Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. With that being said I'm going to bring you my top 10 favorite westerns of all-time. So without further ado...
10. Stagecoach
This is possibly one of the greatest films of all-time and it is John Ford's best directed film. a stagecoach set to leave Tonto, New Mexico for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (played by Claire Trevor) is a woman with a scandalous past who has been driven out of town by the high-minded ladies of the community. Lucy Mallory (played by Louise Platt) is the wife of a cavalry officer stationed in Lordsburg, and she's determined to be with him. Hatfield (played by John Carradine) is a smooth-talking cardsharp who claims to be along to "protect" Lucy, although he seems to have romantic intentions. Dr. Boone (played by Thomas Mitchell) is a self-styled philosopher, a drunkard, and a physician who's been stripped of his license. Mr. Peacock (played by Donald Meek) is a slightly nervous whiskey salesman (and, not surprisingly, Dr. Boone's new best friend). Gatewood (played by Berton Churchill) is a crooked banker who needs to get out of town. Buck (played by Andy Devine) is the hayseed stage driver, and Sheriff Wilcox (played by George Bancroft) is along to offer protection and keep an eye peeled for the Ringo Kid (played by John Wayne), a well-known outlaw who has just broken out of jail. While Wilcox does find Ringo, a principled man who gives himself up without a fight, the real danger lies farther down the trail, where a band of Apaches, led by Geronimo, could attack at any time. Stagecoach was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Best Suppoting Actor, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography, while winning 2 (Best Supporting Actor and Best Music) and it has a rating of 100% on rottentomatoes.com
9. Django Unchained
This film is slowly becoming my favorite Quentin Tarantino film and it is the best modern western out there. Django (played by Jamie Foxx), a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (played by Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (played by Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (played by Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave. Django Unchained was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor while winning 2 (Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor) and it has a rating of 88% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. Tombstone
This film has an all-star cast and it is just an absolute epic film. Wyatt Earp (played by Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (played by Sam Elliot) and Morgan (played by Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that long-time friend Doc Holliday (played by Val Kilmer) is there and that the town is run by a group of brutal outlaws called the Cowboys. Earp, frustrated with his laudanum-addicted wife, begins a romance with traveling stage actress Josephine Marcus (played by Dana Delany). Meanwhile, the Cowboys terrorize the citizens of Tombstone unchecked. When the town marshal is killed by a Cowboy, Earp steps in to prevent a lynching by an angry mob. He also refuses to hand the killer over to his fellows, beginning the enmity between the Cowboys and the Earp brothers. Virgil, overcome with guilt at doing nothing to help the Tombstone citizens, accepts the position of town marshal. With Wyatt and Morgan as his deputies, and the help of Doc, Virgil attempts to arrest several Cowboys, resulting in the famous OK Corral shoot-out. The Cowboys take revenge by ambushing two of the brothers and injuring Virgil and killing Morgan. The Earps leave town, apparently cowed. Wyatt returns, wearing the badge of a U.S. marshal, vowing to destroy every last Cowboy. He hunts them mercilessly, until the leader, Johnny Ringo (played by Michael Biehn) challenges Wyatt to a duel. Tombstone has a rating of 73% on rottentomatoes.com.
