Category Archives: Western

My Favorite Andrew Dominik Films

10 Wednesday Mar 2021

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1.   The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

2.   One More Time with Feeling (2016)
(Documentary)

3.   Mindhunter – Season 2 (2019)
3a. Episode 4 (2019)
3b. Episode 5 (2019)
(Streaming Series)

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1.   Killing Them Softly (2012)

2.   Chopper (2000)

My Favorite William Wyler Films

10 Wednesday Feb 2021

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1.   The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

2.   Dodsworth (1936)

3.   Hell’s Heroes (1929)

4.   Counselor at Law (1933)

5.   Come and Get It (1936)
(co-directed with Howard Hawks)

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1.   The Heiress (1949)

2.   The Letter (1940)

3.   The Collector (1965)

4.   The Little Foxes (1941)

5.   Roman Holiday (1953)

6.   Jezebel (1938)

My Favorite Lucio Fulci Films

26 Thursday Mar 2020

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1.   The Beyond (1981)

2.   Four of the Apocalypse (1975)

3.   Massacre Time (1966)

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1.   Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)

2.   A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971)

3.   One on Top of the Other (1969)
(a.k.a. Perversion Story)

John Charet’s Favorite Westerns

05 Thursday Mar 2020

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  1. The Great Train Robbery (1903) (Dir: Edwin S. Porter)
    (Short Cinema)
  2. Hell’s Hinges (1916) (Dir: Charles Swickard)
  3. Just Pals (1920) (Dir: John Ford)
  4. The Mark of Zorro (1920) (Dir: Fred Niblo)
    (Adventure-Western)
  5. The Paleface (1922) (Dir: Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
    (Comedy Western)
    (Short Cinema)
  6. The Iron Horse (1924) (Dir: John Ford)
  7. Go West (1925) (Dir: Buster Keaton)
    (Comedy Western)
  8. 3 Bad Men (1926) (Dir: John Ford)
  9. The Wind (1928) (Dir: Victor Sjostrom)
  10. Hell’s Heroes (1929) (Dir: William Wyler)
  11. The Big Trail (1930) (Dir: Raoul Walsh)
  12. Stagecoach (1939) (Dir: John Ford)
  13. The Dark Command (1940) (Dir: Raoul Walsh)
  14. The Return of Frank James (1940) (Dir: Fritz Lang)
  15. Western Union (1941) (Dir: Fritz Lang)
  16. Canyon Passage (1946) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  17. My Darling Clementine (1946) (Dir: John Ford)
  18. Pursued (1947) (Dir: Raoul Walsh)
  19. 3 Godfathers (1948) (Dir: John Ford)
  20. Fort Apache (1948) (Dir: John Ford)
  21. Red River (1948) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
  22. Colorado Territory (1949) (Dir: Raoul Walsh)
  23. I Shot Jesse James (1949) (Dir: Samuel Fuller)
  24. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) (Dir: John Ford)
  25. Annie Get Your Gun (1950) (Dir: George Sidney)
    (Musical Western)
  26. The Baron of Arizona (1950) (Dir: Samuel Fuller)
  27. Devil’s Doorway (1950) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  28. The Furies (1950) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  29. The Gunfighter (1950) (Dir: Henry King)
  30. Rio Grande (1950) (Dir: John Ford)
  31. Stars in My Crown (1950) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  32. Wagon Master (1950) (Dir: John Ford)
  33. Winchester ’73 (1950) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  34. Man in the Saddle (1951) (Dir: Andre De Toth)
  35. Bend of the River (1952) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  36. The Big Sky (1952) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
  37. The Lusty Men (1952) (Dir: Nicholas Ray)
  38. Rancho Notorious (1952) (Dir: Fritz Lang)
  39. Ransom of Red Chief (1952) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
    (Segment of: O’ Henry’s Full House)
    (Anthology Film)
  40. Son of Paleface (1952) (Dir: Frank Tashlin)
    (Comedy Western)
