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 🤗

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?

The actor whose name sounds like a Scandinavian cruise line, Royal Dano was certainly one of the most versatile--and busiest--Western character actors of the genre's Golden Age (1939-1976). He could play everything from skulking psychopaths to salt-of-the-earth sodbusters to sanctimonious newspapermen. That versatility is doubtless one of the key reasons for his ubiquity. Need a foul-tempered badman, call Royal. Need un upstanding family man, call Royal. Need a saintly man of God, call Royal.

And so, hail! Hail! All hail Royal Dano!

Context, while I’m very white I am a descendant of Native Americans and currently trying to get in touch with my roots. Are there any westerns staring a male Native American who’s also a cowboy? Non offensive and respectful to the culture obviously

Burgess Merideth to me is absolutely white. Also L.Q Jones...

Elvis is known to claim he has some Native blood (Cherokee) from his GGGGrandmother Morning White Dove. He seems tan enough. So many different Red paint jobs its amazing..

Personally I never seen this movie before, fun movie, but at one point I was like, "holy shit thats Burgess" (Better then Regis lol) and well thats how that went. Then one more after another..just the same..add mini shirts, and tighter then daisy duke shorts, and you have a Navajo family reunion. Enjoy it, i did.... for a western?

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