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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 6, 2017 9:05:55 GMT
I'm in the mood for some of those old "matinee"-type westerns. Any you'd recommend? I particularly like those in which the ending features a lot of shots being fired with hardly anyone getting hurt.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 19:28:44 GMT
I'm in the mood for some of those old "matinee"-type westerns. Any you'd recommend? I particularly like those in which the ending features a lot of shots being fired with hardly anyone getting hurt. "The Wild Bunch" "The Gunfighter" with Gregory Peck "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 7, 2017 15:55:07 GMT
I'm in the mood for some of those old "matinee"-type westerns. Any you'd recommend? I particularly like those in which the ending features a lot of shots being fired with hardly anyone getting hurt. with Roy Rogers is pretty good Perhaps the Citizen Kane of this movement is the 1956 version of The Lone Ranger. |
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Feb 9, 2017 16:34:37 GMT
I think you might be watching the wrong version.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 5:09:21 GMT
Apache (Burt Lancaster)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 17:10:12 GMT
John Ford's Cavalry trilogy,
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 22, 2017 20:01:39 GMT
Anything starring the great Gene Autry.
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Post by Marv on Mar 3, 2017 20:09:24 GMT
Nevada Smith
The Gunfighter
High Noon
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 14, 2017 20:22:30 GMT
I always loved the Cowboy Trio series films. There was always a lead hero who rode the white horse, a comic sidekick, and a mostly unnecessary “middle” guy who was almost, but not quite, as good a fighter and shooter as the head man. One of the most famous of this sort were the Three Mesquiteers. There were 50 Mesquiteers films between 1935 and 1943. The most famous Mesquiteers team was Robert Livingston as Stoney Brooke, Ray (“Crash”) Corrigan as Tucson Smith, and Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin, a ventriloquist with his dummy Elmer. Livingston played Stony in 30 Mesquiteers features. In 1938 and 1939, John Wayne stepped in for 8 movies as Stony before Livingston returned. The various team members changed several times.
Some other trio teams from about the same years are: The Rough Riders (Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, and Raymond Hatton), the Trail Blazers (Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele), The Texas Rangers (Dave O’Brien, James Newell and Guy Wilkerson), and the Range Busters with Ray “Crash” Corrigan, John “Dusty” King, and ventriloquist Max Terhune (again).
Also, any Hopalong Cassidy, Kermit Maynard, Johnny Mack Brown and dozens of other names of cowboy heroes whose films played at kids’ Saturday matinee showings and on early TV into the 1960s.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 18, 2017 6:23:45 GMT
Tim Holt starred in dozens of matinee B grade Western features throughout the forties and into the fifties.
With a run time of just on one hour these are fast action packed little pics and there are some real gems among them .
There was always a wild barroom fight and he had a couple of different comic sidekicks who were really not needed.
At the peak of his career in the 1940s "B" westerns, he was the fastest draw in the movies, having the ability to draw his revolver in five frames of film (slightly over one-sixth of a second). one of his western film trademarks was, his on screen character usually wore gloves since he believed this was a realistic view of a "real" working cowboy.
From 1940-42 he made 18 Westerns beginning with Wagon Train (1940)...
Thunder Mountain (1947) was the first of Holt's 29 post war Western star vehicles and the first in a series of Zane Grey adaptations he made for RKO which had slightly larger budgets. It was written by Norman Houston who would go on to write 19 more for the star.
most of these are available in three collection sets from Warner Archives
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Post by vegalyra on Feb 10, 2018 0:28:32 GMT
Just about anything with Randolph Scott, particularly his earlier films. I don't think anyone was killed... haha. Western Union, Cariboo Trail. His later films with Budd Boetticher were actually very superior films but were more serious.
Not your standard westerns, but Silver City and Denver and Rio Grande with Edmond O'Brien were very good too. Very beautiful Technicolor too.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 11, 2018 2:16:03 GMT
Garden of Evil
The Professionals
MacKenna's Gold
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Post by towncaller on Feb 16, 2018 17:08:20 GMT
I'd go with these series, in order of my personal preference:
1. The Hopalong Cassidy film series. My personal favorite is Borderland, where Hoppy plays a bad character undercover agent and has Stephen Morris' best performance. TV episodes are okay, but more juvenile.
2. Roy Rogers film series, especially the ones with Dale Evans, and some are in color. Again, TV series is more juvenile.
3. The Durango Kid film series, and other westerns with Charles Starret. He starred in over 130 westerns from 1936 to 1951.
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