HF Westerns

[TallTallMan]

Ward Bond was my dads favorite actor, a bit of trivia, Bond held a degree as a mining engineer.

Also a notorious Anti-Semite, but who cares about his personal life.

 

[Pollaco]

Absolutely right. In all the TV westerns from the 1950s and 60s I bet 99% or even more were Colt SAAs. As I recall nearly all those prop guns were made by the same company. Maybe it was a cost issue.

There was one prop company that must have had some sort of connection with the Hollywood studios. Exclusive rights or something. I read that the very same blackpowder rifle was carried by Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, John Wayne (twice), Charleton Heston, Fess Parker , and maybe Fred McMurray.

 

[damYankee]

Also a notorious Anti-Semite, but who cares about his personal life.

Well there's that!

 

[carptrash]

I get any (well not pre-Stagecoach Wayne films) western that I find at the thrift stores and library book store and last night watched "The Desperate Trail" which was a no star - except for Sam Elliott was an uncharacteristically bad guy a Linda Fiorentino (?) who I sort of knew. It was fun and got rather nasty. Gotta go.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

I found this pretty good video about 1950s gunfighter movies

Great selection, but on the main page figures a picture of "The law and Jake Wade" (you can see Richard Widmark's back while he's shot by Robert Taylor), but you might notice that the film doesn't appear in the selection.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

I watched part of "City of Badmen" last night. Great cast and It certainly was entertaining but no history lesson.I think the scenario is 1897 but there is a character named Johnny Ringo (Richard Boone) in it. "The" Johnny Ringo had been dead 15 years already.

Great Western, recently purchased it, Dale Robertson and Richard Boone always sound true.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

Has anyone here seen that Spaghetti Western The Great Silence? I always hear its the greatest Western ever made (per Amazon and YT).

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How could a European Western, with french and german actors as main players, be "the greatest" ?
It's a memorable film for sure, with beautiful filming and locations...I don't like that much, the dumb Q.T seems to have been inspired by Corbucci's film for his second Western.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

About the same Italian director S.Corbucci, there's is an other Western that may be interesting (I've not yet seen it), it's called "The Hellbenders" (in the US, but "I crudeli" -the cruel people- in Italy) ;it's about a Confederate officer who refuses the defeat, and tries to rob money in order to raise an other army.

The Hellbenders - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

Only Western with a beach in it.

There's one in "One eyed jacks" (1961), Brando's own Western, may be you can see one in "The Way West"(1967), but I'm not sure.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

Would "Sgt York" be considered a western?

Absolutely not, but I'm sure you were joking.

 

[Kurtlg]

Great selection, but on the main page figures a picture of "The law and Jake Wade" (you can see Richard Widmark's back while he's shot by Robert Taylor), but you might notice that the film doesn't appear in the selection.

Richard Widmark was in Yellow Sky , another good western.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

You bring up an interesting point of contention I have with western movies, it's as if the only handgun available were Colt SAA's! In 1877, Colt introduced it's first double action revolver, the M1877 in .32, 38 and 41 cal. selling 166,849 between 1877–1909 It was very popular with lawmen. Colt Lightning pump rifle was made from 1884 to 1904 as a companion weapon to the M1877.
Have you ever seen one used in any movie? Seldom,
S&W No. 3? Marketed from 1870 to 1915 issued in 44-40, 44 Russian, 44 S&W, 38 S&W 44 Scofield and .32, it was favored by Jesse James, Robert Ford killed him with one, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett , John Wesley Hardin, Teddy Roosevelt, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp all preferred the No. 3.
Ever see one in a western movie or TV show? Nope!

It might be very very rare, but I'm sure to have witnessed a few apparitions of the S&W in some Westerns, among thousands of 1873 Colts...I can't tell you where.
I remember of a US forum (?) a bit like IMDB but about guns, they said what gun is used in wich movie...will search for it.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

Very easy to find back !

Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

www.imfdb.org

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

Richard Widmark was in Yellow Sky , another good western.

He was great, I've tried to see ALL his films, he always sounds well, and credible, he even avoid to be ridiculous in "Saint Joan" and as a viking in "The long ships"...he's in my top 5, definitly.

 

[Pollaco]

He was great, I've tried to see ALL his films, he always sounds well, and credible, he even avoid to be ridiculous in "Saint Joan" and as a viking in "The long ships"...he's in my top 5, definitly.

Widmark was good in the Last Wagon but his co-star, Nick Adams, played such a jerk.

 

[Pollaco]

There's one in "One eyed jacks" (1961), Brando's own Western, may be you can see one in "The Way West"(1967), but I'm not sure.

I think there is a scene with Robert Culp in Hannie Caulder. He played some kind of gunsmith who lived on a beach?

 

[donna]

Always liked Richard Widmark. Looked up his westerns

They are
Yellow Sky
Garden of Evil also stars Gary Cooper, Cameron Mitchell and Susan Hayward
The Last Wagon
Backlash with Donna Reed
The Law and Jake Wade
Warlock also stars Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn
The Alamo

Another good old movie is Along The Great Divide with Kirk Douglas

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

I think there is a scene with Robert Culp in Hannie Caulder. He played some kind of gunsmith who lived on a beach?

Not seen yet...

Hannie Caulder - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Pollaco]

I'd like to know how they filmed the Buffalo stampede scene in "How the West was Won". Richard Widmark was in that scene as well.

 

[MAJOR DUNDEE]

Always liked Richard Widmark. Looked up his westerns

They are
Yellow Sky
Garden of Evil also stars Gary Cooper, Cameron Mitchell and Susan Hayward
The Last Wagon
Backlash with Donna Reed
The Law and Jake Wade
Warlock also stars Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn
The Alamo

Another good old movie is Along The Great Divide with Kirk Douglas

In 1969 -post Italian wave- he played in "Death of a gunfigher", a kind of High Noon sheriff opposed to a whole city. Possibly realized by Don Siegel, but the director didn't assume the film I heard sometime. Not bad anyway.