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  • The Train Robbers (1973)

    Quote from wtrayah

    It's beyond me what you all see in this movie! During the day their being chased, or at night their sitting around a campfire watching Ann Margret get Tipsey. Rather watch the Conqueror!


    What I see, is as an immensely enjoyable film from the last part of Duke's career. It has all the right ingredients, even if they aren't mixed quite right, making for one his best of the final ten he made.


    It never for one instant tries to be something that it isn't. It doesn't try to be of the grim and unrelentingly dark world of Peckinpah or midnight cowboy or Easy Rider. Instead this is John Wayne's response to the perverseness that was really beginning to show it's ugly head at the time. It's a throwback to those great and lighthearted films of the 40's and early 50's. It's a nice contrast to what was happening at the time.


    Regarding the faceless threat represented by the guys after the gold, it was meant to represent an natural force more than anything else I think. After all where's there's gold, there is bandits. They were more symbolic than anything else.


    One thing that I refuse to believe is that Rod Taylor is the voice of Pongo from 101 Dalmatians.


    The only thing that still bothers me about this movie is that Montalban seems superfluous. He is really an unnecessary character, who's functions could have been done by the plot.

  • Circus World (1964)

    Quote from wtrayah

    Its available on DVD ( region 1 ) here in the US now. If anyone is interested. Brought back, released through Walt Disney video. I bought one, great shape! The circus scenes were great, I bought it for that. The story was kinda Blah.


    I hate to ask, but where did you purchase it at?

  • Got a question

    Quote from jh45gun

    Might be this is the one I was thinking of? [INDENT] I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.John Wayne
    US movie actor & director (1907 - 1979) [/INDENT]


    He never said that in any movie, however he did say it in his playboy interview.

  • The Barbarian And The Geisha (1958)

    Quote from wtrayah

    Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this but, does anybody know if there is a good ( not import ) dvd out there on the barbarian and the geisha? Does anybody have one? I have it on VHS. I liked the movie! Great story about the Japanese people. Thanks! My name is Bill, I'm from Colchester Vermont. Im 53 years old and work at IBM. Been a JW fan since i was a kid. I'm a greenhorn here so patients please!


    No there is no Region one DVD available for the Barbarian and the Geisha however you can download it from Amazon Instant Video

  • How's The Weather

    Our weather here in good ol' Pocatello has been interesting. It's started several fires in the area. It's been a long time since we have had this many thunder storms. Right now we are at 67 degrees with a chance of thunder storms.

  • Roscoe Lee Browne

    When I was I kid my only real exposure to Roscoe, came from the Spider-Man animated series where he voiced Kingpin. But in everything I ever seen him in, he brought a dignity and class that is sorely lacking in today's generation.

  • Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

    Found another article in the same vein, but with a few minor differences. "'Cowboys & Aliens' features John Wayne's Grandson in a role that might have surprised the Duke"


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    “I didn't get the John Wayne concept,” Brendan Wayne said. “I thought that was granddaddy, and didn't everybody's granddad ride horses and stuff?”



    He remembers thinking of the man as “a big, goofy, you know, granddad ... just a really gentle, sweet, funny guy.”

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    “I was on the set of ‘The Shootist,' and I thought, ‘Oh, I betcha other people's parents and grandparents, this is where they worked.' Like, you know, this is normal. It wasn't until he passed that I was, like, Oh wait, he was a little more extraordinary than I had thought.


    It started when he was sick and everybody at school was writing him get-well cards. And I went to Catholic school. I said to the nun, I said, ‘Sister Roberta Ann, my best friend Tony, his grandpa was sick, and the whole school didn't write him cards.'


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    You know, I think Harrison's in this movie, to be honest with you, because he's the closest thing we have to that character type. He's as tough as they get.

    I find it interesting that the publicity department chose to play up the John Wayne angle.



  • Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

    And yet another article that caught my eye, "Would John Wayne approve of Cowboys & Aliens?"



  • What Was The Last Western You Watched?

    Quote from Gorch


    Thanks for the correction, Lieutenant, and next time, I won't post from memory. Sorry if I wasted your time.



    We deal in lead, friend.


    Never a waste of my time, I enjoy learning more about movie history and etc. I honestly though that maybe I had over looked an actor I should have known about in my travels across movie trivia.


    Anyway, I am a sponge for movie knowledge and know stupid amounts of useless stuff about movies. So I hope that I did not come across as too snotty, or snobbish or like a jack-@$$.

  • What Was The Last Western You Watched?

    Quote from Gorch

    whatever happened to Marty Markham?


    You know I actually looked up Marty Markham, and discovered he was a character on the "Adventures of Spin and Marty". I double checked the cast list for the movie and stumbled across the always entertaining Monte Markham


    Anyway as for Monte Markham, he has been busy popping up all over the place in my various old TV shows. All the way from A-Team to, Murder She Wrote, to Baywatch to Golden Girls and even in Star Trek DS9. And he never ceases to entertain me.