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Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on July 02, 2011, 03:46 PM:
I've never seen that one before, It was just on AMC. Wow pretty good show, had the Duke and Jimmy Stewart in it.
I have Red River on VHS, might have to fire it up next..
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 02, 2011, 04:05 PM:
I have watched THE SEARCHERS maybe 25/50 times? Red River was good, not AS good.
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Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on July 02, 2011, 04:07 PM:
The searchers ?
(Edit) just googled. 1956 film. Don't think I've seen it. Will have too check out.
I thought you were talking about the band.. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
[ July 02, 2011, 04:20 PM: Message edited by: Dave Allen ]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 02, 2011, 05:00 PM:
My god, we have a whippersnapper among us!
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Posted by smithers (Member # 646) on July 02, 2011, 05:26 PM:
Be sure to update your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with this info, Dave!
"SILENCE! Whippasnappa!" My favorite part of Wizard of Oz. I love that movie, don't care what anyone thinks ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Edit: Then a bit after Oz says that... The Cowardly Lion runs the entire corridor and leaps through the air and crashes through a window. (My kid's favorite part)
[ July 02, 2011, 05:29 PM: Message edited by: smithers ]
Posted by MI VHNTR (Member # 3370) on July 02, 2011, 07:40 PM:
I've got just about every John Wayne movie made on DVD, including The Searchers, Liberty Valence, True Grit, etc. They sure are so much better than the trash that passes for movies today.
Posted by Jay Nistetter (Member # 140) on July 02, 2011, 08:11 PM:
I have a trunk full of John Wayne VHS. Sure wish they were on DVD. Never saw a JW movie I didn't like. Always had a life lesson in every one.
A couple of my favorites are McClintock and Wake of the Red Witch.
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on July 02, 2011, 09:17 PM:
My wife is a HUGE Wayne fan, shes 38 years old, none of her same age friends like him, some dont even know who he was, sad. We watch the western channel all the time, something very comforting in those old westerns for me.
Mark
Posted by Jay Nistetter (Member # 140) on July 03, 2011, 08:05 AM:
Somewhere I have a list of movies.
John Wayne died in 8 films for definite, and a further two, depending on how you want to look at it.
"Central Airport"
"Reap the Wild Wind"
"The Fighting Seabees"
"Wake of the Red Witch"
"The Sands of Iwo Jima"
"The Alamo"
"The Cowboys"
"The Shootist"
He was already dead at the start of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", and most of the film is a flashback to when he was alive. It is just stated that he died, but there is no actual death scene.
In "The Sea Chase" it is left to the audience to decide whether or not he died. The romantic among us like to think that he and Lana Turner were able to escape from the sinking ship at the end of the film, but it is not made clear.
Posted by tlbradford (Member # 1232) on July 03, 2011, 11:08 AM:
One of my personal favorites is The Quiet Man.
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on July 03, 2011, 01:40 PM:
I liked True grit and Rooster Cogburn movies. Didn't care too much for McQ or whatever that was was where he was a modern day detective.
Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on July 03, 2011, 02:18 PM:
Another good guy flick, is Death Hunt, with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin..
Posted by Cayotaytalker (Member # 1954) on July 04, 2011, 06:27 AM:
Here are a few of the flicks I enjoyed.
1961 The Misfits
1964 The Rounders
1975 Cogburn
1992 Unforgiven
1948 The treasure of The Sierra Madre
1971 On Any Sunday (Dirt bikes)
1963 Hud
1971 Vanishing Point
1972 J.W. Coop
1972 Junior Bonner
There or tons of others that I just can not think of the names.
As for the movie The Misfits, The Rounders, J.W. Coop, Junior Bonner and even the movie Hud.
Is I like them because they are about Vanishing America. Or the vanishing way of the cowboy.
Edit for spelling
[ July 04, 2011, 06:30 AM: Message edited by: Cayotaytalker ]
Posted by Possumal (Member # 823) on July 04, 2011, 06:59 AM:
Just got through watching "The Professionals", with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan, Claudia Cardinale", a real classic Western.
Uncle Jay: They have software out that you can convert from VHS to DVD, or there are a lot of places that will convert them for you. Roxio offers Easy VHS to DVD or here is a link to a place that will convert them for you:
http://www.vhs-to-dvd.com/
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on July 04, 2011, 08:18 AM:
I like ole Burt in Valdez is coming.
