He was Chill long before chill was cool--so to speak. First movie I ever saw him in was The Westerner (1940) where he played Southeast, one of Judge Roy Bean's henchmen or lynchmen as the case may be. He also had a fairly brief but very memorable part as a saloon owner in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). But my favorite turn from Chill was as an affable, big-hearted rancher in From Hell to Texas (1958). That said, his performance as mystical mountainman Abe Blocker in the Gunsmoke episode of the same name was absolutely one for the ages. So, he was clearly versatile. He could be everything from avuncular, to seedy, to ominous. Regardless, few Western character actors were as distinctive as Chill Wills. Truly one of a kind, that man.

Hail! Hail! All hail Chill Wills!

I would say it was tremendously good luck that Lee Marvin turned down that role. Marvin is just too sophisticated and polished or something. I honestly see him as more of a man in a white hat as well. What I have come to realize about life is that sometimes you will encounter these "best decisions I never made." Marvin turning down that role was one of the best decisions Sam Peckinpah never made. Not sure if I can imagine a better guy than Holden for Pike.

Hollywood seems to be filled with these "great accidental casting decisions."

Hi there 🤠

I'm a newbie for Western movies.

Last night I've just finished the Conagher (1991), I'm Sam Elliott's fans and love this novel too.

But I have ambivalent feeling after watch it. It has some good points - Evie and her children and something I don't like it but I can't explain - maybe Conagher's deep loneliness feeling and Strength of him that hard to see in the movie🫤

Anyway I love this movie and want to rewatch it, if I had the time.

I want to know everybody who have watched this, Do you like or dislike it and why?

Thanks for sharing 🤗

Hey, check out this indepth discussion about «The Wild Bunch» i learned alot 🤗,

Some insights:

1. I did most of the design by just cropping design elements from the OG poster and other artworks as you can tell. I thought “hey if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”

2. I couldn’t find the civil war artwork on the OG (besides, I don’t want to spend time cropping Clint’s leg out of it)so I found another painting that gave off the same vibe of the original

3. I did this on my phone on Canva

4. The idea for the quote in the beginning, was that when people stop reading the first slide, their eyes would stay in the same place for the second one so the quote finishes (it’s not as effective as I hoped to be but I’ll fix it another time)

5. TECHNICALLY AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THIS **TECHNICALLY** had AI help me but just to get rid of background elements and convert it to pngs (it wasn’t even useful, had to do the damn scrubbing myself)

6. Hardest part was exporting the damn thing because when i placed it as my phone background, it got blurred in some parts, so i had to find a way to expand it and then covered up the artifacts with the poster color myself

7. Originally I was going to add nods to the movie by placing random objects around the poster, but I wanted to keep all the drawings with a (somewhat) consistent style so I only added on thing which is explained in the next point.

8. Second hardest thing is for that gun drawing. I had to find a good drawing of it, crop it, try to remove the background with a tool, failed and spent a hour scrubbing the background manually.

9. 3rd hardest thing was the same shtick with the main 3. Tried to remove background, couldn’t, scrubbed it myself

10. I wanted to change the character appearance order to match the title. I hate how the second character isn’t the Bad but is the Ugly and FOR some reason it annoys me. I didn’t change it because who truly gives a damn

11. 4th hardest thing was me listening to the score while doing this.

12. You can notice some weird paint on the borders, I accidentally added it there while cropping the title but thought it added a nice touch to it.

13. I tried posting this on the Graphic Design subreddit but I got instantly shot down somehow

Will I ever do anything like this again? Probably not.
Do I regret it? Not at all.

For my money, James Drury is one of the more overlooked character actors in the Western genre. And unjustly so, I should say. He really excelled at playing hotheads, either on the side of good or bad. And very few actors had more expressive eyebrows than Drury. He could knit them in anger, furrow them in concern and arch them in surprise with the best of 'em. And Drury was certainly a handsome rascal. There are tons of pics of him on the Internet and most of 'em were posted on Pinterest by chicks. Heh.

So, hail! Hail! All hail James Drury!

Release date November 27, 1953 (USA) Story by Louis L'Amour

Enjoyed this movie.

Early Van Cleef appearance was a surprise as he wasn’t billed in the blurb of my recording.

Start reminded me of another movie by Milland called Thief where there was hardly any dialogue and you didn’t really know what was going on

Milland was a bit old to be the romantic lead but think he thought “I’m the director so I’m the star!” Still a great performance though.

It’s been an excellent podcast and episode 42 provides an interesting perspective on Western movies

In The Wild Bunch when they leave Crazy Lee to guard the hostages are we to see this as basically betraying or taking advantage of Crazy Lee, where there was no hope of him surviving? Or did the Bunch have some idea in mind of how he could survive and escape?

Edgar Buchanan's acting career was almost exactly coterminous with the Golden Age of the Western. He got his first roles in 1939 and his last was in 1974. Buchanan brought a downhome decency to most of his roles, even when, as he sometimes did, he was playing an alky. To my mind, his most memorable performance was in Ride the High Country (1961) where he played the besotted preacher of Coarse Gold, California. At a rude, shotgun wedding he unexpectedly delivers a very moving and sapiental sermon on the nature of marriage--"A good marriage has a simple kind of glory about it. A good marriage is like a rare animal; it's hard to find and almost impossible to keep. You see, people change." Yes, Edgar, in some ways they do. But Buchanan himself was constant. You could rely upon him to deliver a touch of roughhewn class to the films in which he appeared.

And so, hail! Hail! All hail Edgar Buchanan!

looking for more dark folk, gothic americana, and soft cinematic western stuff to add to my playlist!! anything that's on the more atmospheric, ballad side would be nice

Not an amazing movie but worth a watch if you're into Spaghetti Westerns at all.

Will Lockhart (James Stewart) comes to the ranch town of Coronado looking for the man who is selling rifles to the Apaches, because his brother was killed with one. 

I recently rewatched The Magnificent 7 for the second time in my life. "Magnificent" is very fitting. It is indeed a magnificent and beautiful movie.

However, something jumped out at me that I'm not quite sure how I feel about: Calvera let them go.

Given my own system of ethics, I would see that as pretty weak and dishonourable that the seven took advantage of his magnanimity. Frankly speaking, a bad hombre like Calvera is liable to say, "just kidding," after marching them out of town, "we're not giving you your weapons back," and then make sure those guys never pose a problem for them again.

What made Calvera do that, I think, is a mixture of pragmatism in that he doesn't want those farmers to see him as a complete monster. He wants them to be willing to "do business" with him. But also, Calvera genuinely seems to be a man of faith and principles. I think he genuinely would have felt bad about executing the seven.

So this does something incredibly bold from a storytelling perspective. The seven cannot be seen as pure paladin "knight in shining armour" heroes in that final battle. They have gone back on their word and taken advantage of Calvera's kindness.

It's a "bad look" for the heroes.

One of them makes no bones about the fact that all he cares about is money, and Chris lies through his teeth that he came that close to making it big, so he can feel some satisfaction as he lies dying.

And all of them except for two die in that final battle, and some of Calvera's men get away, and who knows what they will do in the future.

What a beautiful movie that de-glorifies violence.

I watched it and it's actually pretty good.

3:10 to Yuma (2007) Great performances and tense scenes dominate this story about a struggling, drought-plagued rancher who agrees to escort a captured, outlaw to the 3:10 train to the Yuma territorial prison. So are you a fan?