The Best Duels In Westerns
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- After recently posting a video on the fastest actors with a gun. I thought I’d add another video on the best duels in westerns. I don’t think I’m spoiling anyone's idea about dueling, but in the real west dueling was not a thing. Typically if there was a gunfight it was an ambush, not a face to face duel that Hollywood has created for dramatic effect. Having said that, we are here to celebrate the movies, not the real life gunplay in the wild west.
These are the Western genre's quickest and deadliest pistol duels of all time. This is not a definitive or ranked list, just some of the best.
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The final duel between Harmonica and Frank in Once Upon a Time In the West was always one of my favorites. The music was a big part of the drama.
I think your right however the climax of true grit was something special too
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Yes I agree, and where is Silverado on this list? Good Bad and the ugly?
The Big Gundown, of course, the Audie Murphy westerns, El Dorado.
One of my faves is the final duel in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It was visually impressive with awesome music and a great build-up. The dialog was top-notch, too.
Absolutely correct the tension was intense and everyone of the characters was on the table (hell I would not have been surprised if they all died)
All three of the Dollars movies have iconic gunfights to this day I can't say which is my favourite from a Few Dollars More's realisation that Colonel Mortimer's bounty wasn't money but Indio's life, the orchestral beauty and scale of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (especially as it's one of the 2 grandest and most important westerns of all time) or the foreshadowing in a Fistful of Dollars where Clint wins not through speed but intelligence as Ramos noted early they are all absolutely top drawer.
And a splendid exercise in game theory. A true classic.
Appaloosa is one of the most unrecognized western movies by far. This on my top 5 list of westerns of all times, mainly because it was period correct, and they showed how a genuine shoutout really took place back then. And of course the cast was brilliant.
Cant argue with that.
very UNDERRATED movie.
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Another very underrated Western with Sam Harris is Riders of the Purple Sage
Nice to see Guilio Petroni's masterpiece Death Rides a Horse getting in there, such a great movie... The finale of The Good The Bad and the Ugly is my number one showdown
Such a great movie, might I add Day of Anger too?
The final shootout in High Noon comes to mind, agree, Shane was one of the best.
If you watch closely Ladd's pistol is horizontal when he "shoots" the guy on the balcony. Then when he is shown from behind the muzzle blast and smoke goes up.
@@JBliehall And it's a disguised double-action revolver.
I always like the final duel of shane especially as there is an exchange of words first with one of the best one liners delivered by alan ladd
"What have you heard, Shane?"
"That you're a lowdown Yankee liar."
"Prove it."
I first saw it back in the late '50s but always remembered that line.
If you watch closely Ladd's pistol is horizontal when he "shoots" the guy on the balcony. Then when he is shown from behind the muzzle blast and smoke goes up.
'...you're a lowdown Yankee liar' and 'Prove it' those similar lines were also spoken when the grinning Wilson gunned down the diminutive homesteader Ernie! -
@@JBliehall- Yes that scene is somewhat 'jerky' in the way the bad guy crashes down and Shane, halve hunched down, shoots him!
@@HartmutJagerArt I know but much better when ladd said it
A great selection, especially Appaloosa! My choice is High Noon as the entire movie builds the tension of the showdown between Gary Cooper, the lone defender of the town against Frank Miller & his three accomplices! The final shot of Cooper killing Miller releases tension built up during the entirety of the movie!! Thank you for this series of videos detailing westerns!
Very good video. Thanks for all your hard work. Much appreciated.
I've seen every movie you put on there more than once loved Western
Excellent choices. The final scene in "Shane" is the most haunting in Westerns.--Bob Bailey in Maine
Great video again. The first entry in vol 2 has to be the climactic scene in A Fist Full of Dollars. Once Upon a Time in the West has a couple too.
Very enjoyable and excellent selection! Thank you!
The Shootist, Unforgiven!!
Great video!! Agree with all You said!!Thank You!!
Blazing Saddles: Jim shoots the guns out of Hedley Lamarr's Goon Squad's hands.