  41. The Naked Spur (1953) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  42. The Far Country (1954) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  43. Johnny Guitar (1954) (Dir: Nicholas Ray)
  44. River of No Return (1954) (Dir: Otto Preminger)
  45. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (Dir: Stanley Donen)
    (Musical Western)
  46. Silver Lode (1954) (Dir: Allan Dwan)
  47. Track of the Cat (1954) (Dir: William A. Wellman)
  48. Vera Cruz (1954) (Dir: Robert Aldrich)
  49. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (Dir: John Sturges)
    (Neo-Western)
  50. The Last Frontier (1955) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  51. The Man from Laramie (1955) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  52. The Naked Dawn (1955) (Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer)
  53. Run for Cover (1955) (Dir: Nicholas Ray)
  54. Stranger on Horseback (1955) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  55. Wichita (1955) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  56. Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre (1956-1961) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  57. Great Day in the Morning (1956) (Dir: Jacques Tourneur)
  58. The Searchers (1956) (Dir: John Ford)
  59. Seven Men from Now (1956) (Dir: Budd Boetticher)
  60. Forty Guns (1957) (Dir: Samuel Fuller)
  61. The Halliday Brand (1957) (Dir: Joseph H. Lewis)
  62. Have Gun – Will Travel (1957-1963) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  63. Maverick (1957-1962) (Dir: Various)
    (Comedy Western)
    (TV Series)
  64. Run of the Arrow (1957) (Dir: Samuel Fuller)
  65. Sugarfoot (1957-1961) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  66. The Tall T (1957) (Dir: Budd Boetticher)
  67. 3:10 to Yuma (1957) (Dir: Delmer Daves)
  68. The Tin Star (1957) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  69. The True Story of Jesse James (1957) (Dir: Nicholas Ray)
  70. Wagon Train (1957) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  71. The Bravados (1958) (Dir: Henry King)
  72. Bronco (1958-1962) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  73. Gunman’s Walk (1958) (Dir: Phil Karlson)
  74. Lawman (1958-1962) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  75. Man of the West (1958) (Dir: Anthony Mann)
  76. The Rifleman (1958-1963) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  77. Terror in a Texas Town (1958) (Dir: Joseph H. Lewis)
  78. Bonanza (1959-1973) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  79. Day of the Outlaw (1959) (Dir: Andre De Toth)
  80. No Name on the Bullet (1959) (Dir: Jack Arnold)
  81. Rawhide (1959-1965) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  82. Ride Lonesome (1959) (Dir: Budd Boetticher)
  83. Rio Bravo (1959) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
  84. Comanche Station (1960) (Dir: Budd Boetticher)
  85. Sergeant Rutledge (1960) (Dir: John Ford)
  86. The Westerner (1960) (Dir: Various)
    (TV Series)
  87. The Deadly Companions (1961) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
  88. One-Eyed Jacks (1961) (Dir: Marlon Brando)
  89. Two Rode Together (1961) (Dir: John Ford)
  90. The Civil War (1861-1865) (1962) (Dir: John Ford)
    (Segment of: How the West Was Won)
    (Anthology Film)
  91. Lonely Are the Brave (1962) (Dir: David Miller)
    (Neo-Western)
  92. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) (Dir: John Ford)
  93. Ride the High Country (1962) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
  94. Cheyenne Autumn (1964) (Dir: John Ford)
  95. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) (Dir: Sergio Leone)
  96. Lemonade Joe (1964) (Dir: Oldrich Lipsky)
    (Satirical Western)
  97. For a Few Dollars More (1965) (Dir: Sergio Leone)
  98. Major Dundee (1965) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
  99. A Pistol for Ringo (1965) (Dir: Duccio Tessari)
  100. The Return of Ringo (1965) (Dir: Duccio Tessari)