Damn I am feeling old when you say the 38 year olds don't even know who the Duke is!!!
I can still remember the tiny theater by my grandparents house. It's gone now, but I got to watch, True Grit, and gobs of movies that were new in the late 60's and 70's.
At work, we joke about the scene in Mel Brookes movie Blazing Saddles.
Randolf Scott !
another legendary cowboy actor.
[ July 04, 2011, 08:19 AM: Message edited by: DanS ]
Posted by Rich (Member # 112) on July 04, 2011, 08:31 AM:
I have always liked John Wayne also. I didn't care much for Burt Lancaster until I saw him in the movie "LAWMAN". I now own a DVD of that movie.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 04, 2011, 09:02 AM:
I HEARD THAT RANDOLPH SCOTT WAS GAY? 0ops! (excuse caps)
Burt was in a bunch of memorable films right up to "Atlantic City". Anybody ever see "The Swimmer"? He always did his own stunts, was a circus performer, I think? The movie "Trapeze" should convince anybody what a talented performer he was.
Obscure movie I recommend is "The Naked Prey", with Cornel Wilde.
"Giant" is a great film, well worth your time. Is Platoon better than Apocalypse Now?
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Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on July 04, 2011, 09:51 AM:
Lancaster was a trained circus performer or something like that? Very athletic.
I liked Lee Marvin, he was a sniper in WW2 I beleive.
I just watched a short diddy by Harry Carey Jr., talking about the Duke. He said he was as honest and standup in real life as he was in his movies.
Posted by DanS (Member # 316) on July 04, 2011, 09:52 AM:
quote:
Is Platoon better than Apocalypse Now
One has Martin and the other has Charlie Sheen
Posted by Possumal (Member # 823) on July 04, 2011, 10:03 AM:
I believe Burt Lancaster was one of our all time best actors. He played in a great variety of parts, showing his skill as an actor. He was great in Vera Cruz, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz, and the part he played in the Professionals was priceless. He was also great in "The Kentuckian".
There was a great movie in black & white starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas that took part back in the Revolutionary War times. Can't remember the name of it, but Burt was a school teacher and Kirk was kind of a rogue, but between the two of them, they caused a lot of problems for the enemy. Anybody remember the name of that one?
[ July 04, 2011, 01:51 PM: Message edited by: Possumal ]
Posted by TOM64 (Member # 561) on July 04, 2011, 10:06 AM:
One of the movies I enjoyed was "The last of the dog soldiers" or something like that. Worth a look if you've never seen it, most have never even heard of it.
The Cowboys is my favorite John Wayne movie.
Posted by Possumal (Member # 823) on July 04, 2011, 10:08 AM:
"The Devil's Disciple" was the movie from 1957 with Kirk Douglas that I couldn't remember the name of before. Also, I don't know how I forgot his great role in "From here to eternity".
Posted by Cayotaytalker (Member # 1954) on July 04, 2011, 10:14 AM:
Apocalypse now is better so is the Deer Hunter.
Platoon is good but may be a bit over the top and I do not mean the drug use.But how the movie tends to make it out as if only the poor white trash or the poor blacks were the only ones that were in the Vietnam war is not the whole truth.
And for the record I never did serve ever.
So I do not know what it was like to serve in Vietnam.
So I guess Platoon was OK.
I have heard that Oliver Stone did four tours in Vietnam.
But all I found on Stone was That he was in Vietam in 1967 and walked the the jungles of vietnam for fifteen months.
That info was wrote by Subhraijit Mukherjee.
So I don't know if it's good info or not.
But those are the ones I like.
I would like to say thanks to every one that answered the call and went to serve in that war.
Posted by smithers (Member # 646) on July 04, 2011, 11:00 AM:
War films... Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie of all time. Platoon, IMO, is a so-so film.
Full Metal Jacket was great as well. So memorable.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 04, 2011, 11:20 AM:
For some reason, (and I have a certain perspective) Full Metal Jacket did not trip my authenticity meter. From that point of view, Platoon was much more "authentic" than Apocalypse, from the standpoint of anybody who served in the U.S. Army. That doesn't mean that I think it was "better".
