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Chris---I just saw it---it was in Stagecoach!movieman1957 wrote:It's not "Last Train" and I don't think it's "Stagecoach." I remember it too but I'll have to think on it.MissGoddess wrote:Chris---what movie was it in, was it Last Train from Gun Hill or Stagecoach, where the saloon owner first asks to take down his mirror from the wall before the shooting starts?
Ken:
I'm a Pepsi drinker too.
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Bad girls wear feathers. Or glittery butterflies (if they are Marlene Dietrich) LOLvallo wrote:There's always "that one kid" who is in the middle of the street during a Stampede, who is saved at the last minute.
In most Westerns after being out in the desert (almost dying of thirst) the first thing they ask for in a Saloon is a shot of Whiskey.
And the Good Girls wear Bonnets and the Bad Girls-Don't.
vallo
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "~~Wilde
What's the old joke? "Two Irish men leave a bar..."ken123 wrote:Miss Goddess - The Irish are unstoppable. After hundreds of year of oppression & suppression the Irish economy is way above the British But, what is this about Irish frequenting salons ? *
* I drink Pepsi
And there's a lot of Scotch/Irish in my family. Probably the disreputatble kind.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "~~Wilde
Back to basics:
Just as in the 40's movies a runaway car always runs into a flower vendor wagon, in the western, a runaway wagon, or stage always tips over when making a turn off of main street.
Anne
Just as in the 40's movies a runaway car always runs into a flower vendor wagon, in the western, a runaway wagon, or stage always tips over when making a turn off of main street.
Anne
Anne
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- movieman1957
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How did I miss this one?
Some nostalgic viewing of an old Lonesome Dove rerun brought this one to my attention last week:
A fairly static scene, perhaps indoors, perhaps around a campfire, etc. A
plot-advancing conversation may be underway. Then a horse whinnies in
the middle distance. It heralds the approach of new characters who will advance or turn the plot in some manner.
Stuck away somewhere in my old Lit 101 notes is a comment that this device is called a "French Scene". Supposedly it was first noted in scripts
from the French Theatre that the arrival of new characters advanced or
changed the plot. But instead of using Stage Right door, the oaters used
the nicker of an ofscreen animal to begin the change.
A fairly static scene, perhaps indoors, perhaps around a campfire, etc. A
plot-advancing conversation may be underway. Then a horse whinnies in
the middle distance. It heralds the approach of new characters who will advance or turn the plot in some manner.
Stuck away somewhere in my old Lit 101 notes is a comment that this device is called a "French Scene". Supposedly it was first noted in scripts
from the French Theatre that the arrival of new characters advanced or
changed the plot. But instead of using Stage Right door, the oaters used
the nicker of an ofscreen animal to begin the change.
"Faint heart never filled inside straight"
--Bret & Bart's Pappy
--Bret & Bart's Pappy