ScoutTN Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Ds wants to get some cowboy movies from the library. Any suggestions for family friendly ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalLynn Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 nm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 We like the Sons of Katie Elder with John Wayne. There's lots of shooting though, but not gory, bloody mess. Very few swear words and they arent the really bad ones. Another favorite is The Rare Breed. It has Jimmy Stewart and Maureen OHara in it. LOVE it. Not much at all about it that I'd consider bad, but there's probably some gunfighting in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalLynn Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I love The Cowboys with John Wayne. He takes a bunch of young boys on a long cattle drive, learning to grow up and be responsible, hard working young men while braving weather and bad guys. Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upward Journey Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 These are all old TV shows. When my kids were that age they loved Bonanza & Roy Rogers. There's also an awesome Australian Western TV show called Five Mile Creek. Young Riders ~ the old TV show about the pony express. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 These are all old TV shows. When my kids were that age they loved Bonanza & Roy Rogers. There's also an awesome Australian Western TV show called Five Mile Creek. Young Riders ~ the old TV show about the pony express. Five Mile Creek was our favorite. Great show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 What's your violence tolerance level? I feel like most of them are fine for kids by today's standards. There's violence, sometimes the implication of bad violence, but if you get something older, then it's not like violence in movies today. I really like Who Shot Liberty Valance, but partly for the complexity. I had middle schoolers watch it in a film class and it was perfect. Paint Your Wagon (don't laugh... okay, laugh) would be fine. But really, if my kids wanted to see a western, I'd be fine with them seeing "the greats" like The Searchers or High Noon. You could go another direction and get Rango. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Shane ("Come back, Shane!") and High Noon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Be careful of The Cowboys with JohnWayne. It is much darker than many and, even as a young teen, it was rough to watch. (This is coming from someone who loves John Wayne and had watched them all by the time she was 15.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Oo! Lots! I've included the year so you know which version I mean, as some films have been made more than once: classic, traditional westerns directed by John Ford: - Stagecoach (1939) - My Darling Clementine (1946) - Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) - 3 Godfathers (1948) - Fort Apache (1948) - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - Wagon Master (1950) family favorites: - The Magnificent Seven (1960) - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962) humorous: - Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) - Laurel & Hardy: Way Out West (1937) - Marx Brothers: Go West (1940) - My Little Chickadee (1940) classics: - How The West Was Won (1962) - True Grit (1969) - Shane (1953) - High Noon (1952) - 3:10 to Yuma - Dodge City (1939) - Red River (1948) unusual: - Annie Oakley (1935) -- biography - Annie Get Your Gun (1950) -- musical - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) -- musical - An American Tale: Fieval Goes West (1991) -- animated - Rango (2011) -- animated - Jeremiah Johnson (1972) -- survival/mountain man younger children might enjoy: - The Lone Ranger (old TV western series) - Roy Rogers movies - My Friend Flicka (1943) older elementary/tweens might enjoy older TV western series: - Zorro movies - Wild, Wild West (1960s TV series -- spy/intrigue, gadgets, disguises, cliff-hangers all set in the old west) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 Excellent, thanks! Lots of things to check out. I had forgotten about Bonanza. We watched that as kids too. On the library list it goes! We are okay with gunfighting as long as it's not gory or 90% of the movie. Happy endings are strongly preferred. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Shane and High Noon -- just as another poster said! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linders Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Anything with John Wayne. Anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I bought Kung Fu and we're into the 2nd season (7yo girls). It gets kind of weird and uncomfortable at times, but it opens up a lot of discussions. We watched Oklahoma a year or two ago, but it got really violent and scary at one point. Thought it would be a nice musical, but I should have waited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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