What Was The Last Western You Watched?

A movie that had all the epic drama of Lonesome Dove, Red River and The Searchers rolled into one film... of course I'm talking about "The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap" starring Abbott and Costello!

A very entertaining little comedy.

Watched "open Range" the other night. One of the best if not the best shootout scenes in a movie that I have ever seen, IMHO.

Gun For A Coward

I watched "Lonely Are The Brave" starring Kirk Douglas. Kirk plays a rugged cowboy individualist who, in an effort to help his best buddy escape from the county lockup, gets into a bar fight so he'll get thrown into jail too. He then intends for both of them to break out and head for the hills. But his buddy, displaying considerably more smarts than Kirk, refuses to break out and thus extend his relatively short sentence.

I like Kirk and it had a good supporting cast, including George Kennedy, Walter Matthau and Carroll O'Connor. But when all was said and done, I thought to myself "what was the point?" I mean, here's the last of the cowboys who deliberately gets himself thrown into jail, then worsens his situation by breaking out and running on horseback. Kinda stupid, if you ask me.

I like Lonely are the Brave . Kirk is pretty good as last Cowboy and yes when you think about his Character he isn't the smartest.

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I watched "Lonely Are The Brave" starring Kirk Douglas. Kirk plays a rugged cowboy individualist who, in an effort to help his best buddy escape from the county lockup, gets into a bar fight so he'll get thrown into jail too. He then intends for both of them to break out and head for the hills. But his buddy, displaying considerably more smarts than Kirk, refuses to break out and thus extend his relatively short sentence.

I like Kirk and it had a good supporting cast, including George Kennedy, Walter Matthau and Carroll O'Connor. But when all was said and done, I thought to myself "what was the point?" I mean, here's the last of the cowboys who deliberately gets himself thrown into jail, then worsens his situation by breaking out and running on horseback. Kinda stupid, if you ask me.

I agree that does weaken the movie, however it is still a very good and enjoyable movie even if the premise as to why he is on the run is rather flimsy.

"Big Jake" - John Wayne of course!

Great movie!!

This evening I've been watching the first episode of "Centennial", a TV miniseries that aired in the Seventies (I think) and which featured oodles of TV stars. It's about the winning of the West and I remember I really enjoyed this series when it first aired. Got a good deal on it from Amazon.

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This evening I've been watching the first episode of "Centennial", a TV miniseries that aired in the Seventies (I think) and which featured oodles of TV stars. It's about the winning of the West and I remember I really enjoyed this series when it first aired. Got a good deal on it from Amazon.

I have my copy as well, and is my favorite mini-series. Yes, it is from the seventies. I'll have to get it out and watch it very soon.

Cheers

"Fort Apache" Another classic.

Westbound

The last Duke Westerns I saw were back-to-back on AMC--Chisum and Rio Bravo. I never tire of these ;-)) The last non Duke Western I saw was: Shennandoah.

I take that back, the last two non Duke Westerns I saw were the first two Magnificent Severn Westerns, then Westword if that can be considered a Western? THEN I saw Shennandoah ;-))

A couple of Westerns:

Good old Glenn Ford in
Day of the EVIL Gun (together with Arthur Kennedy, Highly recommended!)
The Last Challenge (together with Angie Dickenson, good enough for two pleasant hours.

Good old Robert Taylor in
Westward the Women ( Always liked that one very much!)
Ride, Vaquero! (together with Anthony Quinn, Ava Gardner IMO kind of mediocre)

Some others but not so interesting:
Fort Yuma (with Peter Graves)
Ride out for Revenge (with Llyod Bridges)

With few exceptions, no remakes of Duke's films will ever match the originals, especially the earlier ones as they were often breaking new ground.

I liked this remake because I like all the four stars and I think they did a reasonable job of it.

I watched the James Arness version of Red River a few nights ago, and I thought he made a good job of it. James was a big guy, like Duke, and I think that is why he was able to carry off that character.

Bob

Hi

The Far Country with John McIntyre and Jimmy Stewart

Regards

Arthur

Forty Guns With Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger