"The Comancheros" was filmed down near Moab, Utah at a place (White Ranch) that is now a hotel on the Colorado River. Red Cliffs Lodge. They have a movie museum downstairs with memorabilia from that movie, "City Slickers", and "Thelma and Louise", which were filmed down there also. Lots of Colorado River and redrock shots in "The Comancheros". Now it's the "daily" river run of about 15 miles.
I've stayed at a number of Best Western's, but I've never seen a movie about one.
Oh, I see.
Well, quite a few of the best western movies have already been mentioned, but a few that maybe haven't been mentioned...
I like Hang 'em High, Clint takes no prisoners in that one.
I also like Open Range, with Kevin Costner & Robert Duvall.
The Long Riders with the Keach & Carradine brothers is good.
I like Ride with the Devil with Tobey Maguire, which isn't necessarily a "western" but it is a Civil War movie, which makes it sort of a western, doesn't it?
The Quick & The Dead with Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman & Sharon Stone is fun.
For more classics, I prefer El Dorado with John Wayne, James Caan & Robert Mitchum over Rio Bravo with Rickie Nelson & Dean Martin, which is basically the same movie but not as good.
Staying on the Wayne train, I also like The Shootist, The Sons of Katie Elder, and The Searcher has some depth to it.
Is City Slickers a "western"? Probably not, but I like that movie.
My personal favorite western of all time is The Magnificent Seven, the original. How can you go wrong with that cast and that music?
Mag 7 has one of the greatest musical scores of all time - oh yeah - a great film too...sure. ........."Rojas?? His conversation would BORE ME to death !"
Lots of good calls above - I broke out Comancheros the other night for the umteenth time- never get tired of it.
Joe Kidd
Josey Wales
Will Penny
Nevada Smith
A more recent film I think is great would be Open Range with Costner and Robert Duvall.
The Westerner ,,Gary Cooper,,, Walter Brennan as judge Roy Bean,, great stuff
Best of em all may just be Red River. The Duke, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan ( can never get enough WB)--- the YeeeeHaaaaaaa scene is priceless (mentioned in City Slickers).
Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting theory about categories of crime shows and the Western is just one of four types. The Jack Reacher series is a "Western" according to his definition. I think he has something here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnEjzmR9Hvw
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
I Will Fight No More Forever
Young Guns
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 07:29 pm
Does Blazing Saddles count?
Does Blazing Saddles count?
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 07:32 pm
Dead Man
Dead Man
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 07:52 pm
the Mandalorian
the Mandalorian
ok.... Tombstone...
and the oft panned Willie Nelson gem Barbarosa
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 08:18 pm
Red Sun (an oldie starring a
Red Sun (an oldie starring a young Clint Eastwood)
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 08:23 pm
True Grit - both of them
True Grit - both of them
Big Jake
Joe Kidd
The Cowboys
Cowboys and Aliens
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 08:29 pm
The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Young Guns
For neo-Westerns, Hell or High Water
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 08:30 pm
Butch Cassidy and The
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Little Big Man
The Missouri Breaks
Back to the Future III
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 08:30 pm
Shane
Shane
Stagecoach
No Country for Old Men
The Oxbow Incident
How the West was Won
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 08:42 pm
The Comancheros
The Comancheros
Django Unchained
West World (film & tv series)
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 09:32 pm
"Butch Cassidy". Mic drop
"Butch Cassidy". Mic drop
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 10:34 pm
>>>Does Blazing Saddles count
>>>Does Blazing Saddles count?
Oh, hell Yes!!!!!!
Once Upon A Time In The West ( Henry Fonda played a mean mofo).
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - for the musical score and Eli Wallach's 'Tuco' performance. Both are stellar.
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 10:40 pm
High Noon
High Noon
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 10:40 pm
High Noon
High Noon
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 10:48 pm
Love these three:
Love these three:
Dances With Wolves
Silverado
The Magnificent Seven
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on Sunday, May 2, 2021 – 11:53 pm
As a youngster:
As a youngster:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
My Name Is Nobody
Blazing Saddles
More recently:
Unforgiven
Dead Man
3:10 to Yuba
The Proposition (If Australian Outback movies count)
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 12:08 am
"The Comancheros" was filmed
"The Comancheros" was filmed down near Moab, Utah at a place (White Ranch) that is now a hotel on the Colorado River. Red Cliffs Lodge. They have a movie museum downstairs with memorabilia from that movie, "City Slickers", and "Thelma and Louise", which were filmed down there also. Lots of Colorado River and redrock shots in "The Comancheros". Now it's the "daily" river run of about 15 miles.
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 12:25 am
The Searchers
The Searchers
The man who shot liberty Valance
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 02:10 pm
Dead Man. It's the only one.
Dead Man. It's the only one.
I do like the Australian TV series McLeod's Daughters; women running a cattle/sheep/horse ranch, women on horseback, intrigue, beautiful Australia...
