My Favorite Westerns....The 60's

The Alamo 1960
John Wayne Richard Widmark

Even though this movie isn't accurate, I still like this "historical" film about The battle of the Alamo.


Flaming Star 1960
Elvis Presley Barbara Eden Steve Forrest

Elvis stars as Pacer Burton in a dramatic turn as mixed blood rancher caught between two worlds


The Magnificent Seven 1960
Yul Brynner Eli Wallach Steve McQueen

Western style version of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai


The Misfits 1961
Clark Gable Marilyn Monroe Montgomery Clift

The Misfits follows divorcee Rosyln Tabor and her relationship with cowboys Gay Langland and Perce Howland. This is Gable and Monroe's last film.


How the West Was Won 1962
Debbie Reynolds Henry Fonda Gregory Peck and more

 A saga spanning several decades of a family during the Westward Expansion of the 19th century.


The Man Who Shot Liberty  Valance 1962
John Wayne Lee Marvin James Stewart

US Senator Ransom Stoddard returns to Shinbone for the funeral of a friend and comes clean about the deed that made him famous.


Cat Ballou 1965
Jane Fonda Lee Marvin

 Cat Ballou is a comedy based on a serious novel The Ballad of Cat Ballou. This movie is a about a woman who hires a famous gunman to avenge her father's murder but, finds the gunman is very different from what she expected.


The Sons of Katie Elder 1965
John Wayne Dean Martin Michael Anderson jr. Earl Holliman

 Four sons, a gambler, a hardware dealer, a professional gunman, and a student reunite in their hometown for the funeral of their mother and find their father had been cheated out of their ranch and murdered.


The Good the Bad and the Ugly 1966
Clint Eastwood Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef

Two men make an uneasy alliance against one in search of a fortune in gold buried in a cemetery.


Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969
Paul Newman, Robert Redford

Butch and Sundance pull off two robberies and along with Sundances girl run off to Bolivia with a posse in pursuit.


Support Your local Sheriff 1969
James Garner Joan Hackett Jack Elam

In this comedy, a man from the east stops in the west in Calendar, Colorado on his way to Australia and somehow becomes sheriff.


True Grit 1969
John Wayne Glen Campbell Kim Darby

14 year old Maddie Ross hires drunk US Marshall Rooster Cogburn to track down her father's killer. Along the way they are joined by a Texas Ranger who hopes to collect on the $1500 reward for the capture of the killer Tom Chaney.

Well, I screwed up already. I missed a Tuesday. Darn it! Oh well, here's another list.

 MY FAVORITE WESTERNS, THE 50'S

Annie Get Your Gun 1950 
Betty Hutton Howard Keel

 This is a musical about Annie Oakley. Though it is not the best of movies, I still enjoy it.
 I added a picture of Barbara Stanwyk below from the movie Annie Oakley because I failed to add it to the other list and I really like this one too. It's from 1935 and is not a musical.

Calamity Jane 1953 
Doris Day Howard Keel

 A musical about Calamity Jane and her rumored romance with Wild Bill Hickok

Shane 1953 
Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin

 A stranger rides into town and gets drawn into a conflict between a homesteader and a cattle baron.

Oklahoma! 1955 
Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones, and Gene Nelson

 This is a musical about two cowboys trying to win the hearts of the women they love.

Giant 1956 
James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson

 There is alot going on in this one running 3 and a half hours. It's basically about money, love, and jealousy.

Love Me Tender 1956 Elvis Presley Debra Paget

 Three brothers return home from war to find their fourth and youngest brother has married the girlfriend of the eldest.

The Searchers  1956 
Natalie Wood John Wayne Jeffrey Hunter

Three men search for two young women who have been kidnapped by the Comanches. After many years, one of them does not want to return.

3:10 To Yuma 1957 
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin

Small time rancher is paid to secretly take an outlaw leader to the next town to catch the train to Yuma to stand trial.

Rio bravo 1959 
John Wayne, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin

 A town sheriff arrests the brother of a powerful rancher to help his friend, a drunken deputy sheriff. He enlists the help of two other men, a young gunfighter, and a crippled man to hold off the rancher's gang

Next week, the 60's

 So, I've realized that I like to talk about alot of different things though, I haven't been here for awhile. I've decided maybe I should do like others have done and post about certain things on certain days. Anyway, So, what's today...Tuesday. Ok, so let's say every other Tuesday I will post about movies. Later I will pick a day to write about what's going on in my head. There's just so much swirling around right now, and I just haven't the time to put it all down. So, here we go.


 A list of some of my favorite westerns.....let's start with the old ones. This will be short, I'm not trying to get into all the descriptions about the movies and why I like them.....well, it started to get long so, I will just start with the 1940's, how 'bout that....

 Let's see. So, I went through a long list of westerns because I'm getting old lady brain and had to kind of refresh my mind a little. In doing so, I've found that there are alot of movies I haven't seen. I must remedy that situation.

Not in any particular order.

The 3 Godfathers 1948
 This is one of my all time favorite movies. Starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. It's basically three outlaws stuck in the desert with an orphaned baby.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
 Starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt. This one is about two jobless americans searching for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains

Angel and the Badman 1947
 This is another John Wayne film also starring Gail Russell and Harry Carey. A Quaker girl falls for the bad guy. Will he stay bad or change his ways and stay with her.

My Friend Flicka 1943
 Starring Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, and Rita Johnson. Young Ken is given a colt to raise to teach him responsibility and to help him with his confidence.

Rachel and the Stranger 1948
 Starring Loretta Young, William Holden, and Robert Mitchum. The last one on my list for the day is about David a widower who marries Rachel, an indentured servant to ensure that his son Davey is raised properly. David pays no real attention to her until his friend Jim comes on the scene.

Well, that's it for today...see ya on the flip side!