Who Was Your Greatest Cowboy Hero ?

[redman41]

Was it John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, or anyone else.John Wayne was always John Wayne, no matter which Film he starred in...lol..lol
'True Grit' springs to mind, especially when they made the re-make in 2010, starring Jeff Bridges.
He became the Rooster Cogburn character (Brilliant Actor), whereas John Wayne was still himself.
I find most of the modern day re-makes far better, because of better technical equipment.

[Hopkirk]

Certainly not John Wayne - he was rubbish at acting.

[New Judge]

Another puzzling thing about cowboys.

In “The High Chapparal” Big John Cannon has a cattle ranch about the size of Yorkshire. (His father-in-law, Don Sebastian Motoya, has a ranch about the size of England). In some of the episodes Big John and his brother Buck set off on horseback looking for stray cattle or John’s dopey son, Billy Blue, or whatever. They ride for about three days without encountering another living soul, any settlements or landmarks across completely featureless scrub and desert. Suddenly they will stop announcing “Well this is where our land ends. We’d better go no further”.

How do they know?

[Bazile]

NJ
//It always puzzled me why nobody could recognise the Lone Ranger ("Who was that masked man?"). All he had on was an eyeshade with two holes. I imagine we were more easily taken in back then.//

lol - yes - the same goes for - superman / clark kent

[Bazile]

NJ
//...They ride for about three days without encountering another living soul, any settlements or landmarks across completely featureless scrub and desert. Suddenly they will stop announcing “Well this is where our land ends. We’d better go no further”.

How do they know? //

By the scent marks of course :-)

[New Judge]

"Gary Cooper in High Noon."

A large number of my family were assembled at my Great Aunt's for Christmas. High Noon was on the TV for the first time. Everybody (bar one) wanted to watch it. My great grandmother (on my father's side) announced "It's Friday. 'Take your Pick' is on. I always watch Take your Pick."

A frank discussion and exchange of views took place and a sensible compromise was reached. We missed the last 30 minutes of "High Noon".

[Captain2]

Best TV cowboy = James Drury (The Viginian)
Best Film cowboy = Clint
Best cowboy Film = The Wild Bunch

[maggiebee]

The Lone Ranger
Gary Cooper

[zebo]

Flint McCullough, played by Robert Horton in Wagon Train. He only died in 2016, aged 91. When I was about 10 I won a prize at Sunday School, I had to go to the bookshop in Bolton and select a book to be presented with at a big ceremony. I chose the Wagon Train annual, it didn't go down too well, they tried very hard to talk me out of it.

[gollob]

Why has nobody mentioned Tom Mix or even the Waco Kid

[maggiebee]

What about a cowgirl? Doris Day as Calamity Jane?

[BagPussAA]

My cowboy hero has got to be Steve McQueen in the Magnificent Seven. He is so cool in that film (well all films, but especially that one!). Other than that Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter and Dean Martin in El Dorado...

[murraymints]

love Doris Day

[Voltage]

jeremy corbyn latter day cowboy!

[Khandro]

Jack Palance for me;
'Jack Palance exemplified evil incarnate on film -- portraying some of the most intensely despised villains witnessed in 50s westerns and melodrama....'

IMDB

[Cloverjo]

Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. Sorry.....but I love that film, and him.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

I know I'm showing my age but I remember going to the Saturday morning showing at the local cinema and watching Whip Wilson and Lash LaRue. Mr BD is convinced I've made those names up so does anyone else remember them?

[redman41]

I vaguely remember Lash Larue, but cannot remember seeing any of his Films....

[anotheoldgit]

I don't think that Roy Rodgers and his famous horse Trigger has been mentioned yet.

[Togo]

Here you are Bakers and Red.

[Togo]

Al(fred) "Lash" Larue.