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    :cowboy: Thanks you Mr. Brooks/Robbie. I really enjoy you all here as well as the atmosphere here. I hope sometime in the near future, that I can contribute something here in the way of photos. I have a few John Wayne movie press photos that I would not mind sharing.


    If anyone is interested to post them for me, I can make a copy of them to send by snail mail. The movie press photos I have are: John Wayne in Fort Apache, and also with him in The Flying Tigers. These are 8x10 B&W photos.


    Best regards--TRK.

    :cowboy: Thank you Stumpy, I was not aware it was released. I too buy from Deepdiscountdvd.com and I noticed that they actually not only have the better deals with free shipping but, they have THE BEST selection of older movies on the market. I'm hoping that "Santa" will give me that movie as well as Treasure of the Sierra Madre; for Christmas ;-))

    :cowboy: Sorry if I am repeating something that might have been here before but, I was just wondering what your favorite NON-John Wayne Western is?


    For me it is easy, Winchester 73. James Stewart chasing Stephen McNally through the picture was an awsome work of art. Will Geer was great as Wyatt Earp and it was nice to see some other recognizable faces in the movie as well like: a VERY young Tony Curtis (as a Cavalry Trooper) James Best (as another very young Trooper) Rock Hudson as the Indian Chief, Charles Drake and Dan Duryea.


    The character names were interesting ones as well. For instance, I liked McNally's other character name which was Dutch Henry Brown and Dan Duryea had a classic one as well with Waco Johnny Dean. I also thought it a nice twist that Dutch was really Linn McAdams's brother Matthew McAdams.

    :cowboy: I do seem to remember that High noon did have a great deal of tension for the lead character, and I thought that was a great thing to have in the movie. Kinda reminds me a bit of: "Last Train From Gun Hill" which has Kirk DOuglas and another favorite of mine: Anthony Quinn. I liked the movie but did not like that Anthony Quinn was the main bad guy--though he was great in that role.


    Sorry I got off topic :D

    :cowboy: Greetings Chester/Robbie.


    Thank you Chester for the info. I should have known that by now since I am on a few other websites that are similarily set up like this one is. I agree though, since I was lucky to discover this site, I have noticed that it seems to be getting busier which is great. I really do hope this site makes it and stays online because it gives me another place to come to to relax and forget it all, if you know what I mean ;)


    Best regards--TRK.

    :cowboy: Thanks for the info on that movie. I had forgotten that Anthony Perkins was in it. I'm not familiar with Dorothy McGuire though.


    I think I have a soft spot for Vera Cruz because of the star power it had in it like: Burt Lancaster, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam and Charles Bronson--all in early career roles. Cesar Romero who was the actor who played the Joker in Batman, was also in this movie. I have always liked his acting as well.


    They Came To Cordura, is enjoyable in my book but is not a great movie. I think I liked it more because of the recognizable faces in it as well. Dick York and Tab Hunter come to mind. I wonder whatever happened to Tab Hunter? As far as I know, he is still living.


    As for Sergeant York, it is one of my all-time favorite movies about ww1. It is only beat by James Cagney, Alan Hale Sr and Pat O.Brien in; The Fighting 69th.

    :cowboy: Hello Stumpy and thanks for your reply.


    It's hard for me to choose between the two as which I liked the best. Sergeant Schultz on H.H's was a favorite of mine as well as Col Klink but, Sgt Saunders and Caje were favorites of mine on COMBAT.


    I have seen M*A*S*H as I was growing up and sometimes watch some in re-runs on the Hallmark Channel but, M*A*S*H has always been played at 10:30 PM on the ABC station since before the series ended--I got kinda tired of it. Well, for a while that is.


    I loved Tour of Duty, I have I think every episode on VHS and plan to get it on DVD, now that it has been released. It was the only series I have seen to deal with the Vietnam War, that I really enjoyed. I could not stand China Beach--too soap opera-like.


    Tour of Duty was more realistic than COMBAT in many areas. For instance, the equipment used in ToD was more accurate than was used in COMBAT. The uniforms were way more accurate as well. In Combat, a German Panzer, was usually a repainted American tank. A German command car sometimes was a Jeep. Also, in many earlier episodes, the Germans used ww1 vintage water-cooled Machineguns--which they did not use in late 1944.


    I have seen The Blackboard Jungle as well. It is one of my all-time favorite Glan Ford movies. I thought Vic morrow was great as that punk, and I liked Sidney Poitier in his role as well. I think it was recently on TCM with in the last 2 weeks. I wanted to see it again but did not have time to do so.


    Well, I bought COMBAT Season 1 Campaign 1 on DVD about two weeks ago. I watched all 16 episodes--many for the first time. They really did a great job in the first season of the show. A Day In June was the pilot episode and has Harry Dean Stanton in it.


    I can hardly wait till I can get Season 2, Campaign 1 of COMBAT. It has a 2 hr episode that has Richard Basehart in it as a sinister German Officer in charge of a POW camp.

    :cowboy: Greetings Stumpy. I have seen Friendly Persuasion before. It was about 15 or so years ago and was played on Thanksgiving. I don't remember enough about it to say anything but, I do believe I liked it.


    Is this the movie where he was a Quaker or something and he later on joins the Union Army? I seem to recall something about a Goose as well.


    BTW, on the day this movie was played, I do remember that WTBS was playing a marathon of great movies on Thanksgiving. I remember it because I taped three that were played in a row. They played: Mutiny On The Bounty (the one with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable) Boys Town w/ Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney and Sergeant York with Gary Cooper, George Tobias and Walter Brennan.


