BS: western flicks

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Justa Picker
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 10:24 PM

My favourite line in that movie Peg, after the kid has the shakes from shooting the guy in the outhouse...to Clint.."guess he had it coming"..and Clint's reply "Kid, we've all got it coming."

Loved it!

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Peg
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 10:18 PM

One of my favorite westerns is a very recent one: Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. It won a lot of awards and deserved every one. This film takes a lot of the old standard images and plot twists of the classic western and flips them on their heads! A great story, great shooting, very entertaining.

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: DonMeixner
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 10:11 PM

Swano,

Sure it isn't "Trinity"?

Don

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 09:38 PM

Of course, if you watch "Blazing Saddles," you can never again watch any western and take it completely seriously...

Peter.

P. S. "The Long Riders" is worth watching for the music alone. The action and the acting are bonuses.

P.

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Dave Swan
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 09:34 PM

My Name is Nobody

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: DougR
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 09:27 PM

Yes, Jerry, your suggestions are excellent. The Big Country is one of my favorites, and I love the musical score to it. You are right about The Ox Bow Incident. That was really considered a very daring movie when it was released in the 1940's. Clifton, Rio Bravo is one of my favorites too and I thought Walter Brennen was great in it. The Wild Bunch was a very good movie too, I thought. I also liked John Wayne's last movie, "The Shootist," based on a novel by Glendon Swarthout. Musn't forget Monte Walsh either.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 08:36 PM

The years when I was living in New York City and had a hankerin' to see the sky, I used to go down to those seedy theaters in Time Square every time Big Country was on. Will Penny is another favorite, already mentioned. I watched Stage Coach the other night with John Wayne in his first "major" movie role (although he shared equal time with four or five other actors and actresses. Iinda nice to see him before he started mailing in his appearnces. One no one had mentioned, I think, is the Ox Bow Incident... very disturbing. I also watched the Gunfighter with Gregory Peck recently, and that's fine, too.
Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Clifton53
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 08:14 PM

Doug R. mentioned 'Rio Bravo', one of my favorites with a nice musical interlude with Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin harmonizing on " My Rifle,Pony and Me",,then going into " Get Along Home Cindy Cindy" with Walter Brennan joining in on the chorus. Makes me smile every time I see it.

Also, not a straight cowboy picture, but 'Northwest Passage' with Spencer Tracy and Brennan, and Robert Young is very good.

Clifton

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Clifton53
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 08:13 PM

Doug R. mentioned 'Rio Bravo', one of my favorites with a nice musical interlude with Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin harmonizing on " My Rifle,Pony and Me",,then going into " Get Along Home Cindy Cindy" with Walter Brennan joining in on the chorus. Makes me smile every time I see it.

Also, not a straight cowboy picture, but 'Northwest Passage' with Spencer Tracy and Brennan, and Robert Young is very good.

Clifton

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: DonMeixner
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 08:04 PM

Will Penny is an overlooked gem, The Sacketts is very good as is the other Quick and the Dead. Any Sam Elliot or Ben Johnson western is worth the time.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:59 PM

No wonder I'm such a waste.........I've seen all of these I think.........completely pathetic.

Magnificent Seven
How the West Was Won

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: GUEST,vl
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:54 PM

tyrone powell(-er)?

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: GUEST,vl
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:50 PM

colwyn, wasn't it john wayne and not fonda in drums along the mohawk. u.s. currency only please *g*. great suggestions all. please don't stop.vl

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:49 PM

"One-Eyed Jacks" with Marlon Brando and "The Long Riders" with sets of brothers (Carradines, Keach-s, etc.). Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch," and "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid." And definitely "Lonely Are The Brave," starring Kirk Douglas in a film based upon a novel by Edward Abbey.

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: GUEST,colwyn dane
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:42 PM

Spot my mistake and send the answer on the back of a 50 dollar bill to yours truly.

CD.

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: GUEST,colwyn dane
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:39 PM

In addition to those mentioned above.
Some very good b+w jobs:
'The Plainsman' - Gary Cooper
'My Darling Clementine' - Henry Fonda
'They Died With Their Boots On' - Errol Flynn
'Red River' - John Wayne
'Santa Fe Trail' - Errol Flynn
'The Gunfighter' - Gregory Peck

And some colourful ones:
'Drums Along The Mohawk' - Henry Fonda
'Northwest Passage' - Spencer Tracy
'Jesse James' - Tyrone Powell(1938)

Have a laugh with:
Laurel & Hardy 'Way Out West'
'Blazing Saddles'

Good viewing to you.
CD.

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Cappuccino
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:18 PM

English TV often shows old 50s westerns in the early afternoons on weekdays, and as I work from home, I often have them on. The only thing I like better than a good western... is a bad western. I love the 1940s-50s bright Technicolor, and I like my heroes in clean duds while the baddies are dirty and unshaven, and there's always an unrealistically pretty girl with an hourglass figure in some remote shack somewhere... could watch them all day!

- ian B

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: DougR
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:15 PM

The John Ford films: "Red River," "The Searchers," "Ft. Apache," "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon," "Rio Grande," "Rio Bravo," "Ride the High Country" (Randolph Scott and Joel McCray), "Winchester 73," "Stage Coach," are a few I can recommend.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Justa Picker
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:08 PM

I found "The Quick and The Dead", amusing and escapist. (Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe - when he was nobody, and Sharon Stone.)

The early Clint "dusters" (as I call them) were good. Agree about Josey Wales, and also Unforgiven. "The Magnicient Seven" is a must as well.

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:05 PM

Paint Your Wagon; The Unsinkable MOlly Brown; Going South; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid come to mind, as well as all of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns.

Take care with your shoulder.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: western flicks
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 07:00 PM

My all-time personal favorite in that genre is probably "The Outlaw, Josey Wales." Clint Eastwood starred and directed, I think...

Peter.

Subject: western flicks
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 09 Feb 02 - 06:32 PM

i'm going through a period of inactivity due to a shoulder injury (no guitarizing) and am watching many videos. i love classic (shane, high noon etc.) and even more recent (silverado, unforgiven...) westerns and wonder if i've missed any great or good ones.any suggestions? i've tried the archives and couldn't pull up any relevant threads. thanks, vl.

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