I found a YouTube page that has a bunch on western movies to watch for free. I haven't watched anything from there yet, but I thought it might be helpful for people looking for movies to watch for this countdown.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJ...Po799bA/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJ...Po799bA/videos
Most of those seem to be Spaghetti Westerns. That subgenre, once you get past the handful of truly great ones, becomes pretty interchangeable.
Warlock (1959, Edward Dmytryk) with Richard Widmark, Hank Fonda, and Anthony Quinn is a good one. I don't think Red Sun (1971) is especially good, but it is a pretty irresistible curio co-starring Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, and Ursula Andress (?!?!). It's directed by Terence Young, best known for the Bond pictures Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Thunderball and the Audrey Hepburn thriller Wait Until Dark. But past the basic idea and oddball cast Red Sun can't live up to the classics like Yojimbo and Once Upon a Time in the West it is trading off of. Not a whole lot of style added. I wouldn't expect it to show up on a whole lot of ballots, but to see Mifune and Delon in this genre is what it is. 1975's Boss N!gger (aka Boss, aka The Black Bounty Killer) starring Fred Williamson is a good'un, for my money far and away the best of the subgenre of Blacksploitation Westerns. Take a Hard Ride (1975) with Williamson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, and Lee Van Cleef is there, too.
Lee Van Cleef made bunches of Spaghetti Westerns after his two iconic Leone pictures, but I wouldn't say Bad Man's River (1971) is among the better ones. Death Rides a Horse, The Big Gundown, and Sabata are the ones to really seek out for other European Westerns starring Van Cleef without Eastwood and Leone. Day of Anger (1967), which is available on that YouTube page, is more worthwhile.
Brando's One-Eyed Jacks (1961) is buried down the page a bit. You may be able to find better prints of it around for free, but that one is surely worth watching. Peckinpah's low-budget debut The Deadly Companions (1961) is on there. Not one of his masterpieces but a good flick. Broken Arrow (1950) starring Jimmy Stewart is on there. A couple latter day John Waynes (Rio Lobo and Big Jake),
There's some decent stuff on that page, plenty of trash.
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Last edited by Holden Pike; 12-13-19 at 02:54 PM.