In 1950, Gregory Peck was The Gunfighter, playing Jimmy Ringo, a fast gun who couldn't go anywhere without someone trying him on.
Left-handed and without even spilling his drink. That was cool.
Showing posts with label westerns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label westerns. Show all posts
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Saturday Man Movie
In Adios, Sabata, Yul Brenner picks up the Sabata role that was played so well by Lee Van Cleef in Sababa and Return of Sabata.
Saturday, August 09, 2014
Saturday Man Movie
In "For A Few Dollars More", Lee Van Cleef comes to town as Colonel Mortimer.
I always thought that Van Cleef was underrated. He was so much better than many of the roles he got in the old spaghetti westerns. But he shone in this one.
I always thought that Van Cleef was underrated. He was so much better than many of the roles he got in the old spaghetti westerns. But he shone in this one.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Saturday Man Movie
One of Gary Cooper's greatest westerns was High Noon, in which he, as the town sheriff, was forced to stand alone to fight a soon-to-arrive gang of bad guys because the townspeople were all gutless cowards. His own honor wouldn't let him run even when everyone else was abandoning him.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Saturday Man Movie
In the 1962 movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, tenderfoot lawyer Ransome Stoddard, played by James Stewart, runs afoul of the local desperado bully, Liberty Valance played by Lee Marvin. Determined to stick it out, he eventually buys a gun to protect himself but has no idea how to use it. Here, gunfighter Tom Donophon played by John Wayne offers him a bit of instruction.
It's a great movie with an all-star cast. Valance's two henchmen are played by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef and Strother Martin. Donophon's right hand man was played by Woody Strode, a then-famous athlete-turned-actor. Other stars of the day such as Andy Devine, Edmund O'Brien, John Carradine and Denver Pyle can be seen in this one, too, along with a then-hot Vera Miles as the lady that Donophon pursued but Stoddard won.
And here's the epic gunfight from the showdown between Stoddard and Valance.
I won't spoil a great movie by giving too much away, but if you haven't seen it, you need to.
It's a great movie with an all-star cast. Valance's two henchmen are played by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef and Strother Martin. Donophon's right hand man was played by Woody Strode, a then-famous athlete-turned-actor. Other stars of the day such as Andy Devine, Edmund O'Brien, John Carradine and Denver Pyle can be seen in this one, too, along with a then-hot Vera Miles as the lady that Donophon pursued but Stoddard won.
And here's the epic gunfight from the showdown between Stoddard and Valance.
I won't spoil a great movie by giving too much away, but if you haven't seen it, you need to.
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Saturday Man Movie
In "Big Jake", John Wayne is reunited with his estranged son, a young fella who seems to have a bit of an attitude problem.
John Wayne cures attitude problems.
John Wayne cures attitude problems.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Saturday Man Movie
In 1958's "From Hell to Texas", Don Murray play a young cowboy with a strong moral code who has to stand against ranch hands intent on killing him and indians trying to do the same thing.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Saturday Man Movie
In the 7th Cavalry (1956), real man Randolph Scott tries a sort of diplomacy with the indians.
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Saturday, June 01, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Saturday Man Movie
In The Comancheros, Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) is working a deal to get inside a gunrunning gang by stringing along drunken killer Tully Crow (Lee Marvin). But as he and Crow sit down at a card table, he comes face to face with Paul Regret(Stuart Whitman), a man who'd escaped from him following a prior arrest. And Crow's a sore loser.
Saturday, April 06, 2013
Saturday Man Movie
Today I give you TWO western greats--Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin, in the 1956 film "7 men from now" which was produced by John Wayne.
There is not as much raw manliness in all of Hollywood today as you saw in that clip right there. Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon...sissies all by comparison. That's why America is so messed up today: no more real men as role models for our kids.
There is not as much raw manliness in all of Hollywood today as you saw in that clip right there. Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon...sissies all by comparison. That's why America is so messed up today: no more real men as role models for our kids.
