Posted on 01/25/2010 5:02:07 AM PST by SLB
These sure bring back the memories. Turn the speakers up a little to drown out the background noise and enjoy a few minutes of nostalgia.
On Saturday mornings on local PBS channel we have the old Saturday morning Westerns, complete with the serial.
They also have two or three old guys with guitars that finish out the 2 hour show with comments on the movie and a song or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAT6mikldxg
There’s part 1, resist it if you can!
In 1964 Jane was just a dumb blonde celebrity’s daughter. These should always be cut some slack. ;)
I search out western movies every so often for hubby to watch on the computer.
We need more shows like those old westerns (television and movies) these days for youngsters to watch, with a theme of good guy heroes corralling the bad guys...basically good overcoming evil.
We’ve had far too many anti-heroes since these men were on the scene.
I loved the line in “They Might Be Giants”, where George C. Scott says, about westerns, that they were all morality plays;
each man arrives at the fate he deserves; ‘there are no ‘masses’ in Virginia city’.
...Tex Ritter's gone and Disney's dead,
and the movies are filled with sex!
What ever happened to Randolph Scott,
ridin' the trail alone...
(anybody else remember that neat old song?)
Most of those disappeared from TV re-runs by the time I got old enough to enjoy them, but thankfully many are now going to DVD.
Out of the Westerns I grew up with My favorites were:
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit
The Cowboys
Once upon a time in the West
The Good the Bad, and The Ugly
The Cheyenne Social Club
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Way to go, Dad! Made my day! : )
Just read down to #40; yes, someone does remember!
“What ever happened to Randolph Scott riding the trail alone.”
He was riding with Joel McCrea in “Ride the High Country”...a pretty good flick.
Who shot Liberty Valance???
growning up as a kid in the 50’s and 60’s, I became a western junkie....mostly TV westerns but movies too...as I got to be an adult, I became more selective about all things...including westerns...
accuracy was horrible in old westerns pre 1870s westerns showed heros and villians brandishing SAA colts and pre 1890s westerns showed the hero brandishing 1892 and 1894 Winchesters....the stories of the older westerns were extremely simplistic....good vs bad....no meat to the stories.
NO, I am sorry...the best westerns (with the exception of such classics as Shane, Winchester 73, the Searchers, and a number of others), can’t hold a candle to such ‘modern’ Classics as ‘The Shootist’, ‘True Grit’, ‘Tombstone’, Eastwoods ‘Unforgiven’ and the miniseries ‘Lonesome Dove’....and to a lesser extent Quigley Down Under, Crossfire Trail, and the first season of ‘Deadwood’(it went down hill rapidly after that season)
there are 2 or 3 Costner movies I will watch more than once, but until this guy gets a film editor and pairs down his movies to 2 hours, I wont include them in my greatest lists.(ok, here they are...Wyatt Earp, Dances with Wolves, Open Range)
Just my $0.02.
Jimmy Stewart.
Love this video - The Statler Brothers - Do You Remember These
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5RvZatsfs
Great song!
Bumping so i can enjoy later!
Jimmy Stewart
No it was Duke Wayne...Jimmy Stewart just got the credit for it...
But, he “didn’t wanna kill him”. He just wanted “to put him in jail”.
The Statlers retired a few years back and gave a performance at the Salem Civic Center in Virginia which was recorded live. They were at the top of their game and the entire performance was flawless. I have the CD and if you haven’t heard it, you should.
Thanks, I enjoyed that, I’ll have to watch it again, so much so fast! It makes me wonder what happened to Hollywood westerns. Maybe not enough people ride horses, even see a horse these days to relate.
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