The Three Amigos: Ned Nederlander shoots the German.
How could they forget "Little Neddy Nederlander"??? Great movie!
I like Patrick Wayne vs Tom Berringer in Rustlers Rapsody...since we are talking spoofs.
@@wambathewisefool2893, good call. I forgot about that.
There is a little known duel in a little known movie that I have always liked. In Standing Tall, John walks up on the town tuff and as he does he tells him " you touch that gun I'll kill you. " I saw that as a kid and learned it's not about speed, it's about taking command of the moment. When the tuff hesitated Wayne hit him with his gun ending something that could have been deadly had Wayne character not taken control. Other than that. Quigley. Saw that one coming and enjoyed it completely.
Shane is a favorite. I never thought until your comment that shane was severely wounded,and that he was going to die or whatever. He definitely was a mystery man.
Was he mortally wounded or not? The decision is left to the viewer. Gone With the Wind and Casablanca have equally open endings, which I find appropriate. There have been events in my life where I have never learned the final outcome. Sometimes it's better not to know.
Well, it was never made clear how serious the wound was he got from being shot by Wilson!
So, he could have died, or carried on as a drifting gunfighter!
I'm glad you included 'Shane' but perhaps, in your next series less Italian Western but more classic American Western like - 'Gunfight at The OK Corall' (Burt Lancaster), 'High Noon' (Gary Cooper) and especially (mano a mano) 'The Fastest Gun Alive' (Glenn Ford).
Brilliant video .
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is, I think, my favourite Western. The final shootout in Open Range is an epic.
Shane has always been my favorite.
Great list! I think the shoot out in the last 10 minutes of High Noon has to be in the top 10 as the entire movie leads up to the shooting of Frank Miller by Sheriff Will Cane!
Louief Lamour reserhed his books very well and said he had found 2500 stand up gunfights
Some of my favorites !!
Warlock - the best gunfight scene!
The Quick and the Dead - second.
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True Grit, John Wayne
FP, you're absolutely right about the fiction of gunfights. I hope you saw that link I sent you in the last video which was biographical about Ben Johnson.
Excellent
Learn to say "Duel" insteadf of "Jewel".
Great video
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You missed one of the COOLEST and BEST: ONE EYED JACKS - After being beaten to a pulp by Brando(RIO), Timothy Carey crawls out from behind the bar with a shotgun to shoot Brando in the back. Warned by his friend, Brando moves right, down on one knee, swings his gun around a pillar in the bar and guns Carey. A terrific move that was never done in a western before and never been done since. The only movie that Marlon Brando ever directed. Overlooked BY AUDIENCES IN 1961, THE FILM HAS SINCE BECOME A CULT CLASSIC,. You should check it out!
Love westerns myself.
Westerns are always my favorites ever.
My two favorite "duel" scenes in films are when Gregory Peck is goaded into a gun fight by Richard Joeckel in "The Gunfighter". And Val Kilmer and Micheal Beihen
And yes. Appaloosa is sadly underrated. The book provides 95% of the film's dialog unedited. The author, Robert B Parker, most famous for the Spencer series was a master of dialog.
A Big Country was another one Peck had a duel with Chuck Connors. Burl Ives who played Connors father ended up shooting Connors
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A duel with rueling pistols
I do not buy Val Kilmer, with his smooth babyface, as a tough gunfighter !
@@HartmutJagerArt
And just what is a pistolero supposed to look like. One can't necessarily tell the metal of the individual just from their appearance.
For a Few Dollars More and the Good, Bad & Ugly - both are superb
Van Cleef slides perfectly into the grave after Eastwood beats him to the draw. That's the best scene. It's known as a trio, but as Tuco was unloaded it would technically qualify as a (duo) duel 😎✌
John Wayne, True Grit. Clint Eastwood in each of the Sergio westerns. Kirk Douglas.
