Good on ya Ozma

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I love westerns...

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is another good offbeat western by Peckinpah... glad to see The Ballad of Cable Hogue mentioned, that one is great

also try Django -a spaghetti western that obviously influenced Quentin Tarantino

and The Great Silence another spaghetti western, in this one the protagonist is a mute - it has an incredible ending

and you may not consider it offbeat, but it was very groundbreaking and every film buff should see it: High Noon

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I guess Alex Cox's Walker, about William Walker, an American who took a small army of mercenaries to South America and attempted to conquer several South American nations. He appointed himself President of Nicaragua, a post he held from 1856-1857 before being deposed and executed by the government of Honduras.

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“It’s got good actors, and that spells good acting.”

Just watched Cattle Queen of Montana, with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan, Barbara's name in the movie is named Sierra Nevada Jones. It's a bit off-beat because Sierra is riding and shooting and cattle ranchin right along with the cowboys and the Native Americans, who are mostly white actors made up to look like Native Americans.

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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Forty Guns

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“It’s got good actors, and that spells good acting.”

Dust is an odd little western by director Milcho Manchevski that stars Aussie actor David Wenham and Joseph Fiennes. The story is a little roughshod with lots of violence scattered throughout, but I thought it was a great character study.

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Seraphim Falls with Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, it is a good story of revenge. And it is not your run of the mill western.

It really captures the vastness of the west too. It's a very well made film.
Oscar-winning cinematographer John Toll ( Legends of the Fall and Braveheart) was responsible for the cinematography work on the film. Toll later noted it was a "great opportunity to work with a director who was interested in visual storytelling".

It takes a while to finally be let in on what the motivation of Liam Neeson's character is, he and a group of men in his hire are chasing Brosnan with the sole purpose of killing him, but on Liam Neeson's terms. It is well worth a watch, even if you aren't a western fan.

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I already mentioned this in the other westerns thread, but you guys have to see The Bravados it was such pleasant surprise.

Oh boy I have this to watch I am really exceited about this, The Furies 1950.

Synopsis
Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann’s crackling western melodrama The Furies. In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T. C. Jeffords (Huston, in his final role) butts heads with his daughter, Vance (Stanwyck), a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and, finally, ownership of the land itself. Both sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama, The Furies is a hidden treasure of American filmmaking, boasting Oscar™–nominated cinematography and vivid supporting turns from Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, and Gilbert Roland.

where would we be without those folks at The Criterion Collection
more info:
The Furies

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Any relation to 'Indianna'?

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