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This film is just simply great and has a probably one of the best scores in film history. In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (played by Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the Ugly (played by Eli Wallach), a Mexican bandit. Though dubbed "the Good," Eastwood's character is not much better than his opponents -- he is just smarter and shoots faster. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has a rating of 97% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. True Grit (1969)
This film is simply amazing becuase it is the movie that John Wayne won his only acting Oscar foe. Grumpy and pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn (played by John Wayne), is hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (played by Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (played by Jeff Corey), who killed her father. The headstrong Mattie could have had her pick of lawmen, but selects the aging Cogburn because she believes he has "true grit". Also heading into Indian territory in search of Chaney is Texas Ranger La Boeuf (played by Glen Campbell), who wants to collect the reward placed on the fugitive's head for his earlier crimes. Complicating matters are Chaney's scurrilous cronies Ned Pepper (played by Robert Duvall), Quincy (played by Jeremy Slate), and Moon (played by Dennis Hopper), who have no qualms about killing a troublesome teenaged girl like Mattie. True Grit as nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Original Song while winning the award for Best Actor and it has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
This film is probably the funniest serious minded western ever made. Witty pals Butch (played by Paul Newman) and Sundance (played by Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with their trademark non-lethal style. After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's schoolmarm girlfriend, Etta (played by Katharine Ross), the Gang robs the same train, but this time, the railroad boss has hired the best trackers in the business to foil the crime. After being tailed over rocks and a river gorge by guys that they can barely identify save for a white hat, Butch and Sundance decide that maybe it's time to try their luck in Bolivia. Taking Etta with them, they live high on ill-gotten Bolivian gains, but Etta leaves after their white-hatted nemesis portentously arrives. Their luck running out, Butch and Sundance are soon holed up in a barn surrounded by scores of Bolivian soldiers who are waiting for the pair to make one last run for it. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Best Sound while winning 4 (Best Cinematography, Best Song, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score) and it has a rating of 89% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. Rio Bravo
This film is flat out hilarious and it has some really great action. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (played by John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (played by Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that Joe is the brother of wealthy land baron Nathan Burdette (played by John Russell), who owns a big chunk of the county and can buy all the hired guns he doesn't already have working for him. Burdette's men cut the town off to prevent Chance from getting Joe into more secure surroundings, and then the hired guns come in, waiting around for their chance to break him out of jail. Chance has to wait for the United States marshal to show up, in six days, his only help from Stumpy (playedd by Walter Brennan), a toothless, cantankerous old deputy with a bad leg who guards the jail, and Dude (played by Dean Martin), his former deputy, who's spent the last two years stumbling around in a drunken stupor over a woman that left him. Chance's friend, trail boss Pat Wheeler (played by Ward Bond), arrives at the outset of the siege and tries to help, offering the services of himself and his drovers as deputies, which Chance turns down, saying they're not professionals and would be too worried about their families to be good at anything except being targets for Burdette's men; but Chance does try to enlist the services of Wheeler's newest employee, a callow-looking young gunman named Colorado Ryan (played by Ricky Nelson), who politely turns him down, saying he prefers to mind his own business. In the midst of all of this tension, Feathers (played by Angie Dickinson), a dance hall entertainer, arrives in town and nearly gets locked up by Chance for cheating at cards, until he finds out that he was wrong and that she's not guilty -- this starts a verbal duel between the two of them that grows more sexually intense as the movie progresses and she finds herself in the middle of Chance's fight. Wheeler is murdered by one of Burgette's hired guns who is, in turn, killed by Dude in an intense confrontation in a saloon. Colorado throws in with Chance after his boss is killed and picks up some of the slack left by Dude, who isn't quite over his need for a drink or the shakes that come with trying to stop. Chance and Burdette keep raising the ante on each other, Chance, Dude, and Colorado killing enough of the rancher's men that he's got to double what he's paying to make it worth the risk, and the undertaker (played by Joseph Shimada) gets plenty of business from Burdette before the two sides arrive at a stalemate -- Burdette is holding Dude and will release him in exchange for Joe. This leads to the final, bloody confrontation between Chance and Burdette, where the wagons brought to town by the murdered Wheeler play an unexpected and essential role in tipping the balance. Rio Bravo has a 100% rating on rottentomatoes.com.
3. Unforgiven
This is probably the greatest western of all-time and it has a talented all-star cast. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (played by Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (played by Clint Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (played by Jaimz Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (played by Morgan Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill (played by Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English Bob (played by Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W. Beauchamp (played by Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and promises to tell Beauchamp the real story about violent frontier life and justice. But when Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone soon learns a harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the malleability of ideas like "justice." Unforgiven was nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Pictures, Best Art Direction, Best Director, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematgraphy, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor while winning 4 (Best Picture, Best director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Film Editing) and it has a rating of 96% on rottentomatoes.com.
