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Westerns....

I have a terrible weakness for westerns, so on the off chance any readers also like them, here is the American Film Institute's newly unveiled top ten:

 WESTERN

1   THE SEARCHERS                                               1956
2   HIGH NOON                                                   1952
3   SHANE                                                       1953
4   UNFORGIVEN                                                  1992
5   RED RIVER                                                   1948
6   THE WILD BUNCH                                              1969
7   BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID                          1969
8   McCABE & MRS. MILLER                                        1971
9   STAGECOACH                                                  1939
10  CAT BALLOU                                                  1965
No spaghetti westerns as films are supposed to be 'English-language film with significant creative and/or production elements from the United States'. And wot, no Sierra Madre or Magnificent Seven?

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Anonymous Anonymous said... 12:16 pm

Sod that, where the fuck is 'A Big Country'? Possibly the best Western, ever (if we are ignoring the spags).

Fantastic multi layer plot, scenery, cast (Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, and, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, a very young and very sexy Jean Simmons, mmmmmmmmm), what's not to like?  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 5:47 pm

What about "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "Fort Apache" (both recently shown on BBC4)? And while we're about it "3:10 to Yuma" (the original, of course, with Glenn Ford) and I think we can count "Bad Day at Black Rock" in the genre.  



Blogger Barnsley Bill said... 2:47 am

Putting aside the travesty that is leaving out the spaghetti's.
Where the frick is true grit on that list. A one eyed fat lame john wayne with reins in his gob rotating a pair of remington lever action rifles as he rides towards the baddies is a movie magic moment at barnsley manor  



Blogger CityUnslicker said... 2:10 pm

leaving about spaghetti's makes the list rather pointless. Still surprised unforgiven makes no. 4 though  



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