Oblio Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I work for the company that sets all of the video sections for Wal-Mart and can vouch that Once Upon is $5 at some of the stores and will now be located not only in some $5 dump bins but also in their "inline" sections. That's just their A-Z main library of older titles. Usually right after New Releases. One of my favorite little-known westerns is the offbeat Johnny Guitar. Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McAmbridge & Ernest Borgine...the good guys wear black...the main antagonist and protagonist are both female...not your typical western by a long shot. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out. I should have it today from flix but will probably buy it too. Our local WW dumped the dump bins and now (thankfully) the $5 section is neatly racked in a cube display. Only complaint is that two of the sides are hard to browse because they face the aisle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jheis Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 My favorite is a western, but not in the "cowboys & indians" sense - it takes place right after WWII. "Bad Day At Black Rock." Directed by John Sturges (The Great Escape) and starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ann Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine & Lee Marvin. Sound score by Andre Previn. "A very superior example of motion picture craftsmanship." - Pauline Kael James n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theryugobuddy Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I like Tom Horn with Steve McQueen and the one John Wayne movie where his redhead wife gets uppity about him drinking beer so her chases her through the town to give her a good spanking!--McClintock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Songer Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 One Eyed Jacks. Slim Pickens to Karl Malden: "I sure do hate to be the one to tell you this, Dad, but your daughter Luisa's been out on the beach all night with that Rio feller. Came home lookin' kinda messy too." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I'm suprised nobody's mentioned Peckinpaw's (sp) "The Wild Bunch" or the adaptationof Kurowa's (sp) "The Seven Samarai" into "The Magnificent Seven". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblio Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Just watched 'Once Upon a Time ...' [Y] and upped the Heritage HT priority Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Amy Posted February 27, 2008 Moderators Share Posted February 27, 2008 John Wayne movie where his redhead wife gets uppity about him drinking beer so her chases her through the town to give her a good spanking!--McClintock? Yup, that's McClintock, but with a "!" at the end instead of a "?" [] Maureen O'Hara was the red-head, and it also starred the woman who played Lily on The Munsters. I believe she passed away recently.... Oh, and someone mentioned the Trinity movies....boy, those are so bad, they're good. Horrible dubbing, horrible acting, but just horrible enough to be campy and funny. I had an ex who loved them. My all-time favorite western is Pale Rider, followed closely by Unforgiven. Red River was good also....but I'm a big Montgomery Clift fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theryugobuddy Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Two more recent ones that didn't get wide release both with Tommy Lee Jones: "The Missing" with Cate Blanchett, a very gritty story with an incredibly evil and ugly Indian witch doctor. Cate and Tommy chase a bunch of very cruel bandits through some very rugged country with the help of Indians. and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , where Tommy chases a killer to make him do whats right to honor his Mexican victim. Again --very rugged country, and Tommy is brutally forthright-- Both great westerns showing enlightening clashes of American, Indian, and Mexican cultures-- grittier than Unforgiven-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 theryugobuddy: John Wayne movie where his redhead wife gets uppity about him drinking beer so her chases her through the town to give her a good spanking!--McClintock? Yup, that's McClintock, but with a "!" at the end instead of a "?" Maureen O'Hara was the red-head, and it also starred the woman who played Lily on The Munsters. I believe she passed away recently *Yvonne DeCarlo.....Fabulous Actress! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theryugobuddy Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 She was Moses wife in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" too -- wasn't she? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 She was Moses wife in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" too -- wasn't she? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16563812/ She absorootintootinlutely was a diva! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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