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Just watched Up The McGregors
A damn fine large scale flik I thoroughly enjoyed
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Pillars of the Sky. Pretty solid.
Walk the proud land. Also good
Border River. Ok
Fort Yuma. Meeeh
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Decided to give Adios Sabata a spin. I rather enjoyed it. First-time viewing for me
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Recently saw the BluRay of RED RIVER. What a movie
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One of my favourites. Did you watch the theatrical or pre-release cut?
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Pre-release cut
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Ok. I was grabbing the popcorn for a Seb rant on why one version is superior to the other.
John Wayne plays a total bastard in ‘Red River’ … his character’s actions are quite shocking, but I wonder is that was what Wayne based his own set of values on … or was he just so ardently ‘patriotic’ to cover his own failure to help out during WWII
The crap he comes out with in relation to ‘High Noon’, saying that no group of American people would behave in such a cowardly manner to leave Gary Cooper to fight alone … and making a film with this type of scenario is practically treason, or un-American. Yet he is seen in clips accepting Cooper’s academy award for the same film, and commenting on how he wished he’d been offered the role … he takes the reverse position when interviewed by Michael Parkinson years later … strange man 
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John Wayne’s a smashing actor but I reckon he must’ve been a total c*nt off the screen 
I think it’s a case of an alcoholic (or hard drinker as the tough guys of this period preferred) who is living with a lot of personal guilt, and masks that with booze and bullshit … and it’s always easier to point the finger of disapproval at others rather than face up to his own issues.
Regarding him being a total cunt … I believe he was well liked by co-stars who said he was always polite and friendly, even those who were expecting to have problems with him.
I think a major part of the problem with Wayne was that he started believing he was this noble heroic character that he played in so many of his movies … a case of ‘Don’t get high on your own supply!’ 
I enjoy many of his films very much, so it’s a bit shocking when you come across interviews about his ideas on race, for instance … because he’s not this big avuncular character that will see fair play for all.
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Oh Duke… not every western has to resemble a Ford or Hawks. Nothing wrong with a bit of variety.
I re-watched Django the Bastard tonight because I needed clips for an edit. I love this film so much 
Is it bad that I prefer Anthony Steffen’s supernatural Django over Franco Nero’s OG Django? 
Sidenote: That little smile of Django’s when he finds Rada Rassimov’s character in the cellar is the cutest and most precious thing I’ve seen tonight (apart from a dog video my brother sent me)
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I felt like something familiar tonight. I love this movie. One of Gregory Peck’s best.
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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Run, Man, Run / Corri uomo corri (Sergio Sollima, 1968)
Just saw Django spara per primo. Decent
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Currently watching Killer Goodbye with PLL. Really struggling to keep my eyes open with this one
I just finished watching Corbucci’s The Specialists.
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Hell or High Water - 2016 neo-Western. Nicely paced, great Nick Cave soundtrack, Jeff Bridges excellent, top cinematography with an effective sense of place.
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Been on a spaghetti kick again past week or two. Which considering I’m on this forum, that’s normal.
Got a 'Steff film in (A Name that Cried Revenge), as well as two PLL entries, (The Artist was a Gunfighter, and God in Heaven, Arizona on Earth), and a these early eurowesterns:
-Apache Fury
-Doomed Fort
-Doc: Hands of Steel
-Dollar of Fire
-Texas Rangers
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