Poppy Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I have many favorite actors as I posted in the top 10 movie thread, but why is Randolf Scott never mentioned. I have always dug his movies and they are some of my favorites in my collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adirondack Jack, SASS #53440 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Gee, that sounds almost like a song. "Whatever happened to Randolph Scott, ridin the range alone..." Just pickin on ya pard. Somehow he does always seem to get lost behind the Duke and Roy and Gene though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunClick Rick Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I am aquainted with a gal that did movies with him,she was a stunt gal in Cammanche Station,also worked with Elvis in Jailhouse Rock.She was the only one to sneak an autographed fake record from the set,Colonel Parker did not want them to get out so he confiscated all but one,Elvis gave it to her.Randolf Scott was dunking her in a horse troff in a scene of the movie,she told me he was having way too much fun.The leading lady was pretty and could not ride,she said evrytime you see that horse getty up,that's me.Nice lady too,has a place about 20 minutes east of me in the hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Lyin Kerrdawg SASS # 57116 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Poppy, You will have to ask Utah Bob, Forty Rod, Boss Hoss or some of the old buzzards that maybe played with him in Grade school, the rest of us is too young . Rev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Yes ,,,, Why indeed !!!! I think he was a better actor than Roy ,,,,,,,, But he didn't have a Side-kick like Dale ... Jabez Cowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deja Vous Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Yes ,,,, Why indeed !!!! I think he was a better actor than Roy ,,,,,,,, But he didn't have a Side-kick like Dale ... Jabez Cowboy Well there you go.. lo.. its the Dale thinger.. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danite SASS #27034 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 the towns people in Blazing Sadddles liked him!!!! "Randolph Scott"..... standing with hands over hearts as I recall....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Well there you go.. lo.. its the Dale thinger.. lol ........... DEFINATELY ! ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Houston # 35508 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I always have liked RS !! Watched him and Gypsy Rose Lee in Belle of the Yukon last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Charlie, SASS # 48668L Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I've always liked Randolph Scott but another that I like too was Joel McCrea. He and Scott did one western together that debuted Marriet Hartley...RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY. I don't know how many they did together, but I'd like to see more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGT. ELI 35882 GUNFIGHTER Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I like Randolph Scott and have several of his movies on DVD, buying them anytime I see one. Ride the High Country was a good one. When I first started shooting, I shot with a cowboy whose alias was Randolph Dog who reminded me of Randolph Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel John Hays, SASS #29625 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 The 'ole Coto Cowboys 'member him perry gud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boon Doggle Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Wow, Randolph Scott. As a kid I can remember going to the neighborhood theater with my folks on Saturday nights and watching Randolph Scott westerns. That had to be in the late '40s. One, or maybe even two, were in "3D". Duck, here comes a chair, or a flaming arrow. One great thing about this game we play is that it sure brings back a lot of wonderful memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. T. Blade, SASS #35685Life Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Randolph Scott!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I have many favorite actors as I posted in the top 10 movie thread, but why is Randolf Scott never mentioned. I have always dug his movies and they are some of my favorites in my collection In my post I listed a few movies. Then said there was some older ones that would make my top 10 but could not think of the names of them. A couple of those would be Randolf Scott movies. And I still can not think of the names of those movies. But when they come on. I am glued to it. Always like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 RS, my fathers favorite cowboy actor, he drug me to all his movies, well not drag, took me as i took him to see RR and GA and all the other cowboy shows back in the late 40s and into the 50s, my father always said RR and GA were to Hollywood where as RS was a real actor-cowboy..Ride the high country was indeed a very good western. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olen Rugged Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 What a guy! An artillery man in WWI (WW ONE!), he looked the part and most of his movies were westerns. He was the star in "Ten Wanted Men" and the supporting cast included Richard Boone, Dennis Weaver and Lee Van Cleef! One of the best for sure. My favorite is "Seven Men From Now". Olen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Oh, I can't let this pass... Cue the Statler Brothers... Everybody knows when you go to the show you can't take the kids along. You've gotta read the paper and know the code of G, PG, and R, and X, and you gotta know what the movie's about before you even go. Tex Ritter's gone, and Disney's dead, and the screen is filled with sex. Whatever happened to Randolph Scott ridin' the trail alone? Whatever happened to Gene and Tex, and Roy, and Rex, the Durango Kid? Oh, Whatever happened to Randolph Scott, his horse plain as could be? Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the best of me. Everybody’s tryin' to make a comment about our doubts and fears. True Grit's the only movie I've really understood in years. You gotta take your analyst along to see if it's fit to see. Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the industry. Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown, and Alan "Rocky" Lane? Whatever happened to Lash LaRue? I'd love to see them again. Whatever happened to Smiley Burnett, Tim Holt, and Gene Autry? Whatever happened to all of these has happened to the best of me. Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the industry. There is some profound truth in this song... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Hat off, stand up, and 'RANDOLPH SCOTT!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Nathan C. Riddles, SASS # 7462 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 There sure is H.K. How about one that is seldom mentioned here.....Rex Allen? He did several western movies from the early fifties to the early sixties. He also had a TV show in 58 called Frontier Doctor. Always carried his guns butt forward. He also rode a beautiful strawberry roan with a flaxen mane & tail named Koko. Rex had a beautiful bass voice & recorded many western albums. Mr Allen also did voice overs for many of Disney's nature documentaries & cartoons. In 1982 he told a reporter that he was not for gun control but after Martin Luther King's murder he didn't feel comfortable wearing guns at public appearances anymore. So he put them away. He was born in Wilcox, Az. in 1920 & was a real cowboy. He died just before Christmas '99 in Tucson. He fell while walking behind his car in the garage of his home and his housekeeper, who was taking him to a doctors appointment, didn't know he was laying there backed over him. He died a day or two afterwards in the hospital. Wilcox is located in SE Arizona on I-10 in Cochise County. If you're travelling through there & have the time stop & see the Rex Allen Museum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfPB-BAIjUI...feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal barnes sass #5792 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I met Randolph Scott at a movie theater in Charlotte N.C. when I was 9 or 10. He was there promoting one of his westerns since Charlotte was his hometown. He never made a lot of money as an actor but was a very shrewd real estate businessman worth an estimated $100 million (today's dollars) before his death. I also used to ride city buses with his mother who was very quick to tell the other riders that she was Randolph Scott's mother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 In the recent Top Ten Western thread here (one of a great many over the years!), more than a couple folks, myself included, listed Ride the High Country in their top ten. This had Scott and Joel McCrae, in their only movie together, and Scott's last movie (McCrea's second-to-last). Sam Peckinpah directed it. The movie has been written about a lot over the years, both as a Western classic, and as a Peckinpah film. It has my favorite line in a Western, Steve Judd's (McCrae) answer to Gil Westrum's (Scott) question : "What do you want, Steve?" (Both are worn-out lawmen who never made a buck, and Westrum, unknown to Judd, wants to steal the gold.) Judd answers: "I want to enter my house justified". This is of course from the story of the tax collector and the Pharisee in Luke. The line was Peckinpah's; his dad was a preacher and strongly influenced him. Randolph Scott is a real Hollywood success story for reasons beyond his films. He was well-known as a careful investor during his acting years. When he retired after Ride the High Country (about 1960), he was a very wealthy man. He never looked back to Hollywood, and he and his wife did just what they wanted for 25 more years before his death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatcher Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I have many favorite actors as I posted in the top 10 movie thread, but why is Randolf Scott never mentioned. I have always dug his movies and they are some of my favorites in my collection Well, I'm not sure I can explain the feeling of a lot of other folks, but I can state my opinions. He was a darn good actor in some pretty good movies - but he was not epic or class defining in the way that John Wayne (mostly via John Ford), or Roy Rogers and others were defining. He didn't stand out a lot - and frankly - he is even well known to have preferred the fancy dress up style of Hollywood and the night life more than the acting. Let's be honest - there's John Wayne, Roy Rogers . .and a lot of other guys . . . . . pretty much from here on down the choice proliferate and we can argue who is better/more popular till the well runs dry. I like Randolf Scott, and will stay up late to watch his movies - they're well acted and solid stuff, not candy like the JW films are, but that's probably why they're not as common either. Just my $0.02 worth . . . . Shadow Catcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Shadow Catcher has some good points, but I think there are still some things to be said about Scott, now that the Budd Boettcher movies have been released in DVD. Another factor is that Scott was only in Westerns, and that he was finished in 1961, after Ride the High Country. He quit the business completely thereafter, even though he was healthy and had 25 more years to live. Thus he was out of the business for good 50 years ago, when guys like me, and many others here, were 10 or 12 or so. He never had a movie in the theater after that, while John Wayne, just to use a single example, had a great many yet to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 http://www.randolphscott.20m.com/custom.html RS stared in some other movies other then Westerns, I remember him in Pittsburgh with John Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Ears Wilson, SASS #77948 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Does this bring back some memories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 In the recent Top Ten Western thread here (one of