    I had this great combination of movies until I loaned my tape out to a friend who accidently recorded over it with Down and out in beverly hills. :fear:

    :cowboy: Thank you all. Sorry I could not reply yesterday as I was doing some volunteer work at our Museum and I was not able to come join the discussions here. Thank you Chester, Viper and Robbie. I have enjoyed reading all of your postings hare and I do wish to stick around here for as long as you can stand me.


    Best regards--TRK.

    :cowboy: First I would like to say that I grew up watching TV wiht my family and parents. We also watched repeats of classic shows like: COMBAT, The FBI, Gunsmoke, Star Trek, Wagon Train, The Munsters, Leave It To Beaver, McHales Navy and Hogan's Heroes to name a few.


    I am 37 yrs old and still love all those shows. I noticed over the years that when someone usually mentions Hogan's Heroes for instance, that many people over my age group absolutely hated that series. I was wondering if I could get your opinions of Hogan's Heroes and COMBAT. The entire COMBAT series will have been released on dvd by Novembar 2005, and Hogan's Heroes is starting to be released I think early Mar 2005.


    Both shows are shows I remember from my earliest recollections of watching TV and some of my fondest memories of watching TV with my family.


    Best regards TRK.

    :cowboy: The first time I saw it, I disliked it because I was too young to appreciate what the real meaning of the movie was. I then watched it again a few yeard ago and thought it was pretty decent. I have always like Gary Cooper. Still, I think his best movie was when he played Beau Geste in Beau Geste.

    :cowboy: Thank you for the Heads-up on this documentary. There was one done about 10 years ago which was on Western movies but with a heavy leanings of also being on Gene Autry. This one was hosted by Johnny Cash and also had several guests on it like Gene Autry, Richard Farnsworth etc.


    This is an excellent documentary and was made I think by the American Movie Classics Channel. I have 2-3 others on tape that are documentaries of John Wayne and his westerns. I think I will try to dig them up out of my collection sometime and re-watch them.

    :cowboy: Greetings Chester/Larry/Arthur/Stumpy:


    Chester/Larry, I fully agree with you both. If I ever have any children, they will be home schooled. I bet that pretty soon the Americans would have won the Battle of Britain and the British would have defeated the Japanese on Guadalcanal.


    Chester, definaterly lookinig forward to seeing your signed photos. I find that some interesting info that Mr Robbins lives in Bandera. My family used to vacation there every summer at the Bandera River Ranch. I sure miss eating at: The Old Spanish Trail (home of the worlds longest continuous oak bar) and eating at The Purple Cow. This place is also great to go cycling.


    Arthur, I definately hear ya on what you said. The same thing goes on over here on Pearl Harbor or ww2 in general. :wacko:


    Stumpy, you hit the nail on the head with your post too. TRK.

    :cowboy: Hi Larry, you cannot believe hollywood for really any historical accuracies except that the Japanese bombed Pearle Harbor early Sunday morning December 7th 1941. Other than that, unless it is a true to life Biography (Like Patton) and (We Were Soldiers) do not, I repeat, DO NOT trust hollywood to give you much in the way of accurate historical facts.


    It makes me want to "go around the bend" on how history is taught these days and what passes for history these days. A good friend of mine who is a High School teacher in the state of Michegan, is always at odds with the other history teachers because their version of teaching history is to simply put in a dvd or tape of some war movie, and play it for the kids. Luckily my friend has computers in his class and he MAKES his kids look up for more info, what he teaches. The only time he will play a movie or video in his class, is just for their enjoyment.


    It really amazes me. Not too long ago, I asked this high school student where was Pearl Harbor? and her reply was: "I did not know Pearl Harbor was a place? I thought it was a rock n roll group."

    :cowboy: Hi Itdo, Arthur,


    Itdo, well, at least their special effects sound good. I will do just that and look at the Dodge City scene. I was planning on watching The Green berets again soon but not until I finish watching Season 1 Campaign 1 of the TV series: COMBAT. I am about 75% through wiht that series having only one more disk to watch with four episodes.


    Arthur, I agree with you. Disney was a bit cheesy on set designes for their Alamo sequence but all is forgiven because I love the Davy Crockett theme song.

    :cowboy: Greeting Itdo and Arthurarnell,


    Itdo: Thanks for that info on him. Its a shame his H-wood career did not work out, I did like him in The Alamo. I had not known he was in The Green Berets? nor in a band either. Do you know what part he played in The Green Berets? Also speaking of knowing people in that movie, I have a friend whos uncle was in the part of one of the men being trained and you can see them jogging by The Duke and the other fellow he was shooting Skeet with. Unfortunately that person was killed in combat in Vietnam about a year or so later.


    Arthur: I am a fan of other Alamo movies like: Last Man From The Alamo with Glen Ford, The Last Command and of course Man Of Conquest. I thought all were good versions though each seemed to focus on things differently. Last Man From The Alamo really had little to do with the battle but was still enjoyable to watch.


    Its been many years since I last saw Man of Conquest but I do remember liking it. I last saw it played on WTBS about 20 years ago so I remember little about it other than it held my interest. Also, there was James Michners (SP?) Texas. It was based on the times slightly before and during and slightly after the fall of The Alamo. I found that very few things in it were really accurate but, I did find that watching it as a work of fiction that it was relatively enjoyable to watch. Still, my favorite versions of The Alamo were of course The Dukes version as well as Disneys version with Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen.


    As far as any of these films really being historically accurate, well they all had some accurate and not so accurate things in them all. Apart from what reviews I have seen on TV movie critic and entertainment shows, I just can't bring myself to watch someones views that were based on a false testament (de la Penas) and I heard that there was not much focus on Crockett, Bowie and Travis.


    Im not afraid to watch it if I do so as a work of fiction but I can't take the new movie seriously because of the false documents the movie was based on. Now as for the historical accuracy of The Alamos buildings etc, that I can appreciate in the movie.