I'm not a Shane fan for some reason; too mushy for my tastes. Though I do like the Gregory Peck movie where his son has a pet dear.
I've always had an attraction to Jean Arthur.
By the same token, "The Angel and the Badman", wasn't a great flick, but Gail Russell sure was pretty.
I like the Gregory Peck movie with the pet deer too! It is "The Yearling"
Jody Baxter - "Pa, am I a man now?" Pa tells Jody that life is `gettin, losin, gettin, losin.
He taught his boy so much in this 1946 movie. Remember the last part where Jody and the deer run off together in his imagination? Innocense is lost but the part of him that loved the deer so deeply is with him and will be part of who he is forever. This is a wonderful movie!
I also enjoy McClintock and The Quiet Man for westerns!
Mary Kate Danaher ~ "What manner of man is it that I have married?"
Charles Fitzsimons ~ "A better one, I think, than you know Mary Kate."
Sean Thornton ~ "Well, some things a man doesn`t get over easy."
Mary Kate Danaher ~ "Like what supposin?"
Sean Thornton ~ "Like the sight of a girl comin through the fields with the sun on her hair...kneeling in church with a face like a saint."
Mary Kate Danaher ~ "Saint Indeed!"
~ Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes into us at midnight very clean. Its perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands and hopes we`ve learned something from yesterday.
~ John Wayne ~
Thank you for this really fun and memorable Thread!