What Are Your Favourite Non-Duke Westerns?

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  • We have had similar threads similar to this some years back,
    but now with so many new members, and more releases,
    perhaps now is a good time to ask the question again.


    What Are Your Favourite Non-Duke Westerns?


    Many top westerns have been profiled,
    but many of us may have favourites that could be reviewed.

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited 4 times, last by ethanedwards ().

  • Here are mine, divided by actor. There are probably many I've missed, especially those featuring Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea. Also, several of the films named feature two big names.

    Yellow Sky (Gregory Peck)
    The Gunfighter
    The Bravadoes
    The Big Country
    The Stalking Moon
    Gunfight at the OK Corral (Burt Lancaster)
    Lawman
    Ulzana's Raid
    The Fastest Gun Alive (Glenn Ford)
    3:10 to Yuma
    The Sheepman
    Cimarron
    The Rounders
    Jesse James (Henry Fonda)
    The Ox Bow Incident
    My Darling Clementine
    The Tin Star
    A Big Hand For the Little Lady
    There Was a Crooked Man
    The Big Sky (Kirk Douglas)
    Last Train From Gun Hill
    Lonely Are The Brave
    Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin)
    Western Union (Randolph Scott)
    Thunder Over The Plains
    Ride the High Country
    Wells Fargo (Joel McCrea)
    Union Pacific
    Buffalo Bill
    Wichita
    Gunfight at Dodge City
    Shane (Alan Ladd)
    Will Penny (Charlton Heston)
    Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
    Outlaw Josey Wales
    Canyon Passage (Dana Andrews)
    Dodge City (Errol Flynn)
    They Died with Their Boots On
    High Noon (Gary Cooper)
    *Northwest Mounted Police
    Culpepper Cattle Company (Gary Grimes)
    Support Your Local Sheriff (James Garner)
    Man From Laramie (James Stewart)
    Bend of the River
    Bandolero
    Shenandoah
    The Naked Spur
    Winchester 73
    Broken Arrow
    True Grit (Jeff Bridges)
    Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
    Open Range
    Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (Paul Newman)
    Copper Canyon (Ray Milland)
    The Last Wagon (Richard Widmark)
    Five Card Stud (Robert Mitchum)
    River of No Return
    Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford)
    3:10 to Yuma (Russell Crowe)
    Tom Horn (Steve McQueen)
    Magnificent Seven
    Quigley Down Under (Tom Selleck)
    Lonesome Dove (Robert Duvall)
    Kings of the Sun (Yul Brynner)
    Calamity Jane (Doris Day)
    *Tombstone (Kurt Russell)
    *Mask of Zorro (Anthony Hopkins)
    *Northwest Passage (Spencer Tracy)
    *Mark of Zorro (Tyrone Power)
    *Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Humphrey Bogart)
    *The Harvey Girls (Judy Garland)
    * = Added

    Westerns have always been my favorite genre, by far, so in addition to those shown above, I used to spend hours as a kid watching weekend matinees with Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autrey, Roy Rogers, Lash La Rue. Johnny Mack Brown, Tom Mix and other "B" grade stars. Some of those old "B" grade movies weren't bad but it's been so long ago, I can't remember all the titles. I especially liked Hopalong and Lash La Rue. After my family finally acquired a television, about 1950, I spent more hours watching broadcast TV Westerns, both movies and series.

    De gustibus non est disputandum

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  • Boy picking a favorite non Wayne western is a bit difficult for me as I love a lot of B westerns of the 30's - 50's. It's easier for me to name off by star than by title. but here are one or two A pictures


    Five Card Stud (Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum)
    The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels)
    The Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
    Quigley Down Under (Tom Selleck)
    Son of Paleface (Bob Hope, Roy Rogers, Jane Russell)

  • here's my list


    whispering smith(alan ladd)
    shane
    saskatchean
    red mountain
    drum beat
    branded
    badlanders
    backlash(richard widmark)
    last wagon
    smoke signal(dana andrews)
    comanche
    canyon passage
    the savage(charlton heston)
    pony express
    will penny
    major dundee
    the texas rangers(fred macmurray)
    gun for a coward
    good day for a hanging
    face of a fugitive
    arrow in the dust(sterling hayden)
    johnny guitar
    the last command
    flaming feather
    denver and the rio grande
    silverload(john payne)
    the road to denver
    santa fe passage
    rails into laramie
    tennesse's partner
    the hired gun(rory calhoun)
    red sundown
    ride out for revenge
    four guns to the border
    pillars in the sky(jeff chandler)
    the great sioux uprising
    battle at apache pass
    bugles in the afternoon(ray milland)
    a man alone
    son of the morning star(gary cole)
    the raid(van heflin)
    tomahawk
    canyon river(george montgomery)
    the texas rangers
    the tall men(clark gable)
    lone star
    they rode west(robert francis)
    lonesome dove(tommy lee jones)
    purgatory(sam sheppard)
    the glory guys(tom tyron)
    dragoon wells massacre(barry sullivan)
    tonka(phil carey)
    the last posse(brodwick crawford)
    the maverick queen(barbara stanwyck)
    forty guns
    the furies
    cattle queen of montana

  • Sorry if the list is a little long, but The Western is my favorite genre. Even with this long list I know I’m leaving several out that I’ll think of later!

