Oh really?   
Our posts have crossed. I loved the coffin maker.  

I think he'd be my favourite, but I'm also basing it on him being a bl**dy lovely fella all round.


I was surprised how much I liked this film.  Kilmer gives an outstanding performance in my not so 'umble.  


God, he was beautiful.  I can't stand John Wayne but Red River is a great film and one of my (western fan) dad's all time favourites.






Who'd have thought he'd end up reinventing himself and dying from a poisoned cannoli..?




Brisket:  What about James Arness as Marshall Matt Dillon and Chuck Connors from Branded...? 

Oh and Ennio Morricone did the musical score for it too and the two previous "Dollar" films.

Slightly O/T, but considering the thread title I can't believe no one's posted this yet:

Agree Cosmo he was  a gorgeous looking man (Monty Clift),sadly he took his own life,he was gay and acting in those films,he must have had to conceal it,especially working alongside the likes of red necked John Wayne etc.

Dont know what happened I have been having a lot of trouble with youtube today

There's a thread by El Loro about " You Tube "Marguerita..seems it's been playing up for some.It's on the page further down.

Thank you Katty 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

I recall seeing this on TV countless times as a child... and always wanting to believe that they escaped safely at the end! 

~Cosmo   -  thanks for the names.
Eugene's  - either you have a very keen memory or your research is excellent.
I love that little clip.

Thanks everybody for the reminders of names and films.
I would never have been able to recall all of these on my own.
Appreciated.

Clift had a terrible car crash and smashed all his face;  had to have lots of plastic surgery and suffered terrible depression ever after.  Poor fella.


Butch and Sundance!  I loved, loved, LOVED that film.  And still do.
Never could decide (at the time) between the two of them.  Then again, I see Katherine Ross never had that problem.....   Sensible girl.

I'd like to think it's the "keen memory".
Not all that difficult, though: I've always loved "Blazing Saddles". Glad you liked the clip too!

I love Calamity Jane Marge 

Anyone watch this series?  I fell in love with ol' Gus

Audie Murphy - 33 westerns.

Thanks Fluffy  - I'd forgotten him, even though I saw him often.

Wasn't Audie Murphy one of the most decorated soldiers of WW2? Got accused by one of his neighbours of trying to shoot him....his reply 'if I was tying to shoot you, I'd have shot you!' or something like that..,,very short!

You're correct, Croc   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

And James Stewart's war heroics are here: http://www.listzblog.com/top_t...war_heroes_list.html
(Bottom of the page).

I returned to the cinema a number of times to watch The Proud Ones (made in 1956)
With Robert Ryan, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Arthur o'Connell, and Rodolfo Acosta (a familiar and reliable face in many westerns and other films.)
I liked The Proud Ones very much...



One of the good things about The Proud Ones was the music by Lionel Newman.
I cannot find the original version, but this one is closest. (Many of the pictures are not from The Proud Ones, although some are.)

This film is an oldie but goodie.  It also has, to its credit, the fact that John Wayne hated the film.  He said that it was the most 'un-American' thing he had ever seen in his life.  (Carl Foreman, 'High Noon's screenwriter, was one of the liberals that Wayne had grassed on)

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