Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Just finished watching it for the umpteenth time. After 75 years, the stagecoach chase scene still holds up as one of the best of ever. No computer graphics or other special effects, just balls-out horsemanship. Those stunt men were amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Yakima Canutt! What a great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I'm always amazed at the one indian on a hoseback at a full run reloading a trapdoor Springfield. I've slowed down frame by frame to see what track was performed in shooting an arrow into a panel on the stagecoach. I remember Claire Trevor is in the window next to the panel. It always looked like it was really shot into the panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Thomas Mitchell, John Carridine, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine and others were top notch actors. John Wayne was, in my opinion, the lesser of the lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasty Newt # 7365 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I'm always amazed at the one indian on a hoseback at a full run reloading a trapdoor Springfield. I've slowed down frame by frame to see what track was performed in shooting an arrow into a panel on the stagecoach. I remember Claire Trevor is in the window next to the panel. It always looked like it was really shot into the panel. It may well have been. They did things differently back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I remember seeing an interview with Mickey Rooney some years back, and he related a story about a scene in a gangster movie he was in. The scene involved him being shot at with a Thompson sub-machine gun while peeking around the corner of a building. "In those days, it was all real. The director cued me to duck and the machine gun opened up, chewing up the corner of the building with real bullets." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 That chase seen was filmed in Lucerne Valley next to the Double R Bar Regulators range. http://www.rrbarregulators.com/RRBar-index.html LG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Now that is a coincidence.... I was just reading "Stage to Lordsburg", the short story by Ernest Haycox that was the basis for Ford's Stagecoach. A very different story, but you can see the traces that framed the script. The sparse dialogue reminded me of Robert Parker. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasty Newt # 7365 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I remember seeing an interview with Mickey Rooney some years back, and he related a story about a scene in a gangster movie he was in. The scene involved him being shot at with a Thompson sub-machine gun while peeking around the corner of a building. "In those days, it was all real. The director cued me to duck and the machine gun opened up, chewing up the corner of the building with real bullets." As recently as "The Shootist," Hugh O'Brien was shot in the forehead with a wax bullet full of fake blood fired by a sharpshooter. He told the director they better get it right, because there wasn't going to be a second take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 In the Adventures of Robin Hood, Errol Flynn and Olivia De Haviland, 1938, an archer Howerd Hill, did the stunt shots. Stunt men were paid $150 extra to take an arrow. Howerd also played the caption of the archers also fired the arrow that split the arrow in the bullseye. He reportedly did it in one shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancocas Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 That chase seen was filmed in Lucerne Valley next to the Double R Bar Regulators range. http://www.rrbarregulators.com/RRBar-index.html LG YUP Luzerne Dry Lake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 YUP Luzerne Dry Lake It ain't dry in the winter- It's used today by some RC airplane and model car builders. LG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hoss Carpenter, SASS Life 7843 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 This is one of my top ten western Movies of all time. I loved every minute of it and like Dead Wood Slim, I have seen it more'n once! Did not know where the "chase" scene was filmed; it is the greatest. I have since driven thru that area several time while roving the Cal/USA in our Motor Home! Cheers, Hoss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancocas Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 STAGECOACH filming locations http://www.movielocationsplus.com/stagecoa.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 That chase scene was also one of the clips that was shown on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Johnny (as Art Fern) and his eye catching assistant Carol Wayne would perform their TeaTime Matinee skit (..."and you will come to a fork in the road...). The Indians chasing the stagecoach were on continuous loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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