Im careful as I wanted this video to be on duels rather that shootouts. Plan another video on this. See my video on Spaghetti westerns as well as my videos on John Wayne and Clint Eastwood
Nice list.
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Shane es el mejor de los duelos,es epico.
TRUE - thanks to Jack Palance !
i have watched shane at least 20 times and i never thought he road off to die. it was just his time to leave.
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I guess you would call Buster Scruggs a serio-comic character, but his gunfights were fun to watch.
The best gun fights with Tim Blake Nelson are in Old Henry.
@@mpetersen6 wrong
The duel between Dennis Weaver and the semi.
CHARLES BRONSON e HENRY FONDA em ERA UMA VEZ NO OESTE, ALAN LADD e JACK PALANCE em SHANE sempre serão os melhores duelos em Western.
very good.
I don't know. In Shane I'm not so sure he rode off and dies from the gun wound. You might be right, as I've never read the book, originally titled The Rider From No Where later just plain Shane by Jack Schaefer, but I always felt that the wound wasn't that bad, but hey I'm a sucker for upbeat endings.
Surprised you didn't include the final face off of Blondie, Angel Eyes and Tuco at the end of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly but then again that could be for another video. Great job on this one, though. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Symbolically, it's assumed Shane will die after the shootout. He's come to accept that he can no longer survive as a gunfighter, but cannot change to a man of peace. As he rides away from the saloon, he is only shown from the back and rides through the graveyard, slowly sinking behind the hill until he is out of sight. In effect, he has died, even if not physically, then in the reality of the world that has passed him by.
If you watch closely Ladd's pistol is horizontal when he "shoots" the guy on the balcony. Then when he is shown from behind the muzzle blast and smoke goes up.
Looking forward to the follow up to this one. If it isn't on your list I'd vote for the "shootout" (where no shots are fired;) from Tall in the Saddle with John Wayne.
"Touch that gun and I'll kill yah."
Not sure that counts:)
Add - 'Gunfight at The OK Corall' (Burt Lancaster), 'High Noon' (Gary Cooper) and 'The Fastest Gun Alive' (Glenn Ford)
2 favorite John Wayne shoot outs for me were True Grit,"Fill your Hands You SOB" and The bar fight at the end of The Shootest so you went with Liberty Valance where the Duke Ambushes Lee Marvin. It was to save James Stewarts life but still.
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Iconic list!
I'd submit a rather strange but memorable 'duel' (the 'your life is hanging by a thread' one) from near the end of My Name is Nobody. The gravity and humor (the photographer trying to stage it for posterity) woven together in this scene make it a classic.
Thanks, will take a look
A man called Nobody
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You are correct in pointing out that these types of duels are strictly a Hollywood creation. In fact, there are exactly ZERO documented accounts of such gunfights. Why? Because you could get killed doing that.
Hollywood portrays every cowboy wearing a sidearm, low-slung and tied down, just waiting to shoot it out. However, in real life many cowboys did not even carry a sidearm, because they were such poor shots. Many opted instead for a rifle or shotgun.
It wasn't always a case of either or. Pistol caliber carbines like the Winchester 73 were popular because you could use the same ammo in both a rifle and a pistol.
You are correct sir. Personal weapons came in handy for hunting and defense if attacked. Cowboys were hired to ride cattle and mend fences, not fight. That's a last resort. When real range wars happened then actual gunfighters showed up and that is where legends start unless it's stage coach, bank, or train robberies.
The number isn't zero, but you are correct in saying that stand-up, face-to-face duels were extremely rare. Most shootouts were ambushes or melees, where lead just flew everywhere.
Do a search for "the last shootout in Fort Worth". It took place in 1890 and is reenacted every year.
@@rg1809 I've seen that reenactment up close in Ft. Worth many years ago. It's been done for a long time for the tourists. It's as authentic as Hollywood hype. It's so old and assumed true it's considered
infallible. There are a couple of things in Ft. Worth in the same spot for tourists. If you want to see a truthful reenactment go to Tombstone, Az.
