Cowboy Theater showcases great movies, such as Wyatt Earp and Open Range; movies starring Clint Eastwood, Audie Murphy, Kevin Costner, Charles Bronson, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, and of course the Duke himself John Wayne, just to name a few.
Cowboy Theater
I’ve always liked Gary Cooper in Sergeant York, but that’s not a cowboy movie. OK,OK, High Noon is good too but I get distracted by Grace Kelly. 🙂
CLAUDIA CARDINALE, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
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All I watch on TV are old westerns. There’s a ton of cable networks that only old westerns. They’ll pick up a show, actually a couple at a time, and run them to death. I never get tired of them. There’s a couple of them doing Rawhide right now. Interesting side note on that series. Most peeps know Eric Fleming died way to soon by drowning on location in the Amazon.
As a kid he had a club foot and had to get around on Crutches. Spent some time in the merchant marine. Ended up as a Seabee where he managed to smash his face to pieces. The navy did reconstructive surgery on his face and by luck of the draw ended up being handsome enough to get a Hollywood career.
Wild Bill
Coops best was High Noon, Second, Man of the West. Third Vera Cruz, I’ll go the Hanging Tree number four. Coop my all time fav.
He’s done a lot of non western movies. Never watched them. Maybe I should.
I’m surrounded by cowboys where I live and you’d think I’d be sick of them, but no. The only time the TV gets turned on is when TCM is playing a western, and then it’s just to DVR it so I can fast forward through that irritating piss ant Ben Mankiewicz.
Oh– if anyone is interested, you can listen free to hundreds of old radio broadcasts of Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel on YouTube.
I watch a lot of old westerns on youtube. The “Foresaken Westerns” finds obscure movies and western tv pilots.
I like “The Man With No Name” series. Once Upon a Time In the West” is really good too. I’ve liked John Wayne, and Gary Cooper as well but for some reason they are not in my top 5. Maybe I should watch them again. Don’t ask me why, but “High Plains Drifter” is among my favorites. “Unforgiven” is good. I might be a Clint Eastwood fan.
BROWN EYED GIRL:
LOL, OMG…BEN MANKIEWUCZ…
HE LIVES JUST A FEW HOUSES FROM MY MOM IN PACIFIC PALISADES..
ON A HALLOWEEN NIGHT YRS AGO, MY YOUNGEST SON, NOW 26, WENT TO HIS DOOR FOR TRICKS OR TREATS AND, WHEN THE DOOR OPENED, MY SON, IN HIS SUPERMAN COSTUNE, RAN INSIDE TO BE PART OF THE PARTY, AND RAN AROUND WITH HIS CAPE FLYING, DISRUPTING THE SCENE
MY WIFE (THEN) HAD TO CHASE HIM AROUND THE CELEBRITIES FOR AWHILE TO GET HIM OUT
BUT. ANYWAY…HOW DID BEN GET THAT JOB??
Westerns are the best. The only scenario that delivers justice. I watch westerns when I need a break from wokeness, perversions and communist chaos.
Clint Eastwood and John Wayne movies are my favorites. “Gunsmoke”, and the other classic TV westerns I watch regularly.
“1883” was fantastic. Better than Yellowstone in my opinion.
OK Western fans…..True Grit, The one with John Wayne or the one with Jeff Bridges?…..and have you ever read the book?….The book is great….
willysgoatgruff
John Wayne. And if you think different you’re a Libtard.
Good memories watching westerns with my dad. Gunsmoke, Bonanza and others. He sent me out of the room when there was a hanging.
Dad was also partial to Greek tragedies on Public TV. Now those were scary!
Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood
Blazing Saddles – I showed it to my kids & tier friends 16 ish. They were crying with laughter despite modern education.
(Not Old classics but my two favs.)
Joe6,
Clint is a National Treasure.
Too bad very few people understood his speech to an “Empty Chair” for the republicans. I loved it as well as Grand Torino, & Richard Jewell.
They were important.
Brad, You just admitted that you have never read True Grit….But, “The Duke” is the Duke!….Give me Rio Bravo or Chism….Lest we forget “The Quiet Man”….Maureen O’Hara can make it wiggle….
One of the most underrated westerns – The Fastest Gun Alive. Love the bar scene where a slightly inebriated Glenn Ford lets some of the town people know he’s not just a mild, meek store owner and that he actually knows how to handle a gun.
