She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is on the Western channel right now It gets better everytime I watch it! Narrator: [as the troop passes by] So here they are: the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals... riding the outposts of a nation. From Fort Reno to Fort Apache - from Sheridan to Startle - they were all the same: men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode - and whatever they fought for - that place became the United States.
Shakes, you're an awesome woman. My wife won't even be in the same room as a classic western. A also like Fort Apache a tad better than Yellow Ribbon, but just a tad.
Me and the Kiddo Gunsmoke it everynight! Im gonna dress him as Marshal Dillon for his first birthday!
When I was in The Army, we had a marching cadence call: "around her head, she wore a yellow ribbon" and then of course the formation repeats it, etc. etc. Some smart-ass changed it to "around her head, she wore a paper bag" and it got worse from there.
Dual at Diablo on tonight Though my absolute favorite match up better than Sidney and James will always be "The Skin Game" with James and Louis I laughed my ass off that entire movie
I think Rio Bravo is probably my favorite western. Not a lot of action, but a great story with great characters.
For me, the best Westerns are both versions of True Grit, the sequel Rooster Cogburn, McLintock, and the two Young Guns movies.
I love 'How the West was Won' I have it on DVD. Am a musical fan too but nobody else in the house likes them so I have to wait and watch them all on my lonesome.
HA! I knew a guy who loved Silverado. I saw it once at his house, but didn't much care for it. 3:10 to Yuma (Russell Crowe) is pretty good, and The Wild Bunch. LOve the new True Grit!
Just in case anyone cares.... This months "Six Gun Salute" on western is to Lee Van Cleef....I would let him do awful awful things to me. Hell, I I'd even pay
Shakes would love it where I work. In my shop is a guy who looks + talks like Western movie veteran Sam Elliot:
Josey Wales was a fictional character, but he was based on a real man named Bill Wilson from Carter County, Tennessee. At the end of the film when Fletcher catches up with him, that's why everyone refers to Wales as "Mr. Wilson". That was an homage to the real Bill Wilson.
Big Jake. Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles: And now *you* understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all... your fault, my fault, nobody's fault... it won't matter - I'm gonna blow your head off. No matter what else happens, no matter who gets killed I'm gonna blow your head off.
