Best Western Movie shootout?

I agree that "the Magnificent Seven" is a great shootout. Still, I kinda enjoy "the Quick and the Dead" with Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone
 
To HellGate. You may not enjoy it lol, but the reason I believe it seemed so real is because you see lots of bullets a flying and its really loud, but not many people are hit. It is over just as fast as it started and it seemed so violent. If you don't like the shooting you will like the story. Very good movie, in my top 5. And I consider myself a movie buff. :p
 
Another thanks Freebird.. Now I have to say I like the "Django" trailer more...
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT you won my heart with a Bow Shooting Woody Strode..
 
Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall in Open Range. Almost any Clint Eastwood. John Wayne in True Grit, Cowboys, Stage Coach, The Shootist among others.
 
John Wayne is shot and killed (shot in the back) at the end of The Shootist by a bartender with a double barrel shotgun.

Ron Howard picks up Wayne's Colt and kills the bartender.
 
Mike You are right, Not only does the shootist have a d**m Fine shoot out in the end, but it is a d**m fine movie.. Great acting by Richard Boone. The beginning with the old duke flashbacks to his younger years is Magical....
 
The Shootist is one of the rare great cowboy movies since the hippy culture destroyed...well just about everything, in particular westerns.

Just a great movie on a number of levels, I personally like the quote:
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

I think that most of us live our lives with this in mind.
OJW
 
The bar shootout in "Unforgiven", closely followed by the O.K. Corral in "Tombstone". Hey, a question here: When you guys mention "3:10 To Yuma", are you talking about the original, or the remake?
 
Well, I like the shootout in "Hot Lead Cold Feet" :) . Walking into the saloon with the Gatling gun .... Well.... Good fun :) . "Sable River" with Tom Selleck was a bit more serious which I enjoyed....
 
the original 3:10 to Yuma is a much better movie, and don't forget " Last train to Gun Hill"with Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn, hit movie in 1959:)
 
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Geez, all the westerns I've been watching are black & white and are long forgotten by most people. Hardly any of them had much shooting and not always that many horses. Some were serials. The good guy didn't always get the girl; he just rode off with his partner. They'd be back with a new adventure in a few months time anyway. The sidekick was as entertaining as the hero. In some there were two heros. Sometimes there was a lot of incidental music. My son didn't like movies in which everyone would just start singing. But a singing cowboy was more authentic than a gunslinging cowboy, never mind that usually characters weren't exactly cowboys. They were just westerners.

A couple of westerns were based on stories from Japanese movies, like the Seven Samurai. In one Japanese samurai movie, the good guy is sitting in what looks like a corn crib watching a leaf blowing around in the wind. He takes out a dagger and practices throwing it at the leaf. Later, the bad guy shows up for the final "shootout" (the bad guy has a percussion revolver, so it's in the 1860s-1870s). The good guy throws his dagger and gets the bad guy in his gun hand, thus evening the odds.

Don't let that happen to you.
 
Blue Train. I've been watching those 30-40's cowboy movie boxed specials from Wally World. The shoot outs are pretty bad and in many cases, no homicide because the good guy just shoots the gun out of the other feller's hand. :rolleyes: Even when folks are shot, they're just "winged" and according to the hero (or a doc if there's one in the script), "he'll be fine.":rolleyes::rolleyes: They kept the violence down in those films to get some approval. As for some of those singing cowboys like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry or Tex Ritter, these were depression era films and all sorts of stuff had to be packed into a film.

Another funny thing was the use of double action revolvers by some cowboys. Certainly some were around, but I never noticed them before in the older movies. The worse is when one mob chases another. The pokes in the chasing mob all shoot at the fleeing mob. Never mind if one of your own is in front of you, shoot away anyway!:D I also think they all taught Elmer Keith how to shoot since they hit at 75-100 yards by snap shooting their revolvers. I don't think Keith snap shot and hit things at 100.
 
Another vote for the "Outlaw Josie Wales." Specifically the scene where he frees the "Jayhawks" and the Indian from the Comancheros. I'd like to give an honorable mention to the shoot-out at the end of "True Grit" where Rooster faces down Ned Pepper and his gang. I know it's Hollywierd but I like those two because I know how hard it is to shoot accurately from a moving horse.
 
William H. Bonney: You remember the stories John use to tell us about the the three chinamen playing Fantan? This guy runs up to them and says, "Hey, the world's coming to an end!" and the first one says, "Well, I best go to the mission and pray," and the second one says, "Well, hell, I'm gonna go and buy me a case of Mezcal and six whores," and the third one says "Well, I'm gonna finish the game." I shall finish the game, Doc.
Young Guns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFF-oMkEsBw
 
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