  101. The Big Gundown (1966) (Dir: Sergio Sollima)
  102. Django (1966) (Dir: Sergio Corbucci)
  103. El Dorado (1966/67) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
  104. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (Dir: Sergio Leone)
  105. Massacre Time (1966) (Dir: Lucio Fulci)
  106. Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) (Dir: Monte Hellman)
  107. The Shooting (1966) (Dir: Monte Hellman)
  108. A Bullet for the General (1967) (Dir: Damiano Damiani)
  109. Day of Anger (1967) (Dir: Tonino Valerii)
  110. Death Rides a Horse (1967) (Dir: Giulio Petroni)
  111. Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (1967) (Dir: Giulio Questi)
  112. Face to Face (1967) (Dir: Sergio Sollima)
  113. The Hellbenders (1967) (Dir: Sergio Corbucci)
  114. Requiescant (1967) (Dir: Carlo Lizzani)
  115. The Great Silence (1968) (Dir: Sergio Corbucci)
  116. The Mercenary (1968) (Dir: Sergio Corbucci)
  117. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (Dir: Sergio Leone)
  118. Run, Man, Run (1968) (Dir: Sergio Sollima)
  119. The Price of Power (1969) (Dir: Tonino Valerii)
  120. The Specialists (1969) (Dir: Sergio Corbucci)
  121. The Wild Bunch (1969) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
  122. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
  123. Companeroes (1970) (Dir: Sergio Corbucci)
  124. Rio Lobo (1970) (Dir: Howard Hawks)
  125. Duck, You Sucker (1971) (Dir: Sergio Leone)
    (a.k.a. A Fistful of Dynamite)
  126. The Hired Hand (1971) (Dir: Peter Fonda)
  127. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) (Dir: Robert Altman)
  128. Whity (1971) (Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  129. Junior Bonner (1972) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
    (Neo-Western)
  130. Ulzana’s Raid (1972) (Dir: Robert Aldrich)
  131. High Plains Drifter (1973) (Dir: Clint Eastwood)
  132. Pat Garrett and Bill the Kid (1973) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
  133. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) (Dir: Sam Peckinpah)
    (Neo-Western)
  134. Four of the Apocalypse (1975) (Dir: Lucio Fulci)
  135. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976) (Dir: Robert Altman)
  136. Keoma (1976) (Dir: Enzo G. Castellari)
  137. The Missouri Breaks (1976) (Dir: Arthur Penn)
  138. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) (Dir: Clint Eastwood)
  139. The Shootist (1976) (Dir: Don Siegel)
  140. A Man Called Blade (1977) (Dir: Sergio Martino)
  141. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) (Dir: Monte Hellman)
  142. Bronco Billy (1980) (Dir: Clint Eastwood)
    (Neo-Western)
  143. Heaven’s Gate (1980) (Dir: Michael Cimino)
  144. The Long Riders (1980) (Dir: Walter Hill)
  145. Pale Rider (1985) (Dir: Clint Eastwood)
  146. Near Dark (1987) (Dir: Kathryn Bigelow)
    (Horror Neo-Western)
  147. Walker (1987) (Dir: Alex Cox)
  148. Unforgiven (1992) (Dir: Clint Eastwood)
  149. Dead Man (1995) (Dir: Jim Jarmusch)
  150. Vampires (1998) (Dir: John Carpenter)
    (Horror Neo-Western)
  151. Ravenous (1999) (Dir: Antonia Bird)
    (Horror Western)
  152. Deadwood (2004-2006) (Dir: Various)
    (Cable Series)
  153. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) (Dir: Andrew Dominik)
  154. No Country for Old Men (2007) (Dir: Joel and Ethan Coen)
    (Neo-Western)
  155. Meek’s Cutoff (2010) (Dir: Kelly Reichardt)
  156. True Grit (2010) (Dir: Joel and Ethan Coen)
  157. Rango (2011) (Dir: Gore Verbinski)
    (Neo-Western)
    (Animated Film)
  158. Django Unchained (2012) (Dir: Quentin Tarantino)
  159. Bone Tomahawk (2015) (Dir: S. Craig Zahler)
    (Horror Western)
  160. The Hateful Eight (2015) (Dir: Quentin Tarantino)
  161. Westworld (2016-Present) (Dir: Various)
    (Science-Fiction-Western)
    (Cable Series)
  162. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) (Dir: Joel and Ethan Coen)
    (Anthology Film)
  163. Deadwood: The Movie (2019) (Dir: David Minahan)
    (Cable Film)

