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I just watched Cat Ballou again. That one never gets old.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
I've just discovered my newest 'something to watch every day while I'm having lunch' show, and it's an oldie.
I don't know what got me thinking about this program, which was on the air for 7 years beginning in 1955, but I checked and all episodes are available on one of the channels I subscribe to, Starz Encore.
'Cheyenne' was a t.v. western done the right way. First rate production values, good writing and excellent acting performances from all concerned. Just from the few episodes I've watched to this point, it was a show that seemed to attract the best actors - whether future stars or character actors who would go on to have hundreds of screen credits. In the pilot episode, Cheyenne Bodie's sidekick "Smitty" is played by legendary character actor L.Q. Jones in one of his first screen appearances of a career that spanned fifty years. It also featured gravel-voiced character actor John Doucette, whose face you would know in a second, and as a Cavalry officer a young actor, making what may have been his first screen appearance, named James Garner.
The second episode's bad guy was played by Ray Teal, who you'd remember as Sheriff Roy Coffee on 'Bonanza'. The third episode, which had Cheyenne falling in with a couple of prospectors suffering from "gold fever", featured future star Rod Taylor. (The story, of course, calls to mind The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and the producers even included an end credit, 'Based on a novel by B. Traven'.)
Clint Walker himself was a casting director's dream. Standing 6'6", built like a Greek god and with a physique that guaranteed he'd be shirtless in at least one scene per episode, he also had a deep, resonant speaking (and singing) voice that was almost hypnotic.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
I watch westerns mostly for the horses.....I often don't even know what the plot is......LOL......
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Private Pickle (06-02-2021)