Posts from The Ringo Kid in thread „What Is It About Gary Cooper?“

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Originally posted by Hondo Duke Lane@Oct 6 2006, 12:55 AM
Grow on me, uh? Well I have to admit I haven't seen the ones you mentioned so I will give it a try.
Is this movie out on DVD, Stumpy?
I agree with you ethan, I think that Duke was a good judge of character, but it must be the acting accroding to you.
I'm not so sure what you mean by "quite plain." Maybe you can expain what you mean by that.

Thanks for some of your comments. I will take into account what you said and see the movies that some of you suggest. I am open minded.

Cheers B)

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Hi Hondo, please do watch these, and I believe that you will greatly enjoy them. My favorites are: Sgt York, Springfield Rifle, BEAU GESTE, Along Came Jones, Ball of Fire, Unconquored and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer--just to name a few.

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Originally posted by Jay J. Foraker@Oct 3 2006, 04:32 PM
That was "Ball of Fire" with Barbara Stanwick. It was remade a few years later with Danny Kaye in "A Song is Born," a kind of musical updating :lol: !!
Cheers - Jay

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Hi Jay, thanks for that! I hope this one will be released on DvD. Now there is another movie title that is a mystery to me but this time it has Errol Flynn in it in a comedy role. I saw this sometime last year on TCM (I think when I was in the hospital) and all I remember was that he was "at odds" with the wealthy father of some gal he wanted to go out with and also probably get married to. I also remember that he (Errol Flynn) and that gal's father, both had a "thing" for toy trains.

If you or anyone can remember the title to that, i'll buy you a 6 pack of Mr. Pibb. (Free shipping only in the USA)

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Originally posted by Hondo Duke Lane@Oct 1 2006, 09:35 AM
I have been sitting at times wondering why Gary Cooper sets me off wrong. I try and watch his movies like, High Noon, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Springfield Rifle, Meet John Doe, They Came to Cordura , and others. I can't pin point it, but he just doesn't click with me. Is it his movies he does, his acting , or his movie roles (characters he plays), or just him? I can't figure it out.

Is there anyone who feels the same as I do or maybe can anyone tell me what I am talking about? I know he is a friend of Duke's but he never did a movie with Cooper. Did he see something in his movies that kept him from doing a movie with Cooper?

By the way, Gary Cooper died a day before I was born. Is that eerie?

Cheers B)

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Hondo, I too used to not care much for Gary Cooper but, you just have to give him more time to "grow on you."

What I mean is, try watching severl other of his movies--some are not so well-known as others. For instance, try watching some like: Beau Geste, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Marco Polo, Seminole? The Unconquored etc, and you will begin to come around to really liking him as I did. It took me several years to come around and start liking him as much as I now do and his movies are definately well worth watching.

On TCM a few days ago, I cought about the last half of a movie he did where he was playing the part of a professor and was with a group of professors. I do not know tha name of the movie but it was one of his lessor known ones and also had: Dan Duryea and Dana Andrews in it. It was a comedy and was pretty funny. Its also nice to watch a movie in which Dan Duryea does NOT get killed.