Silverado....
Probably the best Western since The Searchers. This was one of the last of the wide-sweeping, bright morality plays that made the Western arguably the most prolific Hollywood genre until the late 50's.
It's good to see a lot of recent oaters, as they called them. But the difference is that now the bleak, dirty cruelty that has become much more prolific than a plain old good story.
The recent Westerns that I particularly will watch if I get a chance from the "modern" era are Dances With Wolves, 3:10 to Yuma, Tombstone and The Unforgiven.
John Wayne stepped it up in The Searchers, a driven man of the west who knows his time is come and gone. He has no chance to make it as the west settles in.
The off beat Western was Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman as an everyman thrust into every iconic model from the movies.
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True Grit with Jeff Bridges is outstanding.
