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Thread ID: 82877	2007-09-12 00:13:00	Any Western film Buffs out there?	Zippity (58)	PC World Chat

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590241	2007-09-12 04:59:00	Under the seat? That's where I was all thru "The Wizard Of Oz"..especially when that witch showed up on the flying broom. I was about 6 at the time. To this day I have never watched that flick. I didn't like the flying monkeys either!	SurferJoe46 (51)
590242	2007-09-12 07:11:00	I am trying to find the name of a western that I saw back in the late 60's early 70's :o The film opens with a rifleman aiming a bipod mounted long barrel rifle at a horse rider who is approaching from a long way distant down a valley. Any ideas? :) Sounds like a scene from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Three bounty hunters shoot Tuco. Don't think there was a tripod there, it wasn't the opening scene and it was at a desert. Damn good movie though.	vinref (6194)
590243	2007-09-12 09:16:00	Hmm..... the opening scene from "For a Few Dollars More" is almost as you describe but there is no rifle onscreen - just sounds of the breech being loaded and then the shots.	Winston001 (3612)
590244	2007-09-12 12:51:00	Quigley Down Under had a Sharps Rifle too..maybe? It was Quigley's weapon of choice: a 1874 Sharps .45 Cal Buffalo Rifle. But be careful...there are a lot of rifles that look quite like a Sharps: The Winchester High Wall, The Remington Rolling Block, The 1873 Springfield, ................all are cataloged by Navy Arms in .45-70 with the Sharps also available in .45-90. I just saw (again) "Maverick", the Sharps in that movie was not shooting into a valley but off the stern of a paddle wheeler. A few other Sharps rifles were in movies/series like: Lonesome Dove Broken Trail The War Wagon Valdez Is Coming Young Guns My choice in movie weaponry is: the "NOISY CRICKET" ala MIB :lol: With black powder, for a long range rifle, one needed a .50 calibre, at least. 45-70 was a military standard, effective, murderously so, but not having the "knock down" power of the Sharps "big 50" ( a buffalo rifle). They were called 1 mile rifles, or express rifles. They had a slow twist to the rifling so the ball (bullet) didn't strip with the oomph behind the charge. This was also the theory behind the famed "Kentucky" rifle of an earlier generation. The British target rifle of the mid 19th century, used a faster twist (even more accuracy), but it required a longer, heavier bullet, so there was more to grip the rifling with and lessen the chances of stripping. Of course there would 've been Sharp's 45-70's, it was a standard round, but from what I've read the .50 calibre (or greater) was more of a big game rifle. Someone once told me that more elephants were taken with the old muzzle loading enfield rifle (.577 calibre), than any more modern rifles. Anyway, I've fired Remington rolling blocks, in years gone past and enfields and sniders (the breech loading version of enfields). Lot of fun. Don't do black powder shooting so much any more.	jcr1 (893)
590245	2007-09-12 13:49:00	Under the seat? That's where I was all thru "The Wizard Of Oz"..especially when that witch showed up on the flying broom. I was about 6 at the time. To this day I have never watched that flick. I didn't like the flying monkeys either! The Wizard of Oz is one of my all-time favourites - though I agree you needed to be old enough to cope with that witch & those monkeys... My own downfall was apparently Walt Disney's "Bambi". Family history says I was 4 & it was my first time in a picture theatre. (In this case, the old Town Hall - with wooden benches hauled out for Saturday matinees) I cried so loudly when Bambi's mother died that they had to take me outside. And - like you - I've never watched it to this day. P.S. How about The Magnificent Seven for the western?	Laura (43)
590246	2007-09-12 17:20:00	P . S . How about The Magnificent Seven for the western? Yeah! And "The Return Of . . . " too . I admit that I am a fan of the Duke too . I like his swagger and met him several times in Newport Beach . He was one time shopping for his own groceries once in a small market in Balboa Island and he talked to me like a real person . He was shopping with Sterling Holloway (also deceased now) and they looked like a real "Odd Couple" getting supplies for his yacht "The Wild Goose" . I was laying carpet in Gracie Nelson's vacation home on "The Island", a portion of the Balboa Peninsula that had gated communities and very private homes, and needed a lunch break . I was getting something to eat at a hamburger joint and then went to get some fresh fruit when I met them that time . So . . I like almost all of Wayne's movies . . even McQ where he played a cop . What I noticed was that he wasn't acting in his movies . . he actually was that way! Perhaps his most evocative movie was "The Shootist" where he dies behind a bar after a gunfight . I sniffled a lot at that one .	SurferJoe46 (51)
590247	2007-09-12 17:45:00	Does anyone remember the "Mondo Cane" or "Malo Mondo" type movies a bunch of years ago? Mondo Cane had the theme song "More" in it . . remember? I can't find much reference to them . . . and I would love to find a copy of them somehow .	SurferJoe46 (51)
590248	2007-09-12 19:25:00	I have always been a Western film Buff. Seen so many I can't tell which was best. The genre can appeal to so many levels, from the humorous to the downright grim. I thought the TV series, Lonesome Dove was particularly well done, kinda had a feel of credibility about it. I was at the Calgary Stampede parade a few years ago and Jack Palance was on the stage coach which was near the front (they get a famous western actor to do this every year apparently). I yelled out at him (to my wife's embarrassment and son's amusement) "Curly"; remember City Slickers. And he turned around and gave us a smile and a wave. Made my day.	jcr1 (893)
590249	2007-09-12 19:35:00	Perhaps his most evocative movie was "The Shootist" where he dies behind a bar after a gunfight. I sniffled a lot at that one. I liked that one too. I think he played the part of an aging gunfighter, who had cancer and wanted to go out in style. Another one I remember, but the name of it escapes me, was when he acted the part of Rooster Cogburn, a marshall for "hanging judge" Parker, and he helped a little girl bring her father's killer to justice in what was called the "Indian Territories" which is now called Oklahoma.	jcr1 (893)
590250	2007-09-12 20:43:00	True Grit	SurferJoe46 (51)
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