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Post by alfromni on Nov 7, 2019 16:02:10 GMT
I remember seeing a B&W western mystery years ago. There were two main adversaries, one dressed in white, the other black. The mystery was which one was the evil one? Can't remember the name of the movie, the stars, or the outcome, but I fancy seeing it again. Help!
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Post by politicidal on Nov 8, 2019 0:10:35 GMT
They were color coded but they still didn't know who was bad or good? Interesting.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 1:03:24 GMT
I remember seeing a B&W western mystery years ago. There were two main adversaries, one dressed in white, the other black. The mystery was which one was the evil one? Can't remember the name of the movie, the stars, or the outcome, but I fancy seeing it again. Help! Sounds like a classic B-western trope. More information would be needed to even begin to get this one.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 1:06:28 GMT
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Post by alfromni on Nov 8, 2019 1:10:42 GMT
I recall there were all the usual western cliches in play, and even a street face-off. But who was the good guy? The guy dressed in white, or the one dreessed in black? That was the underlying mystery.
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 8, 2019 1:11:27 GMT
I'm trying, Bat -- I'm trying! But nothing's coming through. Not everything in llfe is easily black and white.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 1:16:46 GMT
mattgarthditto here … too dern many o' them cowboys dressed in black'n'white in the olden days o' black'n'white pitchur shows, dagnabbit !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 1:18:21 GMT
Bogart was in black and Cagney in kinda Grey in the Oklahoma Kid but there was no mystery as to who was which evilness-wise so that's out. .
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 1:19:10 GMT
Did Hopalong Cassidy ever do a dual role thingy with him good AND evil ?
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Post by alfromni on Nov 8, 2019 1:25:26 GMT
Dunno. But it wasn't a Hoppy movie. The stars weren't well known like Bogey and Cagney etc. It was a 'B' movie. On the face of it, it wasn't a great movie, probably corny, but I was young and the mystery aspect and the opposites always stuck in my mind. Just can't remember anything else about it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 1:31:41 GMT
Was it TWO actors or one actor playing both the good guy and the bad guy ? hitchcockthelegend is going to be here and know immediately without even batting an eye !!
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Post by alfromni on Nov 8, 2019 2:02:22 GMT
As I recall...two actors.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 2:06:16 GMT
This so so very vague … good luck !
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Post by alfromni on Nov 8, 2019 2:51:43 GMT
I realise it's vague. That's why it's a mystery. Oh well. I'll keep looking. I've just been through all Wiki listed westerns from the 30s, no earlier, to the mid 50s, no later. There are some hopefuls to which there are no plot synopses.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 8, 2019 2:53:49 GMT
Try looking at some images … one of them is worth 1000 words, ya know.
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Post by alfromni on Nov 8, 2019 3:50:37 GMT
Tried images already. Some Max Brand stories looked promising, but they don't equate with movies produced.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 8, 2019 4:24:27 GMT
I remember seeing a B&W western mystery years ago. There were two main adversaries, one dressed in white, the other black. The mystery was which one was the evil one? Can't remember the name of the movie, the stars, or the outcome, but I fancy seeing it again. Help! Could it be a short film (sometimes shown on TCM) OR an episode of some anthology series, such as 'Zane Grey Theatre'? Other anthologies once-in-awhile did a Western episode.
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Post by alfromni on Nov 8, 2019 11:33:10 GMT
Apologies, should have mentioned I live in the UK. Not sure that the Zane Grey Theatre was marketed to, or received here, but it's possible. The only Western TV imports that I remember in the early and mid-50s were The Range Rider, and Casey Jones and it wasn't those. At that time very few in the village I lived in even had a TV. The nearby town cinema and the radio were the main entertainment outlets. Between circa 1958 to 1968 I saw very little TV. Didn't own one, and wasn't in places to watch one (bought my first TV in 1970). Wiki gives only selected episodes of ZG, so I'll see if there are more elsewhere. I've checked other TV series of the 50s. Zilch. I'm almost sure it was a theatrical production of the late 40s, early 50s, definitely B&W. Not TV. Many thanks RiP, IMDb .
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Nov 8, 2019 12:10:10 GMT
Blimey! That is vague - we would need a clue as to the finale because at the moment the synopsis covers about 5 thousand Oaters
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 8, 2019 12:17:36 GMT
Apologies, should have mentioned I live in the UK. Not sure that the Zane Grey Theatre was marketed to, or received here, but it's possible. The only Western TV imports that I remember in the early and mid-50s were The Range Rider, and Casey Jones and it wasn't those. At that time very few in the village I lived in even had a TV. The nearby town cinema and the radio were the main entertainment outlets.
Between circa 1958 to 1968 I saw very little TV. Didn't own one, and wasn't in places to watch one (bought my first TV in 1970).
Wiki gives only selected episodes of ZG, so I'll see if there are more elsewhere. I've checked other TV series of the 50s. Zilch.
I'm almost sure it was a theatrical production of the late 40s, early 50s, definitely B&W. Not TV.
Many thanks RiP, IMDb . You're welcome.
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