Top 10 Western Gunfights
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LOL! Yep, nothing more scary than Italians with the "stare". These westerns jump started Clint Eastwoods revival in films.
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lots of good ones here.
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A few to mention...
SHANE
Final shootout in the saloon between Shane and Jack Palance, with the Rykers
Saw it in Silsbee as a kid. Sound of the guns deafening to me.
Big impression!
Early in the film Palance is not long in town when a local confronts him and calls him a dirty Yankee.
To which Palance replies...taking advantage of the guy drunk with a bottle in his hand.. "Prove it!"
No contest.
WILD BUNCH
Like the way Holden rounded them up for the finale.
How each one stopped what he was doing, go up.. "why not!"
Then the way they got their firearms positioned just before starting to walk together.
Holden bending over, shoving that 911 in his back waistband. Cocking the pump shotgun.
I like the whole walk to the finish.
footnote: at UT I was in a student film and got shot.
We used a 'squib' right out of special effects big time.
I was shot in the chest while sitting in a chair, filmed in an upstairs lounge on So. Lamar.
A wire hooked to a harness jerked me back for special effects.
The guy who arranged it had worked on special effects team with Peckinpah on this very film, WILD BUNCH.
3:10 to YUMA, new remake
Russell Crowe shooting it out with Ben Foster and the others by the train at the end.
How Crowe shot Foster with his own gun, point blank in the chest.
Not your usual 6-gun, looked like an 8 inch barrel.
Among those three, two of the most unique bad guys in a film. Jack Palance is the most classic, and then Ben Foster right up there.
But there is a third bad buy in a not-exactly shootout. Bruce Dern in "The Cowboys"
Saw it in Tyler actually, while working as a Landman long ago.
The scene where Dern shoots John Wayne and cuts him to pieces in cold blood murder.
A rare scene not only of a hero, but a legend of a hero on the silver screen, getting gunned down.
Bruce Dern's role known as Long Hair, was a real mouthy bad guy, in typical Dern fashion.
He later gets his comeuppance when he's dragged by broken leg by a horse & styrrup at the end.
For Eastwood they are largely the same. An interesting one was the close of
PALERIDER
The advesaries were in "long coats" with a certain appeal.
I'll close backing up the shootouts in general throughout...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
Up there among the great all-time films to watch for the whole length for the many unusual segments in it, each with their own uniqueness.
The shootings at the train, several of them... the killing of the cripple.. and the ending... and Jason Robards dying with a bullet in his gut.
And then Henry Fonda's "Frank" as may the all-time skin-crawling nasty outlaw type, especially played by a usual leading man.
Maybe the all-time effort of a good guy playing the worst kind of bad guy.
A classic shootout needs a classic bad guy on one side of the gun play.
Flashing back to Eastwood... similar to Once Upon A Time... THE OUTLAW JOSIE WHALES
has a lot of classic shootings throughout
Sam Bottoms portrayal of Jamie.. if I have the character down correctly.
Shot and dying and asking Josie to sing that song he liked so well...
One big rat to rival Ben Foster as a rat... . Bill McKinny as Terrill
and Mr. Great-Voice, John Vernon as Fletcher.
All those characters made the film work.
To me great shootout westerns have memorable range of characters and flavors that makes it lasting in the memory.
SHANE
Final shootout in the saloon between Shane and Jack Palance, with the Rykers
Saw it in Silsbee as a kid. Sound of the guns deafening to me.
Big impression!
Early in the film Palance is not long in town when a local confronts him and calls him a dirty Yankee.
To which Palance replies...taking advantage of the guy drunk with a bottle in his hand.. "Prove it!"
No contest.
WILD BUNCH
Like the way Holden rounded them up for the finale.
How each one stopped what he was doing, go up.. "why not!"
Then the way they got their firearms positioned just before starting to walk together.
Holden bending over, shoving that 911 in his back waistband. Cocking the pump shotgun.
I like the whole walk to the finish.
footnote: at UT I was in a student film and got shot.
We used a 'squib' right out of special effects big time.
I was shot in the chest while sitting in a chair, filmed in an upstairs lounge on So. Lamar.
A wire hooked to a harness jerked me back for special effects.
The guy who arranged it had worked on special effects team with Peckinpah on this very film, WILD BUNCH.
3:10 to YUMA, new remake
Russell Crowe shooting it out with Ben Foster and the others by the train at the end.
How Crowe shot Foster with his own gun, point blank in the chest.
Not your usual 6-gun, looked like an 8 inch barrel.
Among those three, two of the most unique bad guys in a film. Jack Palance is the most classic, and then Ben Foster right up there.
But there is a third bad buy in a not-exactly shootout. Bruce Dern in "The Cowboys"
Saw it in Tyler actually, while working as a Landman long ago.
The scene where Dern shoots John Wayne and cuts him to pieces in cold blood murder.
A rare scene not only of a hero, but a legend of a hero on the silver screen, getting gunned down.
Bruce Dern's role known as Long Hair, was a real mouthy bad guy, in typical Dern fashion.
He later gets his comeuppance when he's dragged by broken leg by a horse & styrrup at the end.
For Eastwood they are largely the same. An interesting one was the close of
PALERIDER
The advesaries were in "long coats" with a certain appeal.
I'll close backing up the shootouts in general throughout...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
Up there among the great all-time films to watch for the whole length for the many unusual segments in it, each with their own uniqueness.
The shootings at the train, several of them... the killing of the cripple.. and the ending... and Jason Robards dying with a bullet in his gut.
And then Henry Fonda's "Frank" as may the all-time skin-crawling nasty outlaw type, especially played by a usual leading man.
Maybe the all-time effort of a good guy playing the worst kind of bad guy.
A classic shootout needs a classic bad guy on one side of the gun play.
Flashing back to Eastwood... similar to Once Upon A Time... THE OUTLAW JOSIE WHALES
has a lot of classic shootings throughout
Sam Bottoms portrayal of Jamie.. if I have the character down correctly.
Shot and dying and asking Josie to sing that song he liked so well...
One big rat to rival Ben Foster as a rat... . Bill McKinny as Terrill
and Mr. Great-Voice, John Vernon as Fletcher.
All those characters made the film work.
To me great shootout westerns have memorable range of characters and flavors that makes it lasting in the memory.
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Didn't see My Darling Clementine mentioned. The OK Corral shootout at the end with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp, Victor Mature coughing his guts up as Doc Holiday, and Walter Brennan as Old Man Clanton.
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