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Favorite Western Movie Of All Time
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Jan 06, 2009 08:49AM

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Interesting a musical never saw it. You suggest it?????

dale wrote:Interesting a musical never saw it. You suggest it?????
Heather's Mum wrote: If you enjoy musicals... I ABSOLUTELY recommend it! If you recognize the outstanding talent of the lead actors, (Eastwood & Marvin) you just gotta be in awe of the loyal "pardnership" en script. Original songs, (some old - They Call the Wind Maria) realistic settings and super talented performers. If you don't appreciate the genre, you will HATE it.
Since dale is interested, here is more info:
Directed: Joshua Logan
Written & Produced: Alan Jay Lerner & Paddy Chayefsky
Starring
Lee Marvin
Clint Eastwood
Jean Seberg
(note: Clint and Lee sang their own songs, Jean's were dubbed.)
released about 1969

Gunsmoke,paladdin,the rebel johnny Yuma what others??????????????????????

Remember Him as Rowdy Yates---RAWHIDE"
Yes! It's true! Not Bing Crosby crooning, but not bad!


The Gunfighter
The Magnificent Seven
3:10 to Yuma (Not the remake!)
No Name on the Bullet
The Dollars Trilogy
The Fastest Gun Alive
Open Range
Tombstone
The list goes on....


"Rio Grande" is a real masterpiece. It gets better and deeper the more I watch it.


And you know what, I tried to watch Deadwood and I could not get into it. I'm kind of the local "Western nerd" and everyone always asks what I thought of that series. It wasn't the language...I just had a hard time telling the characters apart. Which is embarrassing to see typed out like that and was probably why I just really couldn't get into it. I really ought to try it again...maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind.
I could always tell when one particular friend of mine (also a Western fan) was marathoning Deadwood...her casual use of profanity would go off the scale for a bit. :-DDDDD


I had never seen it, and in my admittedly drunken state I remember staring at the screen as a young Eastwood sang and thinking to myself "I'm not really THAT drunk, am I?" But no, he was singing and I was flabbergasted.
Five hours later (not a typo) we were still staring at the screen in a disbelieving stupor, thinking "Good grief, how long is this movie? Am I actually asleep and just DREAMING I'm still watching it?" I never actually saw the end of it, ironically.

I never wanted the bad guy dead faster than after and episode or two of Deadwood. ew





When they re-did 3:10 to Yuma and True Grit they had good choices for actors but The Magnificent Seven would be a lot more interesting to see how they would plan out.

