The Best Opening Scenes in Westerns
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 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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The fly on Jack Elam's face had to be a happy accident and he went with it. You can't train a fly and there was no CG at that time. Flies play a part in a few of Sergio's films. Best opening scene ever.
They rubbed strawberry jam on Jacks face to make the fly stick..
Once upon a time in the west... Takes the cake for everything, best opening scene, best cast, best music score best western ever and one of the ten best movie of any genre period.
Shane, the deer drinking,the boy sneaking on the deer and Shane riding in from the distance.
One of the best Western movies ever.
Probably the best "opening scene" of them all - encapsulated the life of a family in the mid west pioneering days.
The best western ever made and one of the best movies, period, ever made.
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.
It’s the best opening to a western, and the best western period…..
@@psychedelicpuchoI would have to agree with you!
Rio Bravo is far and away the best opening sequence. A Howard Hawks masterclass in story telling by vision only.
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.
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. AKA Ken Curtis. He and Gene Autry (his real name) were with "The Sons of the Pioneers" the same time as AKA Roy Rogers.
*The Mountain Cabin Shootout & after it is over, THE DOOR SWINGS OPENS TO A MOUNTAIN CANYON VIEW WITH PERFECT MUSIC FOR OPENING OF **_"SILVERADO"_** .*
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.
I like the opening scene of Silverado.
One of the best openings of any motion picture, especially a western!
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.
*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...
Rio Bravo has the best opening scene in movie history, not only western movies but all genres. In four minutes and without words, Hawks showed the personality and the situation of three of the main roles in movie. Just genial.
The shootist with John Wayne opening is a classic
"Once upon a time in the west " first 10 min. !!!👍👍👍
It’s actually a brilliant movie on its own.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. 'nuff said.
I think big Jake should have been on this list
"Thought you were dead." "NOT HARDLY"
And Hondo.
The incomparable "Shane".
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
Thank you for the suggestions. I've gone with Hang Em High. Sometimes there is nothing to fill an evening with such wonder as a good western.
Rio Bravo. Not a word yet we know where the characters stand
Best ever...Once Upon a Time In the West...and, the best western ever made
You are so right, with two of the most iconic western actors in Woody Strode and Jack Elam, who can forget the sound of the windmill and the fly pestering Jack Elam.
Why did he cut out the cool dialogue?
Silverado?
Great opening scene. The vista from the cabin; brilliant.
An underrated western!
@@famouspeople63 it’s got everything. Shoot outs, saloons, stampedes, saloons and shoot outs!
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.
The Wild Bunch with William Holden is on my list. I took a date to it and she cried and hid under her hands the whole movie.
Silverado (1985) had a great opening scene with White Rock Canyon Overlook in the background.
Magnificent seven when Calvera terrorizes the village. We see the need for help.
The boot hill scene at the beginning in magnificent 7
Yes !! But the original not the remake. Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen ❤
The boot hill scene is not at the beginning of the Magnificent Seven !
@@user-xw7ie6jv2x at the beginning not exactly at the start…semantics
Sergio Leone + Ennio Morricone = top western
And maybe Clint Eastwood? ")
@@famouspeople63 best opening scene in Once Upon A Time In The West with Charles Bronson
Another honorable mention ought to be the opening of Yellow Sky. The cavalry pursuit of the bank robbers as they open up into a skirmishing line for the charge is a classic scene that could now only be replicated on CGI and it was done in Death Valley. The opening of High Plains Drifter is another one that should be on the list.
Good choice, thanks.
Once Upone a time in the west. A Sergio Leon film opening scene @ the Railroad statuon. You brough three to many😊😊😊
Why bring up 'The Searchers' and not show the door frame?
See my video on the best endings in westerns
The opening of Once Upon a Time in the West is untouchable. The opening of The Searchers is second best IMHO. Few now know that the melody playing was the most popular song of the Civil War, "Lorena." The poignant opening sets the stage for the contradictory horrors that soon arrive.
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....
Why is this guy rambling about everything we can see perfectly? It'd be better to leave the original dialogues audible instead of relating what the characters are saying.
I think 'the good, bad and ugly' should have been put in; just because it is the all time great. Saving tuco from the rope by rifle shot, and pocketing reward money scam ....just a bonifide classic.
Maybe in the followup video, thanks!
Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
Hondo...best opening scene ever in a western.
And the Searchers the best ending!
The best one left out is the 3 stooges western with Adam (Batman) West. The bad guy fires about a hundred shots from 2 six guns and says “ lucky for you I gotta reload”.
:). Thanks
The Wild Bunch and Silverado openings should be on the this list.
Great review regardless of the many critics.
The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck.
OMG -- you did not include one of the most iconic and famous opening scenes in ANY movie ----
the introduction of John Wayne in Stagecoach.
This movie made both Wayne and Ford, and established them as the greatest western making duo ever.
Thanks
To me, the Wild Bunch has the best opening scene.
An epic western
When I saw the title of this video, my mind went back to the 60's, sitting watching Clint Eastwood get hung from a tree before the opening credits.....it had a profound effect on my teenage soul!
Yeah, I think a little over done, thanks to Ben Johnson for saving him
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.
One of the best opening in western movie's Once upon a time in the west👍
Pretty tough to beat the first ten minutes of the "Wild Bunch".
The opening scene of Little Big Man.
Great movie
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.
Hondo.
Also , Big Jake if you consider the attack on the ranch a prologue and the movie starting with Wayne looking down the barrel of his rifle.
Thanks, your right an interesting beginning.
One of my favourites was a great William Holden opening scene in the film the wild Bunch?
