Westerns

[fallensaviour]

My Jonah thread got me thinking,Not sure if I like that or not... :smiley1:
Any way lets have a sound of for how many western fans we have here;
Name your favorite western Actor,Film,TV,comic and western mego/mego like fig.

I'll start.

Actor in a western has got to be Eastwood
Fav film I'm going to say The good,the bad and the ugly
Bonanza is my fav TV show
Comic I'm a die hard Jonah Hex fan I make no bones about that :wink:
My fav American western fig is a tie between Earp and wild bill...I can't choose had them both as a kid and they went everywhere with Kirk and Spock... :smiley1:

[Zemo]

Actor- John Wayne
Movie-The Missouri Breaks
T.V- The Rifleman
Comic-Weird Western Tales
American West fig-Buffalo Bill

[Hector]

I absolutely LOVE Westerns.

Shane, High Noon, Red River, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the Good/Bad/Ugly, Fistful of Dollars, The Wild Bunch, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Butch Cassidy and the Sunshine Kid, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and on...and on...and on.

My favorite Western film actors are John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.

My favorite television Western stuff...Lonesome Dove.

I can't pinpoint my absolute favorite Western...but it's probably Shane.

Out of the newer Western flicks...I love Unforgiven, Tombstone, Dances with Wolves, Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner), Open Range, 3:10 to Yuma (I love the original too), and Appaloosa.

:grin:

[toys2cool]

I love westerns as well , I know you guys probably won't like these but I love Young Guns 1 and 2, i just liked the way Emilio played Billy the kid
Tombstone
and a lot of the Eastwood stuff

[toys2cool]

anyone ever seen this film ?? Purgatory I think it was a made for tv movie but I really liked it :grin: Purgatory (1999) (TV) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158131/)

[johnnystorm]

Actor- Roy Rogers, just a sucker for those old good guy westerns!
Film- Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
TV-The Wild Wild West or Sugarfoot
Comic-Currently Jonah Hex, Classic The Lone Ranger
Figure- Davy Crockett

[fallensaviour]

I love westerns as well , I know you guys probably won't like these but I love Young Guns 1 and 2, i just liked the way Emilio played Billy the kid
Tombstone
and a lot of the Eastwood stuff

Are you kidding me Young guns was awesome!!!
Emilio is rock solid as Billi-to.

[blastphemey]

has anyone here ever seen"death rides a horse" i love that.

[Dave Mc]

I love westerns as well , I know you guys probably won't like these but I love Young Guns 1 and 2, i just liked the way Emilio played Billy the kid
Tombstone
and a lot of the Eastwood stuff

I love the Young Guns movies. They did a great job of pulling in all the myths surrounding Billy the Kid into one (well, two) packages. Good stuff.

I'm a big western fan. Lonesome Dove (and I consider this a movie, even thought it was a mini-series just because of the caliber of actors) is probably my all time favorite. Love Tombstone. John Wayne has always been a favorite as well.

The American West figures have become my favorite Mego line. I wish there were more. They are the only figures I've started to collect boxed.

[AJ Collector]

Love westerns, my DVD collection contains some open range masterpieces! Here are some of my favorites in no particular order.

Favorite Actors - John Wayne, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum, Charles Bronson & Henry Fonda

Films – The Magnificent Seven, El Dorado, Winchester 73, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, High Noon, The Cowboys, The Good, Bad & Ugly, Chisum & The Sons of Katie Elder.

Newer Films – Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Young Guns, 3:10 to Yuma

T.V. – The Riflemen (Chuck was awesome in that), Wild, Wild West, Bonanza.

Even though John Wayne was your most rugged and commanding Cowboy, there was a silent strength that came through when James Stewart was on screen so I would say they were my all time favorites!

[MysteryWho]

I love the westerns too.
For actors, I'd say Eastwood, Van Cleef, McQueen, Bronson, Wayne, (oh heck, I like 'em all) And what where we would be without Walter Brennan!

[Mikey]

Westerns are GREAT

My favs ....

TV
Bonanza
Gun Smoke
Rifleman

Movies
El Dorado
Gunfight At OK Coral (1957)
any movie with Roy Rogers

[toys2cool]

which is the show that use to start with like a cartoon as the intro, I think someone use get knocked out or something? I know it's something popular and I use to watch it with my mom very late at night when i was like 3

[jwyblejr]

I catch various stuff on Encore Western from time to time. I watch Maverick almost every day so there you go for TV series. Movie I'd go with the one with Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda. Can't remember the name off hand.

[starsky]

robert conrad - wild wild west
lee majors as heath from big valley

[hobub]

I can't get enough of this stuff! It's my favorite search on netflix and I constantly have my TV tuned to Encore Westerns! John Wayne is my favorite (although I'm always discovering more western stars that are just as talented but not as popular) and I've hardly recognized Ken Curtis in "The Alamo, The Horse Soldiers and of course, The Searchers" (which is my favorite Western). I've just recently discovered shows like Maverick and Cheyenne Bodie, and grew up on Daniel Boone (fav). And any Western Fan should check out Johnny Cash's music. That's pretty much most of what he wrote. He was a huge Gene Autry fan and carried that with him through is career. example (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM9wJYV25nQ)

Here are nice couple links for your entertainment.

