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.
Life's tough in the old west. And on Free Republic.
Jimmy Stewart
No it was Duke Wayne...Jimmy Stewart just got the credit for it...
Maybe we should ask him:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:libertyvalance/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
Hey Liberty! Who was it that shot you dead?
And turn out the lights
‘Cause Roy Rogers rides tonight,
Yep,life’s tough, Pilgrim.
40 or 50 years from now will they be making songs about Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolei, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp and other people in the movies?
Will they make songs about today’s fads, like cell phones, WII’s, Facefook, and Twitter?
Will oldy stations (if radio is still around) play todays pop music and hip hop?
NO, NO, and NO
I don’t know if this would still be true, but I was chatting up a video store clerk five or six years ago, and she told me that westerns, particularly John Wayne movies, were still among the top renters at that time.
"You want me to spell it out for ya? Liberty Valance is the toughest man south of the Picketwire - next to me."
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Big Hand for a Little Lady (very funny)
The Cowboys (every boys fantasy to go out on his own... the opening where John Wayne goes to the school and the next day when all the boys show up is priceless)
Tombstone......Val Kilmer's best role
Unforgiven
The Searchers
Shane
High Noon
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Lonesome Dove
wow... I just can't believe that there hasn't been that many more made recently. I guess it's not PC to have guys with guns save the day unless your a protected chosen class.... fighting the white Christian fundamentalists...oh well.
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
Bad Day at Black Rock
High Noon
Thanks, pard.
If you haven’t seen Red River go rent it today. No. Go buy it.
***He also hated that country took over his western music. We listened to that stuff a *lot*.***
I love weatern swing!
Sixteen albums of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys ! It’s what Igrew up with.
Back in the 1950s there used to be a TV station out of Muskogee,OK. KTVX. It is now Ktul out of Tulsa. On saturdays they had an entire afternoon of nothing but old westerns!
Tom Mix
Buck Jones
Eddie Dean
Wild Bill Elliot
Tim Holt
and many, many other singing cowboys.
I haven’t seen a Tom Mix or Buck Jones movie since then. they haven’t been released to TV again.
“Oh, Cisco.” “Oh, Pancho.”
I had to go find the exact title.
The program is “Marshal Andy’s Riders of the Silver Screen” on WETP Sneedvillle Tennessee Public TV for East Tennessee
[Doc approaches Valance's body]
Floyd: It's Liberty.
Doc Willoughby: Whiskey, quick.
Person on street: Here, sir.
Doc Willoughby: [takes a drink, turns Valances body over with his foot]
Dead. [walks off]
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