Glenn Scott in Silverado is a stunning opening. The bushwhacker at the opening of For A Few Dollars More is also worth consideration.
Cheers, thanks.
You missed “ fist full of dollars “ clint eastwood
I think Duel at Diablo at a GREAT Opening scene, and so did Vera Cruz
Duel at Diablo is one of my favorite movies. I don't think it gets the attention it should.
Big Jake! "No sir...No Sir I ain't. Haven't butted into anyone's business since I was 18 year old. At which time it almost got me killed. I'm not gonna start that again!"....."Oh...what'd he have to do that for!"
the last wagon with richard widmark
Though it is not a notable film, I always thought the opening Civil War sequence of Custer of the West 1967, is a great action scene. Opens the film with a bang. Custer is depicted as a born leader, intoxicated with the thrill of action.
Any there any great opening scenes in the six or eight westerns that Anthony mann . Directed?
I’m thinking about the Man from Laramie, been to the river, the far country, the naked spur, and Man of the west.
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid, an awesome movie watching it as a kid back then and still cool… however the ending was sad and not historically accurate however it doesn’t matter & great opening scene
Also Once upon a time in the west.. Charles Bronson harmonica and the one liner you’ve brought too many horses then really good… and I must say Rio Bravo great western I’m pleased John Wayne and Dean Martin made it for a mention, and video… good call. The movie North to Alaska cool and nice theme song tragedy Billy Horton passed before movie opened.
Cat Ballou with Lee Marvin had a good scene when the kid was on the horse drunk.. lol however both those movies not sure about opening scenes.
My fav Butch & Sundance nostalgia sakes!
Thank you✅
@@tonyking1832
The ending was perfection !
I am sorry, I have always thought High Noon was the most over rated western ever, just my opinion. Great job on the vid!
I have to agree. I remember the first time I watched it on our local Chicago tv station. The tension of waiting for Miller and his gang quickly disappears as the ending turns into a routine shoot-em-up Western. I was disappointed, and wondered what all the hype was about.
Once upon a time in the west - goat
High noon with the bad guys coming together with The song High noon playing
Lee Van Cleef's first western
In my opinion, the greatest all time intro for a western is Silverado (particularly on a big screen).
Good choice of movies. 😊
I thought I'd never see the skipper from Gilligan's Island on a horse.🤠
Great viewing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very fine collection n selection.Very difficult task to select 10 out of 1000!Still did very good job.Could have better if you think about some vintage classic like My Darling Clementine,Oxbow Incident,The Gunfighter,Gunfight at O K Corral n Big Country.
I’ve never even heard of the first one. That’s really obscure.
John Ford please
The professionals we the main characters at their craft.
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.
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.
Joe Kidd & Hang 'em High were only decent western s Clint Eastwood made. Spaghetti western stink.
@@davidbrown386😂 Bud Spencer never wanted to be a western film actor espacially not like Gary Cooper or Wayne . Go back and study for tommorrow’s history class.
@@davidbrown386Bud Spencer made few Western movies and beside this he never considered himself as a Western actor. but an actor of comedies . Most of all his films were comedies .Many of his westerns were comedies for families .The last thing is that in this video there are also american Western movies. And the playlist of this site shows an incredibile number of videos of american,Western or legendary american actors who played western roles .So where is the problem ? The problem is in you.
Sabata = (from memory alone) a thunderstorm is brewing outside as the bank is locked up, army guards are posted, and the mysterious stranger in black arrives in town: CUE THEME SONG, as the stranger assesses the situation under the opening credits. Something is going down, and its not good!
The Spanish / Italian western boom of mid sixties brought the already tired USA genre into the modern era . It also started a new awareness of the mistreatment of native Americans .
Haven't any of you the best of or top ten or top 20 compilers ever heard of The Wild Bunch?
1;40)I do not get why men, in hot weather and deserts, are wearing heavy coats.
2:22)"High Noon" was filmed on same set as "Gun Smoke". How Grace Kelly fired the Single Action .45 caliber 1873 Colt Sheriffs' Model P without cocking it is amazing. Military contracts kept all 4 1873 models off the civilian market until 1874.
4:43)The C96 Mauser Broomhandle was made from 1896 to around 1938. 6.73mm at first. later models in 9mm parabellum.
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.
Seven Men From Now has a great opening scene. Possibly the best of the five Randolph Scott westerns directed by Budd Boetticher and known as the Ranown Five.
yes your right
OMG you missed the best opening for a western movie... "MacKenna's Gold" 1969 Staring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif and Telly Savalas.. One of the greatest westerns ever.
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.
The Skipper let Eastwood hang
I know, right!
I've never heard of some of these.
Don't forget Hondo.
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.
Why on earth does the commentary describe what we can see and hear for ourselves? Completely ruins the clips.
You misssed El Dorado.
You missed a lot of good ones that could have been on here. The really strange Western "Four Fast Guns" (1960) had an interesting Opening scene.
Thanks, Im thinking of a follow up video.
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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..........................
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
@@famouspeople63 Oh, I know. I’ve seen many.
Where is" Good Bad Ugly"
I can never watch spaghetti westerns sound music and storytelling rubbish and I have been watching westerns for over 70years
Death Rides a Horse.
come on you forgot big country
You certainly opened a can of worms with this topic.
Everyone will, depending on age, have their favourite.
But you do have too many Italian westerns in your list..for many they do not count.
Good luck.
Hot having big jake opening you don’t know what the hell you’re doing
A sky full of stars for a roof…that is pathetic! I'll bet it's absolute tosh. Where can i see this bilge?
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