I watched the original last week on Film 4
I watched the new one the other night
The original is a reasonably entertaining 60s western – but really not all that
The new one is very good indeed – the action scenes are the same, but with some variations around who is where when, which improve things and keep it interesting
Considering the stuff around it being a new version of the book and not a remake of the John Wayne film some of the performances are very similar. The guy who sells/ buys horses and the character played by Robert Duvall in the original – both actors in the new one seemed to be playing very close to the original film’s performances