From: russell-watson@att.net
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 02:45:58 -0500, "rgraham"
wrote:
>I was always partial to The Long Riders. It seemed historical?? Its the way
>my minds eye pictured it.
>
>
Might be the best "gimmick" movie ever made (having all the brothers
in the movie played by guys who're really brothers). Seeing it
available on DVD at Walmart for $9 and change was one of the things
that sparked me to go ahead and buy a DVD player. It was the 2nd movie
I bought. The first was "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", which is
about as historical as a Saturday morning cartoon, but still one of my
all time favorite movies. Though there aren't many, especially from
the late '50s onward that I won't watch when they come on TV, my
favorite westerns without regard to historical accuracy, run somewhat
as follows:
Lonesome Dove*
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Unforgiven
True Grit
The Searchers
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A Man Called Horse
Jeremiah Johnson
The Long Riders
Wyatt Earp**
Tombstone**
Hour of the Gun**
No Name on the Bullet***
* IMO, hands down the absolute best western ever made for TV or the
big screen. Robert Duvall's portrayal of Gus McCray would make it so
even if the other parts were not so well played.
** All three are varying versions of the Earp/Holliday saga climaxing
with the gunfight near the OK Corral and its aftermath.
*** Audie Murphy's best "B oater", IMO. More psychological drama than
western, watching the tension mount among the townsfolk as they try to
figure out who he's there to kill, and almost all having something in
their past which they think might make them the target.
'97 FLSTF
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