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Very important DVD set has over 20 pictures Ford did at Fox from roughly 1920-1950. The Iron Horse, Three Bad Men, Pilgramage, Prisoner of Shark Island, Wee Willie Winkie, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, Grapes of Wrath, the Will Rogers pictures and many more.
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I've seen most of the sound films many times although there are some that I wish I had in my collection. Nevertheless, the silent film offerings, centered around both the domestic and export versions of The Iron Horse, were enticing enough.
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tho' I've never been able to decide which is the better of the two
I'll just have to watch these another 20 times
The real Star in both films is Monument Valley; plot seems almost a nuisance and even the presence of John Wayne doesn't derail either film
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guys who don't like him are unaware of his earlier persona, the one that attracted Ford to him.
Wayne had a nasty look to him but also a nice smile, which is rare. It's also difficult to find 6' 5" guys that can act, ride a horse, and be resilient enough to make that number of Westerns. This was in the day when serious accidents on the set of action pictures was common.
Fonda as Marshall Earp and Victor Mature as the Shakespeare-spouting Doc Holiday: he actually was very good.
It's the best of the Earp Bros. films.
"Tombstone," after all, was only memorable for Val Kilmer's waaaaaaaay over the top Holiday: "Ahhhhm in maaaaaaaah prahhhhhhhhhm."
Among Ford's western movies it's second only to The Searchers for me.
the kidnapping of Natalie Wood, her character, really reasonated with me. My first crush.
I've always liked the film, immensely.
When "Duke" wanted to intimidate, he could do it. Something cruel about his mouth.
Yeah, I saw the picture when it came out and I was seven years old; it scared the shit out of me. And when John Wayne scalped the Comanche I flipped, of course I knew from my Landmark Books that sometimes Europeans and Americans back east scalped Indians but I didn't expect to see it in a movie.
I never watched Roy Rogers and Gene Autrey again.
would he turn on Tonto and exact his bloody revenge.
Jay Silverheels had such a great head of hair, too...
""Tombstone," after all, was only memorable for Val Kilmer's waaaaaaaay over the top Holiday: "Ahhhhm in maaaaaaaah prahhhhhhhhhm." "
Oh I think it had much more than that going for it. Many of the roles were excellent, especially Curly Bill, Ringo and Turkey Creek and Texas Jack. And the picture had flair, energy and lots of momentum.
Though no Clementine I rate it as the best Western since Outlaw Josey Wales and the second best Western since The Man who Shot Liberty Valance. My opinions ya understand.
Oh, wait a minute, I gotta fit The Long Riders in there somewhere. ;)
ensemble picture....ALL the actors in the ensemble turned in first rate performances...hell... even Wayne was good!!! Quite simply my all time favorite western!!!!
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by the late GREAT Tim Hardin, called "Unforgiven" that could have been used in the movie. Imagine a new Tim Hardin song, a slow ballad. "as long as I am unforgiven...",
Clint is a Tim Hardin fan, don't know why it did not happen.
I didn't forget it Tinear. I think it's a good picture but I don't think of highly of it as many do.
I think The Unforgiven by Huston with Lancaster and Audie Murphy was a better movie, kind'a like The Seachers turned inside-out.
TNT, I think. I watched "Drums Along the Mohawk" Monday night. "Prisoner Shark Island" was Monday too, iirc. "Young Lincoln" and "How Green was my Valley" (one of my all-time favs) were on last night. Great stuff, but awful corny by current stds. I love the way Ford posed his cast in his shots.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
"Great stuff, but awful corny by current stds."True enough. Which leads me to believe our standards are less honest. Here we are, in reality far less tough and inured to hardship than the generations before us yet acting the part of being more hard-boiled. Pretty funny.
Regards
I agree. And cynicism infects everything. Good and strong characters must be cut down to size with personal defects so the audience is conditioned to see that people are flawed. The public accepts this as "truth", but in fact its only Hollywood showing how little it thinks of them.
There's a scene in "Drums Along the Mohawk" where Henry Fonda walks away from a barn dance alone and Claudette Colbert (his wife) covertly follows...to find him doting on their sleeping infant. As I watched it I thought how that scene could never appear in a movie now...he'd be found doing something questionable and the audience would accept it.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
Well said DW, well said indeed.
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