TOP 5 WESTERNS with Max Allan Collins 

Amazing! I was never an outright "western" fan; more adjacent, but I appreciate good western films. These lists gave me a few recommendations to watch. Thanks!

These conversations are great and you guys touched on many of my favorite Westerns. My earliest memory of enjoying westerns was watching RIVER OF NO RETURN with Marilyn Monroe on our new color TV when I was a kid - not even aware of what I was missing watching CinemaScope on a square screen. Since then, some of my personal favorites that immediately come to mind are: WARLOCK (1959), THE VIOLENT MEN (1955), HOMBRE (1967), JOHNNY GUITAR (1954), THE PROFESSIONALS (1966), and TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN (1956). I've enjoyed Westerns even into their revisionist period with films like McCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971) and LITTLE BIG MAN (1970).

Back for more. Loved the film noir discussions and now ready for the westerns.

This was so fun!! I remember seeing "Gunfight" with my Dad, who was a huge western fan!! He watched the the B Weterns on SAT mornings when he was young.. Nice to see the Westerns get some love again!!

Always look forward to a conversation with Max Allan Collins, especially if it involves getting a list of Oater titles that I have not yet seen. (And because, like with Kim Newman, I had not yet associated Mr Collins with the Western genre.)

I have been revisiting western movies and books lately. So this came around at perfect time. Thanks!

Great chat - lot's of great movies and sharing of insights. Also glad you included 'Bad Day at Black Rock' - love that movie.

So much cinema comment out there, and yet so little input from the originators of the ideas: writers. Glad Max has been along for these deep dives into cinema genre. Credit to you, Heath.

Coming late to this rodeo - but this was another great conversation. I'd toss the Gregory Peck 's "Yellow Sky" and "The Gunfighter" (source of the James Bond gun barrel image) onto my list of favorite westerns. Got to see "The Naked Spur" on the big screen, which definitely helps pushing it up in estimation. Also going to go out a limb a bit: I love "The Guns of the Magnificent Seven" - easily the best of the sequels, with George Kennedy replacing Yul Brenner. Not as iconic, but Kennedy is effective in his own way and may be a more realistic saddle tramp. I think I picked up "Last Train to Boot Hill" on your recommendation, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Seems that the male friendship and sins of the son themes connect this so strongly with Collin's "Road to Perdition". Could be an interesting thematic double bill. Watched "Gunfight at the OK Corral" a few years ago for the first time since childhood. I was struck by some beautiful images - particularly those that used strong color and silhouettes - that reminded me of noir expressionism and graphic novels (also influenced by noir) Anyway - great stuff, insightful and enthusiastic. Always lights a fire to watch and / or rewatch some of these titles. Thanks again!

Lately you just keep topping yourself with these phenomenally entertaining and engaging videos, HH! A great idea, great guest star and especially great films under discussion. Why not a 5 favorite Noir films video with Max Allan or flip side it and do it with Toby Roan!

Enjoyed the discussion. Watched it during dinner last night. Max is a great guest every time.

Hell yes! Thank you Heath. I absolutely love Last Train From Gun Hill and Vera Cruz. They're so underrated and underseen.

I've enjoyed your talks with Max Allan Collins so much, and I never get enough of your Western coverage. I thought I'd recommend a few of my favorites that might be slightly outside the mainstream that any fans of the genre should watch: Sergeant Rutledge, The Ox-Bow Incident, and Lonely are the Brave.

Really enjoyed listening to this, I look forward to checking these out! Aside from Rio Bravo, all are ones I haven't seen.

HIGH NOON was written by Carl Foreman and directed by the great Fred Zinneman

I just realized how well Adam Driver could "do" Lee Van Cleef.

*Incredible* discussion! Love hearing all the knowledge, passion, and movie nerddom being shared between the two of you.

Really loving this series of discussions with Max! Thanks for bringing to light these western titles, many of which I have yet to see. I really look forward to picking these up on physical and checking them out, Heath.

This was a great episode. I watched my first Audie Murphy movie based on Max's recommendation: "No Name on the Bullet". I really enjoyed it. Strangely - R.G. Armstrong plays Chares Drake's father, though they're the same age! 😀

Love this so much! Thanks Max and Heath!

Excellent as always! Thanks, Heath!

Great top 5 from both of you! How about top 5 B sci-fi movies? Maybe pre 1965.

Death Rides a Horse is one of my favorites.

I see Max as a guest, I hit play. ✌🏽

Love Westerns, great lists and conversation. Here's my 5: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Rio Bravo Vera Cruz The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Tombstone But if I were on this video, I trade out Tombstone and G,B,U because they are so obvious in favor of talking about Blood on the Moon and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

I remember a "Gunsmoke "where De Kelly and Leonard Nimoy were in the jail cell together...

Great podcast ❤

A couple of "unknown" Westerns that I love... The Brave One (1956) and Lonely Are The Brave (1962) both written by Dalton Trumbo. But Italian Westerns are able to raise the mythology to another level... Once Upon a Time in the West is one that not a lot people pay attention to but it is much more serious than the Man with no name Trilogy.

Tall T on my list for sure !

I guess you could pick 5 westerns by Ford and no one could argue. Of course then there is Hawks, Mann, Boetticher. and Leone

I was hoping Vera Cruz would be mentioned by one of you! First time I watched it was on 35mm at The Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood. (Back in 2019😂)

I love vera cruz!!!

The only way I could enjoy this any more would be if you both had Stevie Nicks t-shirts on. Great stuff!

Under a texas moon which has not been released yet.

any place I can find MAC's Lee Van Cleef interview? Would love to read it.

What else is new,has tarantino ever had an original thought?

I think the good the bad and the ugly is way overrated