@goatprairie
I couldn't remember watching "Last Train From Gun Hill" before. I watched it last nite and when watching the shootout scene at the end next to the train, it struck me that I'd seen that scene before.
A very memorable film. It must have been many a year ago that I saw it, or my memory is more shot than I've been letting on.
I first saw it when I was eight years old at a local movie theater. I didn't understand the racial or sexual element at that time. I certainly wasn't capable of understanding much about plot devices and acting either.
To me it was just another western, and I loved westerns. I don't even know how I got to see the flick at a movie theater. I guess my older brother might have gotten me in.
Nevertheless,
warning: spoiler there's a scene in the movie where Earl Holliman and his pal rape and kill Kirk Douglas's Indian wife. Obviously, in those days little could be shown about those things in the movie theaters. There was one scene shown where Holliman and his pal rip the blouse off of Kirk's wife.
Of course, no nudity and no scenes of Holliman and his pal raping and killing her. But you can see from the rear her bare back.
So a few years later the movie showed up on NBC. Because of a one hour difference in Minn and Wisc
the movie was telecast in Eau Claire Wis. one hour ahead of the same telecast in Rochester, Minn. We got both NBC stations.
So my old man started watching the Wisc telecast by himself. He stopped watching it for some reason and left the room. I later realized he had viewed the (implied) rape scene and turned the tv off.
One hour later I came into the room and turned on the movie on the Rochester, Minn channel.
My father hearing the opening strains of the movie raced into the room and turned the tv off.
He obviously wasn't going to let any of his children see the bare back of some movie actor. I was still too young to understand anything about sex and rape, and the sight of a woman's bare back was hardly shocking even to an eleven year old boy. You could see plenty bare female backs at the local beach. I must admit the actress was quite good looking even to an eleven year old.
But my father wasn't going to let me led into temptation, no sirree bob.
Those were the days.