On a side note, I understand Italian and sometimes I come across the Italian Dubbed Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns. I get a kick out of the seeing Clint call the Bad guy “Disgraziato” among other things and the text underneath is quite off from the real translation.
Cheers all, GN.
willysgoatgruff – True Grit with John Wayne is one of my favorites.
“My eyes hurt lookin’ for the chicken” – I laugh every time.
willysgoatgruff
Shit pal, just ask me. Never read it. Honestly I don’t have time to read my own mind. I wish I did. Maybe someday. No matter what’s going on, when The Quiet Man comes on, it’s time out. Even more so with the Searchers. To this day UCLA Film school dedicates several weeks to that film.
Honestly very early in his career, but Stage Coach is still a good watch.
When my son was four, I was rummaging through the $5 bin and found the TV series, “Fury.” Not one of the classics, but a wholesome, well done, children’s show if you’re looking for one. Particularly suited for young boys.
Pretty obvious that most of you never spent too much time in Texas, where “The Searchers” was set. Texas doesn’t look anything like Monument Valley where that movie was filmed. No cattleman in his right mind would try to run cattle in all that red desert. That’s why the government let the Navajos keep their native homeland, because most of it was considered worthless for grazing cattle and raising good horses. Read the book by Alan LeMay which is a very authentic western classic. Same with LeMay’s “Kiowa Moon” which was made into the film “The Unforgiven” by John Houston. “The Hanging Tree” isn’t just a great Western, it’s also the most authentic movie ever made with a placer gold mining camp for a setting. Oh, by the way, Shane’s not coming back.
O.k. – I’ll vote for the Jeff Bridges version of True Grit, but the John Wayne version is terrific as well. And no, we are not bargaining.
My grandad, who was half Lenape Delaware Indian loved westerns. We could never document my great-gram’s lineage so unlike Pocahontas I could not claim to be ‘Native American’.
under rated & never got his due, but Joel McCrea was tried and true and holds 3 places in my top 5 all time favorite movies:
Four Faces West
Stars in my Crown
Fort Massacre
In case you care, the other 2 are;
The Big Sky
Rio Grande
Sometimes I wear boots and chaps … just boots and chaps … heh heh …
life of the party!
“Ride em, Cowboy!” Know what I mean?
Used to work in the summer on horse drug rehab with horses that came into the Lazy T ranch up the road and walk horses down from the high they’d been drugged up with at the Saratoga raceway. Wore mens cowboy boots and hats that where too large for me. Loved westerns and cap guns as a kid. Days gone by, but some memories don’t die.
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INSP has westerns on all day, Gunsmoke from the oldest B&W episodes from the mid 50’s up until the later colorized ones from the late 60’s and early 70’s. Rawhide with a young Clint Eastwood, “Head em up, move em out. My line chief Chief Stuber would aways use that line every morning on his line crew and plane captains when we started our FOD walkdown I’m a big fan of Audie Murphy westerns as well any and all of Randolph Scott’s westerns. Joel McCrea, I like more on Tales of the Texas Rangers from his radio in the early 50’s. Ride The High Country is one of my favorite westerns and Rio Bravo with John Wayne and his sidekick Stumpy played by the great Walter Brennan and I’m a sucker for the Lone Ranger. Gunsmoke on radio, William Conrad was more bad ass as Marshall Dillon than James Arness on TV. Any western with Ward Bond in a John Wayne movie. Westerns were a staple growing up back in the 50’s and 60’s. I am also a big fan of reading Zane Grey and Louis Lamour westerns especially The Last of the Breed which is one of his better novels and well worth a read.
And don’t forget Jimmy Stewart and all his westerns. He was also very good in The Six Shooter a radio western program that lasted a little over a year in the early 50’s on NBC.
My favorite western is still The Oxbow Incident with Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan. It’s still one of the best westerns that’s held up well over the last 70 years or so.
“Blood on the Moon”, “The Furies” and “Yellow Sky” are great, authentic Westerns. “The Culpepper Cattle Company” is the best one ever made about what the men who drove cattle and handled guns were really like. No quick change stirrups or nylon ropes in this movie.
I like Jeff Bridges, but no one can replace the Duke in one of his iconic roles.
NO ONE.