a great many over the years!), more than a couple folks, myself included, listed Ride the High Country in their top ten. This had Scott and Joel McCrae, in their only movie together, and Scott's last movie (McCrea's second-to-last). Sam Peckinpah directed it. Ride The High Country Even after hearing the name of the movie before it did not sink in. But that is one of my top 10 that I could not think of the name. I know it had Joel McCrae in it. Thanks for giving me the hints I needed to get it figured out. Now??? What was the name of them other ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 If you are alive and haven't made a movie in two or three years no one remembers you. If you are dead and haven't made a movie in 48 years your Q rating is going to be pretty low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go West Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I really like Randolph Scott & Joel McRae movies much better than any of the singing cowboys and felt the same as a child. I wasn't much impressed with the extreme B-western style of dress those singing cowpokes had and while they could sing well, I preferred more story and action. The only reason GA is on the western channel so much is that the episodes must be cheap to run. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olen Rugged Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Here is the last 20 or so years of his work: Movie and character name Actor (105 titles) 1962 Ride the High Country Gil Westrum 1960 Comanche Station Jefferson Cody 1959 Ride Lonesome Ben Brigade 1959 Westbound Capt. John Hayes 1958 Buchanan Rides Alone Tom Buchanan 1957 Decision at Sundown Bart Allison 1957 Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend Capt. Buck Devlin 1957 The Tall T Pat Brennan 1956 7th Cavalry Capt. Tom Benson 1956 Seven Men from Now Ben Stride 1955 A Lawless Street Marshal Calem Ware 1955 Tall Man Riding Larry Madden 1955 Rage at Dawn James Barlow 1955 Ten Wanted Men John Stewart 1954 The Bounty Hunter Jim Kipp/James Collins 1954 Riding Shotgun Larry Delong 1953 Thunder Over the Plains Captain David Porter 1953 The Stranger Wore a Gun Jeff Travis 1953 The Man Behind the Gun Major Ransome Callicut 1953 Three Lives (short) Commentator 1952 Hangman's Knot Major Matt Stewart 1952 Carson City Silent Jeff Kincaid 1951 Man in the Saddle Owen Merritt 1951 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes Western (short) Randolph Scott 1951 Fort Worth Ned Britt 1951 Santa Fe Britt Canfield 1951 Sugarfoot Jackson 'Sugarfoot' Redan 1950 The Cariboo Trail Jim Redfern 1950 Colt .45 Steve Farrell - a salesman of colt revolvers 1950 The Nevadan Andrew Barclay 1949 Fighting Man of the Plains Jim Dancer 1949 The Doolins of Oklahoma Bill Doolin / Bill Daley 1949 Canadian Pacific Tom Andrews 1949 The Walking Hills Jim Carey 1948 Return of the Bad Men Vance (Marshal Vance Cordell) 1948 Coroner Creek Chris Danning 1948 Albuquerque Cole Armin 1947 Christmas Eve Jonathan 'Johnny' 1947 Gunfighters Brazos Kane 1947 Trail Street Marshal William Bartley 'Bat' Masterson 1946 Home, Sweet Homicide Lt. Bill Smith 1946 Badman's Territory Sheriff Mark Rowley 1946 Abilene Town Dan Mitchell 1945 Captain Kidd Adam Mercy/Adam Blayne 1945 China Sky Dr. Gray Thompson 1944 Belle of the Yukon Honest John Calhoun aka Gentleman Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 http://www.randolphscott.20m.com/custom.html RS stared in some other movies other then Westerns, I remember him in Pittsburgh with John Wayne This is true, but after the mid-40s he purposely did only Westerns. Within the last few months, to some fanfare among some cinephiles, there have been DVD releases of 6 of Scott's Westerns directed by Budd Boettcher. These include Seven Men From Now singly, and a boxed set of five, including The Tall T (based on an Elmore Leonard story) and Comanche Station. Here's the dope from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_3...+randolph+scott I'm gonna get these and see 'em, but I haven't yet. Anybody else seen them yet? I haven't heard anyone say so here on the Wire. I think these my be a bit of a treasure for the many Western fans here. I've never seen anyone list any of these in the many favorites lists we see, and my guess is because nobody's seen 'em-- at least since childhood. Might be wrong, of cuss.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 My maternal grandparents were born in Virginia, they named my mother Virginia, and the saw every Randolph Scott movie he ever made. They took me along to the movies when I got old enough. When I hear Randolph Scott speak, I hear my grandfather's voice... that refined southern drawl is very comforting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Hooker Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 http://www.randolphscott.20m.com/custom.html RS stared in some other movies other then Westerns, I remember him in Pittsburgh with John Wayne Gung Ho, 194(-2, -3?) as Col. Evans Carlson of Carlson's Raiders (USMC), raid on Makin Island; morale-lifting battle in the early days of WWII, when the Japanese were kicking our butts around the Pacific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Push the button Wyatt Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Well here we go again. Randolf Scott, one of my favorites for sure.And as i've said before here on the wire,I liked him best in "Western Union", watch it and you to will love the guy.He also stared in " Desperadoes" which also had Glen Ford in his first movie. Randy also was in a movie with Shirley Temple when she was a kid.I'm also pretty sure he was not in WW 1, you may have been thinking of Tim McCoy Who was in WW1 and WW 11 for a spell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Bill Blackerby SASS # 34989 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Ah "Western Union" took me years to find that movie after only seeing a few seconds of the end - not only does he shoot 75 Remmies in it he carries them Backassward! I'd do it for Randolph Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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