Just in case you didn't know what happened to them or wanted to meet some old western stars. Those old westerns (http://oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm).

Ken Curtis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWR6FLnPack) (was like James Doohan as far as the man with many accents. And I always thought he was just Festus).

[Riffster]

loved the Audie Murphy westerns

[AJ Collector]

which is the show that use to start with like a cartoon as the intro, I think someone use get knocked out or something? I know it's something popular and I use to watch it with my mom very late at night when i was like 3

That was The Wild, Wild West! :smile:

[johnnystorm]

which is the show that use to start with like a cartoon as the intro, I think someone use get knocked out or something? I know it's something popular and I use to watch it with my mom very late at night when i was like 3

YouTube - The Wild Wild West TV intro (1965) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCgq8q9Ofw)

[garagesale]

Actor- Sam Elliott (he's the Old West come to life)
Movie-The Tall T (hard to find but a great newer Randolph Scott with Richard Boone as the worst villian ever)... also love John Ford/Wayne The Searchers
T.V- Bonanza/Daniel Boone (kinda western)
Comic-anything with Vigilante (not quite Old, but definitely Western)
American West fig-More of a Marx figs fan, followed by LR, with Mego as a far 3rd, but I do like the Davy Crockett figure

JamesD

[garagesale]

And any Western Fan should check out Johnny Cash's music.

Or Marty Robbins:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=19073056

[Gorn Captain]

Magnificent Seven.
A great movie, perfect in every way, with a dream cast.
Add to that the legendary soundtrack.

Ok, so it's based on a japanese classic, but I still think it's the greatest western ever made.

[Goblin19]

Westerns are probably my favorite genre.
Favorite actors: Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart in the Anthony Mann westerns
Favorite movies:
1. High Noon
2. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
3. Shane
4. Ride the High Country
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[Mikey]

Most INSANE Western ... The Phantom Empire with Gene Autry

Trailer
YouTube - The Phantom Empire (trailer) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ioDuO4w-jI)

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[kingdom warrior]

Favs: High noon,The Magnificent Seven,The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tombstone
TV: The Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, Bonanza

[wolfie]

Fave actors : Clint Eastwood and John Wayne.

Fave westerns :

Once Upon a Time in the West.
Dollar Trilogy
Magnificent Seven
True Grit
The Shootist
Chisum

Am i the only person who thinks The Searchers is awful.?

[Mikey]

Am i the only person who thinks The Searchers is awful.?

Being a big Western fan, i'm ashamed to admit I never seen it.

[hobub]

Am i the only person who thinks The Searchers is awful.?

I hope so.

As a life long western fan, I think it's awesome. It shows just how much hatred, some of the settlers had for indians. I equally think Broken Arrow is awesome for the reason that it shows another other point of view. (That of the Native American Indians).

[AJ Collector]

I hope so.

As a life long western fan, I think it's awesome. It shows just how much hatred, some of the settlers had for indians. I equally think Broken Arrow is awesome for the reason that it shows another other point of view. (That of the Native American Indians).

Not John Wayne's best, but I agree with the above quote!

[Goblin19]

You know, I forgot The Searchers. That should be 5th on my list:
5. The Searchers
6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7. Red River
8.Once Upon A Time In the West
9.Winchester 73
10.The Shootist

[Mikey]

One of my earliest movie theatre memories was seeing The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean on the big screen.

[Earth 2 Chris]

anyone ever seen this film ?? Purgatory I think it was a made for tv movie but I really liked it Purgatory (1999) (TV)

Great movie! Great cast. That's from when TNT was doing a good western a year.

My dad reared me on westerns. Favorites would be Unforgiven, Outlaw Josey Wales, Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Tombstone, Open Range, The Shootist, Shane, Lonesome Dove (which definitely transcended TV)...the list could go on, but those come to mind first. Not QUITE a western, but I do like Dances with Wolves. Great movie, despite some of Costner's later misfires.

Favorite western TV show? Well besides the Lone Ranger, I always liked Gunsmoke. Liked Bonanza okay, and although I only saw a few episodes, I always liked James Garner, so Maverick would have probably been up there, had it been syndicated more near me as a kid.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

Well, I don't like any movies, but I like The Big Valley, Kung Fu, Daniel Boone, and the Filmation Lone Ranger cartoon. I loved Lee Majors as Heath Barkley, and David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine. (RIP)

BTW...are anyone's kids into Westerns? Most kids aren't these days. Though my class does like the Filmation Lone Ranger series.

[AJ Collector]

BTW...are anyone's kids into Westerns? Most kids aren't these days. Though my class does like the Filmation Lone Ranger series.[/QUOTE]

My youngest (12) has no interest in Westerns but my oldest daughter now 18will still wake up early with me on a Sunday to either watch a good western on AMC or pop in a dvd.