    FAIRLY RECENT WESTERNS
    Open Range
    3:10 to Yuma
    Crossfire Trail
    True Grit
    Mask of Zorro

    EASTWOOD
    The Outlaw Josey Wales
    Pale Rider
    High Plains Drifter
    The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
    Hang Em High

    GARY COOPER
    High Noon
    The Westerner
    The Hanging Tree
    Vera Cruz

    JAMES STEWART
    Winchester ‘73
    The Far Country
    Bend in the River

    The 40’s
    Santa Fe Trail
    Virginia City
    My Darling Clementine
    Cheyenne
    Blood on the Moon

    50’s
    Wagon Master
    Shane
    The Violent Men
    3:10 To Yuma
    The Sheepman
    Backlash
    Warlock
    The Jayhawkers
    No Name on the Bullet
    Last Train From Gun Hill
    Gunfight at OK Corral

    60’s
    The Magnificent Seven
    How the West Was Won (Duke does have a cameo, but his appearance is such a short duration, I never really considered this a John Wayne movie!)
    Ride the High Country
    Hour of the Gun
    Support Your Local Sheriff
    Five Card Stud
    Once Upon a Time in the West

    70’s
    Monte Walsh
    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
    Support Your Local Gunfighter
    The Sacketts

    80’s
    Silverado
    Lonesome Dove
    Young Guns

    90’s
    Quigley Down Under
    Tombstone
    Young Guns 2
    Maverick
    Streets of Laredo
    The Quick and the Dead

  • High Noon..
    Bad Girls
    Buffalo Gals
    Wyatt Earp
    3:10 to Yuma
    Young Guns 1 & 2
    The Quick and The Dead
    Tombstone
    True Grit (remake)
    The River of No Return
    (just to name a few)

    "I admire your sand, Sister, but you should know this is no place for a woman"

  • Like ZS_Maverick I too enjoy the Western genre. There are many, many westerns that I enjoy but there are three mini series and two theatrical releases that make the top of my list:


    LONESOME DOVE...the best western ever made not a mistep any where..."A man that wouldn't cheat doesn't want a poke bad enough."..."Just once in my life I'd like to shoot at an educated man."
    CENTENNIAL.........every episode is good but the mountain men/cattle drive is top drawer
    SON OF THE MORNING STAR....(and the companion piece CRAZY HORSE) certainly not totally correct but closer than any other visual representation to date
    SHANE...still great after all these years and Jack Palance with "Prove it"...wow
    BROKEN ARROW...Jimmy Stewart is very good but Jay Silverheels as Geronimo sends chills down your spine with..."This is Apache Land, it is Cochise Land and where Cochise lives...no white man can live!!!"


    Like the rest of you I can go on and on...MAJOR DUNDEE, TOMBSTONE, WILL PENNY, LAST COMMAND, 2004 ALAMO, OPEN RANGE, all TNT Tom Selleck movies...LITTLE BIG MAN, DANCES WITH WOLVES...I could be doing this all night

  • Off the top of my head ...


    2008 Appaloosa
    2007 No Country For Old Men -- contemporary western
    2007 Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
    2003 Open Range


    1999 The Hi-Lo Country -- contemporary western
    1996 Lone Star -- contemporary western
    1995 The Good Old Boys -- made-for-TV
    1992 O Pioneers! -- Hallmark TV film
    1992 Conagher
    1991 Sarah Plain and Tall -- Hallmark TV film


    1989 Lonesome Dove
    1988 The Tracker -- made-for-cable
    1987 The Quick and the Dead -- made-for-cable
    1986 The Red-Head Stranger
    1984 Calamity Jane -- made-for-TV
    1983 Tender Mercies -- contemporary western
    1982 Barbarosa
    1982 Ballad of Gregorio Cortez


