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   From: peattyg47-1230@copper.net   
      
   On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:26:05 -0800 (PST), Joe Gillis   
    wrote:   
      
   >The local public library offers DVDs for checkout, and in the last few   
   >months I've been watching some of their multi-disc sets of classic TV   
   >westerns:   
      
   I think my favorite western is one of the very last ones, and certainly the   
   last great one.  It was the High Chaparral.  Leif Erickson was the nominal   
   star, but most of the best lines went to Cameron Mitchell as Buck and Henry   
   Darrow as Manolo Montoya.  Frank Silvera had a recurring role as Don   
   Sebastian, father to Manola and Victoria, and he was terrific in it.   
   Victoria was played by Linda Cristal, arguably the most beautiful woman on   
   television at the time.  I still remember It Takes A Smart Man, where a   
   gunfighter comes to Tucson to pick a fight with Buck, and I can still sing   
   the refrain from The Ballad of Johnny Rondo:   
      
   "16 tried and 16 died at the hands of Johnny Rondo ..   
   16 holes in 16 souls from the guns  of Johnny Rondo .. "   
      
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