Western Shoot-Outs
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Western Shoot-Outs

Plenty of guns have been locked, loaded, and discharged in Western-movie history, but which of these movies has the greatest shoot-'em-up sequence?

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1 Open Range
Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall take on land barons with six-shooters. Then townsfolk join in, for a fifteen-minute gunfight. 1247 3467
2 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The final shoot-out is held in a cemetery with three banditos -- Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. 1180 3100
3 Unforgiven
The violence ends with Gene Hackman looking down the barrel of Clint Eastwood's rifle. "I'll see you in hell," he says. Eastwood shoots. 1147 3057
4 Tombstone
Wyatt Earp's famous showdown at the OK Corral isn't over till it's over: as the dust settles, one last cowboy reaches for his gun. 1144 3144
5 The Shootist
The Duke goes out in a blaze of glory as a one-foot-in-the-grave gunfighter cut down in a barroom. 1113 2825
6 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Two robbers -- bleeding and limping -- leap headlong to death, and the picture freezes, capturing them in their fearlessness. 907 2625
7 High Noon
When the clock strikes twelve, Gary Cooper is a man hell-bent on revenge. The shoot-out is a breathtaking battle against the odds. 894 2546
8 The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah revolutionized the Western with a beautiful and brutal shoot-out that uses multiple cameras, varied speeds, and rapid edits. 827 2655
9 Once Upon a Time in the West
The final battle is a standoff between Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda. A flashback explains Bronson's vendetta. 417 2377
10 The Quick and the Dead
In Sam Raimi's estrogen-powered Western, Sharon Stone guns down her father's killer (Gene Hackman). -347 2567