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Post by vegalyra on Mar 13, 2018 13:40:10 GMT
I wanted to post a thread about Randolph Scott and his amazing repertoire of film. I'll kick it off by saying I'm a huge fan of his later Westerns, particularly the ones that he collaborated with Budd Boetticher on. I also enjoyed some of his older films like Gung Ho. A great wartime propaganda film. Another excellent film was To the Shores of Tripoli. Interesting fact about it was that while the film was wrapping up, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor so the ending had to be changed. Regarding the Scot/Boetticher films, Indicator in UK just announced a new box set. I believe it will be released in May. It's Region Free which makes it even better for us fans in the US. Five Tall Tales |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2018 14:00:54 GMT
At the Saturday Matinees of my (as Cousin Vinny would say) my "yoot", it was always bound to be a good day when a Randolph Scott western movie was the feature. A Double Feature day was heaven. Too many to list so will post his filmography as a cheat sheet  Randolph Scott Don't have this book (yet)  Thanks for opening this thread ! vegalyra |
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 13, 2018 14:31:17 GMT
And Randy went out with a big winner -- RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY with another Western icon -- Joel McCrea.
About their final shootout scene as they strode forward to take on the brothers Hammond -- Director Sam Peckinpah said: "Those two guys had the best 'walk' in Westerns."
Scott then retired comfortably to clip coupons and play golf at the exclusive Los Angeles Country Club (which would not accept actors).
He invested wisely -- on the set of THE TALL T co-star Maureen O'Sullivan noted how he would sit in his actor chair between scenes in his buckskins and holster ... reading the Wall Street Journal!
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Post by snsurone on Mar 13, 2018 15:19:06 GMT
Being a gentleman from the South (Virginia, to be exact), many people believe that Randy Scott would have been better as Ashley Wilkes in GWTW than was Leslie Howard.
Me, I'm more partial to Gene Raymond in the role.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 13, 2018 15:23:00 GMT
I agree about Randy as 'Ashley.'
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 13, 2018 16:51:12 GMT
Another Scott favorite -- RETURN OF THE BAD MEN (1948).
Randy's town marshal 'Vance Cordell' takes on half the outlaw bands in the old West :
the Youngers, the Daltons, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin (Scott would portray him the following year himself) ...
... and even a particularly nasty 'Sundance Kid' played by Robert Ryan (no charming Redford, he).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2018 16:56:54 GMT
 "This film is the last of the "Ranown Westerns", produced by star Randolph Scott and his partner Harry Joe Brown under the Ranown Pictures banner. Scott decided to retire after this one, but two years later he was talked out of retirement by Sam Peckinpah for Ride the High Country (1962). After that film, Scott retired for good. " |
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Post by politicidal on Mar 13, 2018 17:38:54 GMT
The 1935 adaptation of SHE is really underrated. Good fantasy adventure film.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 13, 2018 17:47:32 GMT
Apparently I was posting in the wrong Randolph Scott threads earlier, thanks for this one!  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2018 18:09:10 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞as a Randolph Scott Newbie ... you are in for some real treats ! Good pictures await you ! You know I would not steer you wrong on this or lead you astray or up the garden path or ... well... you get the drift ! 
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Post by teleadm on Mar 13, 2018 18:33:48 GMT
 1949, I think this was the first Randolph Scott movie I watched, on TV in the early 1970s. My memory of the movie is very blurred, but for some reason I've remembered the title.  1947, Randolph Scott's last contemporary movie (?), before he rode the way west. Christmas Eve seems to have got bad reviews everywhere, so it's no wonder he chosed to stop being in such movies. |
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 13, 2018 18:50:11 GMT
Another Scott favorite -- RETURN OF THE BAD MEN (1948).
Randy's town marshal 'Vance Cordell' takes on half the outlaw bands in the old West :
the Youngers, the Daltons, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin (Scott would portray him the following year himself) ...
... and even a particularly nasty 'Sundance Kid' played by Robert Ryan (no charming Redford, he). That plot description - and title - sounds a lot like a similar Randy Scott film from two years earlier. This is Badman’s Territory (1946). It is a fun western romp that has Scott, as a lawman, follow his brother’s kidnappers to a town that harbors outlaws so we run into the likes of Jesse and Frank James, the Dalton Gang, and Belle Starr (Isabelle Jewel, stealing every scene she is in). Gabby Hayes is in both films, but then, what westerns of the '40s was Gabby NOT in. |
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 13, 2018 19:01:02 GMT
Surprisingly, Scott, who did not sing nor dance, co-starred in two Astaire/Rogers musicals.
Roberta (1935) was adapted from a Broadway show so all the songs of Scott's character had to be dropped. He plays the prudish American who inherits his aunt's Paris dress shop. He believes most of his aunt's creations are vulgar.
In Follow The Fleet (1936) he switches gears as a love-'em-an-leave-'em sailor. His romance with Harriet Hilliard (later Harriet Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet) is the major sub-plot.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 13, 2018 19:44:45 GMT
Another Scott favorite -- RETURN OF THE BAD MEN (1948).
Randy's town marshal 'Vance Cordell' takes on half the outlaw bands in the old West :
the Youngers, the Daltons, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin (Scott would portray him the following year himself) ...
... and even a particularly nasty 'Sundance Kid' played by Robert Ryan (no charming Redford, he). That plot description - and title - sounds a lot like a similar Randy Scott film from two years earlier. This is Badman’s Territory (1946). It is a fun western romp that has Scott, as a lawman, follow his brother’s kidnappers to a town that harbors outlaws so we run into the likes of Jesse and Frank James, the Dalton Gang, and Belle Starr (Isabelle Jewel, stealing every scene she is in). Gabby Hayes is in both films, but then, what westerns of the '40s was Gabby NOT in. |
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Post by outrider127 on Mar 13, 2018 20:18:47 GMT
Randolph Scott!! My SO was into Westerns quite a bit a few years ago, and she loved almost all of his Westerns from 1950 on, including my favorite Ride The High Country--
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 13, 2018 21:23:27 GMT
Apparently I was posting in the wrong Randolph Scott threads earlier, thanks for this one! I replied to your question in the "other" thread... But you need to check this film out!  |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 13, 2018 21:59:33 GMT
"You'd do it for Randolph Scott" - Blazing Saddles.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 13, 2018 22:21:15 GMT
"You'd do it for Randolph Scott" - Blazing Saddles. BLAZING SADDLES did a Randolph Scott parody when Gene Wilder outdraws the bad guys without us even seeing him pull his pistols. Randy did the same thing to Lee Marvin in SEVEN MEN FROM NOW. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 13, 2018 22:30:37 GMT
mattgarthThere's a comedy routine somewhere or other where the guy demonstrating his "fast draw" "draws" (doesn't move a muscle) and says "Want to see it again ?"
Is that Scott based ? (Have not seen all of Blazing or any of 7 Men ) 
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 13, 2018 22:35:31 GMT
That's the one, Bat.
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