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 04:00 pm
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 04:06 pm
Django unchained
Django unchained
The Hateful Eight
The Good Lord Bird
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 04:15 pm
Shane
Shane
From Noon Til' Three
Support your local Gunfighter
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 10:52 pm
Tombstone ! what a Cast
Tombstone ! what a Cast
Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp
Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday
Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp
Bill Paxton as Morgan Earp
Powers Boothe as "Curly Bill" Brocius
Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo
Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker
Jason Priestley as Billy Breakenridge
Jon Tenney as Sheriff Johnny Behan
Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton
Thomas Haden Church as Billy Clanton
Dana Delany as Josephine Marcus
Paula Malcomson as Allie Earp
Lisa Collins as Louisa Earp
John Philbin as Tom McLaury
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Mattie Blaylock
Joanna Pacuła as Big Nose Kate
Michael Rooker as Sherman McMasters
Harry Carey, Jr. as Marshal Fred White
Billy Bob Thornton as Johnny Tyler
Tomas Arana as Frank Stilwell
Paul Ben-Victor as Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz
Robert John Burke as Frank McLaury
Billy Zane as Mr. Fabian
John Corbett as Johnny Barnes
Buck Taylor as "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson
Terry O'Quinn as Mayor John Clum
Peter Sherayko as John "Texas Jack" Vermillion
Wyatt Earp III as Billy Claiborne
Robert Mitchum as Narrator
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 10:59 pm
I always liked Cat Ballou too
I always liked Cat Ballou too.
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 10:59 pm
Wyatt Earp III as Billy
Wyatt Earp III as Billy Claiborne<<
I didn't know that. Cool trivia there.
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on Monday, May 3, 2021 – 11:06 pm
Interesting back story from
Interesting back story from 1993.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-25-...
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 01:30 am
I've stayed at a number of
I've stayed at a number of Best Western's, but I've never seen a movie about one.
Oh, I see.
Well, quite a few of the best western movies have already been mentioned, but a few that maybe haven't been mentioned...
I like Hang 'em High, Clint takes no prisoners in that one.
I also like Open Range, with Kevin Costner & Robert Duvall.
The Long Riders with the Keach & Carradine brothers is good.
I like Ride with the Devil with Tobey Maguire, which isn't necessarily a "western" but it is a Civil War movie, which makes it sort of a western, doesn't it?
The Quick & The Dead with Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman & Sharon Stone is fun.
For more classics, I prefer El Dorado with John Wayne, James Caan & Robert Mitchum over Rio Bravo with Rickie Nelson & Dean Martin, which is basically the same movie but not as good.
Staying on the Wayne train, I also like The Shootist, The Sons of Katie Elder, and The Searcher has some depth to it.
Is City Slickers a "western"? Probably not, but I like that movie.
My personal favorite western of all time is The Magnificent Seven, the original. How can you go wrong with that cast and that music?
Now... draw.
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 01:07 pm
Mag 7 has one of the greatest
Mag 7 has one of the greatest musical scores of all time - oh yeah - a great film too...sure. ........."Rojas?? His conversation would BORE ME to death !"
Lots of good calls above - I broke out Comancheros the other night for the umteenth time- never get tired of it.
Joe Kidd
Josey Wales
Will Penny
Nevada Smith
A more recent film I think is great would be Open Range with Costner and Robert Duvall.
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 01:16 pm
The Neil Young soundtrack to
The Neil Young soundtrack to Dead Man is a large part of what makes it the best.
Not really a western fan but that one's got my heart.
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 01:30 pm
^Jim Jarmusch makes interesting films
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 01:40 pm
Yes, Jim Jarmusch does make
Yes, Jim Jarmusch does make interesting films. I don't always like them but I've liked a lot of them.
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 01:42 pm
I want to see The Ballad Of
I want to see The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2PyxzSH1HM
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 01:54 pm
I couldn't make it all the
I couldn't make it all the way through the Ballad of Lester Scruggs. I really tried.
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 04:31 pm
Trump might be unmuzzled on
...
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 05:00 pm
Maybe not the best, but...
Maybe not the best, but...
Bone Tomahawk
Ravenous
Hostiles
And there's always Cowboys and Aliens
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 05:16 pm
I'm the same way with Pat
I'm the same way with Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, judit. I wanted to like it, and really tried, but I couldn't make it through it.
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on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 – 05:17 pm
Best Western Movie Manor
just in case i read the question wrong....
Best Western Movie Manor Questions & Answers
"Where can we go to find out the movie schedule during our stay?"
https://www.tripadvisor.com/FAQ_Answers-g33558-d80898-t1039366-Where_can...
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on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 – 09:48 am
Bone Tomahawk is really good,
Bone Tomahawk is really good, if not border line great.
the brutality at the end might bother some people.
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on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 – 11:33 am
The newish Tom Hanks western
The newish Tom Hanks western movie circulating, News of the World, is worth a watch.
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on Friday, May 14, 2021 – 04:19 pm
< Silverado
Some good ones listed above.
< Silverado
^ That one I love
Tombstone ,, Doc Holiday is perfect
Fort Apache
Tie A Yellow Ribbon
The Westerner ,,Gary Cooper,,, Walter Brennan as judge Roy Bean,, great stuff
Best of em all may just be Red River. The Duke, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan ( can never get enough WB)--- the YeeeeHaaaaaaa scene is priceless (mentioned in City Slickers).
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on Friday, May 14, 2021 – 04:23 pm
once upon a time in the west
once upon a time in the west
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on Friday, May 14, 2021 – 04:28 pm
^^ love the Dire Straits tune
^^ Absolutely,, also love the Dire Straits tune
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on Friday, May 14, 2021 – 04:35 pm
Malcolm Gladwell has an
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Renegade (aka Blueberry)(2004
Renegade (aka Blueberry) (2004) Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis. Starts kinda slow, but gets pretty trippy by the end.
Zachariah (1971) "The First Electric Western" featuring Country Joe & The Fish, Elvin Jones, and Doug Kershaw. Strange and fun.