tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681306287721676137.post3431073973396521130..comments2024-02-07T15:58:36.649-08:00Comments on hardboiled wonderland: Brian Lindenmuth on WesternsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681306287721676137.post-72340168902682516152017-03-04T16:34:31.382-08:002017-03-04T16:34:31.382-08:00Excellent post, Brian. I am a big fan of westerns ...Excellent post, Brian. I am a big fan of westerns from the 40's through the middle 60's. I agree completely with your criteria - faces, landscape and horses. In fact, I'd somehow gotten the idea that I was the only one who admired, enjoyed, worshiped horses in westerns and considered then almost more important than the actors. I grew up ages ago and got to see many of the early westerns on the big screen - in fact when we were kids we'd line up on Saturdays to watch the old Republic western serials and ten cartoons for 25 cents. Even then, I loved the way Roy Rogers could ride a horse - really almost like no other cowboy actor.<br /><br />I'm fortunate to have see THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, master of the landscape), THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (played hooky from school), all the Rory Calhoun westerns, YELLOWSTONE KELLY (talk about faces - my goodness, John Russell, Ray Danton and Clint Walker.) and a bunch of others up on the big screen. <br /><br />Woody Strode - I'm convinced a whole movie could have been made featuring just close-ups of his face. Remember him in SEARGEANT RUTLEDGE? Now there was a western that broke all the rules. No big landscape shots (that I can remember but there might have been some in the beginning) and lots and lots of interior shots. Little horse action. But of course there is always an exception to any rule and RUTLEDGE is that. But it is primarily a murder mystery so maybe it's not even a 'real' western.<br /><br />I don't watch westerns (except the oldies) much anymore - they changed and I grew older and less tolerant of certain excesses. Plus most of today's actors can't hold a candle to the craggy faces of old. Men were different then. <br /><br />I think the exception for me would be SILVERADO. That's about as modern as I get. :)<br /><br />Thanks again for a terrific post.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681306287721676137.post-81936130851529907172017-03-03T15:55:19.468-08:002017-03-03T15:55:19.468-08:00Ah, good read. Personally I like the late 60-70...Ah, good read. Personally I like the late 60-70's era of westerns like Little Big Man, (mom took me to see when I was wee lad, but I own it now and watch it often,) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,(which I recently got to see in theater for the 1st time, and it was cinematically beautiful, made for a the big screen) Missouri Breaks, Going South, Josey Whales, just off the top of my head. But yeah, I am and always have been a fan of the western and all it's sub-genres. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00464062086084126345noreply@blogger.com