Saturday night at the movies - westerns on YouTube

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[Hardcase Hardin]

Looks like a good one.

 

Of course every time I see Walter Brennan's name all I can think about is the club owner in Good Morning Vietnam.   

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John Lincoln Clem was a United States Army general who served as a drummer boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history. Wikipedia

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clem

Edited January 13, 2018 by Warden Callaway

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On 1/6/2018 at 4:19 AM, Warden Callaway said:

 

John Lincoln Clem was a United States Army general who served as a drummer boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history. Wikipedia

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clem

 

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Real typical B-Western. It's interesting to watch how the two revolvers change from butt forward to butt backwards.  

 

 

 Ken Maynard made the same movie a year earlier as The Two Gun Man.

Edited January 20, 2018 by Warden Callaway

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Here is a fun old Lee Marvin western. 

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Here is one from "down under".  Based on a real life outlaw Daniel Morgan who became a bushranger in New South Wales in 1865.   Said he carried 8 pistols.   Mad Man Margan was played by Dinnes Hopper.  He shot frontier gunfighter in the movie. 

Edited April 29, 2018 by Warden Callaway

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

you might enjoy this one. MT

 

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Kind of a cheaper version of the Wild Bunch.  Lots of good people. 

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Just finished this one a couple minutes ago.  A fun watch and hey, Angie Dickinson, nuff said.

 

 

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Great quality picture and sound.  Lots of stars.  Gregory Hines does some amazing gun handling.   Lots of gunfighter action.

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Robert Redford,  Katherine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clarke. 

 

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)

Based on true events, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher Cooper.

 

Edited May 14, 2018 by Warden Callaway

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Edited November 10, 2018 by Warden Callaway

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Good quality video.  Lots of action.

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Great Glenn Ford western. 

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Here is a fun western/comedy/musical with a lot of good scenery from the railroad trip from Durango to Silverton.   Has Walter Brennan and many others you'll recognize.   Marilyn Monroe has an uncredited part as a dancer. 

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Here is a good quality western with some English flavor.  Has Jayne Mansfield. 

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Here is a Joel McCrea feature. 

 

 

Four faces West has the distinction of being a western without a single shot fired.

Edited November 4, 2018 by Warden Callaway

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Here is the original. 

 

Here is a remake.  Almost identical except set in Africa! 

Edited November 10, 2018 by Warden Callaway

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Here's one for the Wild Bunch fans.  A wacky comedy staring Roy Clark and Mel Tillis set in post 1900 west. Lots of other Nashville folks and cameos by other stars. Big shootout with 03 Springfield,  1911, and pump shotgun. 

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Lee Majors, David Carradine, Parnell Roberts and other usual characters. 

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Great John Ford western with the usual crew of actors.   Don't let the title throw you off.  This is a very fictionalized telling of the shootout at the OK Corral. 

 

I suspect this one won't last long on YouTube. 

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Good Joel McCrea western. 

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Good Jeffrey Hunter  western.   Martin Pawley in the movie The Searchers.  He had a good acting career going but died at age 42 from a stroke.

 

 

Here is a double feature this Saturday.   Just a fun movie with Christopher Lloyd and a lot of other great characters.  

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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)  Cliff Robertson Robert Duvall 

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.

 

 

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Good quality movie with a non-typical western plot.  Looks like Clark Gable is riding the famous movie horse "Steel".

 

 

Here is a typical B-Western except it starred the baseball great Lou Gehrig.

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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass with Yvonne DeCarlo!

 

 

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Here are a couple of more modern westerns that are a bit different..

 

 

This one is kind of strange.  Very few people and very little dialogue.  Set in the early mountain man era - kind of. 

 

 

 

This one is kind of a stinker.  The redeeming is in its cast. Mickey Rooney plays an old outlaw just out of prison.  Randy Travis and Larry Gatlan play two of his sons. Ben Johnson, Ernest Borgnine,  Ned Betty, and with Billy Bardy playing an old prosecutor.  Rated R. 

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Charles Bronson and Toshirô Mifune team up to recover a ceremonial Samurai sword.  

 

 

 

Dean Martin and Jerry Louis western comedy. 

 

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David O. Selznick tried to top his Gone With the Wind movie with Duel in the Sun.  But he was on drugs, had his wife Jennifer Jones playing the leading lady, and made a rambling movie that was 20 some hours long before it was edited down to just over 2 hours.  Anyway, a lavish movie with lots of good actors - just turned out to be a turkey. 

 

 

On the other hand,  here is a great African western with nobody we know. 

 

Jock of the Bushveld (1986)

Based on a true story by Sir Percy Fitzgerald, this film tells of his adventures in the bushveld in the late 1800's. Fitzgerald is an Irishman who goes to the South African bush to seek his fortune.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306589/plotsummary?item=po2669396

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Good spaghetti western with lots of American stars.  Slim Pickens,  Patrick Wayne and more. 

 

 

Really good drama based on a true story.

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Last major work of Dan Blocker.  Really great cast of 1970s stars. 

 

 

Lee Marvin, Robert Culp,  Oliver Reed,  Strothers Martin in a comedy western - a little on the ronchy side.