The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima, 1966)
Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
Day of Anger (Tonino Valeri, 1967)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
The Hellbenders (Sergio Corbucci, 1967)
The Mercenary (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
Death Rides a Horse (Giulio Petroni, 1967)
The Return of Ringo (Duccio Tessari, 1965)
Bandidos (Massimo Dallamano, 1967)
Keoma (Enzo G. Castellari, 1976)
A Pistol For Ringo (Duccio Tessari, 1965)
Face to Face (Sergio Sollima, 1967)
Django, Prepare a Coffin (Ferdinaldo Baldi, 1968)
The Grand Duel ( Gincarlo Santi, 1972)
No Room to Die ( Sergio Garrone, 1969)
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (Enzo G Castellari, 1968)
This might seem like a ‘‘vanilla’’ list to some, but these are honestly my top 20 favourite SWs at the moment, with GBU being the best IMO, and KtAaCBA being the lowest, although still very good since it made it into my top 20.
While these probably won’t count, here’s some runner ups for fun:
-Companeros
-Duck, You Sucker
-Navajo Joe
-Arizona Colt
-Texas Adios
-Sabata
-God Forgives, I Don’t
-Minnesota Clay
-My Name is Nobody
-Long Live Your Death
Maybe some more of the longtime members, who constantly rewatch Spags, could revise their lists. If there is something to revise.
And maybe some others prepare their debut lists. Maybe some more knowledgeable fans, who only read the forum without being registered.
The arrival of new lists is constantly slowing down, and in that tempo we will need some years to reach the 200 mark, which I would like to reach. Still 18 missing …
I just registered today and there are some great SW nuggets in these lists (i.e. Ramon the Mexican). Thank you for the great posts. Will provide my top 20 shortly.
A Man called Slade
Viva Django
A Cemetery without Crosses
Django, The Last Killer
Sabata
The Dirty Outlaws
Gunman in Town
California
Last of the Badmen
God Forgives, I Don’t
Keoma
Requiem for a Gringo
Tapepa
Django Kill
The Ruthless Four
A Man Called Sledge
Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead
A Pistol for Ringo
Four of the Apocalypse
Vengeance Trail
It was just a general request, to keep the database’s Top 20 list dynamic by getting new ones, which probably reflect the wider distribution of some more unknown gems.
Alright, then, Stanton. I thought that since you mentioned ‘‘members who read the forums without being registered’’ that your remark was directed towards me, as that is true for me.
Yes, we want the personal favourites, the Spags that one watches the most, because they are the most fun to watch.
We want a representation of your taste, not what you think which ones should be the “objective” best. Which is totally irrelevant anyway, as there is no objectivity.
And all these subjective views of the genre then form a consensous about the genre, and that is what these kind of lists can do.
This is also why most of the usual critic about these kind of lists is pretty odd.
They are not made to show real surprises, they do not represent a truth, they need not to reflect your own taste, there are no films which have to be necessarily in such a list, and there are also no films that never should appear in such a list.
In other words, lists should be fun and should be taken seriously without any seriousness …
Well, yes, you was the inspiration for that request.
I’m also still waiting for Ennio (not Morricone), one of our first forum members, to create his list. He probably needs some more decades to make the list to end all lists …
Also e.g. our Admin’s list puts some rust on it, so old it is.
And next twenty films could be (not in an specific order):
Sabata
Tepepa
Johnny Hamlet
Gunman of Ave Maria
Texas
Sartana
My name is nobody
Cemetery without crosses
Kill them and comeback alone
Time of killing
Navajo Joe
Django
California
Mannaja
Light the fuse…Sartana is coming
Death sentence
God forgives…I don’t
The unholy four
Professionals for a massacre
$100,000 for a Killing
In short, you have 6 films in your Top 20 which would also qualify for our Alternative Top 20 and 3 in your “next best” list which wouldn’t so if you can cut 3 from the second list “Voila” you have an official Alternative Top 20 list ready to go.
Hope that’s clear although I realise I might just have made it even more confusing.
Hahaha, I’m a little bit confused now haha! I don’t undersantand very well the purpose of doing that, but if I have to drop 3 films of the second list as you said, I think it would be:
Death Sentence: I remember it had very good scenes, well directed… but the story and the screenplay was a little weak.
Light the fuse…Sartana is coming: it’s a pretty good film (at least for me it’s very enjoyable) but one Sartana film is enough.
$100,000 for a Killing: for nothing in special, just by elimination.
So…what is my official Alternative Top 20 now?haha
10,000 Dollars for a Massacre
Bandidos
The Hellbenders
The ugly ones
Night of the serpent
Cut-throats nine
Sabata
Tepepa
Johnny Hamlet
Gunman of Ave Maria
Texas Adios
Sartana
Kill them and comeback alone
Massacre Time
Navajo Joe
California
Mannaja
God forgives…I don’t
The unholy four
Professionals for a massacre
If you don’t agree just let me know.
