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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 15/11/2008 : 03:41:35
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A great list Kid. I concur with Mockingbird.
But Your Local Sheriff ?? certainly puzzles me. I did see it, but remember little. Did you slip that in to see if anyone was paying attention.
Hah!! Ya, mark! "Sheriff" was a red herring so to speak, A silly movie, with no real value, except it makes me laugh, a lot. Whether it endures...?
It actually was on a must see list from Turner, but I just like the cast: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Jack Elam (with the crazy eye, love Elam), Harry Morgan, Bruce Dern, Walter Brennen, Chuck Connors & the inimitable Joan Blondell....pretty great cast, if nothing else. Where you gonna see all these guys in one movie. Still just a goofy movie, but fun. 
I would like to add "The Shootist". Nice study of a gunfighter that has outlived his time, that chooses the way he wants to go out.
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 15/11/2008 : 04:56:34
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lem, you just reminded me of a movie i saw a few weeks ago : "Kansas City Confidential (1952),with John Payne, Lee Van Cleef, and Jack Elam ! it's one of those gangsters with the dames and the shooting and the hats and big suits and the coppers. but this one is good. Jack crazy eye Elam is a hoot here!
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markk
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 15/11/2008 : 05:52:22
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That's more than I ever wanted to know about The Sheriff.
But I have two which probably will never be classics, but I find them intriguing.
Box of Moonlight- John Turturro, Sam Rockwell
Badlands- A young Martin Sheen and a very young Sissy Spacek |
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 16/11/2008 : 00:18:31
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some of my favorite classic westerns:
the searchers
shane
the man who shot liberty valance
the gunfighter
stagecoach
high noon
rio bravo
red river
unforgiven
high plains drifter
the bravados
the law and jake wade
and every bar scene. you just know there's trouble coming.
i love the tv's "Gunsmoke" with Kitty and Matt Dillon's "secret" love affair
marriage. and her being a Madame of her kitty house!
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 17/11/2008 : 14:53:40
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| and for some eclectic westerns..try "The Proposition" with Guy Pearce and Johnny Depp in "Dead Man"...I thought they were real good... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 18/11/2008 : 22:27:06
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And to those WESTERNS I would like to add "Hang 'Em High", the movie that started the whole Spaghetti Western Genre. 
Good ones, bob & rocker.
A few more:
The Man With No Name film series
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clint seemed to have made a few good westerns!)
Tombstone (with Val Kilmer)
And for great TV Westerns..."Have Gun, Will Travel"
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bob f.
Old Love
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Posted - 18/11/2008 : 23:50:42
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yeah, Richard Boone.Palladin. we used to call him "moon face". i used to think it was called "Half Gun Will Travel"! ever notice that in the old westerns, the fist fights were always filmed in fast motion!?
Gabby Hayes was always a good sign.
o.k: sexiest female character in a western: Jane Russell in "The Outlaw" 1941. the barn scene is astonishing for its time.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 19/11/2008 : 04:17:50
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Originally posted by bob f.
yeah, Richard Boone.Palladin. we used to call him "moon face". i used to think it was called "Half Gun Will Travel"! ever notice that in the old westerns, the fist fights were always filmed in fast motion!?
Gabby Hayes was always a good sign.
o.k: sexiest female character in a western: Jane Russell in "The Outlaw" 1941. the barn scene is astonishing for its time.
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IHah!  I used to think it was "Half Gun..." also, bob.
I loved Richard Boone as the good guy or the bad guy, he always had some kind of cool & calm about him.
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markk
Old Love
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Posted - 19/11/2008 : 04:44:01
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One of my all time favorite westerns, Have Gun Will Travel
I don't think anyone was tougher, all black, derringers shotguns,
charging a minimum of $1000 for hire, quite a hefty sum in those days. And of course the great theme song, also one of the best. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 19/11/2008 : 14:38:11
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| You know haven't we come a long way from the early days of television? Westerns as a genre was extremely popular here and producers couldn't get enough of them on the air. (Neil Young in "Thrasher" even tells us he watched'em too!) Today well they're few and far between compared to other genres. Not sure but what the big genre was in the UK at the time also in those early days? Here in the US the "West" is kind of going strong but for some reason I think we've lost our infatuation with it as it was shown in those tv series and those flms made by Ford. Looks like we have a different realtionship with it. And some others we may have seen: Adventures of Bat Masterson, Colt 45, The Texas Rangers, Sugarfoot...Wanted Dead or Alive... |
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Allan
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 19/11/2008 : 23:27:19
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I enjoyed 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford'. Some really good acting in there.
I get to watch "The Rifleman" nightly on our Western cable channel.
Remember "Cheyenne"-Clint Walker.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 20/11/2008 : 22:36:41
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Yep, I still watch Rifleman too........& Maverick was a staple. Great action infused with that great James Garner sense of humor. And a little Gene Autry can always lift my day....I'm easy.
Anyone remember..."Davy, Davy Crocket, king of the wild frontier..."? I had the whole outfit when I was about 3 years old--coon skin cap & all......used to go around strumming my little guitar, singing it all day. Or so I'm told.
I think it was an innocent time. With the later realism of what was done to the Indians, the buffalo and with movies like The Wild Bunch (1969), the whole genre became a little jaded with the violence & reality of the old west. The 70's did that to a lot of us along with much of what we had once held dear, I think. What do you think caused the demise, guys?
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bob f.
Old Love
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Posted - 20/11/2008 : 23:42:26
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yeah....i wore my Davy Crocket hat ,too. i remember the smell!
Fess Parker's Davy was on the Mickey Mouse Club!
John Wayne was good in "The Alamo". me and my dad saw it at the drive in.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 21/11/2008 : 01:44:07
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Originally posted by bob f.
yeah....i wore my Davy Crocket hat ,too. i remember the smell!
Fess Parker's Davy was on the Mickey Mouse Club!
John Wayne was good in "The Alamo". me and my dad saw it at the drive in.
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Ahhhhhhh.....the Drive-In!
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LeeRob
Fifth Love
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Posted - 21/11/2008 : 05:04:22
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Davey Tee - O Luckey Man is a great film, especially if you were able to see it back in the day; The Alan Price Set does great on the soundtrack as well as playing in the movie.
An obscure film I like is Birdy, an Alan Parker film with Matthew Bodine and Nicholas Cage, made in the early 80's. It is a comedy-drama that makes you laugh out loud. I believe it was Cage's 2nd film. A film that had a great influence on me as a child was The Defiant Ones, with Tony Curtis and Sydney Portier.
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