Imagine if they swapped directors?

Nope !!…

Thats a great movie very poignant ending.

I guess I like it so much because of Joel McCrea who is a personal favorite of mine. He and Randolph Scott were excellent together.@@wobblertv8083

The last film co-starring Western icon Randolph Scott. While Peckinpah directed much better Westerns (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), Scott was better served in the pictures directed by fellow auteur Bud Boetticher known as The Ranown Westerns. No studio was involved in the filming of these classics, the artists themselves controlled all aspects of these pictures.

@@MarkRoberts-bj2me Yes I remember him in the Big T very good film .

It could have replaced "The Wild Bunch".

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance should be in there somewhere.

I was just coming to the comments to say the same thing. Cat Ballou was good, but Liberty Valance was better.

"Cat Ballou" is not a top 10 Western. An educated alternative list ranked best first: "The Searchers", "Rio Bravo", "Once Upon a Time In the West", "The Wild Bunch", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "My Darling Clementine" (Western Film-Noir), "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", "Stagecoach", "Johnny Guitar" (Western Film-Noir), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", "Red River", "The Treasure Of Sierra Madre" (Western Film-Noir), "Unforgiven" (Western Neo-Noir), "Heaven's Gate" (directed by the unfairly maligned Michael Cimino, the picture now recognized as a masterpiece), "Wagon Master", "High Noon" (Western Film-Noir), "Shane".

@@MarkRoberts-bj2meRio Bravo a top 10 western OF ALL TIME??? It’s a good movie but it’s not even in the same galaxy as The Searchers, Unforgiven, Stagecoach, etc.

yes, definitely MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, my second favorite, behind ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, and just ahead of HIGH NOON. Interesting that both Dwight Eisenhower and Ronad Reagan liked HIGH NOON. as John Wayne criticized the film, though he accepted the academy award for Gary Cooper.

Liberty Valance is my fave western of all time. "That's my steak Valance." "The Professionals" and "Shane" right behind.

Well put

It may belong here, but you're right. It was in fact an anti-hero version of the Western genre. I've seen it only once when it was in first release as a double feature with MASH. Not as strange a combination as you might first think.

Totally disagree. McCabe does a better job of depicting the harsh conditions of the West-the snowstorms and mud and horseshit in the streets-than any other Western I can think of. Also, the entrepreneurship of constructing entirely new towns and societies out of nothing. It IS unlike most of the other Westerns on this list, but to my mind, that’s a good thing and what makes it so distinctive. The only other film that is like it is Unforgiven, and that’s great as well.

you say HE, but he did not make the list this is the AFI's 10 Best List

Just about my thoughts exactly! How on Earth can Liberty Valance not be there? Some shenanigans going on maybe!

@@colinbrown7310 As compared to McCabe, Liberty Valance is far far superior. One of my favorite Westerns. When it's on, I'm watching it.

McCabe and Mrs Miller never did anything for me ( good or bad). I just saw the movie years ago, and it left no impression on me.

Don't ever forget "The Big Country"! The theme song alone say CLASSIC WESTERN! Let alone the performances of several great stars

100% agree about Josey Wales, one of the greatest westerns ever made, that is criminally overlooked.

Agree!

I couldn't agree more. The Magnificent Seven was and still remains my favourite western of all time. With a great story line, superb cast and legendary theme music it is a true classic.

The video clearly states that this is AFI's list. Talk to them if you have a problem with it.

Who cares whose list it is? And what do you care?@@ContrarianCorner

I could have replaced "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". It was better.

When your right, your right!

Butch Cassidy is the best Western ever filmed in my opinion.

thanks, dude. I'd also add ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

In my opinion, Butch Cassidy would have been a better western if the climax of the film had shown the two protagonists being shot to pieces and left lying dead in the dust. By not showing such an ending, the film refused to face the consequences of all the previous actions in the story. @@warrenbates2949

Yes he was, along with the rest of an outstanding cast. The movie is a gem for sure.

I was wondering if a "Mountain. Man" fits the genera. Same time period. got my vote.

Three excellent honourable mentions.

Open Range was outstanding.

Ditto on "The Professionals."

'Hour Of The Gun' is certainly a favorite of mine. Garner and Robarbs have great chemistry together in this film. Dialogue is outstanding 👌

@@TS-wh4ey Agree completely .The music is also excellent and really adds to the mood of the movie .

@@brutus4013 BTW....One of my favorite scenes in the Long Riders is where Cole is about to knife fight Sam Starr and he says to him, " Glad I caught you in a good mood "...............

@@TS-wh4ey Great and unique movie all round because of its casting of actual brothers for the James's ,Younger's ,Millers and Fords . No other movie like it before or since.

They are Italian westerns. This is a list of American westerns.

The G.O.A.T.

Ask and ye shall receive: 10 Best Westerns ranked according to IMDB: 1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2. Django Unchained 3. Once Upon a Time in the West 4. Unforgiven 5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance 6. High Noon 7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 8. The Wild Bunch 9. Tombstone 10. The Outlaw Josey Wales

@@bravehome4276 Pretty bad list there IMHO. Looks like they are pretty much just picking Westerns made after 1960. Any list without Stagecoach, Shane or The Searchers is just a joke. IMDB has always been a joke.