P.S. the only reason 1969’s Tepepa is not on here is because I have not seen it, but I am hoping it comes to DVD here in the States one day.

My Favorite Raoul Walsh Films

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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1.   White Heat (1949)

2.   The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

3.   The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4.   Regeneration (1915)

5.   Band of Angels (1957)

6.   Sadie Thompson (1928)

7.   Gentleman Jim (1942)

8.   Going Hollywood (1933)
(I watched it on TCM)

9.   High Sierra (1941)

10. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

11. Pursued (1947)

12. Colorado Territory (1949)

13. They Drive by Night (1940)

14. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

15. Me and My Gal (1932)

16. The Big Trail (1930)

17. The Man I Love (1947)

18. Dark Command (1940)

19. Manpower (1941)

20. Big Brown Eyes (1936)

21. Cheyenne (1947)
(I watched it on TCM a few years ago)

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1.   Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

2.   The World in His Arms (1952)

3.   Along the Great Divide (1951)

4.   The Tall Men (1955)

5.   Distant Drums (1951)

6.   Battle Cry (1955)

7.   The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

8.   The Naked and the Dead (1958)

9.   A Distant Trumpet (1964)

10. Saskatchewan (1954)

11. The Lawless Breed (1953)

12. The King and Four Queens (1956)

13. Gun Fury (1953)

14. Blackbeard the Pirate (1953)

15. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)

My Favorite King Vidor Films

26 Sunday Aug 2018

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1.   The Crowd (1928) 

2.   Our Daily Bread (1934)

3.   The Big Parade (1925)

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1.   Show People (1928)

2.   The Patsy (1928)
(no relation to the 1964 Jerry Lewis film)

3.   Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)

4.   La Boheme (1926)

5.   Street Scene (1931)

6.   Not So Dumb (1930)

7.   Our Daily Bread (1934)

8.   Duel in the Sun (1946)

9.   Hallelujah (1929)

10. Billy the Kid (1930)

11. Bird of Paradise (1932)

12. Stella Dallas (1937)

13. The Champ (1931)

14. The Citadel (1938)

15. H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

16. The Wedding Night (1935)

17. The Texas Rangers (1936)

My Favorite Edgar G. Ulmer Films

24 Friday Aug 2018

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1.   Detour (1945)

2.   The Black Cat (1934)
(no relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story)

3.   The Naked Dawn (1955)

4.   Bluebeard (1944)

5.   Ruthless (1948)

6.   Strange Illusion (1945)

7.   Her Sister’s Secret (1946)

8.   The Strange Woman (1946)

9.   Murder Is My Beat (1955)

10. The Man from Planet X (1951)

11. People on Sunday (1930)
(co-directed with Robert Siodmak)

My Favorite Jan Troell Films

23 Thursday Aug 2018

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1.   The New Land (1972)

2.   Everlasting Moments (2008)

3.   Hamsun (1996)

4.   The Emigrants (1971)

5.   Here’s Your Life (1966)

6.   Flight of the Eagle (1982)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

7.   Zandy’s Bride (1974)

My Favorite Jacques Tourneur Films

21 Tuesday Aug 2018

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1.   Stars in My Crown (1950)

2.   Cat People (1942)

3.   Night of the Demon (1957)

4.   I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

5.   The Leopard Man (1943)

6.   Out of the Past (1947)

7.   Wichita (1955)

8.   Canyon Passage (1946)

9.   The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

10. Great Day in the Morning (1956)

11. Anne of the Indies (1951)

12. Nightfall (1957)

13. Stranger on Horseback (1955)

14. Way of a Gaucho (1952)

15. Appointment in Honduras (1953)

My Favorite Andre De Toth Films

21 Tuesday Aug 2018

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1.   Day of the Outlaw (1959)

2.   Play Dirty (1969)

3.   Pitfall (1948)

4.   Crime Wave (1954)

5.   Ramrod (1947)

6.   Man in the Saddle (1951)

7.   House of Wax (1953)

8.   The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)

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1.   Springfield Rifle (1952)

2.   The Bounty Hunter (1954)

3.   Riding Shotgun (1954)

4.   Thunder Over the Plains (1953)

5.   Carson City (1952)

6.   The Indian Fighter (1955)