The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Plus, Jeremiah Johnson and The Searchers...would be my top 5.
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I remember liking Winchester 73 too, but I remember nothing about it.
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I think I made it through 15 minutes of that one.
And he didn't always play the role of the "pilgrim" you see in Valance.
Much tougher than The Duke in real life too. He volunteered for and flew combat missions in WWII.
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role as the villain. Plus, I will go on record as stating anything with Jason Robards is worth watching.
In one of his first films of his career he was in this Fritz Lang film where he plays the villain Eddie Taylor. He also played Frank James - and the Return of Frank James
Just as Stewart played the villain a couple times. but his type was generally something else.
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you're out of your depth.
And I knew you had another handle before You're Jacksmirkingrevenge.
As for that post below, what does Lady Gaga's talent have to do with hippies or not?
You two are fucking nuts.
And you begin your usual, "You're wrong but I won't tell you why you're wrong, I'll just keep YELLING!" I don't think you could articulate objections beyond your usual arguments by assertion if your life depended on it. In fact, I think you'll continue down that vein from here on out.
Yes, Jim, you figured it out: I am Jack's Smirking Revenge. Well done, Sherlock. Are you drunk? (I do enjoy that movie, though it's now fashionable to claim how overrated it was.)
"Maverick? (chuckling)
The original True Grit? (double chuckle)
Blazing Saddles? Like Caddyshack, its parts are greater than its sum. Far from Brooks' best work and not even close to being one of the best westerns, in part because it belongs in the comedy genre and not the western genre.
High Noon? It's a fine film, but as notable for who wrote it and when...it's allegorical aspect rather than the film itself."
Link: https://forum.uhnd.com/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=2&msgid=326495
In other words, where I provide reasoning instead of "Harumph! Well, you just don't know what you're talking about." In all seriousness Jim, there are plenty of 14 year-olds who did this better than you. Do you remember the time you flew off the handle because I was explaining why fake news shows that tickle your feet to no end are garbage? You went through this same routine at that time and you do it again and again. You might notice that with everyone else in this thread, I can have a normal dialogue. Notice how no one else's argument is, "Well you just don't what you're talking about, therefore your picks are wrong!"?
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"The movie is, among other things, a comedy Western. The story line, which is pretty shaky, involves some shady land speculators who need to run a railroad through Ridge Rock, and decide to drive the residents out. The last thing they want there is law and order, and so the crooks send in a black sheriff (Cleavon Little), figuring the townspeople will revolt.
Well, they almost do, but the sheriff (Black Bart is his name, of course) wins them over, and signs up a drunken sharpshooter (Gene Wilder) as his deputy. Meanwhile ... but what am I saying, meanwhile? Meanwhile, six dozen other things happen. The townspeople decide to stay and make a stand, even though, as the preacher intones, "Our women have been stampeded and our cattle raped." Bart rejects the advances of a man-killing woman who has been sicced on him (Madeline Kahn as Marlene Dietrich -- Lili von Shtupp), and the people build a dummy town and lure the bad guys into it."
Link: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blazing-saddles-1974
You've really got something to hang your hat on and salvage out of this performance tonight, Jim. No two ways about it.
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I think that is probably his greatest performance.
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Liberty Valance a lot, I liked many others much, more.
Because I mention Grass is green in summer it doesn't mean I don't think trees are green in summer.
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Great, great film.
Honestly, as long as we're talking Eastwood, High Plains Drifter is as good as any of the ones the others mentioned so far.
All the other Sergio Leone films
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
High Noon
The Searchers
Red River
StageCoaach
Blazing Saddles
True Grit
310 to Uma (original)
The Magnificent Seven
Maverick
And the list goes on
Maverick? (chuckling)
The original True Grit? (double chuckle)
Blazing Saddles? Like Caddyshack, its parts are greater than its sum. Far from Brooks' best work and not even close to being one of the best westerns, in part because it belongs in the comedy genre and not the western genre.
High Noon? It's a fine film, but as notable for who wrote it and when...it's allegorical aspect rather than the film itself.
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The original was great , but I think this was better.
The best Western is hands down - Once Upon a Time in the West