Old Western recommendations

[Anonymous]

I did grow up being really into sci-fi and although I enjoyed films like Blade Runner 2049 (and the original of course) as stuff featured in sci-fi has started to come into existence more and more and because I spend all day troubleshooting problems with PCs, Macs and smart devices I've started to lose interest in the sci-fi genre.

Last year when I was off from work for Christmas I noticed The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as well as a Fistful of Dollars and For a few dollars more were on NowTV on demand so over the course of three days I sat and watched each and thoroughly enjoyed them.

Also started to watch Hang 'em high but had to break off and it disappeared before I could finish it.

Anyway, any suggestions for Westerns I should watch (and I don't just mean the Spaghetti ones)?

[Bambino]

High Noon 

The Magnificent Seven 

[jonsie]

The Alamo...

[Anonymous]

@Bambino

Cheers

I did recently watch the remake with Denzel Washington (one of my favourite actors) but will put the original on my list along with High Noon

[Anonymous]

@jonsie

Thanks

[Glory1]

@Anonymous here are some which you may enjoy

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Cheyenne Autumn

I may be back with some more but being bad on titles, like names, I'll google them first to ensure I give them to you correctly.

By the way my faves from above, which I've seen more then once, are Liberty Valance and Bad Day at Black Rock, both are excellent.

Edited to add, not an old western but very good nonetheless: Tarrantino's The Hateful Eight

[Glory1]

4 more for your consideration @Anonymous:

• Gun Fight at the OK Corral
• High Noon
• Johnny Guitar
• The Long Riders

Johnny Guitar was a unique 50s western as it was female (Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge), not male driven . Don't let that put you off, it's a brilliant film.

And the Long Riders was about the Jesse James gang made up of sets of brothers. And the film actually starred 3 sets of brothers as members of the gang: James and Stacey Keach; David, Keith and Robert Carradine and Christopher and Nicholas Guest. 

I don't think I need to explain the first film as the title is self-explanatory 

I hope one of my suggestions is to your taste. Oh, and I should add I'm not a big westerns fan anymore. Watched way too many western TV shows as a kid!

[Bambino]

@Anonymous As you seem to like Clint Eastwood, I'd also recommend 'Unforgiven', and also the classic John Ford film 'Stagecoach', which was John Wayne's breakthrough film.

[Anonymous]

Destry Rides Again

Eldorado

MacKenna's Gold

[Cleoriff]

I think I must be the only person who doesn't like Westerns

In fact the only one I have watched more than once is The Lone Ranger.

That's because it had Johnny Depp in it.

(As it was released in 2013 it's hardly classed as old)