What Was The Last Western You Watched?

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Originally posted by Senta@Nov 24 2005, 02:00 AM
Hi Ringo,
Yes. "The MS" is done after "TSS". But the original is much more interesting.
Regards,
Senta

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Hi Senta, what's MS? it does not sound familiar.

Take care--C.

Hi Carl,
MS could be Magnificent 7,

Keith

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Originally posted by ethanedwards@Nov 26 2005, 09:58 PM
Hi Carl,
MS could be Magnificent 7,

Keith

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Thanks mate...I should have known that

Watched Nevada Smith with my dad over the holiday weekend. Except for the Duke, you cannot hardly beat McQueen in a good western.

A few days ago I watched Broken Lance (1954). Today I watched The Big Country (1958). Two excellent 50's Westerns.

Hi Jay

In his book John Mitchum explains about the splinters incident. Apparently the device was rigged and Hawks told Mitchum it would be set off on the count of three, he then told the effects man to fire it after two. The look of surprise on Mitchums face wasn't acting.

Regards

Arthur

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Originally posted by arthurarnell@Nov 28 2005, 02:01 AM
In his book John Mitchum explains about the splinters incident. Apparently the device was rigged and Hawks told Mitchum it would be set off on the count of three, he then told the effects man to fire it after two. The look of surprise on Mitchums face wasn't acting.

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Hi Arthur -
Thank you for that interesting bit of trivia. Hawks certainly made a good scene with that little trick!
Cheers - Jay

I finished watching the special features on the McLintock dvd this weekend and am looking forward to buying Hondo soon, if not after Christmas.

The last western I watched was Wrath of God with Robert Mitchum as a bank-robbing priest. Kind of a quirky movie, but I really liked it and Mitchum was great.

Hi all,
it is strange, but among all films with Duke, that I received last month only one was western - The Fighting Kentuckian. I like it.
regards,
Senta

Hey Senta,

The setting of that movie is within a 50 miles of where I live. The town is called Demopolis, Alabama, and it is a real french settlement town. Just thought I'd let you know about the town that is a major part of the movie. As far as I know, it was not shot in the town. It was before my time, and there was not any scenery shot in the movie.

Cheers B)

If you can call this a Western, then i'll tell ya that I just finished watching Gene Autry in Phantom Empire which is a serial that he did in 1935.

I love watching Serials.

[We need an animated Horse-drawn stagecoach or wagon icon please] if one exists?

Once upon A time in the west, another sergio leone film I have enjoyed. 8/10
The Searchers (twice, actually - last night and today!) 10/10!

-IHW

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Originally posted by Hondo Duke Lane@Dec 4 2005, 09:30 PM
Hey Senta,

The setting of that movie is within a 50 miles of where I live. The town is called Demopolis, Alabama, and it is a real french settlement town. Just thought I'd let you know about the town that is a major part of the movie. As far as I know, it was not shot in the town. It was before my time, and there was not any scenery shot in the movie.

Cheers B)

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Hi Hondo,
Thank you for the comment. It all sounds very interesting. It is still mainly french town and they came to it after Napoleonic wars?
I'm not quite understand in the film why they were in danger, when they settled according wrong landmarks?
Regards,
Senta

Senta,

This is The History of Demopolis. At this web site you can read a brief history of the beginnings of the development of this town. There is some fact in this movie about what you ask about, but as for the movie, I am not completely sure if this is a true story or not. It seems to follow the same lines as the movie, but we can only guess if a character like John Wayne was a part of this history.

As for this not being a western, at the time the terrotory of Alabama in 1817 was as west you as you got in that time period. There was not much settlement any futher west as least to the Mississippi River, and this was the wilderness. I do know that Mississippi was a state at the time, but it was also mainly wilderness at that time. Most of the population was around the gulf coast and New Orleans, and along the river. Anyway, I wanted to voice my opinion about what Carl said about questioning this movie as a western. It was a wilderness movie along the same lines of a western.

Cheers B)

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Originally posted by Senta@Dec 5 2005, 04:34 AM
Hi Hondo,
Thank you for the comment. It all sounds very interesting. It is still mainly french town and they came to it after Napoleonic wars?
I'm not quite understand in the film why they were in danger, when they settled according wrong landmarks?
Regards,
Senta

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Hi Vera,
In answer to your question.
Basically the bad man Hayden and his equally nasty band of bad rivermen, set up a scheme, to evict the French settlers, by switching the stakes,
set by the surveyors.

Best Wishes,
Keith

I see the Western as a depiction of members of society moving across these United States in its formative years (the term "taming of the West). As such, "The Fighting Kentuckian" certainly qualifies. A movie (or story) such as "The Last of the Mohicans" qualifies as well, even though it takes place in New York State, because, at that time, the area was mostly wilderness and settlers and pioneers were making their way through coping with the adversity and challenges found in that day.
Cheers - Jay

Hi Everyone,
From this side of the pond, it seems,to me,
that if anyone landed on the East coast and moved inland,
they must have been going West!!!
To me any film made about this conquest
must be Western by nature, and Geography alone???

Best Wishes,
Keith