MONTE WALSH

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Took the cue from the thread about Sam Elliott, but it was off topic.
Sam is much the same as John Wayne--not much of an actor but just plays on his ownself.
To digress.
I recently watched an old charlton Heston movie, "Lawman", and Monte.
These were two different movies movies on the same thing--reality and adult westerns.
Both seemed to portray the reality of the old west and, in particular, the reality of the actors portraying them pretty good.
Some movies, well most, want to portray life as it should be scripted.
Life and people are not actors--they are what they are---well, I guess, if I am honest, some people go thru life--acting all the way--the folks we are discussing are as they are.
Sam fits the mold and he and Heston and Wayne and Selleck fit molds that are reality.
IMO--as if you didn't know that.
Blessings
 
Well, I gotta see the first one, Monte Walsh, but I did like the Selleck version a lot.

Kinda reminded me, in a way, of The Maltese Falcon, when Bogart tells the dame (Mary Astor?), that when a guy's partner is murdered, well, he's gotta do something about it...

I like those old time values... Don't go for that currently fashionable moral relativism stuff...
 
I can't sell Selleck and not think of him in short shorts, a tucked in Hawaiian shirt, and that goofy smile. I really like Lee Marvin's version of Monte Walsh much much better.
 
I haven't seen the Lee Marvin version. Gonna do that. The Selleck version sure brought back lots of memories.

The old hands portrayed in that movie are the kind of guys I grew up around. We had a bunkhouse on the ranch when I was a kid.

Those old boys seemed mighty old to me as a kid, but they taught me the love of the land, hosses, and critters in general. They taught me how to ride and rope and laugh instead of cryin' when I was in pain.
I'm kinda like they were, about 2 generations behind the times, unable and don't want to change.

Damn, I miss those ol boys.
Here's a salute to the Bunkies I knew.
Bunkies
The Bloated Goat.
The Bloated Goat
 
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Monte Walsh was a great book. It is out of print and very expensive now but a re-release of a CD book is available at many libraries. My wife is not a big fan of westerns and this moved her to tears several times as well as roaring laughter.
 
I love the Marvin and Selleck versions.

To me, both Elliott and Selleck seem to play themselves and though they're actors, it seems to me like perhaps they are the stand up gentlemen in real life as the roles they've played.
 
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I am a big time Selleck fan. Of the lately things, I really like the Jesse Stone series.
But when it comes to Monte Walsh, the original is so good that it's really difficult for me to embrace the sequel.
Like stated above, the original Monte Walsh is one of the best Westerns ever made, IMO.
 
I liked the Lee Marvin version best, not to take anything away from Selleck but the whole picture was made as a movie in Marvins day. Selleck was more made for TV.

Liked them both.
 
Monte Walsh with Lee Marvin.
Question for "Real Cowboys".
After Monte's saddle pal's wedding, Monte was walking down main street wearing a new "Stetson". He stopped at a rain barrel and soaked his stetson in the rain barrel water to shape it. Is this the "Cowboy Method" ?
 
Yup, back before they had them steamy things in town, that the way it was did. A tea kettle kinda worked but it din't put out enough steam.

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A feller on another forum sent this hat to me last summer.. I dipped it in the horse tank, bent it to suit me, and wore it dry.
 
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Monte Walsh.....
I read the book and saw both versions of the movie. All good stuff for sure. Robert Duval would have made a good Monte as well.
 
I have both versions of the movie in my Netflix queque. Can't wait.

Another good western starring one of my favorites is Steve McQueen in Tom Horn, a true story.
 
I understand that both Elliott and Selleck are true students of the history of the old west and go to great extremes to make sure everything in the movie is period correct. No low slung holster rigs, no sewn on collars on shirts, right down to the proper way to knot a bandana.

If you want to see a glimpse of the true old west right down to the buttons on shirts, just pay attention to the all the details in their movies.
 
Wasn't UNFORGIVEN marketed as a true depiction of how it was? I'm 51 and Westerns were never my thing. John Wayne was an embarrassment to our country.
 
Iggy said:
Yup, back before they had them steamy things in town, that the way it was did. A tea kettle kinda worked but it din't put out enough steam.

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A feller on another forum sent this hat to me last summer.. I dipped it in the horse tank, bent it to suit me, and wore it dry.
Click to expand...

:D odd looking rack to hang your hat on.... oh excuse me that's you:D
 
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