Now that I think about it, it would probably go on. The reason that I didn’t put it on in the first place was that I don’t own it, and therefore can’t say I really watch it frequently. But other than that, I have to say, it doesn’t really fit what was going on in the genre at the time. You look at the Westerns that came out around it — revisionist stuff like Buck and the Preacher, religious/psychological stuff like High Plains Drifter, or comedies like Blazing Saddles — and it doesn’t really fit. I think Redford’s performance shares more with his other Pollack movie, Three Days of the Condor, than with contemporary Westerns.

Still, I do like it. Now that I look back at the list, I’d make three changes. Lose Red River, Rio Grande and Dodge City, and add Jeremiah Johnson, Once Upon a Time in the West (purely for its cast and Cinerama picture quality) and Blazing Saddles. Maybe I’ll get around to that once school’s out.

I know at least one website which could need it