What Was The Last Western You Watched?

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Pale Rider......again!!

It's a good one! Can't see you ever getting bored of it.

Quantrill's Raiders---again. I think Steve Cochran was a good actor even though allegedly he was a Womanizer.

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So for my first posting after my laptop crashed and died about three weeks ago... I thought I would describe how I have been thoroughly enjoying Lee Van Cleef "spaghetti westerns".

I just can't get enough of Van Cleef. So far though, only the Grand Duel has been of watchable Picture and Audio Quality.

*gasp*God's Gun, too?

Edit: Wbbies.

Watched The Train Robbers in glorious HD, thought it was beautifully filmed and that Duke really put in a good turn. There was some great dialogue between the supporting players aswell, Ben Johnson added as always. I was warned beforehand about the ending but I didn't hate it as much as other people, more thought of it as a group of old friends happily heading off on yet another adventure.

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Watched The Train Robbers in glorious HD, thought it was beautifully filmed and that Duke really put in a good turn. There was some great dialogue between the supporting players aswell, Ben Johnson added as always. I was warned beforehand about the ending but I didn't hate it as much as other people, more thought of it as a group of old friends happily heading off on yet another adventure.

Hey there Irish Duke, when you say HD, are you telling me its out on blu ray and I've missed it?!

I don't think so it was just on TCM HD UK and it was quality wise the best Duke film iv'e seen anywhere the film has lots of shots of going through the desert and it just looked amazing. Anyone know if there's any plans to release Legend of the Lost on Blu Ray? It's (probably surprisingly to a few people) one of my favourite Duke movies and I think it would look amazing on Blu Ray.

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I don't think so it was just on TCM HD UK and it was quality wise the best Duke film iv'e seen anywhere the film has lots of shots of going through the desert and it just looked amazing. Anyone know if there's any plans to release Legend of the Lost on Blu Ray? It's (probably surprisingly to a few people) one of my favourite Duke movies and I think it would look amazing on Blu Ray.

Let's hope it's one they'll be releasing.

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Keith, you've watched this a few time since I've been on here, I take it it's a good one?
I have it but again, haven't got round to watching it.

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Keith, you've watched this a few time since I've been on here, I take it it's a good one?
I have it but again, haven't got round to watching it.

I love these movies and could watch them a thousand times.
I always spot things I'd never seen before.
For a change I watched on BBCiplayer Apache Territory

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I love these movies and could watch them a thousand times.
I always spot things I'd never seen before.
For a change I watched on BBCiplayer Apache Territory

Ooh, when was that on the bbc? It's a tough film to track down, be good to see it again.

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Denver and Rio Grande. Latest Olive blu ray I'm giving a spin. Will post when I've finished watch it as I've never seen it before!

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Ooh, when was that on the bbc? It's a tough film to track down, be good to see it again.

It's still on now

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It's still on now

Peter, as from a User Review on IMDb

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Motley Crew Stands Up Against Apaches
30 October 2011 | by bkoganbing (Buffalo, New York) – See all my reviews

In a very tightly constructed and entertaining B Western that he produced as well as starred in, Rory Calhoun collects a motley crew of people to stand off hostile Apaches in Apache Territory. The title speaks for itself, but it begs the question as to what all these people were doing there?

Circumstance bring Calhoun together with a former flame and her new fiancé, Barbara Bates and John Dehner, a young girl played by Carolyn Craig whom Calhoun rescues on the trail, Tom Pittman an amiable young drifting cowboy, Indian prospector Frank DeKova and a patrol of cavalry who are led by a sergeant from the adjutant general's office with no field experience in Frank DeSales. DeSales gladly cedes leadership to Calhoun who knows far more about Indian fighting than he does.

DeSales has some malcontents among his troops, a homesick Myron Healey and a former sergeant in Leo Gordon who thinks he ought to be running things. I think you can see all the inherent conflicts and in the 70 minute running time they're all brought out.

Actually Calhoun does have a plan to get them all out and it depends on the weather. The trick is to see how many of them survive. What it is you'll have to see Apache Territory for.

If you didn't recognize it, Apache Territory is yet another reworking of John Ford's The Lost Patrol which was remade into Sahara and remade again as Last Of The Comanches. The last stand theme is enduringly popular and Columbia Pictures sure got a lot of use out of it.

Two tragedies were in this cast. Both Tom Pittman and Carolyn Craig died way too young and too violently. Pittman in a car crash after this film was completed and Craig several years later by gunshot. In John Mitchum's book Them Ornery Mitchum Boys about he and brother Bob he became friends with Pittman and described him as a nice kid and promising young actor. Pittman was missing for several days before police found the car he had been driving at the bottom of a ravine with Pittman's body.

Apache Territory is a good classic B western the kind that sadly Hollywood does not turn out any more.

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Operator 13 w? Gary Cooper, the Mills Brothers along w/ Ted Healy. This was a pretty good and early movie for Gary Cooper-who played a Confederate Captain/Confederate Secret Service Agent. The Mills Bros were the 4 guys who were singers and sang a few songs throughout the movie and were pretty darn good.

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Never heard of Operator 13. Do now and will track it down, looks great!

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It's still on now

Tanks Keith, I'll have a look!

Great Pics RK. I, like Peter, don't know this one. Thanks, Keith

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Operator 13 w? Gary Cooper, the Mills Brothers along w/ Ted Healy. This was a pretty good and early movie for Gary Cooper-who played a Confederate Captain/Confederate Secret Service Agent. The Mills Bros were the 4 guys who were singers and sang a few songs throughout the movie and were pretty darn good.

A version of the DvD art:

This is the version I got (DvD cover art)

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