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 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. 884 2150
2 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. 876 2214
3 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. 873 2157
4 Open Range
Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall take on land barons with six-shooters. Then townsfolk join in, for a fifteen-minute gunfight. 822 2418
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. 821 2049
6 The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah revolutionized the Western with a beautiful and brutal shoot-out that uses multiple cameras, varied speeds, and rapid edits. 579 1877
7 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Two robbers -- bleeding and limping -- leap headlong to death, and the picture freezes, capturing them in their fearlessness. 569 1851
8 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. 563 1841
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. 247 1711
10 The Quick and the Dead
In Sam Raimi's estrogen-powered Western, Sharon Stone guns down her father's killer (Gene Hackman). -241 1833