The Last Western You Watched ?

[Phantom Stranger]

Howdy Everyone,

Nice new site you have here, so I think I'll move this thread over here from the old place. So, plain and simple what was the last western movie you watched? Here's mine:

"Appaloosa"(2008)
-Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen

Plot Synopsis: IMDB

New Mexico.Territory.1882. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye.

Phantom's Review: I loved this movie ! Great acting from all the stars, beautifully filmed and a nice balance of action and humor. A wonderful western.

[Odessa Red]

The last western I watched was Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood...last Friday I watched my dvd of The Cowboys with John Wayne. Two of my cousins (R.D. Ayers and Clayton Hunt) were stunt riders for the kid cowboys and my Uncle Del is in the last scene opening the gate when the cows come in...he's got the handlebar mustache! My mom got to meet the Duke when they were filming the movie and she has autographs and some scraps of film discarded on the ground. I remember her telling me that she only came up to his belly button!...she's all of 5'3" :D

I love the scene where the kids sneak the whiskey and get drunk!...that movie is a classic!

[Phantom Stranger]

"The Burrowers" (2009)

Plot: IMDB
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories. A handful of brave pioneers maintain isolated settlements in the badlands beyond civilization. Irish Immigrant Fergus Coffey is near to winning the hand of his beloved Maryanne when she is suddenly taken from him, her family brutally abducted in a nighttime attack on their homestead. Suspicion falls immediately on hostile Indians. Experienced Indian fighters Will Parcher and John Clay form a posse and set out to rescue the kidnapped settlers, taking along a naïve teenager hoping to prove himself a man, an ex-slave looking to find his place in the world and their ranch-hand, Coffey. But as men vanish in the night and horrific evidence accumulates with the dead and dying, the group discovers that their prey is far more terrifying than anything human, and their prospects are far more terrible than death.

Phantom's Review: I've always been a fan of both westerns and horror movies and always found it interesting when someone tries to combine the two, but in most cases these hybrid films, well.....suck. But much to my surprise "The Burrowers" is actually a decent film. Lots of western action, a decent story and some fun looking monsters. Not a great movie by any means, but entertaining.
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[Jon Scott]

The Good,The Bad and The Ugly, (Blu-Ray) release.

[Michael McQuarrie]

Er..."Charge!" AKA "Those Dirty Dogs!", dubbed in english with Portuguese subs. I enjoyed it greatly. :)

[KD Younger]

Life & Times Of Judge Roy Bean (Judge Bean vs. Lawyer Gass....it's a hoot to watch the town signage change from Bean(s) to Gass..... ;) )

Sitting Bull (Buffalo Bill's History Lesson)

Goin' South

Obilvion & Backlash ( a two parter of cowboys & aliens...)

Scalawag

Films I enjoy and get a good chuckle a time or two out of.

Regarding the opening film review of APALOOSA - Allison French is refined?!!? ;) I got to hand it to Rene Z. however, she really does fit the period pieces well in her look and appearance.....

[Phantom Stranger]

"The Left Handed Gun" (1958)
-Paul Newman

Plot: IMDB
William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef, Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him - Tom and Charlie, two hands he worked with; Pat Garrett, who is about to be married; and the kindly Mexican couple who take him in when he's in trouble - into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.


Phantom's Review: Like most Hollywood "Billy The Kid" movies, this one is more fiction than fact, but Newman does his usual fine performance and the film is an okay piece of entertainment.

[Phantom Stranger]

"High Plains Drifter"
-Clint Eastwood

A mysterious stranger is hired by the town of Lago to protect them from three ex-convicts, but the stranger has plans for the town of his own.

Phantom's Review: One of my favorite Eastwood movies. Violent, blood soaked, and a little bit spooky. One of Eastwood's best.
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[Phantom Stranger]

"The Baron Of Arizona" (1950)
-Vincent Price

Plot: IMDB
Master swindler James Reavis devotes years to forging documents that will give him claim to the entire state of Arizona. He finds a young girl whom he believes is an orphan and hires a governess to educate her in the manner of the Spanish aristocracy. He invents deceased parents for her whose ancestry can be traced to a mythical Spanish nobleman. He then insinuates himself into a Spanish monastery for three years so he can access its biblioteca which carries the records of Spanish land grants. He later joins a gypsy band to have access to the library of a Spanish noblemen where he can alter duplicate documents. When everything is in place, he marries the now-grown young woman and puts in his claim as her husband as the Baron of Arizona.

Phantom's Review: Based on true events, This is an excellent movie.Vincent Price (a couple of years away from becoming a horror star) is perfect as the brilliant forger who almost gets away with stealing an entire state. Not a typical western, but a great movie to see. I remember several years ago on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" Price was being interviewed and he said "Baron.." was his favorite of the movies he had made.
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[C. F. 'Charley' Eckhardt]

The Baron of Arizona was also Vincent Price's first movie.  He was a New York stage actor who was cast as Reavis.  The movie cost $300,000 to make--a bundle at the time--& was an almost total flop.

[Phantom Stranger]

"Prairie Fever" (2008)
-Kevin Sorbo

A drunken ex-sheriff is hired to escort three woman to Carson City, along the way the meet a lady gambler on the run from her partner.

Phantom's Review: While all the actor's turn in fine performances, the film is rather dull and lifeless. Little action and a boring plot.
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[Wyatt Earp]

The last western I saw was Appaloosa.

[Phantom Stranger]

"The Ride Back" (1957)
-Anthony Quinn, William Conrad (who also produced)

Plot: IMDB
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.

Phantom's Review: While the plot is pretty basic, the actors do such a fine job that you find yourself totally into the film. Not a great movie, but highly enjoyable.