The Best Opening Scenes in Westerns
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Not that many movies had killer opening scenes. Westerns included. If you had a great opening scene, the rest was downhill from there.
Today we are taking a look at some of the best opening scenes in westerns. Some you will know, some maybe a surprise.
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I like the opening scene of Silverado.
One of the best openings of any motion picture, especially a western!
Open Range, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall and a young Diego Luna. Starts off with with a wagon crossing Montana against a back drop of Barbed wire showing the Open Range is closing and then transforms into an epic thunderstorm.
You left out "the Wild Bunch " in which the Outlaws ride slowly towards the bank they are about to rob climaxing in the failed robbery.
Definitely. AN extraordinary opening scene.
I was thinking they had to include The Wild Bunch but…..disappointing they didn’t. Love the way it is filmed with the credits.
I think Once Upon A Time In The West is number1
Here are a couple of others. All used music well.
1: The Comancheros: The dual involving Stuart Whitman and the rousing music showing John Wayne on a horse.
2: Gunfight At OK Corral: The opening credits and the Frankie Laine song. “Boot Hill, so cold, so still” What brilliant lyrics mixed with imagery.
3: The Fiend Who Walked The West: Obscure film ( except the HOT Linda Cristal of course); but brilliant use of horror film music and a black outline of the fiend over a town. One bit of trivia: The villain was played by Robert Evans who produced The Godfather and Chinatown
Absolutely on number 1.
One of the five musicians was Curtis Wayne Gates. He and Gene Autry (his real name) were with "The Sons of the Pioneers" the same time as AKA Roy Rogers. Gates AKA Ken Curtis.
Number one should be Tombstone. Shooting up the wedding in revenge for the two Cowboys was brutal. No Soul Ringo even shoots the priest in the forehead. You know immediately not to mess with the Cowboys.
Great review regardless of the many critics.
Rio Bravo is far and away the best opening sequence. A Howard Hawks masterclass in story telling by vision only.
Some of my favorite western movie openings are Clint Eastwood High Plains Drifter”, a stranger rides out of the heat waves into the mining town of Lago. Eastwood’s ride into La Hood Ca. out of the surrounding mountains from “Pale Rider”. Stranger rides into a small border town in “For a few Dollars More”. John Wayne, “War Wagon”,” Big Jake”, “Rio Lobo”, all had great opening scenes.
*High Plains Drifter* (With the Creepy Music) Where Clint mysteriously appears from the haze and effortlessly rides (straight through a graveyard), into Lago.
It’s Lago
@@rony41165 my bad...
The shootist with John Wayne opening is a classic
These are memorable, just like great openings in music -- who can forget the thunderous opening chords of Beethoven's Fifth? And that symphony didn't go downhill after, just like these great Westerns....
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Some wonderful selections (although you missed High Plains Drifter), but that voice! Wrangler, if you aren't an AI voice you should be. Hard to beat for lack of expression.
So many great films had great opening scenes. OUATITW is number one, it just draws you into what is going to happen. Great cinematography on the opening of Great Silence as the camera pulls back exposing that bleak whit cold background. Rio Bravo, Dean Martin's greatest role. Honorable mention Return of Sabata.
Yes, and OUATITW also has an incredible ending sequence.
@@robertnewell5057 It is an amazing movie.
best one.. The searchers
Silverado (1985) had a great opening scene with White Rock Canyon Overlook in the background.
The professionals we the main characters at their craft.
2:22)"High Noon" was filmed on same set as "Gun Smoke". How Grace Kelly fired the Single Action .45 caliber Sheriffs' Model P without cocking it is amazing.
4:43)The C96 Mauser Broomhandle sets the story in around 1900 AD.
8:38)It was not in the "Django" script for the man to cut his hand, on the glass, and bleed on the table.A left in foul up. Done often.
I think big Jake should have been on this list
You missed “ fist full of dollars “ clint eastwood
I thought I'd never see the skipper from Gilligan's Island on a horse.🤠
Once Upon A Time In The West is No1 for me, I think Django, For A Few Dollars More, High Planes Drifter and Cahill United States Marshal are great opening scenes also.
Well, you completely missed it. Rod Steiger…. In Duck You Sucker. Not a single movie in any cinema genre .. ever created…compares to the impact ( excuse the pun). to this opening. If you haven’t seen it, I promise you that you all have a very colourful emotional reaction. ( another pun ) 😂 …..but it is the opening credit that really delivers a punch.
Return of frank James begins with the final scene from Jesse James wherein Jesse is shot in the back by Bob Ford. Which is why Frank goes after the Fords.
Magnificent seven when Calvera terrorizes the village. We see the need for help.
red river when John Wayne’s Dunson meets Matt Garth which is the beginning of their almost paternal bond .
But that wasn't the opening scene. The opening scene is where Dunson pulls out of the wagon train and gives his girl the bracelet.
I've never heard of some of these.
The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck.
Don't forget Hondo.
i saw silverado in the comments, ditto, a fistfull of dollars, the wild bunch, the shootist, joe kidd, the outlaw josey wales, high plains drifter, nevada smith, my name is nobody and many more, not trying to be too critical here but this catagory could be done in two or three parts..........................
Mclintock: John Wayne saves the Scottish sheep herder (okay, it's the second scene).
That's Big Jake isn't it? McLintock opens with his hangover.
@@TerryKeever You are exactly right. Thanks for catching that!
Nicely done, but I beg to insert my 2 cents. The Searchers & Shane excepted, all of these pale when compared to the gruesome opening scene of Hostiles 2017.
I think you are hung up on Italian Spaghetti Westerns! They're OK but there are so many Great American Westerns, sounds like you didn't grow up with them!
I agree. While the Leone quartet ( Eastwood trilogy and Once Upon A Time In The West) belong in the top 100 westerns of all time, that might be the only ones. I especially hate Bud Spencer being pushed like he is Gary Cooper, John Wayne or Randolph Scott. I don’t care how many films he made, he does nothing for me.
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Some of these I don’t know, so I didn’t recognize the open. Because of that, your talking over them was not helpful.
I would have included Silverado, and demoted some others for Shane. And where, if you please, was Stagecoach with its iconic scenery and John Wayne holding his saddle?
Please look in my channel, many videos that show these movies. Cant fit all in one video. Way too many westerns. Thanks
How about good, bad, and ugly
@5:15, did you happen to know the difference between a stage bible and the real thing.... the real one is titled "HOLY BIBLE' and this is the best scene i've seen that shows the diff, [the bible], i have heard that it is very bad luck to use a real bible in a shoot................................
Being the opening scene, it didn't need all of your annoying talking over it. Text with the movie title would be better. I got to 4:10, then stopped.
Acolytes!!! Pitiful!!!
Its pronounced " Begley not Beegly! And you want subscribers!!
Noooo! No amer wants an aussie/brit narrating amer stories! Espec WESTERNS! "Great shot that!" Doesnt cut it in US of A as Archie wld say!!
One Aussie who did well with American films was Errol Flynn. While Flynn was not in the Top 10 Western stats of all time, he is in the top 20.
@@davidbrown386 He spoke american and lived in US. He didnt have an aussie accent or speak w un amer english like aussie golf pro Ian Baker Finch (great shot that! Or spot on)
Fr some reason aussies/brits dominate as narrators on amer stories! The aussie/brit residents wldnt tolerate this in reverse! Some "noo yawker" narrating an abo story!!
Mauser in a Western???? Get gone!!
check out "joe kidd"....................
Terrible editing
To me, " The Searchers" was one of John Wayne's worst movies. His acting was very good. But I didn't like the character he played.
Do you think you were supposed to?