The Marty/Look story always makes me sad, he was so very cruel to her, more, I think because of Ethan's digging at him. One of the features of Ford to em is that he is very good at showing one point of view as valid, when he means to prove it is not. Like in Fort Apache and Liberty Valance about be...

Ford has always been a filmmaker with deeply layered stories (if he wasn't, this film and Liberty Valance followed probably by They Were Expendable and How Green Was My Valley wouldn't be the most popular topics here), but he had peaked with critics in the 1940s and was on the downward swing with t...

It is amazing to believe that Beah Richards was only about ten years older than Sydney Poirtier when she played his mother in Guess whose coming to Dinner


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I watched this again for about the hundredth time. A very wet Saturday afternoon and it was on TV and the alternative was rewriting along chapter onautodidactic learning and identity and well it was an easy choice to choose to watch it. I don't think I can ever see this film without seeing something...

Paula Thank you. That is a terrific picture. That is the horse. She was in nearly every western made around Universal. I don't know what company it was that supplied the horses. Probably not Fat Jones (Ben Johnson's Father in law) I think his company was still operating then. Fat Jones always insist...

Thanks for the pictures Paula. As usual they are wonderful .

And April thanks for anther great interview. I really enjoyed reading it


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It did seem he was there almost to fill out the numbers. I wonder if they cut alot of his role out.

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I saw this again whern I had not seen it for years and thought it better than I remembered. Maybe I think from an evergrowing appreciation of Lee Marvin as an actor and a screen presence. I know its been said before but at least in the older westerns of the time the male characters looked like men n...

Sometimes sad endings can be the right sort of ending. The ones I like are both happy and sad. Something like Long Voyage Home where Olsen does make it home but Driscoll does not. It worked for both characters. I love Red River but the ending never works for me. Its a forced happy ending. I could ne...

On the subject of throwing away, when someone is lost in the desert, why do they always throw away the empty canteen. Just in case you do find water you want to keep the thing that you can carry more as you continue to walk. And as a soon as a horse stops bucking, it fully trained to walk, trot and ...

Two of my favourite ones are also to do with horses. Cowboy comes in tired and worn out and leaves the horse out front still saddled and bridled. The other one is when they do take the saddle off they tie the horse up with a bridle (and bit) still on. Don't they ever feed the horses, or tether them ...

What I don't understand is why anyone would need that sort of coat on a sunny day in California.

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As some of you know I am doing a thesis (disertation) on learning in forums such as this. I was reading the whole of the Ben JOhnson forum ( Serious research you understand, nothing to do with all the breathtaking (literally) pictures :lol: :lol: :lol: ) and 3 years and 181 pages ago I found this Re...

I always enjoy Tom Selleck too. Although I have to admit part of my liking him may be wrapped up in Magnum and those short shorts. :lol: The romance in Monte Walsh was as you say mature and beautifully done. I kind of like the big smile on the easten boss's wife's face as she watched Monte ride at t...

I was reading a book not long ago about quotes from western movie and was surprised to see one from a film called Monte Walsh with Tom Selleck. The quote was "I've never been in love. I've been a cowboy all my life" which is grabbed me The book of Monte Walsh by Jack Schaffer who also wrot...