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Just another Facist
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Originally Posted by Tom
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Believe it or not, I program the music in our restaurant and this song, by “The Blues Brothers” is in the 20 hour shuffle
Along with the theme from the Jeffersons-Flintstones-Sanford and son-Rockford files
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06-08-2022, 08:00 PM
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Just another Facist
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Originally Posted by Mulerider
I watched a 1955 Western the other night, Five Guns West. Set during the Civil War, everyone was shooting a Winchester Model 1894.
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The gun that won the west…….but hardly anybody could afford 
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06-08-2022, 08:15 PM
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Believe it or not a lot of people buy a lot of that baloney, as real. Might not happen here but a website I don't go to any more, that was over run with young Democrats, had people thinking cops should shoot knives and guns out of people's hands.
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06-08-2022, 10:12 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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One of my favorites, Trinnity.
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06-09-2022, 02:23 PM
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06-09-2022, 05:26 PM
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These movies were terrible.....I think I seen every one of them. 
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06-09-2022, 05:58 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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I saw most of them at the DRIVE IN!
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06-09-2022, 06:19 PM
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I saw most of them at the DRIVE IN!
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I had a friend who managed a drive-in, got in for free, free sodas and popcorn if I brought my own containers. Had to wing it once, girlfriend's mom was still up when I brought her home and invited me in. She asked us what the movie was about. I thankfully had seen the previews and read what the critics thought about it. I always parked in the back row.
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06-09-2022, 10:53 PM
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Wayne should of got an Oscar. The scene where he tells the brother he’s going to kill her………..incredible.
Btw, Jeffrey Hunter was the original Capt. Pike in Star Trek.
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06-10-2022, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Wayne should of got an Oscar.
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The entire movie was ignored by the Oscars. I think that's at least partly due to the fact that it came out the same year that Wayne played Genghis Kahn.
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The scene where he tells the brother he’s going to kill her………..incredible.
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Martin Pawley (the Jeffrey Hunter character) was not Ethan Edwards' brother (Ethan is the John Wayne Character). Martin was an adoptive nephew.
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Btw, Jeffrey Hunter was the original Capt. Pike in Star Trek.
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He also played Jesus Christ in the re-make of King of Kings.
To me it's obvious that Ethan has feelings for Debbie's mother Martha. When Ethan left to go fight in the civil war he does not return for eight years. Debbie is eight years old when she's kidnapped. Speculation is that Ethan is not Debbie's uncle. He's her father.
Two girls are kidnapped. The older one, Lucy, is killed by the native Americans. Watch the Daniel Day-Lewis movie Last of the Mohicans (or read James Fenimore Cooper's book). The two stories are similar. In Cooper's book two girls are kidnapped and one of them commits suicide. In turn Cooper's book is based on a historical event where two girls were kidnapped by Iroquois and one of them was killed.
By the way, there's a scene in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker finds that his aunt and uncle have been killed by storm troopers. George Lucas had admitted that he ripped this scene directly from The Searchers.
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06-10-2022, 09:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
I like watching old westerns and laugh at how politically incorrect they are,
and how guns and ballistics are incorrectly portrayed. The first one is black cowboys are a rarity where something like 1/3 of the post civil war era cowboys were black. Native Americans are all played by white guys with make up and made to look stupid. Guns that typically held 6-8 rounds could fire two dozen without reloading. I could go on and on.
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Watched a western the other night with Broderick Crawford bellowing about those "crazy red devils." Spit spraying, gut protruding, barely intelligible, clearly longing for a Lucky....
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06-10-2022, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by mountainman
Watched a western the other night with Broderick Crawford bellowing about those "crazy red devils." Spit spraying, gut protruding, barely intelligible, clearly longing for a Lucky....
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Broderick Crawford was also a crack shot on the TV show Highway Patrol.
He never lost a shoot out with a bad guy using his trusty stub nose .38 revolver. He often hit a kill shot on the first pull of the trigger.
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06-10-2022, 10:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
Broderick Crawford was also a crack shot on the TV show Highway Patrol.
He never lost a shoot out with a bad guy using his trusty stub nose .38 revolver. He often hit a kill shot on the first pull of the trigger.
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Check him out with Glen Ford in The Fastest Gun Alive.
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06-11-2022, 01:23 AM
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No discussion of westerns is complete without including the original "Magnificent Seven". Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn among the seven good guys. The icing on the cake is Eli Wallach as the top bad guy and a score nominated for an Emmy. It doesn't get any better than that.
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06-11-2022, 09:49 AM
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Speaking of acting, Eli Wallach was terrific in "Baby Doll", a Tennessee Williams play adaption. He always played a magnificent asshole.
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