Best Western of all-time?

[JTrainDavis]

Does "King of the Wild Frontier" count as a Western?

 

[Crew]

Any Sam Pekinpah fans?

...sure.

Having said that, the only thing I've ever seen from him is Convoy.

 

[wounded mullet]

Heard a thing once about bedbugs at one of their hotels, try to avoid.

 

[dhendri]

Not a movie, but Gunsmoke ranks as highly with me as any film.

 

[chavisut]

Good, bad, and the ugly
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Did we just become best friends?

 

[JTrainDavis]

Not a movie, but Gunsmoke ranks as highly with me as any film.

Damn right, that along with "Have Gun, Will Travel"


Wire JTrain, Connecticut.

 

[GahLee]

He'd beat the crap out of Clint, as would Errol Flynn

Ole' Duke the draft dodger.

Am I right on that? Heard he dodged the draft.
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[JTrainDavis]

Ole' Duke the draft dodger.

Am I right on that? Heard he dodged the draft.
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I think he was Med boarded ineligible, IIRC

 

[dhendri]

Wayne was given deferments, first for family, then for national interest (acting). He could have enlisted, but never did.

 

[JTrainDavis]

He was also 34 with a family when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor.

 

[hmanvolfan]

Little Big Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCSmRgq18s

 

[BeecherVol]

Lonesome Dove

 

[JTrainDavis]

Lonesome Dove

I wish the movie was as good as the book, McMurtrey is an all time great novelist.

I've read alot of his non western stuff as well, all great.

 

[volmanbill]

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

Don't know if it's the best but it's a favorite.

 

[dhendri]

Once Upon a Time in the West. Morricone's harmonica is the sound of death.

 

[BeecherVol]

I wish the movie was as good as the book, McMurtrey is an all time great novelist.

I've read alot of his non western stuff as well, all great.

You hear that a lot, not just with this movie.

The original cast was stellar.

Duvall and Jones were perfect fits.
I enjoyed Dead Man's Walk, and Comanche Moon as well. They are not LD, but I enjoyed the whole story line.

 

[n_huffhines]

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.

If Lonesome Dove was nearly as good cinematically as it was as a novel, it would win in a blowout.

IMO, it still does win in a blowout.

 

[n_huffhines]

Ole' Duke the draft dodger.

Am I right on that? Heard he dodged the draft.
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Wayne was given deferments, first for family, then for national interest (acting). He could have enlisted, but never did.

My history book in college had an anecdote about Wayne. It claimed he tried to enlist and they denied him for health reasons so he put his focus on making movies to inspire patriotism.

 

[dhendri]

I can't recall where I read it, but I remember that he started the process to enlist in John Ford's Naval unit a few times, but never followed through. Several people have commented that his super-patriotism after the war developed more from guilt over not serving than anything else.

 

[JTrainDavis]

No Rio Bravo yet?
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[dhendri]

Rio Bravo is good, but there's something about singing cowboys that takes it down a notch for me.

 

[BigPapaVol]

Give me Josey and Pale Rider and I'm good.
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[Volst53]

"Long walk?"

 

[Hound]

High Plains Drifter is my all-time favorite. Paint the town red!

 

[MadcapLaughs]

Wagons East. RIP John Candy
Young Guns 2.