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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I've never seen Paint Your Wagon, but I've watched Cat Ballou many times over the years...and yes, I don't see how you could categorize them as anything but Westerns. Funny Westerns are still Westerns.


    Cat Ballou was great. In Paint Your Wagon, Clint Eastwood SINGS!
    Jack Nicholson does also in Tommy.
    Last edited by jet57; 09-25-2020 at 05:27 PM.

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    I just watched Cat Ballou again. That one never gets old.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I just watched Cat Ballou again. That one never gets old.
    First movie I saw in a theater by myself.

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    I watch westerns mostly for the horses.....I often don't even know what the plot is......LOL......

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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    They only showed up to the point where Branch's father (Gerald McRaney) shot his own son on regular TV. (season 3) Then Hulu or some such renegade broadcasting station took it off public airwaves. You had to subscribe to get the rest of the seasons. I'll look into the books. Does the TV show do the books justice?

    You can buy the entire series on DVD. I recently watched the final season on the Outdoor channel and, they've started all over, now showing season one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I'm going to have to watch '3:10 to Yuma' soon, then. I didn't realize Foster was in it. I think I even have the dvd around here somewhere, I just haven't gotten around to watching it. My youngest son and I were just talking about Custer the other day and I mentioned I hope that someone makes a big screen epic movie about his life someday. He asked me who I thought would be good to star in it and I said Ben Foster would be my first choice.

    Did you get around to watching it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    A Million Ways to Die in the West!! One of the funniest movies ever and definitely one of the funniest Westerns.

    That was an absolutely hilarious movie. Canny and only in it for the humor but spot on with a lot of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Private Pickle View Post
    Did you get around to watching it?
    I have not, but I'm going to go dig the DVD out of The Archives right now and put it on the top of my "to watch" stack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I have not, but I'm going to go dig the DVD out of The Archives right now and put it on the top of my "to watch" stack.
    If for no other reason I think it's one of Ben Foster's best performances. That movie put him on the map for me.
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