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Saturday Man Movie
In A Fistful of Dollars, Clint Eastwood shows us his compassionate side as he looks out for the feelings of his mule.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Saturday Man Movie
In the 1953 classic Bend of the River, reformed border raider Glyn McLyntock, played by James Stewart, is leading a group taking food and other supplies to a settlement that will starve without it.
Alas, he's double-crossed by his hired men, including a young Henry Morgan, and his friend, Emerson Cole, played by Arthur Kennedy. Here, Kennedy saves him from being killed and sends him on his way, taking the food to sell to a mining camp willing to pay much more for it.
Cole's going to regret that before too much longer. Unarmed, alone and on foot, McLyntock is going to get that wagon train back. Just you watch.
Alas, he's double-crossed by his hired men, including a young Henry Morgan, and his friend, Emerson Cole, played by Arthur Kennedy. Here, Kennedy saves him from being killed and sends him on his way, taking the food to sell to a mining camp willing to pay much more for it.
Cole's going to regret that before too much longer. Unarmed, alone and on foot, McLyntock is going to get that wagon train back. Just you watch.
Friday, November 23, 2012
A nice, relaxing day.
No Black Friday for us.
Murphy and I ate more turkey, then I primed pistol brass while watching Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) with Audie Murphy. It also starred western character actors Dan Duryea, ack Elam, Denver Pyle, and Russell Johnson, best known for his later role as "the professor" on Gilligan's Island. You remember him, right? He was the guy who could make radios out of coconuts and who could build pretty much anything out of bamboo and vines, except a boat, of course. Back in the day, he played lots of parts in westerns, including a role in Law and Order (1953) where he shot Ronald Reagan. (Hmmmm...the actual last name of the Professor on Gilligan's Island was Hinkley. Eerie coincidence, eh?) But in this flick, Audie Murphy shot him down in a gunfight in a mine. (Ever fire a gun in a mine tunnel? I have. Once. My ears are still ringing.) The movie also features Susan Cabot, who played opposite Murphy in many of his movies, mainly because she was one of the few actresses in Hollywood at the time who was shorter than he was and didn't tower over him.
Anyway, I got four hundred .40 S&W cases primed and ready for the powder measure now, and I've always believed that ammo prepared in the presence of old western greats like Murphy, Wayne, Eastwood and Stewart shoots better and straighter so this should be good stuff.
Now I'm going to go out to the airport and mess with the plane a bit, then maybe go see that new James Bond movie and try to convince myself that Daniel Craig really didn't wreck the whole Bond franchise.
I might also stop by Wal-Mart and see if any of those union flunkies are protesting in front of it, just so I can cross their little picket line and buy something. It's pathetic to think that most of them aren't even Wal-Mart employees but merely shills and paid slugs holding up signs on behalf of unions that want to force their way into Wal-Mart. I'll support any business that keeps unions out just on principle, especially a business that by necessity only hires people to do unskilled drone labor that was never supposed to be career employment in the first place. Big-box store labor jobs are pretty much by definition intended to provide part-time work for people who either want a second income or who are just starting out in the working world. If the people who do work there want more money, they are free to go to school and better themselves or establish themselves there as a good employee and then move on, using Wal-Mart as a positive reference. So to have some fat SEIU toad telling me that I need to pay more for everything at Wal-Mart so that the people who stock shelves, mop floors or stand in front of a cash register can make more money (most of which the union will skim off as "dues") is offensive to me, especially as the union will turn around and use much of that money to buy influence with the Democrats, the political party working to destroy the American way of life as most of us knew it.
Anyway, gotta go. Back later. Have a good "Day after Thanksgiving". And if you're bored, click on the link above and watch the movie.
Murphy and I ate more turkey, then I primed pistol brass while watching Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) with Audie Murphy. It also starred western character actors Dan Duryea, ack Elam, Denver Pyle, and Russell Johnson, best known for his later role as "the professor" on Gilligan's Island. You remember him, right? He was the guy who could make radios out of coconuts and who could build pretty much anything out of bamboo and vines, except a boat, of course. Back in the day, he played lots of parts in westerns, including a role in Law and Order (1953) where he shot Ronald Reagan. (Hmmmm...the actual last name of the Professor on Gilligan's Island was Hinkley. Eerie coincidence, eh?) But in this flick, Audie Murphy shot him down in a gunfight in a mine. (Ever fire a gun in a mine tunnel? I have. Once. My ears are still ringing.) The movie also features Susan Cabot, who played opposite Murphy in many of his movies, mainly because she was one of the few actresses in Hollywood at the time who was shorter than he was and didn't tower over him.