    1980 Tom Horn
    1980 The Long Riders
    1979 The Sacketts -- TV mini-series
    1979 Heartland
    1979 Eagle's Wing
    1978 Comes a Horseman -- contemporary western
    1978 China 9 Liberty 37 -- American-made in Spain
    1977 Another Man, Another Chance -- French-made in USA
    1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales
    1975 I Will Fight No More Forever
    1974 Zandy's Bride -- Swedish-made in USA
    1973 The Red Pony -- made-for-TV with Henry Fonda
    1973 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
    1973 Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
    1972 Ulzana's Raid
    1972 Pocket Money -- contemporary western
    1972 The New Land -- Swedish-made in USA
    1972 J.W. Coop -- contemporary western
    1972 Junior Bonner -- contemporary western
    1972 Jeremiah Johnson
    1972 Bad Company
    1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    1971 The Last Picture Show
    1971 The Hired Hand
    1971 Hannie Caulder -- American-made in Spain
    1971 A Gunfight
    1971 The Emigrants -- Swedish-made in USA


    1970 Two Mules For Sister Sara
    1970 Run, Simon, Run -- contemporary western, made-for-TV
    1970 Monte Walsh
    1970 A Man Called Horse
    1970 Ballad of Cable Hogue
    1969 The Wild Bunch
    1969 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
    1969 Support Your Local Sheriff
    1969 Paint Your Wagon
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    1968 Will Penny
    1968 Villa Rides!
    1968 The Stalking Moon
    1968 The Shakiest Gun In the West
    1968 Bandolero!
    1967 La Soldadera -- Mexico
    1967 Hour of the Gun
    1967 Hombre
    1966 The Professionals
    1966 Duel at Diablo
    1966 The Appaloosa
    1965 The Shooting
    1965 Ride In the Whirlwind
    1965 The Rounders
    1963 Hud -- contemporary western
    1963 How the West Was Won
    1962 Ride the High Country
    1962 Lonely Are the Brave -- contemporary western
    1961 One-Eyed Jacks
    1961 The Misfits -- contemporary western


    1960 The Unforgiven
    1960 Sergeant Rutledge
    1960 Pancho Villa and Valentina -- Mexico
    1960 Flaming Star
    1960 Cuando ¡Viva Villa! es la muerte -- Mexico
    1960 Comanche Station
    1959 The Wonderful Country
    1959 Warlock
    1959 The Hanging Tree
    1959 La Cucaracha -- Mexico
    1958 Tonka -- Disney
    1958 Ride a Crooked Trail
    1958 The Left-Handed Gun
    1958 From Hell To Texas
    1958 The Big Country
    1957 3:10 to Yuma
    1957 The Tin Star
    1957 This Was Pancho Villa -- Mexico
    1957 Old Yeller -- Disney
    1957 The Lonely Man
    1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
    1956 Seven Men From Now
    1956 Man From Del Rio
    1956 Bus Stop -- contemporary western
    1955 Wichita
    1955 The Man From Laramie
    1955 The Littlest Outlaw -- Disney
    1955 The Last Command
    1955 Giant -- contemporary western
    1955 Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier -- Disney
    1955 Bandido
    1954 Track of the Cat
    1954 Ride Clear of Diablo
    1954 The Outcast
    1954 Masterson of Kansas
    1954 Four Guns to the Border
    1954 The Far Country
    1954 The Command
    1954 Bad Day at Black Rock -- contemporary western
    1954 Apache
    1953 Shane
    1953 The Naked Spur
    1953 Gun Fury
    1953 Arrowhead
    1952 Viva Zapata!
    1952 Ride the Man Down
    1952 High Noon
    1952 The Big Sky
    1952 Bend of the River
    1951 Westward the Women
    1951 Vengeance Valley
    1951 Rawhide
    1951 Along the Great Divide


    1950 Wagon Master
    1950 The Sundowners
    1950 High Lonesome
    1950 The Gunfighter
    1950 Devil's Doorway
    1950 Broken Arrow
    1950 Ambush!
    1949 Yellow Sky
    1949 Roughshod
    1949 The Red Pony
    1949 Colorado Territory
    1948 Station West
    1948 Four Faces West
    1948 Coroner Creek
    1948 Blood On the Moon
    1947 Sea of Grass
    1947 Ramrod
    1947 Pursued
    1946 My Darling Clementine
    1946 Duel In the Sun
    1945 Along Came Jones
    1943 The Ox-Bow Incident
    1941 Western Union
    1941 Tombstone the Town Too Tough to Die
    1941 They Died With Their Boots On