2. No Country for Old Men
This film is fantastic and the character of Anton Chigurh freaks me out still to this day. Llewelyn Moss (played by Josh Brolin) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back trunk. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law — namely aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (played by Tommy Lee Jones) — can contain. Moss tries to evade his pursuers, in particular a mysterious mastermind named Anton Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem) who flips coins for human lives, as the crime drama broadens. No Country for Old Men was nominated for 8 Academy awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Edting, Best Director, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay while winning 4 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay) and it has a rating of 94% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. Blazing Saddles
This film is my favorite western, comedy and one of my favorite films of all-time. Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Blazing Saddles was nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song and Best Film Editing and it has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what are some of your favorite westerns and what do you think of my list? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard
Jonah Sparks
10. Stagecoach
This is possibly one of the greatest films of all-time and it is John Ford's best directed film. a stagecoach set to leave Tonto, New Mexico for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (played by Claire Trevor) is a woman with a scandalous past who has been driven out of town by the high-minded ladies of the community. Lucy Mallory (played by Louise Platt) is the wife of a cavalry officer stationed in Lordsburg, and she's determined to be with him. Hatfield (played by John Carradine) is a smooth-talking cardsharp who claims to be along to "protect" Lucy, although he seems to have romantic intentions. Dr. Boone (played by Thomas Mitchell) is a self-styled philosopher, a drunkard, and a physician who's been stripped of his license. Mr. Peacock (played by Donald Meek) is a slightly nervous whiskey salesman (and, not surprisingly, Dr. Boone's new best friend). Gatewood (played by Berton Churchill) is a crooked banker who needs to get out of town. Buck (played by Andy Devine) is the hayseed stage driver, and Sheriff Wilcox (played by George Bancroft) is along to offer protection and keep an eye peeled for the Ringo Kid (played by John Wayne), a well-known outlaw who has just broken out of jail. While Wilcox does find Ringo, a principled man who gives himself up without a fight, the real danger lies farther down the trail, where a band of Apaches, led by Geronimo, could attack at any time. Stagecoach was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Best Suppoting Actor, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography, while winning 2 (Best Supporting Actor and Best Music) and it has a rating of 100% on rottentomatoes.com
9. Django Unchained
This film is slowly becoming my favorite Quentin Tarantino film and it is the best modern western out there. Django (played by Jamie Foxx), a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (played by Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (played by Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (played by Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave. Django Unchained was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor while winning 2 (Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor) and it has a rating of 88% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. Tombstone
This film has an all-star cast and it is just an absolute epic film. Wyatt Earp (played by Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (played by Sam Elliot) and Morgan (played by Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that long-time friend Doc Holliday (played by Val Kilmer) is there and that the town is run by a group of brutal outlaws called the Cowboys. Earp, frustrated with his laudanum-addicted wife, begins a romance with traveling stage actress Josephine Marcus (played by Dana Delany). Meanwhile, the Cowboys terrorize the citizens of Tombstone unchecked. When the town marshal is killed by a Cowboy, Earp steps in to prevent a lynching by an angry mob. He also refuses to hand the killer over to his fellows, beginning the enmity between the Cowboys and the Earp brothers. Virgil, overcome with guilt at doing nothing to help the Tombstone citizens, accepts the position of town marshal. With Wyatt and Morgan as his deputies, and the help of Doc, Virgil attempts to arrest several Cowboys, resulting in the famous OK Corral shoot-out. The Cowboys take revenge by ambushing two of the brothers and injuring Virgil and killing Morgan. The Earps leave town, apparently cowed. Wyatt returns, wearing the badge of a U.S. marshal, vowing to destroy every last Cowboy. He hunts them mercilessly, until the leader, Johnny Ringo (played by Michael Biehn) challenges Wyatt to a duel. Tombstone has a rating of 73% on rottentomatoes.com.
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This film is just simply great and has a probably one of the best scores in film history. In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (played by Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the Ugly (played by Eli Wallach), a Mexican bandit. Though dubbed "the Good," Eastwood's character is not much better than his opponents -- he is just smarter and shoots faster. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has a rating of 97% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. True Grit (1969)
This film is simply amazing becuase it is the movie that John Wayne won his only acting Oscar foe. Grumpy and pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn (played by John Wayne), is hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (played by Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (played by Jeff Corey), who killed her father. The headstrong Mattie could have had her pick of lawmen, but selects the aging Cogburn because she believes he has "true grit". Also heading into Indian territory in search of Chaney is Texas Ranger La Boeuf (played by Glen Campbell), who wants to collect the reward placed on the fugitive's head for his earlier crimes. Complicating matters are Chaney's scurrilous cronies Ned Pepper (played by Robert Duvall), Quincy (played by Jeremy Slate), and Moon (played by Dennis Hopper), who have no qualms about killing a troublesome teenaged girl like Mattie. True Grit as nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Original Song while winning the award for Best Actor and it has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
