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TOP TEN WESTERN MOVIE BAD
GUYS
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1. Lee Marvin - SEVEN MEN
FROM NOW (1956)
2. Jack Palance - SHANE (1953)
3. Dan Duryea - WINCHESTER 73 (1950)
4. Glenn Ford - 3:10 TO YUMA (1957)
5. Richard Boone - THE TALL T (1957)
6. Walter Brennan - MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
7. Powers Booth - TOMBSTONE (1994)
8, (tie) Bruce Dern THE COWBOYS (1971),
Ben Foster 3:10 TO YUMA (2007)
10. (tie) Henry Fonda ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
Eli Wallach THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY and MAGNIFICENT
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EMIL'S
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1. Marvin is even
better in this Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher/Burt Kennedy classic
than in MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE or THE COMANCHEROS. 2.
Palance made his name with this role, partly with that slow,
menacing entry into town. Mike tells us that was an accident as
Palance claimed he could ride a horse to get the part and couldn't
gallop in as the script called for. 3. There was something about
Duryea's psycho laugh... 4. Ford plays Ben Wade far more
pyschologically than physically - Russell Crowe in the remake is
an over the top Rambo.5. Boone could've had this for several
others. It's another classic from that batch of greatness turned
in by Scott, Boetticher and in this case Elmore Leonard (who also
wrote 3:10 TO YUMA). 6.Ford's Old Man Clanton is a great example
of John Ford doing identity theft, but it's Brennan's greatest bad
guy. 7. Booth does Curly Bill so well that you almost sympathize
with him. 8. Dern killed The Duke - what more do you need. Foster
plays Wade's #2 as over the top as Crowe played Wade, but he makes
him a believable sociopath. 9, We aren't big on spaghettis, but
this one along with some Clint passes muster. Wallach's too, along
with that great bandido leader portrayal. |
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