Oh How I Miss A Good Cowboy Film

[nannybooby]

..I grew up with Bronco ,Gunsmoke and Rawhide I know its not pc anymore t shoot injuns ,but I do miss them.
What was your favourite?

For me The Alamo and the Lone Ranger

[Bazile]

Did you know that the popular image portrayed in these Westerns of the baddie squaring up to the goddie and then it is the quickest man on the draw ; is far from the reality .

More often than not , you were more likely to be shot in the back .

[jesmond]

alias smith and jones was my era but also a couple of films I love are the searchers, and the Alamo

[nannybooby]

now I am REALLY fed up we have BT Vision not sky and so I can't watch Gunsmoke . (Pouts and stomps feet !)

I do watch the afternoon films but am not a great lover of John Wayne ,if we are talking that era I'm more your Audey Murphy type of girl .

[emmie]

The High Chapparel, i was in love with Cameron Mitchell he was sort of unkempt by quite scrummy...

[emmie]

i love John Wayne films and sat and watched True Grit the other day, what a great film, i have lots of his films on dvd, the best are the John Ford directed ones, great cinematography and fantastic casts, they used what they called the stock cast of actors like Ben Johnson, who was undoubtedly one of the very best stunt riders in the business. Harry Carey Snr and Jnr
played alongside Wayne, as well as Ward Bond, Victor McCLagan too, i can sit through these films all day

[nannybooby]

My fav was Blue in the High Chapparel.,Emmie

[nannybooby]

By the way are you avatar cats Abbeys ,Emmie ?

[emmie]

i think i fell in love with each one, but Cameron Mitchell who played the bad guy in Carousel was lovely. I loved The Virginian, Gunsmoke, and many more, we used to go to saturday morning flicks as well to watch westerns, cost a tanner to get in, but we used to bunk in the back door... oh happy days

[emmie]

yes they are, from a brilliant video... see if can find it and post.

[emmie]

think this is brilliant, bit off topic..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBX13TOOrg

[nannybooby]

lucky you I had 3 Abbeys years ago two like yours and one lilac they are such lovely cats .

[jno]

in the old black and white days John Wayne's movies usually ended with a fight with Yakima Canutt, who was a stuntman and played baddies onscreen. When Canutt ran out of bones to break he became a second unit director and staged the chariot race in Ben Hur.

[emmie]

Bonanza, Wagon Train, Maverick, these were great shows. so many more

[jno]

you can watch a whole film here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_QO0s4xkLE

[nannybooby]

that is soo cute and that's one usual and one lilac too ,on the avatar it looked like they were the same colour. Are they yours?

[andy-hughes]

I loved The Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly says that the definition of 'culture's is being able to hear the William Tell Overture and NOT think of The Lone Ranger!

Of course, that increasingly becomes less and less relavent as new generations grow up.

Similarly, as i always say on these threads, those of you who are of (ahem!) a certain age will instantly hear an apropriate piece of music when they read these two words -















Robinson Crusoe!

Altogether now - Dah-dah-dah-dah-daaaaah.......

[factor-fiction]

Has no-one mentioned Jeff Chandler on this thread yet?

[paddywak]

On TV probably The High Chapperel.Of the films there are too many to pick just one, but this is definitely my favourite scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cPWheNyaA

[nannybooby]

you all seem real John Wayne fans , hes ok at a pinch but as I said earlier not my fav. I rather like the Magnificent 7 ..I am a real Yul Brinner fan. I seem to remember him in a film as a cowboy after an apocalypse or am I hallucinating again ???

[jno]

I'm not really that mad on Marion Morrison, aka John Wayne; my favourite western's probably Outlaw Josey Wales. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is also excellent.