Essentially, this is your 20 favourite fims that do not currently appear in our Official Top 20 list so would qualify as your Alternative Top 20 list.
Aaaam, understood. So you took the last three alternative titles that I put on my top 20 and put them into my alternative list, right?
Thanks for your job! It’s still a pretty good list, I think
Fuck, I see now that I misunderstood the titles of some films…I hope you apologize me, but I’m not familiarized with the English title. I know them in Italian and Spanish and in some cases I guessed the title based on their original title, like Tempo di massacro (Time of killing instead of Massacre Time) or Per 100,000 dollari ti ammazzo ($100,000 for a Killing instead of Vengeance is mine).
These six, because they are Top 20 films for you but don’t appear on the Official Top 20 list:
10,000 Dollars for a Massacre
Bandidos
The Hellbenders
The ugly ones
Night of the serpent
Cut-throats nine
The three that you cut from the second list are the ones I like the most: 6th, 10th and 4th respectively in my not very recent Alternative Top 20! haha
But this is your list Carlos so let me know if you want to change anything. If not I’ll add it to the Alternative Top 20 database so it will contribute to that.
That was my old Top 20. My revised version (+ another preferred 30 SWs) follow :
1 For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
2 Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone)
3 A Fistful Of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
4 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Sergio Leone)
5 My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii)
6 The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima)
7 Django Kill If You Live Shoot (Giulio Questi)
8 Cemetery Without Crosses (Robert Hossein)
9 Dead Men Ride/At The End Of The Rainbow/Anda Muchacho Spara (Aldo Florio)
10 Requiem For A Gringo/Duel In Eclipse (Eugenio Martín, José Luis Merino)
11 Johnny Juma (Romolo Guerrieri)
12 Kill The Wicked/ God Does Not Pay On Saturday (Tanio Boccia)
13 The Big Silence/The Great Silence (Sergio Corbuccio)
14 Death Rides A Horse (Giulio Petroni)
15 Day Of Anger (Tonino Valerii)
16 The Grand Duel (Giancarlo Santi)
17 Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini)
18 Viva Django / Django, Prepare a Coffin (Ferdinando Baldi)
19 The Forgotten Pistolero/Gunman Of Ave Maria (Ferdinando Baldi)
20 Ramon The Mexican (Maurizio Pradeaux)
New entries are Johnny Yuma and Kill The Wicked which I in just over a month have watched 4-5 times. Kill The Wicked is specially favored by the strong moody music by Angelo Lavagnino. I rate these two SWs as strong 7/10.
21 Django (Sergio Corbucci)
22 The Return Of Ringo (Duccio Tessari)
23 My Name Is Pecos (Maurizio Lucidi)
24 Johnny Hamlet/The Wild And The Dirty (Enzo G. Castellari)
25 Death Sentence (Mario Lanfranchi)
26 The Stranger Returns/A Man, A Horse, A Gun (Luigi Vanzi)
27 No Room To Die/Hanging For Django/A Noose For Django (Sergio Garrone)
28 Requiescant/Kill And Pray (Carlo Lizzani)
29 A Stranger In Town/A Dollar Between The Teeth (Luigi Vanzi)
30 One After Another (Nick Nostro)
31 Black Jack (Gianfranco Baldanello)
32 Blood At Sundown/One Thousand Dollars on the Black (Alberto Cardone)
33 A Hole In The ForeHead/ A Hole Between The Eyes (Giuseppe Vari)
34 Garringo (Rafael Romero Marchent)
35 A Gun For 100 Graves/Pistol For A Hundred Coffins (Umberto Lenzi)
36 The Unholy Four/Chuck Moll (Enzo Barboni)
37 Long Days Of Vengeance (Florestano Vancini )
38 A Pistol For Ringo (Duccio Tessari)
39 Mannaja/A Man Called Blade (Sergio Martino)
40 Face To Face (Sergio Sollima)
41 Taste Of Killing/Lanky Fellow (Tonino Valerii)
42 Django The Bastard/The Stranger’s Gundown (Sergio Garrone)
43 May God Forgive You … But I Won’t (Vincenzo Musolino)
44 Yankee (Tinto Brass)
45 Fury Of Johnny Kid/Ride For A Massacre (Gianni Puccini)
46 The Brute And The Beast/Massacre Time (Lucio Fulci)
47 Pecos Cleans Up (Maurizio Lucidi)
48 Navajo Joe (Sergio Corbucci)
49 Tequila Joe/Time And Place For Killing (Enzo Dell’Aquila)
50 Death Walks In Laredo/Three Golden Boys/ The Pistol, The Karate And The Eye (Enzo Peri)
