The Cowboys with John Wayne.
Its about a bunch of kids on a cattle drive.

 

Any Clint Eastwood Movie
Fist full of dollars
For a few dollars
Outlaw Josey Whales

The Apple Dumpling Gang with Don Knotts And Tim Conway

 

Start with "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (great story, excellent scenery), move up to "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (good cast, Lee marvin plays a great outlaw. The Duke calls Jimmy Stewart "Pilgrim" for the first time), then on to "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" (just plain fun and somebody should straighten Lee Van Cleef's nose!), next watch "Siverado" (good 'modern' western) and, if you think you're ready, finish with "High Noon" (tops on anyone's "A" list).

A good time will be had by all, I guarantee it!

Really, there are too many good ones to list; El Dorado, Support Your Local Sheriff (this is a hoot with James Garner), and on and on...

Dave Lowen
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Dances with wolves, Open range, Tombstone, High plains drifter, Unforgiven, Jeramiah Johnson. Not sure all of these are kid movies, but if you like westerns these are all great.
HTH
CB

 

For watching with the kids, add any of the Louis Lamour stories that have been made into movies. All of them are great and they are all "G" rated!

The last one I saw had Tom Selleck in it and it was great, as all of them I've seen are. You probably can't tell I'm a Louis Lamour fan, can you?

 

Second Outlaw Josey Wales.
"Man's got to make a livin'"
"Diein' ain't much of a livin'"

 

Good choices on the L'amore movies for the kidlets. They are very well done.
Some good Duke movies suitable for the younger ones are:
The Cowboys (mentioned)
Rio Bravo
Red River
The John Ford trilogy (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, etc)
True Grit/Rooster Cogburn
The old Disney 'Davy Crockett' movies are good too.

My favorites (definitely not all kid shows)
Lonesome Dove
The Mag. Seven
Josey Wales
The Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch
Any John Wayne movie
How The West Was Won
7 Mules For Sister Sara (great 'spaghetti-ish' Eastwood picture)
The Long Riders

Man I love Westerns.

 

Lonesome Dove.

 

"Josey Wales" has a little nudity in the uncut version, so use your judgement. (Geez I sound old!)
I like "Shane". Old but the best western there is. (w/o the Duke that is)

 

Don't forget 'Blazing Saddles'

 

I liked "Look Who's Sucking, Two" . . . oh, I thought you meant the movies that you buy from "Best Western" motels. My bad, how embarrasing

 

The quintessential western movie, "The Searchers."

Monument Valley, Big Sky, John Wayne, Ward Bond, even has Natalie Wood in it. It ends with John Wayne doing his John Wayne walk.

d

 

Good call Don. The Searchers has been described as not just the perfect Western, but perhaps the most perfect movie ever made.

Plus it gave Buddy Holly the idea for one of the greatest R&R songs ever. 10 Points to anyone who guesses.

 

"That'll be the day"...Buddy Holly

If I'm not mistaken it was a line in the movie by the Duke.

 

Darn Mike, lhall beat me to it.
Yep, it IS a line out of the movie. Spoken by The Duke in a style only he could make work.

One of the best college courses I ever took was called, "American Hero." We studied movies such as, The Searchers, Jerimiah Johnson etc., I even had to do a book report on a Louis Lamour novel of my choice. It was a nice break from Linear Algebra and Diffy Q.

Along the same line, did you guys see the two hour History Channel show on Jedediah Smith? Really well done. Don't miss it if it's on again.

d

 

Fedderson, funny as hell!!! I always liked the bubblegum western's. Find a coupla Trinity movies!

 

City Slickers

 

Ding, ding! 10 points to Ihall.

Don I don't have cable so I didn't see that show. I did once see a show about Jebidiah Springfield though.

dv, I'm just gonna pretend you didn't say that.

 

outlaw josie wales is my favorite!

 

Thanks for the points Mike!
You got to know SOMETHING about westerns when your from Tucson... hundreds of them were filmed here at Old Tucson Studios.

 

I will ditto that for the show on Jedediah Smith.

 

Finding a western that young folks will enjoy has gotten more difficult over the years. And most kids in that 10-12 range are not interested in black and whites.

If you can find a copy of "Rustlers Rhapsody", starring Tom Berringer, I bet all three of you would love it.

It's a comedy western, but not like the 3 stooges. It's a parady of all the old singing cowboy westerns. When my son was little, he knew all the lines by heart. We wore the tape out and had to buy another one.

 

Fedderson,

There is one in every crowd, and you get the prize this round.



Clutch

 

Tom Sellek(sp), Jeff Osterage, and Sam Elliot in "The Sackets", or "The Mask or Zoro".

 

Originally posted by Clutch:
Fedderson,

There is one in every crowd, and you get the prize this round.



Clutch

Thanks, I try. I still get a laugh when I go back and read my post. A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste