I love the theme music to Navajo Joe also,and even more then that to The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

Political Correctness is the 21st century bubonic plague and Rex Hooper is spreading it

Solid video sir! Excited to stumble across your channel. Huge western fan by haven’t read a ton of the novels, so this list gives me a solid place to start!! Interesting development for me recently: I read True Grit and even though I almost always like the book more than the movie, because I grew up on the movie and seen it probably 50+ times, the book actually just didn’t do it for me. I think if I’d read it first I would have liked it more, but because the order was reversed I just couldn’t let go of it - the Duke will always be the real Rooster in my heart lol 😂

The "stealing land" lie ... again. No land was "stolen." It was fought over. Your ancestors died by the thousands fighting for it. You greatly dishonor and insult their memory by stating that it was "stolen."

Try reading, "A Texas Ranger" by Napoleon Augustus Jennings...it talks about life on the Southern Frontier and how a man and a small detachment of Texas Rangers helped to quell the violence on.the lawless Southern border.

How in the world do they get that sound? 🤠🐎

I do think the main theme from Tepepa is something quite special

Weird, I've still not seen it. Doubt it'd be the most questionable film I'd have watched though, no names, no pack drill!

I've got the novelisation of Sabata on a shelf here, and I'm shocked it never made the shortlist! OK, well maybe not...

why is NOT Offensive for a Caucasian to play the role of Jesus Christ in movies ~ aren't there any Jewish actors???

Larry McMurtry was a big fan of books in general. He read a lot, collected rare books, and passed on his love of readings to anyone who would talk to him. I read all of his books when I was a teenager. I need to go back and read them again. He based Lonesome Dove loosely on the Story family -- who are a real family that moved from Texas to Montana.

Blood Meridian is the best of the lot. I've read it eight times.

You are aware that Larry McMurtry wrote several other novels involving Gus MCrea and Woodrow Call? Chronologically the story starts with Dead Man's Walk, where Gus and Woodrow first join the Texas Rangers, and was turned into a miniseries starring Jonny Lee Miller as Woodrow and David Arquette as Gus. It fair to middling. Then comes Comanche Moon which was a great miniseries starring Steve Zahn as Gus and Karl Urban as Woodrow. Val Kilmer was fantastic in a guest starring role. There was of course a Lonesome Dove 2 which was made into series with much of the same cast as the original. Later in Woodrow's life is a book called Streets of Laredo which was made into a movie with James Garner as Woodrow.

Best Novel is Blood Meridian for sure. Beware..... read other novels first or they get paled into the background!

Lonesome Dove got me through some tough times...

You obviously have not seen Winchester '73. Dan Duryea as Waco Johnny Dean.

Wild Bill Elliott/ Allan Lane

Nevada by Zane Grey is an amazing read

I liked Shane.

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Great video, i just started getting online. I have mine dressed as jonah hex

So Arthur look came from the man with no name

Arthur‘s hat seems to be taken directly from ‚Jeremiah Johnson‘ starring Robert Redford.

No Louis L'Amour gtfo

Garringo.. Have a good funeral my friend.. sartana will pay Viva django.. Those are the best

A shame we can’t wear a poncho like javier

Rex hoopet you're a great guy.

Ennio morricone is unbeaten.

Franco Nero looks a lot like Terrence Hill

All the Presidents loved the movie because they want to be like Cain. But they are all like Harvey. Pieces of crap that’ll never be real men.

I have never understood, among film fans the need to go " tribal" on great movies. I know that Hawk and Wayne did Rio Bravo as "an answer to High Noon." Great! I also love Rio Bravo. In fact I think Noon and Bravo make a great double feature. A different take on a similar theme. I remember back in the seventies there was an argument about Peckinpah and Leone. Leone did "cartoon westerns" while Peckinpah was "authentic". I get it, but Again, two great directors who have, as they should, a different take on the Western. And I love them both. Fantastic visual essay by the way.

My go to rdo outfit is analogous to what the earp brothers wear at the ok corral in tonbstone

I dig your channel, man.

Read this book in high school while living in fascist Idaho. Felt so good to know I wasn’t crazy. Scary but good to know.

Greatest western theme

An underrated western. Tho verygood

Excellent whistling

Ennio morricone is a god.

Lee van cleef was the master.

I loved Westerns and the glorification of that lifestyle for many years until I saw this movie. I'll never forget how much it broke me and my buddy who rented it back when Netflix was still an online Blockbuster. It became my favorite western from that moment on, in the fact that they could show you a story that shows the truth of the matter in those days and give you an understanding of the issue with mob rule.

There is also Tigrero (Klaus Kinski) in The Great Silence, one of the most evil motherfuckers in western history and he wins. El Indio is also legendary, both for his music and for his complexity. He's a monster, but Volonté brings a melancholy to the character that makes him interesting. Mapache could also get a spot here.

These guys were like jailhouse toilet paper. Rough , tough , and didn't take no shit.

Burt Lancaster.

Buster Scruggs.

Try this: "The Hues of Requital". 1200 pages. (Heya Rex. Please delete this posting if that is inappropriate for you site)(Liked and subscribed)

To say High Noon is “communist or Un American” is one of the biggest loads of B S I have ever heard. For one, it takes place in America’s old west, and two, Marshal Will Kane knew how dangerous his enemies were and what they were capable of and was determined to protect the community he was sworn to protect and serve at all costs. That’s as American as anything else.

Any western movie that had a movie star THAT ACTUALLY SERVED THEIR COUNTRY, mskes the best western. IMO.

Hard to have only five. If I could add to the list I would add Brian Dennehy in Silverado and Jeff Daniels in Godless.

I think Micah‘s fit has more in common with the outfit from the outlaw Joesy Wales

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