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Post by onethreetwo on May 7, 2020 7:19:41 GMT
The internet has been of surprisingly little help. If someone was to watch one Roy Rogers movie, what should it be?
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Post by mattgarth on May 7, 2020 8:53:37 GMT
Bells of San Angelo -- with My Pal Trigger a close second
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Post by petrolino on May 7, 2020 10:01:46 GMT
Quentin Tarantino's a big fan of director William Witney. I think he'd recommend 'The Gay Ranchero' (1948) and 'The Golden Stallion' (1949).
"I've found directors of some of these movies who I'm really into, but William Witney is ahead of them all, the one whose movies I can show to anyone and they are just blown away. He makes you accept everything on his terms, and his terms are that Roy and Trigger are best friends. Trigger is not just his best horse; he's his best friend. You know, in some movies, a cowboy might go to jail to save his best friend from being shot down dead. Well, Trigger is Roy's best friend. It's the easiest leap to have him do that here, yet it's so powerful and so unexpected. What's great is that you buy it, you absolutely buy it, and I don't know that I really would buy it from anybody else but Roy and Trigger.
The thing about William Witney is that he was really a director of genre movies. He started making serials in the late 1930's, and he made some of the best of them, from the Dick Tracy ones to Spy Smasher to Jungle Girl. And when they stopped making serials, he moved over to Saturday morning cowboy pictures and did pretty much everything Roy Rogers shot between the late 40's and the early 50's" - when Rogers stopped making movies and shifted to television.
When they stopped making Saturday morning cowboy pictures in the 50's, when Republic Pictures closed down, he moved over and made juvenile delinquent films, and they are some of the best of those movies ever made. And when they stopped making those, he moved over and did some rock 'n' roll movies in the 60's. He flirted with the A list a couple of times, but mostly he was a guy who moved from one B-list genre to another, all right, for something like 40 years. And all the while he is churning out TV shows. He did a ton of "Bonanza" and episodes for almost every western of the period. And do you know what his last movie was? A black exploitation flick in the 70's. He ended with "Darktown Strutters" in 1975, about a female black motorcycle gang. I think it's so cool that he began as the king of the cowboy serials and he ended with a black exploitation film. That's a career, man."
- The QT Archives
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Post by mikef6 on May 7, 2020 14:35:21 GMT
Although not technically a “Roy Rogers movie,” the best film overall that he appeared in was 1940s “Dark Command” directed by Raoul Walsh. John Wayne and Claire Trevor head the cast in this story about Kansas before and during the Civil War. Rogers plays Claire Trevor’s younger brother who becomes involved on the Confederate side and goes in with the brutal Cantrell’s Raiders. Roy does OK in the part although the Duke didn’t appreciate him. With Porter Hall in Dark Command  |
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Post by politicidal on May 7, 2020 15:13:57 GMT
He's not wearing the sequined shirts. But he captured the essence of the character just fine.
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Post by teleadm on May 8, 2020 5:56:44 GMT
His highest rated movie (by us the viewers, not critics) is at the moment the one he made in the mid 1970s, Mackintosh and T.J. 1975. Not a bad movie at all, set in contemporary times.  The highest rated, by the same measures, of his own vehicles is South of Caliente 1951.  The highest rated of his movies were he was co-starring, by the same measures, is Son of Paleface 1952, sharing the screen with Bob Hope and Jane Russell.  It should be noted in all fairness that fans of Roy Rogers movies doesn't seem too eager to rate his movies at our old site. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 8, 2020 17:47:25 GMT
The internet has been of surprisingly little help. If someone was to watch one Roy Rogers movie, what should it be? Just pick one .... you really cannot go wrong and they are like peanuts or potato chips .. you cannot stop after just one ! 
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Post by vegalyra on May 8, 2020 19:37:03 GMT
I've only seen two, Trigger, Jr. and Sunset in the West, but they were both good. My 9 year old loved Trigger Jr.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 8, 2020 19:40:30 GMT
Saturday Matinee Movies ... make some popcorn... take off your shoes .... find your refreshing beverage of choice ... put away your critics hat .. sit down in a comfy chair and enjoy !   |
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Post by mikef6 on May 8, 2020 21:02:59 GMT
Roy’s major kiddie-cowboy movie rival was Gene Autry. If you want to see them both in the same movie, see if you can find “The Old Corral” (1936). Gene is the star but Roy, new to the screen, is unbilled – his last without a credit except for a couple where he is only part of a singing group. Autry has to reform Roy and the rest of the Sons Of The Pioneers - who are not bad boys but have got themselves in trouble - while Gene has to shoot it out with some Chicago gangsters who have come west to kill a witness. Smiley Burnett is added value.  |
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Post by teleadm on May 9, 2020 14:44:26 GMT
Mrs and Mr Rogers even guested the Muppets:  |
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