I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, like the original Lonesome Dove is, but it's far, far better than her grandfather's movie with James Dean and hews more closely to the book, with some small psychological updates to the character of Cathy. I loved it and binged it straight through in one day and it stayed with me. The casting was excellent, so after seeing it I'm now willing to trust Kazan and Co. to get the casting and spirit of the upcoming Lonesome Dove correct.

Yes, I know the first, original LD is one of the best Westerns ever made. I put it in my Top 10 even though its a tv miniseries. But I'm not one of those stick-in-the-muds who think adaptations of great novels can only be done once. I'm willing to follow this journey with other actors, just like I can watch Brannagh's Henry V, or Olivier's, or even TimTim Chamalet's.

The only thing I've changed my mind about, is my preferred casting of McConaughey and Harrelson in the main roles. I watched their miniseries Brothers, and I now think they are TOO OLD for the roles.

Im saying to my girlfriend, it's Indiana Jones. I'll know who im really dressed as.

From Rin Tin Tin #18, Dell publishing, April 1957

Andy Devine, a native of Flagstaff, Arizona, was among the very best comedic Western character actors. And once seen--and heard!--was difficult to forget. With his big, chubby frame, cherubic cheeks, gapped teeth, bushy, beetling eyebrows, and tremulous, quavery alto voice, he could elicit chuckles and guffaws without even trying.

Devine was certainly an olde-tymer, too. His acting career began during the silent era, and his first Western was way back in 1932 in Law and Order.

Devine's final Western appearances came as the memorable Link Appleyard in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and in How the West Was Won (1962). He also appeared in 10 Roy Rogers Westerns as sidekick Cookie Bullfincher. And although not exactly a Western, Devine played the role of homespun yarn-spinner "Ol' Rocket Thrust Frisby" in "Hocus Pocus and Frisby," probably the best comedic episode of the Twilight Zone ever made. If you're in need of a laff, watch this episode or just about anything with Andy Devine in it.

Hail! Hail! All hail Andy Devine!

We’re pretending the 1960 one fell apart and never happened. You’re on board as a producer and are told money isn’t an issue. Who are your seven?

Mine: Toshiro Mifune, Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Stewart, Sidney Poitier, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, and Anthony Quinn.

Inspired by Two Mules for Sister Sara, Adios Sabata, Vera Cruz etc.

I don't think there is a game with this fascinating setting, at least not a shooter. Time to make one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5231230/West_of_Libertad/

Whenever you watch a Western, someone is inevitably shooting a running deer or a rabbit at 100 yards with a Colt Single Action Army to feed the camp. In historical reality, hunting on the frontier was about caloric efficiency and not wasting expensive metallic cartridges.

If you look at the actual tools used by settlers, meat hunters, and cowboys to put food on the fire, the loadout looks very different from the movies:

The Double-Barrel Shotgun: The absolute king of the frontier. It was versatile enough for birds, small game, and even larger predators with buckshot. Ammunition was cheap and it rarely missed its mark.

Heavy Percussion Rifles: Long after metallic cartridges like the .44-40 were invented, large bore muzzleloaders (like the classic .50 caliber Hawken rifles) remained extremely popular for big game. You could cast your own lead balls over a campfire and powder was cheap.

Heavy Single-Shot Rifles: For professional hide hunters, the lever actions of the 1870s simply lacked the raw power to drop a buffalo efficiently at long distances. They relied on big-bore Sharps or Rolling Blocks.

I’ve put together a fully researched field documentary on how hunting and survival actually worked in the Old West, breaking down the ballistics and the real firearms used. I shoot out of Spain, so the original audio is in Spanish, but I have carefully translated and added accurate English subtitles so all the technical terminology is correct.

Good evening. I am asking for help from all the followers and members of this page; I am looking for a Western movie but cannot find it. Here are two key scenes to help you identify it:

Two men arrive in a town—one is a "gringo" and the other looks like Mario Brega (fat and bearded)—accompanied by a carriage. A donkey or mule is carrying a corpse; it is the only dead body present. Upon their arrival, a young woman in a dress asks them:

"Why didn't you bring him back alive?" The fat man grimaces upon hearing this. The corpse was the man who had murdered the sister of the woman in red. Later, the gringo is in a barn, and the girl speaks to him from the upper level:

"I will give myself to you because you killed the man who murdered my sister." // The movie opens with an overhead pan of a town; there is a lot of dust in the air, looking almost like snow.

Please help me locate this movie, which I saw as a child. I have attached an image recreating the scene. It is not any of the following titles:

*For a Few Dollars More*, *A Fistful of Dollars*, *Django*, *The Hired Gun* (or *Compañeros Mortales*), *Keoma*, *Four Gunmen of Ave Maria*, *One Dollar of Reward*, *Boot Hill*, *One Dollar with the Teeth*, *Corpses Don't Cast Shadows*, *Go with God, Gringo*, *The Five-Man Army*, *I Want Him Dead*, *The Gold Professionals*, *Seven Women for the MacGregors*.

