Rugd1022 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Googled "Best Western Ever Made " and this, believe it or not, was what it came up with. So dare't google "Worst Western Ever Made " in case it come up with something this ! The dark eyed goddess in the top pic is a very familiar face in a lot of the Italian cult films of the '60s and '70s I've been indulging in for a few years now, much cheese abounds within, but she certainly lights up the screen very nicely along with others of her exotic ilk like Edwige Fenech, Barbara Buchet, Anita Strindberg and Susan Scott. D-i-n-g and indeed d-o-n-g squire! The evil antique purveyor below on the other hand makes me want to stick my size nine (well alright, size six and a half at a push) through the screen... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 John Wayne really saved the best till last, The Shootist is a real classic and True Grit was a film that only Big John could make.. A really tense, atmospheric film which hasn’t yet had a mention - Russell Crowe’s 3:10 to Yuma. A gloriously OTT spoof which hasn’t yet had a mention - Rango, which manages more references than any other, including “The Spirit Of The West” in his golf cart, Jurassic Park (what WAS that thing?), Bill Nighy at his most flamboyantly menacing, Hunter S Thompson, Apocalypse Now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Tom Mix in ‘Cement’. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium wagonbasher Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2018 I work for a part of Tarmac in a modern office overlooking Wolverhampton station. We have a sort of social room, it is part kitchen, part canteen, part meeting room with hard and soft seating. The room has a big TV screen which at times is used for presentations etc but most of the time it is just the TV. I wonder in there at times taking telephone and conference calls because most of the time it is empty but the telly is always on. I dump things like Jeremy Kyle etc. and at a point in the day I hunt for westerns and war films. Not because I have time to sit and watch them but I like to think I am educating and broadening the minds of my colleagues. Today.... I found John Wayne in The Comancheroes. It was on for most of the lunch whilst I ate my jacket potato when a senior manager sat down and dumped it for the news. I did my bit as long as it lasted Andy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Bad Day at Black Rock, a "modern" western. Spencer Tracey is fabulous in it, Robert Ryan as the bad guy and Ernest Borgnine as the heavy. My favourite film ever And it starts and finishes with a classic train 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 (edited) What kind of drugs was John Ford possibly tripping out on when he thought something like this would have been typical of a US Cavalry troop out on patrol without a women's hairdressing salon or beauty parlor anywhere to be seen ! Right. Follow me ladies. Foreward yo ! Are you sure, John ?. It looks awful beastly out there. You know. Spiders and stuff... Aw, I dunno Sweetie. I'ts not too bad once you get used to it. Edited March 14, 2018 by allan downes 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 17, 2018 Author Share Posted March 17, 2018 (edited) Sooner or later it had to come - cowboys wired for sound and who better than Jul Brynner to provide the sparks- but you'll need a packet of fuses mind you. This guy's lightnin' fast ! Silly idea you might ask and maybe so, but a brilliant one all the same! Edited March 17, 2018 by allan downes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 A bleak night on TV yesterday but the Horse Soldiers was on the Westerns channel for the umpteenth time so we watched it for the umpteenth time. You really can't beat a John Ford cavalry film, stirring music, lots of action in colour between the Rebs and Union soldiers, pretty Southern 'gal' for decoration and a small part for Anna Lee, from the UK. William Holden and the Duke are on form and a personal viewpoint is that John Wayne could have stopped here and not got on to older parts which didn't really suit his image. Brian. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Mum and dad took me to see 'The Horse Soldiers' at our local cinema when I was nobbut a kitten. I think I was about 6 or 7 at the time. About all I came away with was the rebel charge in the town, but I've seen it several times since. On the subject of John Ford cavalry movies, I thought 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' was one of the better ones. I don't know if the drills in it are correct, but I imagine they're pretty close. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 A bleak night on TV yesterday but the Horse Soldiers was on the Westerns channel for the umpteenth time so we watched it for the umpteenth time. You really can't beat a John Ford cavalry film, stirring music, lots of action in colour between the Rebs and Union soldiers, pretty Southern 'gal' for decoration and a small part for Anna Lee, from the UK. William Holden and the Duke are on form and a personal viewpoint is that John Wayne could have stopped here and not got on to older parts which didn't really suit his image.Brian. Can’t agree, I’m afraid. He was obviously enjoying himself in “McLintock”, was the only man in Hollywood who could pull off “True Grit” (as was regrettably demonstrated recently, the whole POINT being that it is about an ageing John Wayne character) and “The Shootist” was quality cinema by any standards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 SWAYR was on TCM last night and we watched it for the umpteenth time followed by "Chisum". No comparison between the two, Chisum was all right but certainly not one of JWs best while the older film was in better condition with gorgeous Technicolor after all these years and with the right amount of sympathy and action. John Ford could always be depended for grand, scenic cavalry pictures which always seemed convincing and there usually were credits to some retired army officer. Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 The real Calamity Jane. I'd say that casting Doris Day as her in the movie was a little over the top to say the least ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 First movie I went to see with my Dad was Davy Crocket, there were also some Woody Woodpecker cartoons, I seem to remember more about the cartoons than the movie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted April 29, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2018 I believe Hostiles is released on disc tomorrow, that's well worth watching and is on of the better Western movies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 The real Calamity Jane. I'd say that casting Doris Day as her in the movie was a little over the top to say the least ! Ruth Goodman could play that role without makeup! Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 10, 2018 Author Share Posted May 10, 2018 Just stumbled across this. Another one of Hollywood's misinformed ideas of what Calamity Jane looked like by way of Jayne Russel. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 11, 2018 Author Share Posted May 11, 2018 (edited) I think Hollywood really went into overdrive when they came up with this take on what they imagined what female gunfighters of the old Wild West must have looked like ! Edited May 11, 2018 by allan downes 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Downes Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Someone swore that 'Silverado' was a brilliant western then I watched it. Crap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Downes Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 I think Hollywood really went into overdrive when they came up with this take on what they imagined what female gunfighters of the old Wild West must have looked like ! Never seen that film but my guess is the following would have been said: Rootin' tootin', Get outta town Mr, Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm not that kinda girl, don't call be baby/doll/sweetheart. Am I right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Downes Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Sooner or later it had to come - cowboys wired for sound and who better than Jul Brynner to provide the sparks- but you'll need a packet of fuses mind you. This guy's lightnin' fast ! Silly idea you might ask and maybe so, but a brilliant one all the same! He does look good, shame he was just 4ft 11 inches though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Sooner or later it had to come - cowboys wired for sound and who better than Jul Brynner to provide the sparks- but you'll need a packet of fuses mind you. This guy's lightnin' fast ! Silly idea you might ask and maybe so, but a brilliant one all the same! I particularly like the pneumatic tyre tracks in the foreground of this photograph ! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 (edited) Bad Day at Black Rock, a "modern" western. Spencer Tracey is fabulous in it, Robert Ryan as the bad guy and Ernest Borgnine as the heavy. My favourite film ever The SP train at the beginning and end is rather good too! EDIT I see it's been said before but I've just found this thread.... Edited July 14, 2018 by Il Grifone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NittenDormer Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 I've always enjoyed Silverado. Kevin Costner when he could still act, John Cleese in support, a reasonably decent tie up of loose ends at the finale. And the head teacher from Kindergarten Cop? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderforge Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Anything with Clint Eastwood really. When my first band used to go ‘on stage’ we put the chimes from Good/Bad/Ugly, it still gives me butterflies when I hear it! My brother bought a CD of Ennio Morricone tracks, they’re awesome. What about Will Smith’s Wild Wild West? Or Back to the Future III? Or good old Paint Your Wagon?? In fact I seem to remember quite a good film called ‘Wagons East’ a spoof about a bunch of pioneers who decided the Wild West wasn’t actually very nice and wanted to go back to civilisation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 The tyre tracks in Westworld are OK because service vehicles are actually part of the plot so they're not actually an anachronism. Also on Westworld, I'd never realised how short Yul Brynner actually was, even in Western heels, until I rewatched it a couple of months back. As for Wild Wild West, that's two hours of my life I won't be getting back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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