[quote="knitwit45"]cm, reading your post was like traveling with you. People often sneer or smirk when I say Kansas is a beautiful state, because we don't have mountains, oceans or beaches. I tell them to take a trip through the Flint Hills, and NOT imagine wagon trains going slowly along,...

This thread may be a rarity, in that it is finite in subject matter. The Golden Age did come to an end, and before that it seemingly used up all possible weapeons gimmicks. I must correct one mistake that I made. I previously stated that none of the many Wyatt Earp movies had ever used the Buntline ...

Age 18-21. Your tax dollars billeted me in West Germany, where I defended the Berlin Wall from stations in Munich, Ausgsburg, and a couple of smaller places that I can no longer pronounce with certainty. I was in Infantry outfits mostly, but the last year I was in a Cavalry outfit, still doing an In...

I owe this sighting to insomnia. In The Long Riders , with the Jameses and Youngers shooting up Northfield, Minn: A shot man falls from the roof of what looks like a three- story buliding. As the camera focuses upward to catch the stunt man's graceful drop, three power wires are seen. A few moments ...

I've mentioned before that I saw this one while my years were still single-digit. Yesterday I taped it while I was on a junket that involved a short
trip out-of-state. I haven't yet rewound. Would it be your advice not to
bother?

Can't take credit for this one; it's mentioned in the IMDb website. In the classic 1939 Stagecoach , when they stop at the way-station where everybody has been killed, the characters have a conversation on the front porch. The angle of the shot shows also the far side of the valley, and a car can be...

I mentioned one of my favorites above -- L.Q. Jones. No example of top billing has turned up so far, but I have found an attempt. The critilcal commentaries that accompany the disc of The Ballad Of Cable Hogue reveal that Jones once held the rights to that property, and was trying to develope it as ...

Did Harry Carey, Jr. ever top the bill? A quick look through IMDB shows second billing twice. (I didn't look through every movie.) One is "Gundown at Sandoval" and something from last year titled "Comanche Stallion." In the second he is second to the ancient James Arness. Never ...

Very cool. I don't have Starz, but am enjoying your "play by play". I wish there were some place we could order some of these docs. I'm using the same Arkadin quote because I've got a different answer this time. Izcutter gave me a heads-up in an exchange on the Strother Martin tribute thr...

[quote="pktrekgirl"]I thought I remembered Alan Hale getting top billing on a film I recorded once. Never got to see it, so I'm not for sure on that...but I dimly remember something like this. Correct. In l956, Alan Hale starred in The Three Outlaws as The Sundance Kid, opposite Neville Br...

Did Harry Carey, Jr. ever top the bill? Did L.Q. Jones?

Yo, Chris; Thanks. While typing, I could remember Jean Shepard (scripter and narrater), Darren McGavin and Melinda Dillon (actors) and the character name "Ralphie", but I could NOT remember that title! (Googling for this stuff later, I ran across an ad for a Christmas Story -inspired Leg L...

It was an impulse buy at the checkout counter: $1.00 for a DVD with two early B&W westerns on it. The title that caught my attention was Stagecoach To Denver (1946), one of the old Red Ryder filcks. It's points: 1. Ex-defendant Robert Blake had top billing on the lable. When the opening credits ...

I was looking up material for another thread on the subject of supporting players who get one or two shots at top billing. I thought Mr. Brand might fit into that frame, but when I went looking, I found myself with an embarassemnt of riches. He has received top billing at least five times: -- Riot i...

-- Robert Webber I thought of that name while composing the origional comments above, but I could not think of the star vehicle involved. Webber had a long run as a support player. Worked for Peckinpah at least once ( Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia) . Seemed to guest star at least once a season...