I think I'm pretty lucky, I don't know to many youg girls who do that?.....:grin:

[Captain]

Love Westerns! Any and all....I cant list any fovourite one, as I have many.
As for stars, John Wayne and Roy Rogers.

I wish the entire genre would make a huge comeback..its overdue really.

[EMCE Hammer]

Actor: Eastwood, Wayne
Movie: Sons of Katie Elder, anything with Clint
TV: Brisco County Junior, Wild Wild West, Lazarus Man(I know, borderline)

[toys2cool]

YouTube - The Wild Wild West TV intro (1965) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCgq8q9Ofw)

yup that was it, thanx guys ...man it's been about 24 years since i've seen that :grin:

[Mikey]

Best western TV show episode EVER :grin:

YouTube - SO HOSS, YOU STILL BELIEVE IN LEPRECHAUNS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWIwepJBMxE)

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[hobub]

Best western TV show episode EVER :grin:

YouTube - SO HOSS, YOU STILL BELIEVE IN LEPRECHAUNS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWIwepJBMxE)

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I really hated that episode. I liked Bonanza until I saw that one. :googly:

Reminds me of when George Reeves met the little green martians. I liked that but THAT was Superman. Westerns aren't supposed to be quite so far fetched. Oh well.

[hobub]

One of my earliest movie theatre memories was seeing The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean on the big screen.

I'm with you on that. Even the big hole in Bad Bob's Belly couldn't ruin that. It was and Is classic. Loved the BAR / I mean Bear!

[wilbs518]

Actor- John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Henry Fonda
Film- Once Upon a Time in the West and The Wild Bunch
Tv- Have Gun Will Travel and Gunsmoke
Comic- Batlash and Two Gun Kid
Mego- Buffalo Bill

[wolfie]

Well, I don't like any movies,

.



Seriously??????????????

I never heard anyone say that before.

[Mikey]

One western TV show I did not like was How the West Was Won with James Arness.

Arness is fantastic, but I just didn't like that show.


Also, I forgot to mention I also like Wild Bill Hickok with Jingles.

That was a great show

[HardyGirl]

Seriously??????????????

I never heard anyone say that before.

I meant WESTERN movies! :rolleyes:

[fallensaviour]

I really liked the theme song for branded,that was cool.

[Captain]

All but one man died.....there at Bitter Creek....They say he ran away........BRANDED, marked with a cowards shame..... What do you do when your branded, but you know your a man?

Or something to that affect?:grin:

[johnnystorm]

YouTube - Branded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmJPnAGUJk)

One thing no one could argue about TV westerns: they have some of the most memorable theme songs of all time! I couldn't tell you what happened in any particular episode of Branded, but i've remembered that song for 40+ years!

Here's some more:

YouTube - Bonanza Theme Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdRgBAY278)

YouTube - Bonanza Theme Song By Lorne Greene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA-PdP4k4Xw) (with the words as sung by Ben Cartwright)

YouTube - Daniel Boone theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sPvWrL6KY)

YouTube - Rawhide - TV - opening - ending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2fONPgIJE)

YouTube - F Troop Season 1 Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVwFADi4Y38)

[Mikey]

YouTube - Blue Shadows (On The Trail) IN STEREO - Three Amigos! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HdlYVKBUVE)

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[Hector]

Oh man...The Three Amigos is the GREATEST comedy Western of all times...I like it better than Blazing Saddles...heck yeah...lol...

:smiley1: :juggleyes_y: :yes:

[Bionic Joe]

Actor-Clint Eastwood
movie- High Plains Drifter
tv series-tie between GUNSMOKE and Have Gun Will Travel
comic book-Jonah Hex 70s series and the current series
action fugure-10 inch Gabriel LONE RANGER

[Mikey]

Oh man...The Three Amigos is the GREATEST comedy Western of all times...I like it better than Blazing Saddles...heck yeah...lol...

:smiley1: :juggleyes_y: :yes:

I agree with you Hec,

I like Blazing Saddles -- But I LOVE Three Amigos

Hey, look at the little sissies :smiley1:

[Mikey]

YouTube - my liitle butter cup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mw9F5zawRQ)

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[fallensaviour]

Oh man...The Three Amigos is the GREATEST comedy Western of all times...I like it better than Blazing Saddles...heck yeah...lol...

:smiley1: :juggleyes_y: :yes:



Favorite comedy ever.
"What type of plane is that?"
It's a male plane....LOL
I laugh every time... :smiley1:

[RussG]

Actor- John Wayne and Eastwood
Movie- Big Jake, Red River, Shane, so many more
T.V- Lone Ranger, Bonanza, Big Valley

[Nostalgiabuff]

love Westerns.....Clint Eastwood is the man
one of my all time favorite movies is the Outlaw Josey Whales.....
loved Lonesome Dove and Bonanza on TV
never really got into western comics but Jonah Hex looks cool

[johnnystorm]

What about City Slickers?

YouTube - City Slickers- Tumbling Tumbleweeds Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAA5e6oH2Zs)

[goldenryan]

i'm a big fan of the sergio leone spaghetti westerns. i brought shane on vhs for my dad at a garage sale last year, next time i'm over there i might need to watch it.