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[Milldog1776]

One of my top 5, maybe top 3, maybe even number 1 (a wrestling match with Rio Bravo)

The Professionals
        Lee Marvin (one of the unique greats)
        Burt Lancaster
        Woody Strode
        Robert Ryan (also in the Wold Bunch)
        Claudia Cardenale (yes?)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Professionals-Burt-Lancaster/dp/B000096KJK

Hock

Hmmmmm. Wrestling over Rio Bravo for #1? That might be sacralidge.

Milldog's Top 5
1. Rio Bravo
2. The Magnificent Seven
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. The Wild Bunch

Just Missing the cut:
Red River
Big Jake
How the West Was Won
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Unforgiven
Winchester '73
El Dorado
The Professionals

[Hock]

Lonesome Dove falls into a unique category.
Not a movie.
Not a tV show
A mini-series

Lonesome Dove is just one beautiful son of a bitch.
Great epic. Great actors playing great parts. All in perfect vehicle

The other McMurtry "Dove" books? You have to REALLY be into the Dove Characters to care enough to read the before-Dove and after-Dove books. they do not stand alone. The Dove stands alone. Lonesome Dove is just one beautiful son of a bitch.

But I urge everyone to sit down with a shot of whiskey, or a Mex beer, leave on the ambient lights, hold on to your replica revolver and watch the aforementioned -
            Professionals
Got-damn its a perfect movie.

(ps, tonight I watched The Wind and the Lion for the umpteenth time. Another perfect movie. They don't make them like that anymore. I don't think the American public is smart enough to appreciate fine and deep movies like that anymore, movies with a sense of meaning, a sense of history, irony, a balance of action and message and plot. Do they understand history? Do they understand...Teddy Roosevelt? 


AND ONE MORE THING!

has anyome mentioned:

True Grit
The Shootist

How did these slip past us so far?

They are perfect films, perfectly made to perfect specs

Hock

[Professor]

True Grit,
The Cowboys
The Shootist


The Duke's best...

[redcap]

Those last three were his best.  "The Cowboys" was the last John Wayne movie I saw at the cinema with my Dad.  He took me to several, including non-westerns like McQ, the oil fire-fighter one, the African animal catching one and of course, our mutual favourite, "The Green Berets".  We were living in Singapore at the time and used to watch the USMC and USN on R&R come into the Britannia Club near Raffles Hotel.  I think back now and realise that was just ten years after Dad returned from his own jungle war in Malaya.

When "The Wild Bunch" was shown I couldn;t go with him because of the rating, I was most disappointed.  In those days we went to the cinema to see the movie, all dressed up to sit in the dark.  There was a smoking section and in the cinemas in Singapore you could order drinks and snacks to be delivered to your seat later in the movie.  There was always a newsreel and then a cartoon and a short feature, then intermission and the main film.

I may have seen Lonesome Dove many years ago, possibly not.  I will rectify that asap. Cheers Redcap