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The Top 10 Lists
At the end of each month, Emil and Friends sit around the radio campfire and talk about western movies, the actors, the scripts, and, the musical scores. Emil is usually joined by Todd Roberts, Michael F. Blake, Robert Nott, John Komrada, Cotton Smith, and Johnny Boggs. Lively discusstions come up when the group tries to choose a "best of" or "Top 10" list of movies, movie scores, actors, directors, plots, or who was the best "bad guy."
- LONESOME DOVE (1989)- 49/50, the highest score we've ever had.
- THE SACKETTS (1979)- 36/50
- BROKEN TRAIL (2006)- 33/50
- CENTENNIAL (1978)- 23/50
- (Tie) DAVEY CROCKETT (1955)- 21/50 ROUGH RIDERS (1998)- 21/50
- HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1977-78) -18/50
- INTO THE WEST (2005) 14/50
- RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE (1995) - 12/50
- (Tie) COMANCHE MOON (2008) - 11/50 WILD TIMES (1980) 11/50
- (Tie) BUFFALO GIRLS (1995) 9/50 MR. HORN (1979) 9/50
- THE CHISOLMS (1980) 6/50
- STREETS OF LAREDO (1993) 2/50
- TRUE WOMEN (1997) 1/50
NO VOTES - JOHNSON COUNTY WAR (2002), DEAD MAN'S WALK (1996)
EMIL'S NOTES: The list was reduced to 16 miniseries PLUS BROKEN TRAIL over Mr. Boggs objections that its shown all together on some channels, and TRUE WOMEN which is 180 minutes long, called a movie, but sometimes shown in pieces and only got one vote anyway (mine). Mr. Nott chose not to participate.
