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yambu
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:38 am Reply with quote
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Last time I was in Cuba, people at a party kept referring to the US as "Yuma". I asked why, but no one seemed to know. Finally, a gent about my age said it was from the '57 Western, 3:10 to Yuma, with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, a film that was hugely popular there. He said they call us "los estados" about half the time, and "yuma" the other half.
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yambu
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:00 am Reply with quote
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McCabe and Mrs. Miller hasn't been mentioned yet. I've not seen it, but it's way up there on some critic lists.
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yambu
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:11 am Reply with quote
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Nancy wrote:
Great list, Yambu! Some real classics here. I studied all of them except The Ox-Bow Incident in film class....I'm looking forward to this.
I'm sorry, Nance, but we are asking film class people to refrain from participating. Feel free to join the Ox-Bow discussion, though.
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dlhavard
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:49 am Reply with quote
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Finally, I'm heartened that no one as yet has recommended The Magnificent Seven.


But Yam - you just did!

How about "The Shootist?" Yeah, kinda corny but well done corn.

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yambu
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:27 am Reply with quote
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Didn't see it. By then I had had my fill of Mr. Marion Morrison. I never watched him again after about McClintock. Then the very idea of the Green Berets put me off. It was 1968, fer godsakes.
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Melody
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:40 pm Reply with quote
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Thanks for rounding us up, Yambu. I'm ready to ride! When do we cross Red River?

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dlhavard
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:55 pm Reply with quote
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WHAT - you never saw "The Shootist" - Wayne, Stewart, Carradine, Bacall, and a teenage Ron Howard! And a bevy of other familiar western faces.

A "shootist" is told he has only a few months to live (dying of cancer) and decides to go out with a BANG, taking all his old enemies with him. I loved the ending with Ron but won't give it away.

The sad thing is that Wayne actually was dying of cancer at the time. Crying or Very sad

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Marilyn
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High Noon was discussed extensively in the Zinnemann specialty forum.

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:04 pm Reply with quote
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Dagnabbit, woman! You gave it away. I was just going to extensively cut & paste when that film came up. *sigh*

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bocce
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:12 pm Reply with quote
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let's substitute THE TIN STAR with henry fonda and tony perkins, a similar base storyline but with a very different POV...
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Nancy
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:23 pm Reply with quote
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yambu wrote:
Nancy wrote:
Great list, Yambu! Some real classics here. I studied all of them except The Ox-Bow Incident in film class....I'm looking forward to this.
I'm sorry, Nance, but we are asking film class people to refrain from participating. Feel free to join the Ox-Bow discussion, though.


But I could try to make really uninformed comments on the others.........

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Nancy
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:24 pm Reply with quote
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Trish wrote:
rio grande - not rio bravo?


That's a good one too. Would be in my also-rans list. I just tend to prefer Ford to Hawks, at least for Westerns.

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Nancy
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:26 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES is a great film.


That it is. I keep having to watch it again.

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Nancy
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:27 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
off the top of my head, here's afew of my favorite westerns:


Good list, Marc. I'm particularly fond of High Plains Drifter.

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Nancy
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:54 pm Reply with quote
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Finally found where I posted this in Silents, so I could recycle it here. Although we're not going back as far as this decade, Hart is worth checking out:

So, fellow silent film fans, how do the rest of you feel about William S. Hart's silent Westerns? I was just reading about him, and feel the need to watch one of them again. I first heard about him in film class, where we saw his last film (and one of his best), Tumbleweeds. Hart's films have a curiously modern feel to them; they have a sense of realism most silent Westerns lack. Hart plays a hero a lot like Gary Cooper, and even Clint Eastwood -- the strong silent (no joke intended) type. He often plays an outlaw reformed by the love of a Good Woman. The stunts in his films can be pretty impressive -- I recall him jumping a horse over an overturned wagon in one film. And when he has a saloon fight, it's not the Bonanza-style farce with breakaway everything. The costuming is pretty good, too. Clothes look like they've actually been worn, and the women's costumes are often more historically accurate than was usual for this period. If you haven't seen any Hart movies, you have a treat in store. Hunt them down -- Tumbleweeds is not too hard to find, and The Narrow Trail and Hell's Hinges are also quite good.

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