[Walt.]

Originally Posted by John_W

I have not seen those. How would you compare them to my favorite westerns? High Noon, (I've seen it at least 25 times), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (seen at least 20 times), Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood (seen about 5 times), 3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe (seen about 5 times) and the Coen Bros version of True Grit (seen 3 times).

I've seen the movies you listed (except for the new True Grit) several times each... and like them all. I'm not really sure why I prefer "The Searchers" except that it just draws you in and gets you involved. High Noon had that same sort of thing. BC&SK and the Unforgiven, while both great movies, just felt like interesting, enjoyable movies... but just movies. I prefer the Glenn Ford 3:10 version; maybe because he played against type he seemed more evil.
One or two scenes of The Searchers were clearly filmed on stage... and that was a bit distracting.