Don't go knocking Stagecoach...
I remember first watching this flick as a kid. The Japanese cook had to find Jim Quackenbush's grave.... It was where the whiskey was buried.
Robert Taylor, usually wooden (Ivanhoe), was good in it.
Don't go knocking Stagecoach...
I remember first watching this flick as a kid. The Japanese cook had to find Jim Quackenbush's grave.... It was where the whiskey was buried.
Robert Taylor, usually wooden (Ivanhoe), was good in it.
Yeah!
Lash LaEue and Hoppy were kinda crude!
Yeah!
Lash LaEue and Hoppy were kinda crude!
Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed...
Either Steyn is writing under a lady’s pseudonym or he’s outsourcing to idiots.
Mark should stick to musicology or even B’way. He has a good book on the subject called “Broadway Babies Say Goodnight.”
“The Searchers”...mentioned in the article.
Great John Wayne movie. Some hard parts to watch in it.
The country/culture was better off during the years when Westerns were routinely being turned out and viewed.
They are the King Arthur tales updated — taught lessons in chivalry. Westerns are basically dead and so is chivalry, which is looked upon as sexist, which is the flip side of the only sin left to condemn - racism.
True righteousness is easily attainable in today’s world; all that is necessary is to condemn racism and you are a righteousness dude.
So, men are supposed to be completely supportive of women and never ever criticize their horrible tearjerking chick flick genre. But otoh the action genre that men are drawn to is open to derision by nasty b****es.
Okay. Got it.
>p“The Searchers” sould be named one of America’s top ten moviews.
Steyn is an excellent writer and observer of lots in politics and the human condition.
But he ain’t American.
As others have commented, Westerns are our folk lore, our Grimms Tales, our teaching stories, our identity myths.
It shows what it is to be American.
Popular culture has “Progressed” to the Left. That’s why these stories seem to some a bit hokey these days.
I’ve been trying for about 20 min to think of some westerns I enjoyed.
So far just three, and the first two aren’t serious westerns.
Cat Ballou
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
The Furies
And The Furies could have been better if Gilbert Roland hadn’t been executed. :(
But for the heavy-handed anti-racism message in the theme, I’d have loved The Unforgiven. Lillian Gish was in it, and Burt Lancaster. (It could have done without Audrey Hepburn, too.)
Fun article, but I don’t think I’ll go on a hunt for the movie.
The author of this piece is a woman, and since this was the best movie she could have found in the western genre, it screams that she is a leftist.
Furthermore, I’ve watched the movie and the accolades she throws at this movie while dismissing most of the rest of western genre screams she is a leftist.
I wouldn’t listen to a word she has to say, she is either ignorant, or a hardened leftist or both.
Guess Kathy Shaidle never saw Lust in the dust.
I like westerns but sort of agree with you about “High Noon”.
Wayne thought his best movie was “Red River” and I agree with him. He always wore that “Red River D” belt buckle after that.
Louis L’Amour also hated “High Noon”. He said most of those western town residents were veterans of the War Between The States and were not the kind to go hide when some bad guys rode into town.
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” was a close second as his best.
Shane is selected by the Western Writers Association as the greatest Western film ever made. And this critic says she “doesn’t get it.” Shane is my favorite, too, and Westward the Women is good, as well. What is bad and I don’t get is this woman’s nonsensical review. She should stick to chick flicks.
The director of Westward the Women, “William “Wild Bill” Wellman, is one the greats. Check out his “Yellow Sky” some time. Terrific picture.
There’s another “wagon train of women” movie called “Wagon Master” that’s worth a look.
Hates westerns?
Why is Little Big Man never aired anywhere on cable?
I think one of the best westerns is Magnificent Seven [the one with Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, etc. in it].
I also loved James Garner in Support Your local Sheriff, although technically it is not exactly in the western genre.