Posts by DakotaSurfer

No offense but I don't buy that hocus pocus. Plus a tarot reading on someone deceased.

The oldest John Wayne movie I remember him in is "Texas Cyclone" in 1932 where he played a Sheriff. I loved him as the pastor in Sergeant York. But he was best in "The Real McCoys", which lasted 6 years.

I can't believe I just found this, but they are advertising big game hunting in Africa again. The Big 6 is what they are calling it... "Information on hunting lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, leopard and hippo in Southern Africa." And Wayne's 458 Mag would have been sufficient. They only require a minimum of a 375 mag but they prefer you use a 458. So there may be some truth to the story, I hate to say. But like you said, different time, different mindset. They allow it now due to over-population in most areas.

I've checked all my sources... I have it on VHS and transferred it to DVD but the only DVD is from ByGoneVideo who recorded it off a 16mm film. I doubt I ever complete my collection since some of them are missing.

I doubt he did it for sport. What's illegal is killing them for the ivory tusks. If it was a do or die situation they may not have had a choice. From what I've read they spook easy. If your in to animal rights, I'd think there would have been more problems when they filmed Circus World and all those caged animals.

I put the DVD in my computer DVD player, start the movie in either Nero Showtime or Cyberlink PowerDVD and pause it at the specific frame then use the capture portion of the software. Open the capture in a program like Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop, then manipulate it or save it under a common image format (jpg, gif, tif, bmp, etc.) and then place the images on an online hosting service. I'm a computer guru, been doing this stuff for 20+ years. All it takes if the right equipment, software and knowledge.

I bet if you took the images and put them in a computer aided design program the angle of the shot wouldn't put him above the bar. There were a lot of mistakes and errors like this in all the westerns. They did what they had to back then, today they call it computer generated.

I couldn't post any more than 4 photos but if you look at the bar the glass is visible in photo 3 and the bar ends before the post he is leaning against which has to be close to the ladder that took him into the loft. You see the ladder way in the corner on the first image below. The layout just doesn't work. Then when the Sheriff shoots the guy, where he lands can't work out either. The only thing that might explain the difference is you see the blood on his leg after he falls, the blood could have traveled in the loft and found a hole at the end of some floor board.

Blood being thicker than the thing they called beer back in those days, it wouldn't take much blood for the beer to become colored as you can see in the images. One other point though... in image 3, you see where the guy was standing/shot by the Sheriff... he's an awful long ways from being over the top of the beer glass.

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Excellent... I saved a copy of it for my collection.

Thanks... crossed that one off my list. ByGoneVideo has a few but I have some I just bought from him I need to check out first. So far his have been pretty good. Original quality but at least they have been watchable and reasonably priced.

Even if they are Region 2 it's easy to make them work for any region using a couple simple programs. I have Circus World that was a PAL release but I bought it and made myself a Region 1 copy. Came out picture perfect. This is a list of John Wayne movies I don't have:

Adventure's End
Annie Laurie
Arizona (Men Are Like That)
Baby Face (Purchased)
Bardelys the Magnificent
Born Reckless
California Straight Ahead
Central Airport
Cheer Up and Smile
College Coach
Four Sons
Girls Demand Excitement
Hangman's House
I Cover the War
Lady and Gent
Maker of Men
Men Without Women
Mother Machree
New Frontier
Noah's Ark
Range Feud
Rough Romance
Salute
Speakeasy
That's My Boy
The Black Watch
The Deceiver
The Forward Pass
The Great K&A Train Robbery
The Lawless Nineties
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
The Lonely Trail
The New Frontier
The Night Riders
The Oregon Trail
The Voice of Hollywood #13
Three Girls Lost
Three Texas Steers
Words and Music
Wyoming Outlaw

Whatever region, it doesn't matter, even PAL. I'd be interested in knowing where I can get them. My goal is to get the entire collection. These are the only ones I'm missing.

2nd day of freezing rain... yesterday we took an inch of ice off our driveway... and our driveway is 900 sq. feet.

Duke: Hey, will you get someone in here to clean up this animal poop. It's starting to stink like Red.

Red: I resent that remark... while your at it, ask them to bring me another *hic* keg of beer.

Kruger: (thinking to himself) Boy, I could rap myself around that little Italian girl!

Martinelli: (thinking to herself) Hunka, hunka German love.

My wife got me the Ultimate Collector's Edition for Xmas. I loved the comic book and the book with all the clips and articles in it. Then the other envelope with all the set photos was great too. I'd like to see a similar set done for The Comancheros or The Conqueror with some info about all the stories and the sickness that followed that filming. We've lost a lot of great actors/actresses from that film set. You don't hear much about his family. I wonder if Patrick has any health problems?

Thanks for the welcome people... glad to be here.

RIP Mrs Warren... Wife reminded me of her part in McLintock (that's her favorite JW film). Played mother to Dukes actual son Patrick. Great acting, especially the drink fest with her and JW.

