Top Five American Westerns?

1. The Searchers
2. Shane

If John Ireland had killed John Wayne at the end of Red River, it would be number 3.

Damn it was hard narrowing it down to 5.

This was the best I could do:

1. Unforgiven (1992)
2. The Searchers (1956)
3. My Darling Clementine (1946)
4. The Wild Bunch (1969)
5. Red River (1948)

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1. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
2. Shane
3. The Professionals
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. Hondo

Newest to oldest:

Little Big Man
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Magnificent Seven (original, of course)
High Noon
Fort Apache

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"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Man Without a Star
High Plains Drifter
The Professionals
Wild Bunch/Tombstone

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"Bowels in, or bowels out?"

5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. The Searchers
3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. True Grit (2010)
1. Unforgiven

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Hold your applause till after the me.

Sorry. All my favorites are Italian westerns like the Dollars Trilogy and such. I did like Shanghai Noon and Django Unchained though.

Just some of my favs. Not in any particular order.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Blind Justice (1994)
El Diablo (1990)
Tombstone (1993)
The Magnificent Seven (1998)

Stagecoach (1939)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Silverado (1985) (Sue me. Kevin Kline rocks in this movie)
3:10 to Yuma (2007) (Because Ben Foster)

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Yes, it is your circus and these are your monkeys.

I know plenty of people are nonplussed by the ending, but I love it. It's refreshing