This film is probably the funniest serious minded western ever made. Witty pals Butch (played by Paul Newman) and Sundance (played by Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with their trademark non-lethal style. After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's schoolmarm girlfriend, Etta (played by Katharine Ross), the Gang robs the same train, but this time, the railroad boss has hired the best trackers in the business to foil the crime. After being tailed over rocks and a river gorge by guys that they can barely identify save for a white hat, Butch and Sundance decide that maybe it's time to try their luck in Bolivia. Taking Etta with them, they live high on ill-gotten Bolivian gains, but Etta leaves after their white-hatted nemesis portentously arrives. Their luck running out, Butch and Sundance are soon holed up in a barn surrounded by scores of Bolivian soldiers who are waiting for the pair to make one last run for it. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Best Sound while winning 4 (Best Cinematography, Best Song, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score) and it has a rating of 89% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. Rio Bravo
This film is flat out hilarious and it has some really great action. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (played by John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (played by Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that Joe is the brother of wealthy land baron Nathan Burdette (played by John Russell), who owns a big chunk of the county and can buy all the hired guns he doesn't already have working for him. Burdette's men cut the town off to prevent Chance from getting Joe into more secure surroundings, and then the hired guns come in, waiting around for their chance to break him out of jail. Chance has to wait for the United States marshal to show up, in six days, his only help from Stumpy (playedd by Walter Brennan), a toothless, cantankerous old deputy with a bad leg who guards the jail, and Dude (played by Dean Martin), his former deputy, who's spent the last two years stumbling around in a drunken stupor over a woman that left him. Chance's friend, trail boss Pat Wheeler (played by Ward Bond), arrives at the outset of the siege and tries to help, offering the services of himself and his drovers as deputies, which Chance turns down, saying they're not professionals and would be too worried about their families to be good at anything except being targets for Burdette's men; but Chance does try to enlist the services of Wheeler's newest employee, a callow-looking young gunman named Colorado Ryan (played by Ricky Nelson), who politely turns him down, saying he prefers to mind his own business. In the midst of all of this tension, Feathers (played by Angie Dickinson), a dance hall entertainer, arrives in town and nearly gets locked up by Chance for cheating at cards, until he finds out that he was wrong and that she's not guilty -- this starts a verbal duel between the two of them that grows more sexually intense as the movie progresses and she finds herself in the middle of Chance's fight. Wheeler is murdered by one of Burgette's hired guns who is, in turn, killed by Dude in an intense confrontation in a saloon. Colorado throws in with Chance after his boss is killed and picks up some of the slack left by Dude, who isn't quite over his need for a drink or the shakes that come with trying to stop. Chance and Burdette keep raising the ante on each other, Chance, Dude, and Colorado killing enough of the rancher's men that he's got to double what he's paying to make it worth the risk, and the undertaker (played by Joseph Shimada) gets plenty of business from Burdette before the two sides arrive at a stalemate -- Burdette is holding Dude and will release him in exchange for Joe. This leads to the final, bloody confrontation between Chance and Burdette, where the wagons brought to town by the murdered Wheeler play an unexpected and essential role in tipping the balance. Rio Bravo has a 100% rating on rottentomatoes.com.
3. Unforgiven
This is probably the greatest western of all-time and it has a talented all-star cast. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (played by Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer William Munny (played by Clint Eastwood) is sought out by neophyte gunslinger the Schofield Kid (played by Jaimz Woolvett) to go with him to Big Whiskey and collect the bounty. While Munny insists, "I ain't like that no more," he needs the bounty money for his children, and the two men convince Munny's clean-living comrade Ned Logan (played by Morgan Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman. Little Bill (played by Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority. When pompous gunman English Bob (played by Richard Harris) arrives in Big Whiskey with pulp biographer W.W. Beauchamp (played by Saul Rubinek) in tow, Little Bill beats Bob senseless and promises to tell Beauchamp the real story about violent frontier life and justice. But when Munny, the true unwritten legend, comes to town, everyone soon learns a harsh lesson about the price of vindictive bloodshed and the malleability of ideas like "justice." Unforgiven was nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Pictures, Best Art Direction, Best Director, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematgraphy, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor while winning 4 (Best Picture, Best director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Film Editing) and it has a rating of 96% on rottentomatoes.com.
2. No Country for Old Men
This film is fantastic and the character of Anton Chigurh freaks me out still to this day. Llewelyn Moss (played by Josh Brolin) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back trunk. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law — namely aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (played by Tommy Lee Jones) — can contain. Moss tries to evade his pursuers, in particular a mysterious mastermind named Anton Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem) who flips coins for human lives, as the crime drama broadens. No Country for Old Men was nominated for 8 Academy awards including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Edting, Best Director, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay while winning 4 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay) and it has a rating of 94% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. Blazing Saddles
This film is my favorite western, comedy and one of my favorite films of all-time. Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Blazing Saddles was nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song and Best Film Editing and it has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what are some of your favorite westerns and what do you think of my list? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard
Jonah Sparks
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