Best Western Movie shootout?
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9ballbilly
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Tombstone, the gunfight between Doc and johnny Ringo.
Bill Akins wrote:
Got to agree with you on "Shane" and "Seven", I'm not familiar with the others you cite, but I do have a minor nit to pick on your description of the survivors above. The characters who lived through the final big shootout were played by Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Horst Bucholz (sp?). Bronson was one of the casualties.
But who's counting?
Got to agree with you on "Shane" and "Seven", I'm not familiar with the others you cite, but I do have a minor nit to pick on your description of the survivors above. The characters who lived through the final big shootout were played by Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Horst Bucholz (sp?). Bronson was one of the casualties.
But who's counting?
Sure Shot Mc Gee
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My favorite shootout movie. A classic called. The Santa Fe Trail. Made:1940
Starring Errol Flynn as Jeb Stuart trying to subdue abolitionist John Brown.
Starring Errol Flynn as Jeb Stuart trying to subdue abolitionist John Brown.
youngunz4life
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I would like to see a remake of "Hombre"
"Hombre" 1967-paul newman(ten yrs before the movie slapshot) had some great scenes...particularly when he fired on the badguy all the way down the hill and the final scene
"Hombre" 1967-paul newman(ten yrs before the movie slapshot) had some great scenes...particularly when he fired on the badguy all the way down the hill and the final scene
The shoot out that didn't happen
Ending of the Burt Lancaster film, Valdez is Coming. It doesn't end in a shoot out. He's trapped but won the admiration and respect of his pursuer (the hired gunslinger). The pursuer refuses the order to gun down Valdez and tells his men to stand down. Valdez then tells his nemesis it will end in two ways. Either he gets the $100 he wants for an apache widow it they will shoot it out between themselves.
There is shooting in the film and before being caught, Valdez uses his Sharps buffalo gun to kill some of his pursuers at close to 1,000 yds.
If you guys like Quigley Down Under, get your hands on Valdez is Coming. I bought it as a three flick, one disk at Wally World.
Ending of the Burt Lancaster film, Valdez is Coming. It doesn't end in a shoot out. He's trapped but won the admiration and respect of his pursuer (the hired gunslinger). The pursuer refuses the order to gun down Valdez and tells his men to stand down. Valdez then tells his nemesis it will end in two ways. Either he gets the $100 he wants for an apache widow it they will shoot it out between themselves.
There is shooting in the film and before being caught, Valdez uses his Sharps buffalo gun to kill some of his pursuers at close to 1,000 yds.
If you guys like Quigley Down Under, get your hands on Valdez is Coming. I bought it as a three flick, one disk at Wally World.
Mike Irwin
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Gotta throw this one in, not because it's good...
Charles Bronson in Breakheart Pass.
The final gun fight scene has just about every hackenyed cliche regarding Hollywood western gunfights all compressed into about 10 minutes.
My favorite?
An indian attack on a train. The indians have horses, but they dismount and run AFTER the train in knee deep snow!
Still, it's got a great cast -- Bronson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ben Johnson, Bill McKinney, David Huddleston, and a bunch of very recognizable character actors.
It's one of my guilty "I'll watch it every time it's on" pleasure movies...
Charles Bronson in Breakheart Pass.
The final gun fight scene has just about every hackenyed cliche regarding Hollywood western gunfights all compressed into about 10 minutes.
My favorite?
An indian attack on a train. The indians have horses, but they dismount and run AFTER the train in knee deep snow!
Still, it's got a great cast -- Bronson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ben Johnson, Bill McKinney, David Huddleston, and a bunch of very recognizable character actors.
It's one of my guilty "I'll watch it every time it's on" pleasure movies...
Mike - Break Heart Pass was one of the other three flicks that was on that disc that had Valdez is Coming. I thought that Indian foot assault was silly. It was a Murder on a Western RailRoad Express flick. The third film was The Missouri Breaks with Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando. Lots of dry gulching, bush whacking in that last film.
Bill Akins
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You're right Gunloony, my mistake. It was Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen and the young Mexican teenager who survived in "The Magnificent Seven". You know why I was thinking it was Bronson surviving instead of McQueen?
Because it's been awhile since I saw "The Magnificent Seven" but recently I saw "The Dirty Dozen" again, which is another suicide mission movie like "The Magnificent Seven" and Bronson was a survivor in that. I had the survivors of those two movies mixed up Lol.
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youngunz4life
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"The Missouri Breaks" was a good movie...I believe that was the film that gave randy quaid his start when in came out in 1976(cousin eddy from vacation movies). Jack Nicolson had said before the movie that he was really excited about filming a movie with marlon brando
youngunz4life
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I guess just to keep the thread going I could throw out that john wayne movie when he gets shot and killed: I saw that one when I was young but can't remember the name...'the cowboys' maybe
youngunz4life
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I don't remember the gunfighter but will check it out...in the cowboys he took it like a man and a hero
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freebird72
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When you say shootout I assume you mean as in a gunfight with lots of lead flying around and not a classic duel where only one or two bullets are fired?
I am a huge Spaghetti Western fan and I really enjoyed the shoot out in "The Great Silence". It was just so...cool. The main character uses a Mauser Broom-handle C96 instead of your typical six shooter but still manages to draw his weapon from the stock/holster faster than the men with their SAAs. If you want to see a crazy Spaghetti Western check out a film called "Keoma", some really good shootouts in that one; it is a real man's man film. Another Spaghetti Film that would not be hard to find that has several good shootouts would be "Django". In the film Django drags around a coffin with a Gatling gun inside; very cool. Of course we have Sergio Leone's Spaghetti westerns, but I don't think I need to mention them; because who has not seen The Dollars Trilogy or Once Upon A Time In The West?
I would like to also mention "Red Dead Redemption", yes it is a video game
, but the story is every bit as good as some of the most famous Westerns.
On a side not, I believe the film "Reservoir Dogs" had the most realistic shootout I have ever seen. I know it is not a western per say, but it traces its roots back to Old West films and Tarantino is a huge Spaghetti Western fan too. This movie literally had me on edge after watching it. Something very few films have made me do. It just seemed so real that it was scary; but of course I know people who say it sucks, so each to their own.
I could go on and on, so I think its best I stop before I get too riled up.
I am a huge Spaghetti Western fan and I really enjoyed the shoot out in "The Great Silence". It was just so...cool. The main character uses a Mauser Broom-handle C96 instead of your typical six shooter but still manages to draw his weapon from the stock/holster faster than the men with their SAAs. If you want to see a crazy Spaghetti Western check out a film called "Keoma", some really good shootouts in that one; it is a real man's man film. Another Spaghetti Film that would not be hard to find that has several good shootouts would be "Django". In the film Django drags around a coffin with a Gatling gun inside; very cool. Of course we have Sergio Leone's Spaghetti westerns, but I don't think I need to mention them; because who has not seen The Dollars Trilogy or Once Upon A Time In The West?
I would like to also mention "Red Dead Redemption", yes it is a video game
, but the story is every bit as good as some of the most famous Westerns. On a side not, I believe the film "Reservoir Dogs" had the most realistic shootout I have ever seen. I know it is not a western per say, but it traces its roots back to Old West films and Tarantino is a huge Spaghetti Western fan too. This movie literally had me on edge after watching it. Something very few films have made me do. It just seemed so real that it was scary; but of course I know people who say it sucks, so each to their own.
I could go on and on, so I think its best I stop before I get too riled up.