Been watching The Rifleman series that just started on Encore Western channel.

I've bought some of the movies from the bygonevideos website. He's pretty willing to put it on any format you want. He's taking them from 16mm film and burning them using the same kind of burner I use.

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I just put up two attachments that have all the movies this bygonevideo has available. Most of them have come in pretty good condition. I'm satisified and I'm actually quite picky about my collection. These are the movies I've acquired:

Brown of Harvard 1926
The Drop Kick 1927
The Big Trail 1930
Two-Fisted Law 1932
Texas Cyclone 1932
Shadow of the Eagle 1932
Ride Him Cowboy 1932
The Hurricane Express 1932
Haunted Gold 1932
The Big Stampede 1932
The Three Musketeers 1933
The Telegraph Trail 1933
Somewhere In Senora 1933
Sagebrush Trail 1933
Riders of Destiny 1933
The Man from Monterey 1933
His Private Secretary 1933
West of the Divide 1934
The Trail Beyond 1934
The Star Packer 1934
Randy Rides Alone 1934
The Man from Utah 1934
The Lucky Texan 1934
The Lawless Frontier 1934
Blue Steel 1934
'Neath the Arizona Skies 1934
Westward Ho! 1935
Texas Terror 1935
Rainbow Valley 1935
Paradise Canyon 1935
Lawless Range 1935
The Desert Trail 1935
The Dawn Rider 1935
Winds of the Wasteland 1936
The Sea Spoilers 1936
King of the Pecos 1936
Conflict 1936
Idol of the Crowds 1937
Born to the West (Hell Town) 1937
Santa Fe Stampede 1938
Red River Range 1938
Pals of the Saddle 1938
Overland Stage Raiders 1938
Stagecoach 1939
The Night Riders 1939
Allegheny Uprising 1939
Three Faces West 1940
Seven Sinners 1940
The Long Voyage Home 1940
The Dark Command 1940
A Man Betrayed/Wheel of Fortune 1941
The Shepherd Of The Hills 1941
Lady from Louisana 1941
Lady For A Night 1941
The Spoilers 1942
Reunion in France 1942
Reap the Wild Wind* 1942
Pittsburgh 1942
In Old California 1942
The Flying Tigers 1942
A Lady Takes a Chance 1943
In Old Oklahoma (War of the Wildcats) 1943
Tall in the Saddle 1944
The Fighting Seabees* 1944
They Were Expendable 1945
Flame of the Barbary Coast 1945
Dakota 1945
Back to Bataan 1945
Without Reservation 1946
Desert Command 1946
Tycoon 1947
Angel and the Badman 1947
Wake of the Red Witch* 1947
Red River 1948
Fort Apache 1948
3 Godfathers 1948
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949
Sands of Iwo Jima* 1949
The Fighting Kentuckian 1949
Rio Grande 1950
Operation Pacific 1951
Flying Leathernecks 1951
The Quiet Man 1952
Big Jim McLain 1952
Trouble Along the Way 1953
Island in the Sky 1953
Hondo 1953
The High and the Mighty 1954
The Sea Chase 1955
Blood Alley 1955
The Searchers 1956
The Conqueror 1956
The Wings of Eagles 1957
Legend of the Lost 1957
Jet Pilot 1957
The Barbarian and the Geisha 1958
Rio Bravo 1959
The Horse Soldiers 1959
North to Alaska 1960
The Alamo* 1960
The Comancheros 1961
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
The Longest Day 1962
How the West Was Won 1962
Hatari! 1962
McLintock 1963
Donovan's Reef 1963
Circus World 1964
The Sons of Katie Elder 1965
In Harm's Way 1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965
Cast a Giant Shadow 1966
The War Wagon 1967
El Dorado 1967
Hellfighters 1968
The Green Berets 1968
The Undefeated 1969
True Grit 1969
Rio Lobo 1970
Chisum 1970
Big Jake 1971
The Cowboys* 1972
The Train Robbers 1973
Cahill, U.S. Marshall 1973
McQ 1974
Rooster Cogburn 1975
Brannigan 1975
The Shootist* 1976

Greeting everyone. Been trying to join here for awhile now. Kevin can tell you it's been quite a chore. But I am very happy to be here.

I've been a John Wayne fan since I was very young. I met him once when I was out in California and we were touring the studios, I was pretty young but I remember my parents telling me my eyes lite up like Christmas lights.

Now I'm 52, retired and living in Illinois. Depending on my wife's work schedule we're planning on going to the 100th Birthday Celebration in Winterset. We live only 235 miles from Winterset so the trip will be short. We just need to figure out where to stay since I'm sure reservations are hard to come by by now.

I have some memorabilia but my pride and joy is my DVD collection of his movies. I have every single one of his movies, that has been released on DVD. Last count was 128 movies or 77% of the complete collection. The oldest movie I have of his is the 1926 "Brown of Harvard".

I'm happy to be here and let me know if I can be of any assistance. That'll be the day.