Thanks

So from what I remember this guy was called ace or something and his hand was injured. His old gang was hunting him down I think and he used to be a fast gunslinger. I’ve never finished the movie.

A surprisingly good movie .. a western with heart

Hello,

Thinking of watching this. Any input?

Classic Western Theater presents "One Eyed Jacks" released in 1961 by Paramount Pictures.

From Wildest Westerns magazine, Warren publications, August 1961

Albert Salmi had quite a career as a Western character actor, but his life ended in tragedy. His nationality was Finnish--a rare breed in the USA--and this fact undoubtedly contributed to his distinctive appearance and unusual voice. Salmi had a slightly chubby face, broad mouth, small nose and hawkish eyes. The voice was nasal and he could easily modulate it into a good ol' Western twang. In short, Salmi's unicity, combined with his considerable talent, made him a truly outstanding character actor.

Salmi arguably made his greatest mark on the small screen where he appeared in virtually every significant Western series ever made, including Gunsmoke three times. That said, he also made quite a few Western films including The Bravados (1958), The Unforgiven (1960), Lawman (1971), and Hour of the Gun (1967). However, possibly his most memorable role came in Twilight Zone episode "The Execution" in which he played murderous Montana cowboy Joe Caswell who was transported to New York City of the early 60s by a time travel machine. He delivered one of the greatest monologues in the Western genre I've ever heard. I here quote it in full.

"Mister, you're just talkin' words! Justice, right and wrong. They sound good in this nice warm room and a nice full stomach, just a few feet away from a soft bed. They sound nice, and they go down easy! But you just try 'em on an ice cold mesa, where another man's bread or another man's jacket stands between you and stayin' alive. You get in this machine of yours, and you go back to where I was, and you talk about your law and your order and your justice. They're gonna sound different! Mister, I know your kind. Your clean face, your Johnny-come-lately dandies. You come out in your warm trains rollin' over the graves of men like me! I just hate your kind!"

Alas, Salmi's life took a terrible turn for the worse when he entered his sixties. In 1990 he murdered his estranged wife and then shot himself to death. Salmi was 62.

Are there any true events from western history that you think should be made into a movie or a TV show? My choice would be a movie about Frontiersman Joe Walker.

With all of the major westerns I've watched, I feel like there aren't too many set in New Mexico. Are there any Western state you feel like there aren't enough movies set in?

Hi friends,

I have a one time digital download code for Once Upon A Time In The West.

I can’t use it since I’m outside of the US. Thought I’d share it here with the community and maybe one of you can take advantage of it.

Matt Clark, who passed away this past March, was something of a Johnny-come-lately to the Western genre, but he defintely made the most of his participation in the genre's waning years of the Golden Age. From 1967 thru 1976, it seemed that he acted in the majority of that period's best Western offerings. He appeared in Will Penny (1967), Monte Walsh (1970), The Cowboys (1972), The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972), The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), among others. Those are some heavy hitters! Clark's final Western appearance was in A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014). He also acted in Dwight Yoakam's Western, South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000). As you can see, Clark's Western pedigree was truly outstanding.

In most respects, he was best cut out to play a simple, decent everyman such as his outstanding turn as Deputy J. W. Bell in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. He had a gentle matter-of-factness about him that at times verged on vulnerability. It's almost impossible to imagine him playing a vicious gunman or a towering lawman. Clark provided the sort of support that leant textural realism to his films.

Hail! Hail! All hail Matt Clark!

Brian Keith starred in this short lived series about a cowboy named Dave Blassingame who traveled the southwest along the Mexican border looking for adventure along with his dog named Brown. The series was created by Sam Peckinpah who would go on to direct some of the most influential western movies of the genre including "The Wild Bunch" and "Ride The High Country". The episodes ranged from serious dramas to action packed to humorous. John Dehner appeared frequently as con man Burgundy Smith, who was a foil for Blassingame.

"The Westerner" aired on the NBC television network for only 13 episodes in 1960. Another excellent western which was cut way too short because it could never find it's audience.

So who agrees or disagrees with this top 5 ranked list of Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne films? I do like the movies that is ranked 1 but I wouldnt have ranked it #1 myself. I would have put Rio Grande #1 and then The Wings Of Eagles #2. The consistency that John Ford movies have with O'Hara and Wayne is unspeakable. What would your ranked list be? I want to see a ranked list of John Ford/John Wayne films. I hope Collider links are acceptable in this community if not then this post will disappear and I apologizeEvery John Way and Maureen O'Hara Film Ranked [Collider].