BS: Western with happy ending

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 03:06 PM

Texas Across the River.
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Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:54 PM

Okay, mission accomplished - thanks for all the input. I'm heading off to Halifax for the East Coast Music Awards, now, but feel free to carry on!

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:39 PM

I don't know the melody those lyrics from Music Man go to, but they would make great rap lyrics, with a little cussin' added in. If there's no one within earshot, give it a try.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,Bobbijo
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:15 PM

All westerns prior to the 1960s had happy endings. The revisionist westerns which, I believe, began with Little Big Man, killed all that-- thankfully. Now, in this age of Deadwood, we no longer expect it, but go back and watch some of the old ones. They all end well, or pretty well, anyway.

And who doesn't love a good cowboy song?

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:39 AM

Nothing wrong with "schoolmarms".

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:17 AM

Merrill Wilson The Music Man

No wide-eyed, eager,
Wholesome innocent Sunday school teacher for me.
That kinda girl spins webs no spider ever--
Listen, boy--
A girl who trades on all that purity
Merely wants to trade my independence for her security.
The only affirmative she will file
Refers to marching down the aisle.
No golden, glorious, gleaming pristine goddess--
No sir!
For no Diana do I play faun.
I can tell you that right now.
I snarl, I hiss: How can ignorance be compared to bliss?
I spark, I fizz for the lady who knows what time it is.
I cheer, I rave for the virtue I'm too late to save
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me.
No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless baby-doll baby
Not for me.
That kinda child ties knots no sailor ever knew.
I prefer to take a chance on a more adult romance.
No dewy young miss
Who keeps resisting all the time she keeps insisting!
No wide-eyed, wholesome innocent female.
No sir.
Why, she's the fisherman, I'm the fish you see?--PLOP!
I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by
I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.
I hope, and I pray, for a Hester to win just one more "A"
The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me.
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:10 AM

GUEST,meself--

Yes, I took unfair liberties with a loosely constructed sentence seen while half-asleep.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:02 AM

Ask yourself - who would you rather marry? The respectable schoolmarm or the recovering saloongirl with the "heart of gold".

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:46 AM

I'm sure one of the brides in Seven Brides is a schoolmarm. Anyway, they are all very respectable, in spite of appearances.

But my impression is that its more typical for the saloon girls to be the ones who get married at the end and turn respectable. The schoolmarms are more likely to go off the rails a bit along the way, even if they do end up married to the hero in the end.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: RangerSteve
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:23 AM

"Westward the Women", about bringing brides west to a bunch of love-starved ranch hands. I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it as one of the best western movies ever made.

And "The Hanging Tree", which doesn't end with a wedding, but you know it's going to happen.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:57 AM

I remember that in "The Magnificent Seven" the young hispanic character rides back into town to hookup with the local girl. Marrage isn't mentioned but in that era and culture I'm sure we can assume that marrage was in their future.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:49 AM

Here, let me help you with that ...

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Scrump
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:33 AM

Didn't the Lone Ranger and Tonto ride off into the sunset together and live happily ever after?

... I'll get me coat.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Alec
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:26 AM

Calamity Jane ends with a double wedding,though how many of the parties are "respectable" would be a moot point.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:17 AM

Good, good - keep'm coming gang; I know the perfect one is out there -

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: JennyO
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 08:29 AM

I think that would be "Rooster Cogburn".

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Bee
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 07:40 AM

Can't remember the title, but one with middle aged cowboy John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn as middle-aged lady preacher. They bicker through movie, fall in love, fade to sunset.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:39 AM

The Frisco Kid, with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: alanabit
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:25 AM

"The Man who shot Liberty Valance". James Stewart's suicide attempt is successfully foiled by John Wayne. He promptly thanks him by running off with the bird John Wayne was planning to marry!

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:56 AM

"Bring my nephew here, my dear, before you go into the house."

At this, Molly, stepping out of the carriage, squeezed her husband's hand. "I knew that she would be lovely," she whispered to him. And then she ran to her aunt's arms, and let him follow. He came slowly, hat in hand.

The old lady advanced to meet him, trembling a little, and holding out her hand to him. "Welcome, nephew," she said. "What a tall fellow you are, to be sure. Stand off, sir, and let me look at you."

The Virginian obeyed, blushing from his black hair to his collar.

Then his new relative turned to her niece, and gave her a flower. "Put this in his coat, my dear," she said. "And I think I understand why you wanted to marry him."

After this the maid came and showed them to their rooms. Left alone in her garden, the great-aunt sank on a bench and sat there for some time; for emotion had made her very weak.

Upstairs, Molly, sitting on the Virginian's knee, put the flower in his coat, and then laid her head upon his shoulder.

"I didn't know old ladies could be that way," he said. "D' yu' reckon there are many?"

"Oh, I don't know," said the girl. "I'm so happy!"

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:48 AM

The Big Country

Gregory Peck marries the schoolmarm insread of the spoiled rancher's daughter.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:46 AM

Cheers to you too.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: michaelr
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:34 AM

So you're writing a paper on a premise you know nothing about, and you're asking an online forum to inform you.

I invite Clinton Hammond to comment.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:20 AM

Susan - now, are you being deliberately comical, or ... ?

I said "it", not "she". Meaning, "you might have more sympathy for me if I were trying to win a barroom wager, etc., rather than writing a nerdy paper."

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:08 AM

I know it would seem more worthy if it were to win a barroom wager, or to get through a turn of Pictionary....

You don't want much, do you?!?!?

Let's review-- you want the lady to win him at poker, AND you want him to win HER at Pictionary?!?!?!? In a Western?

AND she has to be respectable? How about merely redeemable? :~)

That would be La Femmme Nikita. (French version.)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:54 PM

You would think so, wouldn't you? But in this instance, I'm writing a paper, and I've set up a precious little conceit that relies on a Western with an actual marriage - well, a bona fide betrothal would do - at the end.

I know it would seem more worthy if it were to win a barroom wager, or to get through a turn of Pictionary, but ... I appreciate the help!

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:50 PM

Well ... Open Range is a recent movie ... who get's married these days ... if my memory serves me well they damned well looked like they were going setup shack together ... i guess that's as good as getting married (isn't it).

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:42 PM

Oh yes indeed ... the little lady is very respectable in that movie.

I think. Correct me if I'm wrong anyone.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:42 PM

High Noon, but they get married before.

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:33 PM

Wickepedia says "romance blossoms" at the end, but doesn't mention marriage ... ?

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:30 PM

Thanks for the quick response! I don't know that movie - just to verify - the "little lady in red" is "respectable"?

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:27 PM

correction won ... not one.

I apologize for my banana finger typing again.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:26 PM

"Open Range" with Kevin Costner

I think he one the little lady in the end ... correct me if I'm wrong.

biLL

Subject: BS: Western with happy ending
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:22 PM

Help - my brain's not working. I need an example of a classic - or at least well-known - Western movie in which the hero or anti-hero marries a "lady", preferably the schoolma'arm, at the end.