So very true Maverick. It is a real shame they didn't get to do that last movie. Didn't matter that they were old..........as you said, timing and delivery is everything! KEITH
Just watched this one again (as a double feature with "True Grit"). This is one of my favorites as well. As a guy a guy that's dabbled in comedy, the biggest thing about this movie I notice is Duke and Kate's comic timing. I know what lines are coming up, but they still make me laugh. It's all in the delivery!
One of my favorite Duke movies, Gareth. As you probably know, he and Katherine planned to do another one called "Someday", as she mentioned that word in their relationship in the film. One of my favorite dialogues is still the ending of that movie: [last lines]
Eula Goodnight:" Reuben, I have to say it. Livin' with you has been an adventure any woman would relish for the rest o' time. I look at cha, with your burned out face and your big belly and your bear-like paws and your shining eye, and I have to say you're a credit to the whole male sex, and I'm proud to have ya for my friend. " She whips her horse around and rides off to meet the Indian Boy.
Rooster Cogburn:" I'll be damned if she didn't get the last word in again. Well..."
It is strange that I find myself ending off a story or an email like that............sort of says it all. Well...................... KEITH
I think Rooster is really underatted, fun movie don't see the problem so many critics and non Duke fans seem to have with it. Wouldn't have minded another Cogburn movie even if Duke was getting older.
Funny Batjac. Can't be a reversed image. That is just unreal, LOL! Keith
Rooster Cogburn and The Lady. Well, if there are two old folks that "work" as well as these two do together, I just can't imagine them! They both had looked forward to doing another movie together, but the proper "vehicle" was apparently never found. It would have had to be something special, because that is they way they were with each other. They both, wanted to do all of their stunts, although, of course, they were not allowed to. They DID do more than most actors would have, especially at their ages and with Duke's trouble with keeping his body oxygenated at such high altitudes.
Don't tire of watching this. Love to hear Kate's voice and Duke's rapidly deteriorating one. Shows the super stars are human like the rest of us. He had really about lost his voice when he did the Shootist. Sure wish they had gotten one more movie out. And the one that Duke was planning with Ron Howard. Well, they both left us wonderful movies, shows, etc. We can be thankful every day for that. Keith
