This one :
LOL, there’s actually a film called “Adios Amigo”?
I wonder if there’s a film called “Howdy Pardner”.
Wonder never have guessed 
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Well I’ll be doggone.
LOL
(I bet there’s no movie called LOL!)
SHIT!!
In random order…
1.) Unforgiven
2.) Tom Horn
3.) The Wild Bunch
4.) The Grey Fox
5.) Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
6.) The Shootist
7.) The Big Country
Since I have gotten more non-spaghetti-westerns and seen them these are my favorites:
- High Plains Drifter
- The Wild Bunch
- The Magnificent Seven
- My Darling Clementine
- Tombstone
- Pale Rider
Nice to see you enjoying some of the U.S ones Frank.
That’s a nice list Frank; have you seen any Budd Boetticher Westerns yet? Judging from your list, I think you’ll like them.
I’ve been watching lots of non-italian ones the last year or so and I must admit that I have re-evaluated my view on them on the whole since my involvement with westerns begun. Here’s how my list of favorite ones goes at the moment
LAWMAN
THE WILD BUNCH
DOC
THE HUNTING PARTY
PAT GARRET AND BILLY THE KID
TOMBSTONE
HEAVEN’S GATE
MACHO CALLAHAN
THE CULPEPPER CATTLE COMPANY
PALE RIDER
THE HIRED HAND
UNFORGIVEN
THE SHOOTING
HANG EM HIGH
DAY OF THE OUTLAW
THE DEADLY TRACKERS
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
CHATO’S LAND
ULZANA’S RAID
LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL
magnificent seven ride
hannie caulder
wild bunch
red sun
bad man’s river
el condor
the hunting party
100 riflus
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
- Two Mules for Sister Sara
- The Searchers
- Duel at Diablo
- Posse (1975)
- Shane
- Last Train from Gun Hill
- Support Your Local Sheriff!
- Rio Bravo
- The Professionals
- High Plains Drifter
- Man from Laramie
- The Wild Bunch
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
- Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
- Winchester '73
- Lawman
- The Last Hard Men
- Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
- Doc
Something from “Al Adamson”…
Haven’t done a top 20 American westerns, but I think it’s a very good idea.
My favorite American western of all time was definitely Par Garrett & Billy the Kid. 
Great stuff, the must-see movie for those who are even just a bit interested in westerns.
My top twenty list could easily become John Wayne exclusive, but I think I can make a top twenty that has a few non Duke westerns in it. But full disclaimer, I am not a real big fan of westerns post 1970 with notable exceptions. As such my list will have a lot of b-westerns from 1930-1955 on it, I love those old westerns. The films are in no order, mostly because I really can’t remember the order, anyway I love them all. John Wayne first of course.
Cahill: U.S. Marshal -John Wayne
Rio Bravo - John Wayne
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - John Wayne
McLintock! - John Wayne
Train Robbers - John Wayne
Tall in the Saddle - John Wayne
Blue Steel - John Wayne
Haunted Gold - John Wayne
Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood
The Magnificent Seven - Yul Brynner
Quigley Down Under - Tom Selleck
The Mark of Zorro - Tyrone Power
The Mask of Zorro - Antonio Banderas
The Lone Ranger - Clayton Moore
Jessie James at Bay - Roy Rogers
The Uninvited Guest - Hopalong Cassidy
Mystery Ranch - Tom Tyler
Rough Rider series - Tim McCoy and Buck Jones
Rangebusters - Ray “Crash” Corrigan
Billy the Kid/Carson series Buster Crabbe
I suppose it’s questionable if Zorro can even be considered a western, but in my mind it has all the elements of one.
Time to update my list:
- Outlaw Josey Wales
- True Grit (remake)
- 3:10 to Yuma (remake)
- Pale Rider
- Magnificent Seven
- Silverado
- High Plains Drifter
- Open Range
- Cowboys and Aliens
- Shanghai Noon
Honorable mention: The Shootist, Buck and the Preacher, Boss Nigger, The Gunfighter, Appaloosa, Quick and the Dead (Sam Elliot), Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi), Breakheart Pass, High Noon, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid