Mac!Gettothechoppa'!
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Did ya' know Victor McLaglen was the #1 rated Heavyweight fighter in the world...then...he climbed in the ring with one Jack Johnson from Galveston, Texas, and got the living snot beat out of him...CLASSIC!!!
Favorite fist fight scene in a movie (Not martial arts)
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Did ya' know Victor McLaglen was the #1 rated Heavyweight fighter in the world...then...he climbed in the ring with one Jack Johnson from Galveston, Texas, and got the living snot beat out of him...CLASSIC!!!
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If were going for non-movie fights? My two favorites are: the ffight between Joe Lewis and Max Schmelling. The other would be the fight on an episode of Geraldo between the skinheads and Geraldo and others. This is when a skinhead broke Geraldos nose with a chair.
GERALDO RIVERA BREAKS HIS NOSE - SKINHEAD BRAWL 1988 - YouTube
Mac!Gettothechoppa'!
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Naw, got that beat, also from Snatch, the shootout scene where the Russian mobster refuses to die. The perfect scene.
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That's the 'three' Hansen 'twins', and don't forget it!
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any number of scenes involving Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live.
current day - choose any John wick movie
current day - choose any John wick movie
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[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkccqolaVGg[/ame]
This is what I was looking for.
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Already mentioned in this thread some years ago, but hard to beat Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin in "Emperor of the North Pole".
Regarding westerns (and with a very few exceptions) most of the fight scenes aren't memorable regardless of who the actors were. They appear to be included only to take up time and because some viewers expect the fights.
Regarding westerns (and with a very few exceptions) most of the fight scenes aren't memorable regardless of who the actors were. They appear to be included only to take up time and because some viewers expect the fights.
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Back a few pages back someone mentioned Lonely Are The Brave. The bar fight between Kirk Douglas and the one armed man is brutal, and one of the strangest you will ever see.
Don't forget the bar fight in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, when Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin try to collect their back wages. That one is pretty brutal too.
Don't forget the bar fight in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, when Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin try to collect their back wages. That one is pretty brutal too.
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I forgot about "Lonely Are The Brave". That fight is an exception to the rule of mediocre bar fights. The bad guy later became the "one-armed man" in the TV series "The Fugitive".
In THE QUIET MAN, John Wayne's brother in law, who he had the big
fight with, was played by Victor McLaglen. He was in several movies
with the Duke.
fight with, was played by Victor McLaglen. He was in several movies
with the Duke.
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The fight between Marty and Charlie in The Searchers: The Searchers fight scene - Video Search Results
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Probably already mentioned but...
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Probably Wendy's single favorite movie. Love the comment from Hub after the mom's boyfriend is beating on Walt and Jasmine tears him up, protecting her cub. Hub's comment. You are lucky the lion got to you before we did.
What can be fun especially with how many may not have seen the original ending that was cut because of length was the funeral with a French Foreign Legion honor guard, the sheikh himself and not his grandson and great grandson and the toughs that Hub beat up all showing their respects. You watch the fight and then Hub and Garth take the four home with them, Hub gives them his What It Takes To Be A Man speech and they take it to heart and at the funeral attend with their families, their wives and kids and all grew to be fine, respectable men in the community.
I gotta beg forbearance here because this scene violates the no-martial-arts rule set early in the thread. It's not even a particularly realistic fight because the few blows landed don't look that forceful. But the slow buildup, the long pauses between the few seconds of fast movement, and the slow winding down of the scene all make this an absolute classic movie moment:
One-armed old guy Spencer Tracy takes down beefy and younger tough Ernest Borgnine without losing his hat. (Bad Day at Black Rock, 1956).
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2o3QWwwQLI[/ame]
Note the perfect throwaway stage business with the switchblade knife that Tracy takes out of Borgnine's pocket while he's unconscious on the floor. When he tosses it to Robert Ryan, Ryan fumbles it and lets it slide away to the far end of the pinball machine.
Also in the flick: Lee Marvin, Walter Brennan (both just placeholders in this scene), Anne Francis and Dean Jagger. Great cast. Great flick.
One-armed old guy Spencer Tracy takes down beefy and younger tough Ernest Borgnine without losing his hat. (Bad Day at Black Rock, 1956).
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2o3QWwwQLI[/ame]
Note the perfect throwaway stage business with the switchblade knife that Tracy takes out of Borgnine's pocket while he's unconscious on the floor. When he tosses it to Robert Ryan, Ryan fumbles it and lets it slide away to the far end of the pinball machine.
Also in the flick: Lee Marvin, Walter Brennan (both just placeholders in this scene), Anne Francis and Dean Jagger. Great cast. Great flick.
