Super picks by everyone.
Another great one which might have been mentioned:
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. The best of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy starring The Duke in one of his legendary roles. A couple enduring scenes from that flick:
Wayne's troop leaves the fort with a couple chicks...
Couldn't find the final shoot-out from Culpepper but linked below, to give a flavor for the flick, is a confrontation in a bar between the company and a bunch of horse rustlers.
The whole movie is a hidden gem:
Can't believe I forgot this one: The Culpepper Cattle Company...1972
Young kid grows up quickly when he's taken on as a cook's assistant on a cattle drive. Low-budget great Western.
The shoot-out scene near the end is dynamite.
Also, in the same vein as kids growing up, maybe somebody...
I mean, if we're ditching "underappreciated" and just going for greatest Westerns ever, eezy-peezy...top-5, in no particular order:
Shane, The Searchers, Red River, Once Upon A Time In The West, and The Good The Bad And The Ugly...
Except Lonesome Dove...and some others mentioned here...not only "got their due" but were recognized as some of the great Westerns of all times.
For my money, Lonesome Dove is the best television ever done.
Forgot one: Last Train From Gun Hill with Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn.
Kirk is a sheriff whose wife, an Indian woman, is raped and murdered by the son (and his friends) of powerful rancher Anthony Quinn who lives in Gun Hill, down the road a good bit, and happens to be an old compadre of...
Ulzana's Raid with Burt Lancaster; Valdez Is Coming with Burt Lancaster; Johnny Guitar with...I forget who...I think Joan Crawford was in it.
All of these are lesser known but great Westerns.
Haha! No worries on that score, buddy. I wish there were more Steps on message boards; the discourse (mine too) would be a lot more intelligent and civil.
As for what happened on the other board, a mistake was made and then corrected. You have to respect that because these days people in...
Rest easy, Step. The only bombs I'm packing are those of Truth...which is the most powerful explosive of all.
Hope all you boys are doing well. Stay safe...keep your heads down...football season is only 240 days (and counting) away... ;)
To quote the main character from Darby O'Gill and the Little People, one of the great movies of all time: Hoo Hoo...Hullabaloo...Haha!
I mean, seriously, your post above ranks as one of the purest collections of BS ever packed into a single paragraph.