues ... brainchild of John Ford - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van CleefA bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.Ironic , dirty , magnificent baroque dream even ...
It is abstract in the breadth of his idea ... is exited format
western I think at times ... captures all the absurd and the
voluptuous, dirty and noble that is human, sarcastically
bright ... great - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.The border war in a ruthless story, desolate ,
seemingly hopeless ... with minimum and typical fee
and usually necessary to Ford comedy of manners ,
masterpiece of its kind , perfect work. - DirectorJohn WayneStarsJohn WayneRichard WidmarkLaurence HarveyIn 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.From the western format, a story that reaches the dimension
epic of Homer. The absolute hero or heroes who have already decided to go to the end without celebration in silencio..en an internal oath, with irrevocable decision. Effective and emotional , supported by
the beautiful and sentimental music Tiomkin .... very good . - DirectorCharles Marquis WarrenStarsCharlton HestonJack PalanceKaty JuradoChief of Scouts Ed Bannon works for the US Army at Fort Clark, Texas and he dreams of aiding in bringing peace to the region, despite opposition from both the Army and the Apaches.A lone hero hated and despised by the Apaches whites antihero profile appears but is actually the essence of the bravest of the romantic heroes of western .... who dares to stand alone against all . Typical perfect role for Charlton Heston, whose specialty as is clear in The Ten Commandments , is to be the archetype of the hero alone against the impossible , against unfathomable ... against which exceeds the human.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsCharlton HestonSusan MorrowPeter HansenA white boy raised by the Sioux must choose sides when the Sioux threaten to go to war against the Whites.Another western with a dimension that exceeds the epic western ... ..
with a deeply human conflict ... the identity .
... white or Indian blood or sentiment ....; excellent script ,
at times deeply poetic . very good idea ... very good script . - DirectorAndrew DominikStarsBrad PittCasey AffleckSam ShepardRobert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.This personal and remarkable western, intimate and fatalistic focuses on the eternal conflict of personal power, admiration and envy itself and beyond the idea of good and evil marginal, a murderer and contrary to society with a remarkable personal profile with a philosophical charisma about life develops a very personal relationship with whom it chooses as his executor.
Highly recommended, it leaves the traditional format of western and reaches a very interesting place that exceeds genre
Archetypal scenes of shootings in the genre are notables..con all imperfection and adrenaline of the real situation
Highly recommended to see a the wide western borders of the genre - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsLeonardo DiCaprioTom HardyWill PoulterA frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.This film brings to the genre the remarkable combination of a brutal realism and intimate poetry that overcomes racial hatred and restates the sense of personal belonging and life.
Survival, revenge and violence, classics of the genre subjects, are reframed from its very root and meaning.
Highly recommended. - DirectorGordon DouglasStarsRod TaylorErnest BorgnineJohn MillsWhile Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort, a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers, try to come to terms with their pasts.A fatalistic and western with a strange romantic atmosphere that gives a special dimension.
The site of a fort by the imminent Indian attack, an impossible love between the scout and the lady, and the charged atmosphere of fatalism
joined the nobility to the end of the protagonist, it gives this great and very personal film Gordon Douglas one mrcado romantic character. beautiful western - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGregory PeckAnne BaxterRichard WidmarkA pistol-packing tomboy and her grandfather discover a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in the neighboring ghost town.The classics of the genre such topics as gangs of robbers with his inevitable murderer, revenge and booty are intensely framed and low production in the desert, desolation and uncertainty leading to a band to an abandoned village where everyone find his destination.
Great climate typical of the genre as rarely saw in this little known film
Very good western drama with moments of very accomplished. - DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGiuliano GemmaIda GalliPierre CressoyA Confederate officer returns home in the wake of the Civil War, where he gets embroiled in local feuds involving an unscrupulous strongman and his hired henchmen.Sentimentality and revenge with the most noble motivation, spaghetti western argue that this is an indisputable leader of the genre.
Music is a key element, permanentemene emphasizes the idea of the movie, reminds us and we will bringing the outcome.
Spaghetti western unforgettable. - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodMichael MoriartyCarrie SnodgressA mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.The murderer in search of a place to bury its violent past is an archetype of the genre, like Shane George Stevens for example. This theme is also colored by the almost tabu desire that generates two women in the mysterious protagonist, so make this a very unique western and remarkable.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRock HudsonKirk DouglasDorothy MaloneAt a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.Extraordinary western where almost all his classic themes are presentes..el sheriff, the murderer, revenge, desert, courage and cowardice and ... two remarkable elements that give great dimension and make it a modern western that is the psychological pathology of the protagonist, played by Kirk Douglas genially.
Notable movie, great intimate western - DirectorEarl E. SmithStarsJoe Don BakerSondra LockeTed NeeleyTwo former Confederate captains set out to recover diamonds hidden in the mountains of Arkansas but a native spirit named Chikara is said to protect the sacred mountains against intruders.A little-known western and a particular achievement: the excellent combination of terror and some of the western archetypes, like the end of the Civil War that takes the characters to a destination
as the case of Sommersby Jon Amiel; in this case Confederate soldiers looking for a treasure in a terrible place where lurked superhuman forces.
Very good climate of terror, recommended an excellent actor, Joe Don Baker. - DirectorDon SiegelStarsClint EastwoodGeraldine PageElizabeth HartmanWhile recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.A disturbing story of erotic high tension and with a marked charge of perversion, around a corporal of the Union army wounded during the Civil War while being "retained under care" by a group of Southern ladies who compete for the sensual attention of the only man in the place; like Johny Guitar a western that gets out of the orma and strange in the genre; Personally, it marked my childhood. It's worth seeing.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsNicole KidmanKirsten DunstElle FanningThe unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.Remake of the previous one (1971) with the oppressive, humid and truculent southern climate excellently achieved by Sofia Coppola; excellent director, it's worth seeing her too
- DirectorAng LeeStarsTobey MaguireSkeet UlrichJewelDuring the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.306/5000
Excellent movie about the patrols for military of the North American civil war; Ang Lee delves into the way of feeling of those Southerners through details and reaction emotionally strong; Jonathan Rhys Meyer great in one of his first large-scale appearances. Unmissable gentlemen. - DirectorJohn SturgesDuilio ColettiStarsCharles BronsonJill IrelandMarcel BozzuffiA runaway teenager and a mixed-race horse breeder strike an unlikely friendship in the context of common hardships.John Surges once again; an intimate western about the loneliness of a renegade, without a place in the small society of an isolated people, without hope and discriminated against as a mestizo, but respected as a great tamer of wild horses. A renegade fighting to the end even knowing that he loses the battle ... what else can you ask for from an antihero, sir ... it's worth seeing.