Tom Selleck TV westerns are the best. Crossfire Trail is great, especially for us gun purists. But his Monte Walsh didn't really work for me. I mean I liked it and should watch it again but that's how I feel now. I'm all for remakes (True Grit) but the Lee Marvin movie is one of my all time favorites. Very realistic and rustic. And the violence was especially dramatic and not too pretty. Without stirring up a lot of dust I was wondering which version you like the most.

I have both on DVD. I like Lee Marvin's best. More down to earth.

Quigley Down Under is my favorite.
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They are two different type guys. Trivila. How many of you know tom has a brother, bob? I have a personnal picture of the pair of them standing together with a old girl friend of mine that passed. She knew them both and ran a mans big & Tall store in a building they owned. I belive bob is taller than tom. A good looking blond guy. Coincidently, my GFs name was martine the same as in one of his movies. Would I get in trouble somehow if I posted that picture? The store owner and his wife is in it too. It was taken in her store in about 1997. I just ran across it the other day. Martine died of cancer at home with me about a year after the picture was taken. She managed the store in lancaster california. Martine was from england. Her mother got killed in the early bombing and she said her dad got killed flying a spitfire. I once knew a english pilot that was a rolls royce rep at lockheed and told him what I knew about her mom getting killed by a bomb near the victers plant. He almost cried as he was part of that action that day and knew about one bomber getting through him and his squadren that day! She was a war orphan and pretty much sent to boarding schools by the english goverment.

Lee Marvin...that was HIS role.

Now, I must disagree. I really enjoyed Monte Walsh, and have nearly worn out a copy of it. But, Quiqley is probably my favorite. "This ain't Dodge City...and you ain't Bill Hickock!"-Quigley. Love that line.

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I like that movie, too. Psst. That Quigleyesque Shiloh in the middle is for sale.

I personaly like Monte Walsh the most of all of Tom Selleck's westerns. I can identify with that role to an extent. Of course my wife needs a drool towel when he is one. Say I look like him when I grow my mustache out. We had a picture done in Sedona 6 years ago and others have remarked on the resemblance also.

Lee Marvin!!!!!! Closer to the original book and the book was better than either movie..........some things can only been seen in the imagination like Monte Walsh putting on a riding exhibition for a trainload of Easterners by stripping to his skin while staying astride a bucking horse. There will never be another Lee Marvin. Keep shootin'

I saw the Tom Selleck version first, and then saw the Lee Marvin version. I didn't particularly care for the Lee Marvin version though I'm a fan of his. I did find it interesting that the dialog was almost word for word between the two movies.

I really think Selleck missed a chance to be a cowboy icon of the likes of John Wayne. I love his westerns, he just didn't make enough of them and now he's past his prime.

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I personally preferred the book. The entire time I was reading it, I pictured Sam Elliot playing Monte.

I like 'em both. Different parts for different actors, then they get "Typed".Lee Marvin isn't around anymore so Tom Selleck sort of takes those roles sometimes. Just remember Tom is on the NRA board & doing a good job.

Tom Selleck

Sam Elliott never seemed right for westerns. And he has the high pitched voice that's so distracting. I'M KIDDING!!!
Boy am I kidding. Conagher is in my top five westerns. He was the perfect cowboy in that one. Him and Selleck are really it when it comes to westerns nowadays.

Lee Marvin

I thought the Lee Marvin version was better, partly because of the costars. I thought Jack Palance as Monte's sidekick was particularly good.

Another Lee Marvin vote as Monte

I also like Robert Duval westerns

Another vote for "Quigley........"

tom selleck as monte walsh

Lee Marvin or Tom Selleck? Are you serious? Lee Marvin is to Tom Selleck as the A Bomb is to a M 80. There aint no real comparison.

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Agree 100%. I liked the Missouri Breaks. Sort of a strange, gritty little movie.

I reserected this thread as I said I had a old picture of tom sellic and his brother bob. I found it last night. I cropped my old GF off it as she died and I am remarried. The shorter woman and man owned the big and tall store, tom and his brother bob owned the building. My GF ran the business as there were about 4 other stores spread out. She was standing to her boss to the right. I belive bob was a little taller than tom. The picture was taken about 1998.

+1 Of all of the Creator's gifts to this species, the ability to say the right thing at the right time must be counted as among the most sublime.


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I've never been a big fan of Tom Selleck. Big fan of Lee Marvin though!

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Funny my thread got revived. The other day my wife and I watched Tom Selleck's Monte Walsh on U-tube and it was much better than I thought before. I still prefer the Lee Marvin version but made the mistake of comparing, which I hope I don't do Wendsday when True Grit Comes out.

Just watched the Lee Marvin version again on encore and for me this one is best.

Tom Selleck, and another one of his really good westerns is Last Stand at Saber River. Of course when I was a kid growing up I was partial to Tom Selleck anyways as one of my favorite movies in the early 80's was High Road to China.

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Lee Marvin did a movie of Monte Walsh?? Sunuva............are you kidding me? I don't know if I'm more embarrassed or more mad that I don't know that!!! Now I gotta start Googling..............

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