Just caught Wagons East on TV. John Candy's last film. It's a farce and very silly but technically still a western I think.
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Happy Thanksgiving all...I hope we're all recuperating from the food coma.
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I got the email reminder to come visit the site as well. I don't want to say I had forgotten about the site; but I certainly got out of the habit of logging in. Life got to be pretty hectic the last couple years. But I am glad to see the new upgrade and that people are still remembering and sharing about the Duke.
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3/5 of this list stays pretty consistent but if you ask me on another day I am sure I could pick a different top 5. All Duke movies are in my favorites list; regardless of the number!
The Quiet Man
Rio Bravo
Blood Alley
McLintock!
3 Godfathers
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Newer war films that I thought were well done:
Hacksaw Ridge
We Were Soldiers
Older non-Duke film:
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Gallant Hours
Also like The African Queen but never really classified it as a war movie in my mind.
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Peter Mayhew, best known as the actor who played Chewbacca on Star Wars, has passed away.
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Actress Katherine Helmond, best known for her work in "Who's the Boss?" and "Soap," has died due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, her rep Jeff Witjas told USA TODAY Friday. She was 89.
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This week we lost baseball great Frank Robinson and British actor Albert Finney. I enjoyed a lot of Finney's work; he was Daddy Warbucks but he'll always be the singng Ebeneezer Scrooge to me.
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Nice work dukefan1
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At home staying indoors waiting for the snow to melt away so good day for a movie. Watched the old western movie Broken Arrow. Jimmy Stewart has the lead and Jeff Chandler portrayed Cochise. I have seen a lot of movies especially westerns but I had not come across this one before; but I enjoyed it.
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I don't think it was black and white; but I remember The Searchers as having some of the most dramatic musical scores of John Wayne's films. Also Red River was a B&W film with some heavy drama.
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Watched The Spoilers this morning. 1942, some of it is pretty dated but I still enjoyed it. John Wayne and Randolph Scott are partners in a gold mine in Alaska with Marlene Dietrich in a strong role as the female lead.
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Clint Eastwood's Hang em High starts out with a pretty graphic hanging of Clint's character. Could this possibly be the film you are thinking of?
Mark
This is what I was thinking too
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That sure doesn't sound like a John Wayne film to me.
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Thanks to you all and Happy 2019 everybody
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Looks like another victim of the evening dinner special
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Just finished watching Operation Pacific; first time I had watched it in a couple of years. Good WWII Navy film.
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I wonder if you are thinking of Hang Em High...an Eastwood film that came out in the late 60s
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I sure don't remember them from that movie...though I do recall one of the horses having a Scottish accent...maybe they were in costume.
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Sorry I am late to the game here; but A Christmas Carol is a favorite of mine since childhood. I have read the book several times and have forced that on my nieces and nephews. I enjoy most of the movie versions; even Albert Finney's musical Scrooge from the 1970s but to me the best version was George C. Scott in the 1980s. The dialogue was very true to the book and Scott's performance was excellent. I also think David Warner's portrayal of Bob Cratchit was one of the best.
The other versions all have pluses and minuses in my view and are quite enjoyable. I even like to watch Mr. Magoo's version with the kids to get them interested in the story; and hopefully when they are a bit older they will embrace that. The Patrick Stewart version is a nice crisp telling of the tale; and Alistair Sim's version from the 50's is also quite good. You can't really go wrong with any of those.
I personally did not like the animated version with Carey so much; and the Kelsey Grammar version was also not very strong.
I recently realized that Lockhart from the Reginald Owen version was the judge in the original Miracle on 34th Street; another Christmas classic. I preferred him as the judge; he was a bit too portly to be a convincing poor clerk in my opinion.
Speaking of A Christmas Carol; the movie about Dickens' experience writing the novel, The Man Who Invented Christmas; is a lovely film too; though there is no way of knowing how close to reality the film hits. But we can suspend our disbelief and just enjoy the story all the same. Christopher Plummer would be an excellent Scrooge if he did the role in a more traditional film re-telling of the story as well; at least I think so.
