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Good Westerns. John Wayne and James Arness Were Never Replaced. Are Westerns Dead in America?
Associated Content ^ | 1-11-2010 | Sherry Tomfeld

Posted on 01/11/2010 11:34:55 AM PST by stillafreemind

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To: AngelesCrestHighway
One of the best "bad guy" performances ever has to be Jack Palance's as Wilson in the unforgettable and incredible western Shane, a film which intelligently explore the complex issues of the settling of the West:


Wilson guns down farmer

121 posted on 01/12/2010 8:05:18 AM PST by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: MarkL

Didn’t know all of that - thanks for the perspective!


122 posted on 01/12/2010 10:38:32 AM PST by daniel boob (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: daniel boob

Like Jeremiah Johnson?


123 posted on 01/12/2010 10:45:10 AM PST by csmusaret (Oops. My karma just ran over my dogma.)
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To: Yorlik803

Or a huckleberry.


124 posted on 01/12/2010 10:53:03 AM PST by csmusaret (Oops. My karma just ran over my dogma.)
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To: gunnyg

Hey gunny I no I should have put sarc on. sorry.


125 posted on 01/12/2010 12:15:26 PM PST by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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To: stillafreemind

I love westerns and watch em every chance I get.

Pilgram!


126 posted on 01/12/2010 12:22:05 PM PST by Rightly Biased (If Clinton was the first black president then Obama is the first black Jesus.)
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To: rednesss
"Tom Selleck and Robert Duvall are about as close as you’ll come to John Wayne I think."

Maybe better?

127 posted on 01/25/2010 6:05:22 AM PST by OldEagle
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To: equalitybeforethelaw
"today’s Hollywood leading men all look like boys not like men."

there really is big market in hollywood that is untapped.
Why hasn't it been untapped?

128 posted on 01/25/2010 9:38:30 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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