One duel you missed is El Dorado. It has a duel of gun virus knife. Mississippi (James Caan) takes on a gunfighter. I don't know if it was before or after magnificent seven.
U Mean VERUS & Not VIRUS...
Don't forget the final showdown between Cole Thornton and McCloud.
James can’s Mississippi doesn’t know how to use a gun so he tricked the guy by surprising him with the knife
Nothing compares to Shane
I did like your video; I cannot (& will not) criticize your choices. I might have chosen differently but that does not make your choices wrong...
Appreciate it
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Certainly they are best duels,but you forgot two others among the best duels of westerns in this case ,the good,the bad and the ugly as well as once upon a time in the west .
I mention them in my gunfighters videos in the channel, take a look
there's a whole lot of great ending duel,yul bren
Judging by all the comments I've seen by critics and western lovers, I must be the only person ever who preferred the first two "Dollar" films to the third one, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
A Few Dollars More is my favourite.
"Once Upon a Time in The West" is The Best by Sergio Leoni !
I prefer the first 2, I seen The GB and U 4 times first 3 on tv and they were at the bridge once then at the cemetary twice, 4th time I rented it so I could watch it from the beginning instead of last ten minutes. I found it too long.
The end of the unforgiving is good some very cold words
The Magnificent 7 is only "classic" because it is based on "Seven Samurai" by Kurosawa. As are many other Westerns, too, like a whole series with Clint Eastwood. And what is so epic or believable about the duel in Apaloosa? The "villain" is obviously not an experienced gunman and also obviously would lose the fight.
Must never watch Gunsmoke!!!!🤠🇺🇸
This video was on Movies TV will be another video
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Bandit: "Did you bring Gold?"
Chisum: "No"
Bandit: "Silver?"
Chisum: "Just Lead"...
"Just Lead" A funny and good line!
You should’ve featured the shootouts in Purgatory & Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
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Does anyone remember a movie with a final scene in which a Doctor throws a "knee-hammer" against a gunslinger, hurting the arm yielding the gun so bad that the professional duelist cannot fire the gun and is forced into retirement?
In Ninja Scroll Jubei kills the main boss by pouring gold on his head. They probably got the idea from this Django movie.
You missed 'The Good The Bad and the Ugly'. Also 'For a few dollars more'
Glad you pointed out the Hollywood myth about gunfights. From what I read there are only two such documented cases of stand up fights. First one involved two men and one managed to shoot his opponents thumb off then killed him with the followup shoot since his opponent could not shoot back. Second incolved two madams fighting over some man and they both somehow survived. Keep up the great work and for a follow up you could include all gunfight scenes from 'The Quick and the Dead' with Stone, Hackman and DiCaprio. While not a great western its gunfights are entertaining.
Thanks, will look into your suggestion
You REALLY believe they fly through the air when shot with a handgun? (The Quick and the Dead)
@@JBliehall I never said that! I simply said the gunfights were entertaining. Besides the flying through the air only happens in the final gunfight. It would not be Hollywood if they did not violate one of Newton's Laws of Motion.
Somehow, (think of Jack Palance in 'Shane') Gene Hackman, with his pudgy face, does not make a great lean and mean Gun fighter, but he was great as the Sheriff in 'Unforgiven' !
Me habría gustado ver algo de Gary Couper en A la hora señalada, ver a Clint Estgud y el Django de Franco Nero y dejó a parte a Terence Hill.
Who is Estgud ??? Google on how to spell an actors name correctly !
How about Silverado duel scene between Paden (Kevin Kline) and Cobb (Brian Dennehy)?
Yes, Ive shown that duel in a couple of my other videos. I think about Villains in westerns
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Shane was the best and return of the gunfighter
If you watch closely Ladd's pistol is horizontal when he "shoots" the guy on the balcony. Then when he is shown from behind the muzzle blast and smoke goes up.
Thank you. You've missed "Once Upon the Time in the West"..