@@MrRondonmonThis list is not a critics list, it is a list of those films voted for by viewers on IMDB. And I agree, the most common voters on IMDB are too young to appreciate the 30s/40s films. However, it is (as per OP) a publicly popular list, since us old fogeys who enjoy the 30s/40s movies are scarce these days....

The Searchers is the G.O.A.T.

Lol McCabe was far from brilliant and not a western

@@denroy3 McCabe and Mrs Miller was indeed a Western, a very good one at that. Some call it revisionist because the hero isn’t impeccable and doesn’t get the girl, or even survive in the end. It was beautifully shot and Robert Altman captured the zeitgeist of the times.

It sound like a waltz. A very beautifull theme.

Yes, this is American Films Institute list.

Agree with you.

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, and The Outlaw Josey Wales should be up there over Cat Ballou and M & M. Also gotta give props to Kevin Costner's two great westerns, Dances with Wolves and Open Range.

I agree 💯 percent, Josey Wales was and still is a classic in my book. Imo I would of thrown Silverado in there too. I believe that was one of Kevin Costner's first westerns but I could be wrong .

Absolutely CB & M&M are not even memorable next to The Outlaw Josey Wales Also agree with Open Range as being outstanding

Brian Jones, I could not agree with you more!! The Outlaw Josey Wales far outranks Unforgiven as a western. It's a "Back Shootin Crime" that this classic is off the list. As is the western that revolutionized the genre. The immortal "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." Sergio Leone introduced tight camera shots and real life portrayals of old western figures as they really were. And how they really looked!! Not the packaged, Hollywood, perfectly groomed gunfighter. Both High Noon and the fabulous Shane outrank The Searchers in my opinion. John Wayne and John Fords tainted collaboration demonizes the American Indian in a fashion only the true racist could glorify or enjoy. Wayne's attempt to storm the stage when Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather appeared at the 1973 Academy Awards is typical of this backwoods Bigot. Unable to disassociate his cardboard cutout image from real life America and its problems. Josey Wales was groundbreaking in that it was the first western to identify with the plight of Native Americans. Not exploit and dehumanize them. Here is my top five. Shane, High Noon, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. If you want to find The Searchers, keep searching. Probably the most unapologetically racist film since Birth of a Nation.

I love ‘The Wild Bunch’, a great movie, but the person who really reinvented the genre is Sergio Leone and his Dollar Trilogy (even if for obvious reasons it can't be in this ranking).

"All I want is to enter my house justified", my favorite line in a picture with great dialogue.

@@KERSTEN27 Agreed. Terrific writing. The screenplay and production design are really excellent too.

I suspect Magnificent Seven was not highly rated was because of The Seven Samurai.

Once Upon a Time in the West gets my vote.

Observing your list and quite familiar with them all, I noticed 'Death Of A Gunfighter' you listed. That's a great Richard Widmark film. He was headliner in several great westerns, including 'Backlash', which I also thought was a very entertaining western.

@@TS-wh4ey I was actually thinking of The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck. I get the two confused.

@@mpetersen6 Oh yeah 'The Gunfighter' with Peck and Malden is a western movie gem for sure. 👌

We're one of a kind when it comes to Westerns my friend. ❤ from South Africa!

Shane , Magnificent 7, Josey Wales, Spaghetti Trilogy, John Ford/John Wayne Cavalry trilogy, Red River, The Searchers, They Died With Their Boots On,

I'd imagine, since the list is from the American Film Institute, it's limited to American-made westerns. But I'm in total agreement with you.

Let's be fair, virtually all the spaghetti westerns fail this list with the horrible over dupes they employed. They may have had other great values, but that alone skips them down the list of great movies enough to miss this list.

Well, unfortunately. The Good The Bad And The Ugly wouldn't have qualified for the AFI list due to the fact it is an foreign film from Italy that was distributed in the United States three years after its first initial release in Europe. However, you'll be happy to know that in 2005, Time Magazine released a list known as the All-Time 100 Movies, which is basically a compilation of motion pictures considered the best and was selected by the magazine's own longtime film critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss. Four Westerns made the list. They were= • The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly • Once Upon A Time In The West • The Searchers • Unforgiven

AMERICAN Film Institute - and these are all American films. The AFI lists Caddyshack as one of the top 10 sports films when it is a comedy.

Once Upon A Time In The West was a Paramount Picture so it was actually an American film. But if you want to drop it, you can add Ride The High Country or The Man Who Shot Liberty valance instead

Best sports films? I like Caddyshack, and My personal favorite is Rocky IV but I know it does not qualify. So here goes; Rocky, Champion, 8 Men Out, Pride of The Yankees, Hoosiers, One On One, Rudy, City of Conquest, Raging Bull and Knute Rockne All American. For a superior comedy film to Caddyshack: Slap Shot.

Honestly, sports movies are rarely about the actual sport they play. @@davidbrown386

Thanks

See my videos on Lee Marvin, James Stewart, Woody Strode and John Wayne westerns in my channel

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is still the greatest American film & one of the many reasons for that is because it touches on multiple genres wrapped around the central theme of greed but it's NOT A WESTERN.

OH, AND yes, Have UNFORGIVEN in my top ten.

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