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When western films were in their heyday, did you have favourite cowboys?
There were the lighter, smiley, guitar-playing singing cowboys like Roy Rogers.
There were heavier, unsmiling, tougher ones lsuch as John Wayne or Clint Eastwood.
(I didn't think much of John Wayne as an actor. Perhaps he could just about manage cowboys and soldiers - but anything else.....nah!)

As for Randolph Scott. Unsmiling, solid jaw, tough guy cowboy....
Yet in real life (apart from 2 failed marriages) there were many stories about his sexual orientation being 'uncertain' - he lived with Cary Grant for a number of years.

Anyway I thought I would do a poll to find out who are our most popular cowboys.
Here are a few;-

Gene Autrey

Smiley Burnette

Hopalong Cassidy

Kirk Douglas

Clint Eastwood

Henry Fonda

Alan Ladd

Burt Lancaster

Robert Mitchum

Tex Ritter

Roy Rogers

Randolph Scott

James Stewart

John Wayne

Richard Widmark

Please add names of cowboys you have liked or disliked, and then I will compile a poll where we can vote for the most popular. Thank you.

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Garage JoeMember

I tend to remember the character names!

slimfernMember VIP

Loved Yul Brynner in 'The Magnificent Seven'

CroctacusMember

James Stewart....The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

I love Westerns....theres probably not many of the old ones I've not seen on account of my dad being a huge Western fan and having to sit through them as a kid....

My favourite though is the searchers and John Wayne is good even if I though he was a bit of an arse politically.

Former Member

How do you add a picture to your post? I know how to do the video thing but not a normal pic from my computer

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Former Member

Dunnit! Bit big - sorry. Robert Mitchum gets my vote

2/23/1110:02 AM

kattymieowwMember 10 years

I used to fancy Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns...

2/23/1110:03 AM

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2/23/1110:15 AM

cologne 1Member Memoriam

I'm afraid I despise John Wayne because of his stance on left leaning actors during the McCarthy era. He wasn't adverse to shopping actors whom he thought of as communists.
I love James Stewart and Robert Mitchum though.

I used to love these movies:

The stories were wriiten by Karl May.
Old Shatterhand was Lex Barker, Winnetou was Pierre Brice and Marie Versini played Winnetou's sister, I can't remember her character name.

2/23/1110:22 AM

Ensign MufMember

Loves this film

2/23/1110:29 AM

cologne 1Member Memoriam

Velvet, that is my all time favourite western and he looks drop dead gorgeous there.

2/23/1110:29 AM

brisketMember Memoriam

Thanks for the names folks.

Keep 'em coming.
Perhaps I could do a poll for cowboy and another for film.

2/23/1110:36 AM

Ensign MufMember

Btw I meant Henry Fonda not Cathy Downs

2/23/1110:39 AM

kattymieowwMember 10 years

Lee Van Cleef.."Angel eyes"
In the Good the Bad and the ugly.

2/23/1110:48 AM

kattymieowwMember 10 years

I've never liked "pretty boys"...

2/23/1110:49 AM

Former Member

I agree with Croc that 'The Searchers' was a great film but I loathed John Wayne and his politics too.

My favourite Western would be 'Dances with Wolves'

2/23/1110:54 AM

ScottyMember 10 years

Originally Posted by ッmufッ:

Loves this film

I love that clip muf.
I`ve never seen this film - it looks great.

( I`ve tried to post this 3 times, fine until I tried to use a smilie then it went funny and cut me off)

2/23/1111:28 AM

SezitMember

Originally Posted by Sezit:

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I too love all the old westerns as I was brought up watching them with my dad. But, I can watch the films Tombstone with Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell, Sam Elliot and Wyatt Earp with Johnny Depp, Kevin Kostner,Gene Hackman,Denis Quaid, over and over...........

2/23/1111:38 AM

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2/23/1111:40 AM

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2/23/1111:45 AM

Former Member

All in the greatest Western ever made.

2/23/1111:52 AM

cologne 1Member Memoriam

Sezit, anything Johnny Depp is in is worth it just for the God that is him.

2/23/1111:54 AM

Former Member

Draw col!

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2/23/1112:04 PM

cologne 1Member Memoriam

Velvet

2/23/1112:05 PM

SezitMember

Originally Posted by cologne 1:

Sezit, anything Johnny Depp is in is worth it just for the God that is him.

I know Col .......................But you have loadsa blokes in your posse, this ones mine.........

2/23/1112:59 PM

Cold SweatMember 10 years

Montgomery Clift starred opposite John Wayne in the classic Howard Hawks western, Red River (1948).

Cold SweatMember 10 years

Franco Nero as Django - in the title role of the 1966 Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Corbucci.

brisketMember Memoriam

I liked Montgomery Clift. If anything he would underact rather than overact. Sometimes a bit 'edgy'.
He was in one of my favourite-ever films - called The Search - but that was not a western so it doesn't fit in with the theme of this thread. Very good in Red River I agree.

Cold SweatMember 10 years

Can i include a Native American?

Burt Reynolds in the title role of Navajo Joe - another Sergio Corbucci film from 1966 - this one featuring an excellent Ennio Morricone score!

Cold SweatMember 10 years

Originally Posted by brisket:

I liked Montgomery Clift. If anything he would underact rather than overact. Sometimes a bit 'edgy'.
He was in one of my favourite-ever films - called The Search - but that was not a western so it doesn't fit in with the theme of this thread. Very good in Red River I agree.

My favourite Monty Clift film is Wild River - but i find much of his work likeable - particularly The Search and From Here to Eternity.

Former Member

Maybe a bandit

He could draw though...

Cold SweatMember 10 years

A somewhat tenuous link with Monty Clift (From Here to Eternity); this is Burt Lancaster from the 1951 film Vengeance Valley.

ScottyMember 10 years

Originally Posted by velvet donkey:

Maybe a bandit

He could draw though...

Yes! I loved Eli Wallach. A cheeky chancer

Former Member

The Leone films were full of humour

ScottyMember 10 years

Originally Posted by velvet donkey:

The Leone films were full of humour

They were velvet. I loved them

The coffin maker was busy

Soozy WooMember

Originally Posted by Sezit:

Originally Posted by Sezit:

I too love all the old westerns as I was brought up watching them with my dad. But, I can watch the films Tombstone with Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell, Sam Elliot and Wyatt Earp with Johnny Depp, Kevin Kostner,Gene Hackman,Denis Quaid, over and over...........

Kurt Russell is my ultimate fantasy man.

Former Member

Originally Posted by Scotty:

The coffin maker was busy

He was

He was up for best supporting actor in one of them

ScottyMember 10 years

I`m trying to think who the coffin maker was now.
He was another great character.

kattymieowwMember 10 years

I loved the way the main characters,Clint etc, spoke in English but the others were badly dubbed into English ..very amusing at times,still great films.I still think the "Good the bad and the ugly" is a fine film,funny,tragic and full of pathos too.

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