ABSOLUTELY one of the 5 top Westerns ever produced.

#5 Quigly Down Under(for an Australian view of the West).

#4 Open Range

#3 Rio Bravo

#2 Unforgiven

#1 TOMBSTONE

I believe if it wasn't for the late addition of Cosmotos as director and the behind the scenes (literally) Directing by Kurt Russell which caused a delay in production, Val Kilmer would and should have been presented by the producers to the Academy for Best Actor or Best ing Actor.

Vals portrayal as The Notorious Doc Holiday was beyond great. I believe it was the best single presentation ever of Holiday. Plus Val's connection and chemistry with Kurt Russell, Joanna Pacula and Michael Biehn's Johnny Ringo was stellar.

The original with Stars Glen Ford(Ben) and Van Heflin(Dan) and ing cast of Richard Jaeckle and Henry Jone was great when you consider it was made and released in 1957. I love both. When you also take into money factors. Modest estimates put Crows version at a budget North of $55 million and Fords version at less than $800,000 with an estimated $4 million dollars box office. The original with Ford has had Five of his films have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. 3:10 To Yuma being one of the five. Huge for Ford when you learn that in his 50+ year acting career he made over 85 movies.