From Here to Eternity, wow, what a film!
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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on July 04, 2011, 12:53 PM:
"He always did his own stunts..."
Not all of them, I hope. Many years ago, round about the time I was born, there was a movie filmed here in Abilene (partly) and other area towns called, "The Gypsy Moths" starring Burt Lancaster and Gene Hackman. Couple other notables in there, too, but not notable enough for me to recall right now.
In any event, the story was of a small troupe of daredevil skydivers who traveled around the countryside jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Lancaster is one of the primaries and, in the end, he does a face plant from about 20k feet, smack dab in front of the whole town out to the fair grounds.
I just bought the movie last year (still catching up) and, for an oldie, it was pretty decent. Really cool to see the many scenes with familiar landmarks in them, like the 100 and 200 block of NW 2nd Street looking toward the backside of where I work, the old Plaza Theater which they had to tear down a few years back. Even had a nudie scene in it which I was surprised to see, thinking that such things were verboten back at that time. Lancaster and some hottie townswoman bumpin' uglies on her sitting room "davenport".
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on July 04, 2011, 02:24 PM:
We just got netflix through our wii, time for a John Wayne and Clint Eastwood marathon.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 04, 2011, 02:42 PM:
Dan Carey this, Dan Carey that....who is this guy?
edit: other than being wealthy beyond imagination, it might be interesting for all of us to find out exactly how Dan, (the man) made his first million, while in grammar school, loaning lunch money at exorbitant interest rates
[ July 04, 2011, 02:46 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on July 04, 2011, 02:44 PM:
I did that just for you lol ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 04, 2011, 02:49 PM:
Yeah, well, I still think he looks like he won second place, G Gordon Liddy look a like contest.....but he squalked and I had to remove it. First time that has been done, even Brigham Young didn't whine.
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Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on July 04, 2011, 03:07 PM:
No whiners here leonard!
Even if I do have an outstading beard that may or may not resemble Brigham Young. But i was gonna talk to ya about the sex olympics thing!
NOT.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 04, 2011, 04:03 PM:
quote:
"He always did his own stunts..." Dan, (the man)
Posted by jimanaz (Member # 3689) on July 04, 2011, 11:40 PM:
Is a "squalk" a noise? If so, what does it sound like? Sorry, just got off the phone with "the man" and he may have influenced me.
Apocalypse was a pretty good VN flick, lot's of memorable scenes. Bobby Duvall and his "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...", and "Charlie don't surf!", whoever played Chef and "Fucking tiger!! Never get off the boat, never get off the boat."
But, I liked Platoon better. One of the few movies that left me emotionally drained at the end and saying "WOW!".
As for The Duke, The Cowboys, True Grit, and Big Jake, in that order.
I agree with Tom on Last of the Dogmen. Not a very popular movie but Beringer played Louis Gates to perfection, maybe his best work to date. I'm always a softie for a good dog movie though. See Big Jake above, lol.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 05, 2011, 12:06 AM:
Jimanez, I saw that last/dogmen etc. movie and I thought it was hooky. Metaphysical or whatever it was about and I don't have a lot of sympathy for the native American situation, as it exists.
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edit: you forgot THE SEARCHERS, Amigo!
[ July 05, 2011, 12:14 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by jimanaz (Member # 3689) on July 05, 2011, 07:27 AM:
Didn't forget anything, compa. I have yet to reach your maturity level and my favorites list reflects that.
Posted by Possumal (Member # 823) on July 05, 2011, 07:41 AM:
I watched another good movie out of my collection last night, "The Big Country", with Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors, and Burl Ives. I thought it was one of the best roles ever played by Burl Ives. The fistfight between Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston was really classic.
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on July 05, 2011, 08:23 AM:
Ride the High Country and Winchester 73 are a couple more of my favorites.
Mark
Posted by smithers (Member # 646) on July 05, 2011, 10:17 AM:
Paul, I have Netflix for the Wii as well. Good stuff for $8 a month or whatever it costs.
Do you have the Wii for yourself, kids, grandkids?
Edit: Not sure of your age. Maybe grandchildren is presumptuous.
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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 05, 2011, 11:02 AM:
he's a gray beard, for sure.
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