Take a look at my gunfighter video in the channel, also mentioned in several others of my videos. And the video on Spaghetti Westerns
How the duel between gene Hackman and Sharon stone in quick and the dead.
First rate!
Missing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once upon a time in the West, Fistfull of Dollars (mule scene), Django by Franco Nero, Veracruz with Burt Lancaster.
Was the mule in Fist full one that Clint gave Shirley McLane in 2 mules for Sister Sarah?
Queston. the actors, are they all mute ? The background comments are annoying, Sir !
In the duel between Doc and Ringo , Doc says I’m you hucklebearer , a term used for Pall bearers .
"huckleBERRY"
@@JBliehall So thats what he meant.
The wild bunch
The best duel are
1/ ONCE UP ON A TIME IN THE WEST ( Bronson /Fonda) or
2/ THE GOOD,THE UGLY AND THE BAD (the duel in sad hill)
And YOU Forgot SHANE !
OPEN RANGE Had Some
Scene's...
Might I suggest the term "gunfighter" in preference to "gunslinger..."? A small point, but when applied to (for example) "The Magnificent 7", a tad more dignified. "Gunslinger" has more of a "show-off" vibe about it, while "gunfighter" a tad leaning more to the professional side of things... YP
Speaking of "the professional side of things," how about *_The Wild Bunch_* or *_The Professionals_* or the running gun battles in *_Valdez Is Coming_* that culminates in the final duel?
Actually, the term is "Shootist", as coined by Clay Allison.
The fastest gun handling actor in tv and movies was Glenn ford. 0.4 seconds from draw to shoot
Yes, that is another reason why 'The Fastest Gun Alive' should be included in any Wester Movie Duel - Shootout !
a unique jewel (duel)..... gimme a break.
you forget my name is nobody one a time in the west a few dollars the last from that movie with eastwood. eastwood against som bad guy with his fast rifle the name in that movie was calling
Ramon
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@@famouspeople63 oke but a time in the west is also a great duel wit fonda an bronson before he die an hanging on the rope Fistful of dollars for a few dollars more hig noon 1952 and the are not al duels to because when i saying
duel is something beween the challenger an the fighter but not when the are
walk or something like that you know like some one will know how fast you
are with that gun
How could you leave out all those shootouts in The Outlaw Josey Wales?
Once Upon A Time In The West. Fonda and Bronson. Nothing comes close.
That's a matter of an individual's likes and dislikes ! My favorite one is when Shane kills Wilson in the Movie "Shane" !
The new ,,stagecoach,, alex chord versus keenan wynnne
It was Ringo vs the entire Luke Short gang.
Caro mio tu sei l'esperto del cactus ,non mettere i duelli dei film di Leone mi sa di invidia americana, LEONE IL PIÙ GRANDE
Your making an assumption there with shane how its ends. Sure it is left open for interpretation but you carnt just say he was seriously hurt then died soon after. That is just a theory
What is the point of these clips when they do not show the sequences they are speaking of?
Throwing a knife into somebody and killing them instantly without them even crying out is about as unrealistic as it gets. The likelihood of the knife striking at the right angle, hitting a vital organ or major blood vessel, and penetrating far enough to kill is pure Hollywood B.S. Top that with the fact that far less time and effort are required to draw and fire a pistol than are required to throw a knife with any useful force. But it looks cool onscreen, so what the hey.
I see that flaw in a lot of Ninja movies where a ninja star is thrown and hits a mans chest and he drops dead. The star doesn't appear to penetrate more than an inch into the body.
As FP might mention the Ringo/Doc Holiday gunfight science is great, but there is no actual facts of this happening and frankly is very unlikely. It is too good not to list though and FP knows it.
FP, remember the movie The Quick and the Dead since dueling is what its about and they are all great and with a hand full of excellent actors or actresses. 😊
best shooting in italian B movie ?! what about all other ?
Silverado.
Yes...very underated an on my top 5 western list.
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YOU left Out HIGH NOON and SHANE !
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