Lee Marvin and Gary Cooper westerns.

the ringo kid said:
Glen Ford was on just yesterday as a MoF--on TCM--they showed The Fastest Gun Alive. This is also now finally on DvD.
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Yep, we watched that one. Glenn Ford was a very intense actor and he was really good at twirling and fast-drawing a 6-gun. I can't think of a single movie I ever saw him in that wasn't good. He did make a "chick-flick" back in the late '60s with Angela Landsbury called Dear Heart. I didn't care for the movie but the heat and power of his performance was impossible not to notice. Saved that movie for me from being a total waste of time.
 
Walkin' Jack said:
Yep, we watched that one. Glenn Ford was a very intense actor and he was really good at twirling and fast-drawing a 6-gun. I can't think of a single movie I ever saw him in that wasn't good. He did make a "chick-flick" back in the late '60s with Angela Landsbury called Dear Heart. I didn't care for the movie but the heat and power of his performance was impossible not to notice. Saved that movie for me from being a total waste of time.
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Ive never seen him give a bad performance yet--even though he was in a few bad movies like: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, A Time ForKilling.Killing had a young harrison Ford in it as a Cav officer--but what really ruined it--was that:::Max Baer::: "Jethro Bodine" was in it as a Confederate soldier. Jethro ruined the movie for me.

This thread is getting me in the mood for a Ford marathon. Think ill dig out: Three Ten to Yuma, Advance To the Rear, and Last Man From the Alamo.
 
I think that Marvin had a small role in "The Commancheros" with John Wayne. He was an indian trader with a vile temper and Wayne had to kill him fairly early in the movie. Not his best role, but other than Richard Boone, Marvin was the nastiest villain in western movies.

Does no one remember Cooper with the luscious Julie London in "Man of the West"?
 
GaryS said:
I think that Marvin had a small role in "The Commancheros" with John Wayne. He was an indian trader with a vile temper and Wayne had to kill him fairly early in the movie. Not his best role, but other than Richard Boone, Marvin was the nastiest villain in western movies.

Does no one remember Cooper with the luscious Julie London in "Man of the West"?
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He also had the worst-looking fake scalp ive ever seen.Where he was ""scalped""looked like the makeup person only applied a wad of silly putty.
 
GaryS said:
I think that Marvin had a small role in "The Commancheros" with John Wayne. He was an indian trader with a vile temper and Wayne had to kill him fairly early in the movie. Not his best role, but other than Richard Boone, Marvin was the nastiest villain in western movies.

Does no one remember Cooper with the luscious Julie London in "Man of the West"?
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The Coop movies in my stash, and his role. Not a bad one in the bunch. 'Cause if they ain't no good I toss 'em. :p

1,000,000 Pound Note – guy with the note
Along Came Jones – Melody Jones
Ball of Fire – Pottsie
Beau Geste – title character
Casanova Brown – title character
Cloak and Dagger –Prof. Alvah Jesper
Cowboy and the Lady – Stretch Willoughby
Desire – Tom Bradley
Distant Drums – Capt. Quincy Wyatt
It’s a Great Feeling – himself
Love in the Afternoon – Audrey’s lover
Man of the West – Link Jones, title character
Meet John Doe – John Doe
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Longfellow Deeds
North West Mounted Police – Texas Ranger
Plainsman, The – Wild Bill Hickok
Springfield Rifle, The – dishonored army officer
They Came to Cordura – Major Thomas Thorn, CO
Unconquered – Captain Christopher Holden
Vera Cruz – Ben Trane
Wings 1927 – Cadet White
 
model70hunter said:
Jack I feel the same about her. However for me Lee played a great drunk that was funny. I just hope he was acting.

Hanoi Jane is now recanting her actions and saying she is an
American and patriotic. I don't know, after Hanoi she lived in France for quite some time. Not sure she knows where or who she is.
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I know who she is.
 
HOUSTON RICK said:
Originally Posted by Walkin' Jack View Post
I have always like Lee Marvin but I had to take a pass on Cat Ballou. As a patriotic American Vietnam vet I can't stomach Hanoi Jane.

Don't let her limit your enjoyment of anything as long as she keeps her mouth shut on things she knows nothing about. If she changes your behavior one iota, then she wins. Jane has some talent(s), watch Barbarella. Thank you for going to the Vietnam, Republic of.
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She doesn't win ****. Period.
 
I liked the movie with Charles Bronson as the wrongly accused murderer.
I can't recall the name of it though. Marvin played the old Mountie.
 
I have to agree with ALPO, I think Death Hunt with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson is my favorite. I have always enjoyed Sargent York with Coop.
 
nuguy said:
I have to agree with ALPO, I think Death Hunt with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson is my favorite. I have always enjoyed Sargent York with Coop.
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I was actually answering Jesse, in the post right above me. He said he could not remember the name of the movie about the Mountie going after the trapper.

It's a good movie. Not my favorite, but a good movie.

I must be one of the strange ones, though. I don't like Sergeant York. Probably because of the ending.

He's in New York. "Look at all these job offers, Alvin." THEY A'OFFERIN' ME THEM JOBS 'CAUSE'A ALL THEM GERMANS I KILT? "Yes, that's probably it." WELL I AIN'T A'GONNA DO IT. THAT WERE MY DUTY, AND I AIN'T A'GONNA TAKE NOTHIN' FOR DOIN' MY DUTY.

Then he goes home, and his girl is waiting, and they go see the farm he wanted to buy, and she tells him, "It's ourn, Alvin. Gived to you by the people o' the State of Tennessee."

Hmmmm. How is accepting the free farm, for killin' all them Germans, different from accepting a good-paying job, for killin' all them Germans?

Don't get me wrong. I'm not sayin' that York should have refused the farm (if, indeed, Tennessee really gave him a farm, and it wasn't Hollyweird nonsense), but for him to, in one scene, refuse a gratuity for killing the enemy, and then in the next scene accept a gratuity for the same killing of the enemy, just felt wrong.
 
Ha had to say Jane Fonda, here we go step by step, inch by inch, or is it BEETLEJUICE. If she did that during ww2 she would face the firing squad for sure treason. She's on the a list right?

Death Hunt
Sargent York
High noon the greatest from coop

All there movies, Marvin, Bronson, Cooper, Cagney, Bogart, Bacall, all of them I love Bacall in black and white movies. The women are so much more sexy.
 
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Alpo said:


The Coop movies in my stash, and his role. Not a bad one in the bunch. 'Cause if they ain't no good I toss 'em. :p

1,000,000 Pound Note – guy with the note
Along Came Jones – Melody Jones
Ball of Fire – Pottsie
Beau Geste – title character
Casanova Brown – title character
Cloak and Dagger –Prof. Alvah Jesper
Cowboy and the Lady – Stretch Willoughby
Desire – Tom Bradley
Distant Drums – Capt. Quincy Wyatt
It’s a Great Feeling – himself
Love in the Afternoon – Audrey’s lover
Man of the West – Link Jones, title character
Meet John Doe – John Doe
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Longfellow Deeds
North West Mounted Police – Texas Ranger
Plainsman, The – Wild Bill Hickok
Springfield Rifle, The – dishonored army officer
They Came to Cordura – Major Thomas Thorn, CO
Unconquered – Captain Christopher Holden
Vera Cruz – Ben Trane
Wings 1927 – Cadet White
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"Garden of Evil" Coop costarring with the lovely Susan Hayward.
 
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