    1940 The Westerner
    1940 The Return of Frank James
    1940 The Mark of Zorro
    1940 The Grapes of Wrath -- contemporary western
    1940 Arizona
    1939 The Marshall of Mesa City
    1939 Jesse James
    1939 Frontier Marshall
    1938 The Cowboy and the Lady
    1937 The Plainsman
    1937 Borderland
    1936 Trail Dust
    1936 Trail of the Lonesome Pine
    1936 The Robin Hood of El Dorado
    1936 The Phantom of Santa Fe
    1936 Let's Go With Pancho Villa -- Mexico
    1936 The Bold Caballero
    1935 The Arizonian -- with Richard Dix
    1934 Viva Villa!
    1934 Compadre Mendoza -- Mexico
    1933 Prisoner 13 -- Mexico
    1932 Law and Order -- with Walter Huston
    1931 The Sunrise Trail -- with George O'Brien
    1931 Riders of the Purple Sage -- with George O'Brien
    1931 The Cisco Kid -- with Warner Baxter
    1931 Cimarron


    1930 The Lone Star Ranger -- with George O'Brien
    1930 Last of the Duanes -- with George O'Brien
    1930 Billy the Kid -- with Johnny Mack Brown
    1929 The Virginian -- with Gary Cooper
    1928 The Wind
    1928 In Old Arizona -- Warner Baxter as the Cisco Kid
    1927 Nevada -- with Gary Cooper
    1927 The Last Outlaw -- with Gary Cooper
    1925 Tumbleweed -- with William S. Hart
    1924 The Iron Horse
    1923 The Covered Wagon
    1920 Wagon Tracks -- with William S. Hart
    1917 Straight Shooting
    1917 The Narrow Trail -- with William S. Hart
    1916 Hell's Hinges -- with William S. Hart
    1915 Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaw
    1912 Custer's Last Fight


    i shortchanged the silents because I'm too tired to go look up the dates.



    Richard

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  • People ! People!...only mentioned once above in all these posts...BUT It's hands down..got to be: (2) The Wild Bunch..Wiiliam Holden:"Ten thousand in gold..cuts a lot of family ties...) and The Professionals...Lee Marvin/Burt Lancaster "Partner...! We been had!".....And so it is...Have a good weekend...Make sure you water the heard...Downstream...TJ The Lawman

    A Man..should know how to handle a gun..Use it with Discretion...:cowboy:

  • Ride the High Country
    Cat Ballou
    True Grit (2010)
    Jeremiah Johnson
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    3:10 to Yuma (2007)
    Last of the Mohicans (It takes place in the east but it has Indians in it)
    The Rare Breed
    Wagonmaster
    Seven Ways From Sundown
    Silverado

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  • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
    High Plains Drifter
    Magnificent Seven
    Tombstone
    Hour Of The Gun
    Winchester'73
    The Quick And The Dead
    Lonesome Dove
    Fistful Of Dollars
    For A Few Dollars More
    Pale Rider
    Curse Of The Undead (low budget vampire western, I love it)
    Silverado
    Open Range
    3:10 To Yuma (both versions)
    Blazing Saddles
    The Man From Laramie
    The Long Riders
    Quigley Down Under
    Westworld
    Maverick
    (just to name a few)

    They'd never forget the day,the stranger rode into town

  • Just to name a few...


    The Outlaw Josey Wales by Clint Eastwood-1976
    Major Dundee by Sam Peckinpah-1965
    High Plains Drifter by Clint Eastwood-1973
    The Unforgiven by Clint Eastwood-1992
    Hour of the Gun by John Sturges-1967
    Vera Cruz by Robert Aldrich-1954
    The Bravados by Henry King-1958
    Last Train from Gun Hill by John Sturges-1959
    Chato's Land by Michael Winner-1972
    Hombre by Martin Ritt-1967
    Two Mules for Sister Sarah by Don Siegel-1970
    The Missouri Breaks by Arthur Penn-1976
    One-Eyed Jacks by Marlon Brando-1961
    Pale Rider by Clint Eastwood-1985
    The Man from Laramie by Anthonny Man-1955
    The Hired Hand by Peter Fonda-1971
    Bandolero! by Andrew V. McLaglen-1968
    The Shooting by Monte Hellman-1966
    Lawman by Michael Winner-1971
    5 Card Stud by Henry Hathaway-1968
    Fistfull of Dollars by Sergio Leone-1964
    For a Few Dollars More by Sergio Leone-1965
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone-1966
    Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone-1969
    The Great Silence by Sergio Corbucci-1968
    The Strangers Gundown by Sergio Garrone-1969
    Cemetery Without Crosses by Robert Hossein-1969
    Garringo by Rafael Romero Marchent-1969
    A Man Called Django! by Edoardo Mulargia-1971
    Gentleman Killer by Giorgio Stegani-1967

    Break the law and he's the last man you want to see. And the last you ever will.

  • "The Professionals," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "Once upon a Time in the West" and "The Outlaw Josie Wales," among others.


    That's a pretty good western.Enjoyable with a tough cast.It was the one from only two movies Claudia Cardinale joined for the us.

    Break the law and he's the last man you want to see. And the last you ever will.