Anyway, I got four hundred .40 S&W cases primed and ready for the powder measure now, and I've always believed that ammo prepared in the presence of old western greats like Murphy, Wayne, Eastwood and Stewart shoots better and straighter so this should be good stuff.
Now I'm going to go out to the airport and mess with the plane a bit, then maybe go see that new James Bond movie and try to convince myself that Daniel Craig really didn't wreck the whole Bond franchise.
I might also stop by Wal-Mart and see if any of those union flunkies are protesting in front of it, just so I can cross their little picket line and buy something. It's pathetic to think that most of them aren't even Wal-Mart employees but merely shills and paid slugs holding up signs on behalf of unions that want to force their way into Wal-Mart. I'll support any business that keeps unions out just on principle, especially a business that by necessity only hires people to do unskilled drone labor that was never supposed to be career employment in the first place. Big-box store labor jobs are pretty much by definition intended to provide part-time work for people who either want a second income or who are just starting out in the working world. If the people who do work there want more money, they are free to go to school and better themselves or establish themselves there as a good employee and then move on, using Wal-Mart as a positive reference. So to have some fat SEIU toad telling me that I need to pay more for everything at Wal-Mart so that the people who stock shelves, mop floors or stand in front of a cash register can make more money (most of which the union will skim off as "dues") is offensive to me, especially as the union will turn around and use much of that money to buy influence with the Democrats, the political party working to destroy the American way of life as most of us knew it.
Anyway, gotta go. Back later. Have a good "Day after Thanksgiving". And if you're bored, click on the link above and watch the movie.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Saturday Man Movie
In this epic fight from The Spoilers (1942), tough guys John Wayne and Randolph Scott go to blows over Marlene Dietrich.
And that, kids, is how men settled disputes back in the day. No drive-by shootings, no lawsuits...just good old brawling in a convenient neighborhood bar or sporting house.
And that, kids, is how men settled disputes back in the day. No drive-by shootings, no lawsuits...just good old brawling in a convenient neighborhood bar or sporting house.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Saturday Western
This Man Movie clip is from Coroner Creek (1948) and features Randolph Scott fighting Forrest Tucker, who cheats.
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Saturday Man Movie
In this scene from The Outlaw Josey Wales, a silly bounty hunter just can't leave well enough alone.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Saturday Western
In this clip from Return of the Bad Men (1948), good guy vance (played by Randolph Scott) fights the Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan).
Both men were real heroes off-screen as well. Scott served in World War One as an Army Artillery Observer in France, and Ryan served in World War Two as a Marine Corps Drill Instructor. Scott also tried to obtain a Marine Corps commission when World War Two broke out but was rejected due to an old back injury. Still, he went on to tour and raise money for the troops for the duration of the war. And it's noteworthy that both men volunteered to leave their burgeoning film careers to enlist when America called.
Somehow I can't see "stars" like Robert Downey Jr. or Tobey Maguire rushing down to the recruiter's office just because America's at war. But men were really men and Patriotism was the norm back then. Times have certainly changed, haven't they?
Both men were real heroes off-screen as well. Scott served in World War One as an Army Artillery Observer in France, and Ryan served in World War Two as a Marine Corps Drill Instructor. Scott also tried to obtain a Marine Corps commission when World War Two broke out but was rejected due to an old back injury. Still, he went on to tour and raise money for the troops for the duration of the war. And it's noteworthy that both men volunteered to leave their burgeoning film careers to enlist when America called.
Somehow I can't see "stars" like Robert Downey Jr. or Tobey Maguire rushing down to the recruiter's office just because America's at war. But men were really men and Patriotism was the norm back then. Times have certainly changed, haven't they?
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