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What are you watching now?...2024
goatprairie:
--- Quote from: Fishrrman on May 08, 2024, 10:19:28 pm ---Tonight...
Maybe another episode of The Gabby Hayes Show from around 1953.
Yer dern tootin' !!
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I read a bio of Hayes and unbelievably he declared that he hated westerns. He was quoted as saying that they were all the same with limited plots.
DCPatriot:
--- Quote from: goatprairie on May 09, 2024, 02:20:17 am ---I read a bio of Hayes and unbelievably he declared that he hated westerns. He was quoted as saying that they were all the same with limited plots.
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My problem with the Westerns...every movie since the 50's...nobody ever shoots the horses, the easiest way to put the attacker on the defense. happy77
mountaineer:
We've recently started watching reruns of "Frasier" at night on COZI TV (we get it via dish). Some of those episodes are hilarious and very clever.
goatprairie:
--- Quote from: DCPatriot on May 09, 2024, 02:23:24 am ---My problem with the Westerns...every movie since the 50's...nobody ever shoots the horses, the easiest way to put the attacker on the defense. happy77
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Well, obviously there are numerous holes with many Westerns. I used to yell at the tv or movie screen when during a gun battle, the good guys would leave the bad guy's, who'd just been shot, guns around instead of picking them up and having extra firearms/ammo to fight the rest of the bad guys.
Virtually the end of every Lone Ranger episode had the Lone Ranger punching out the bad guy while many times he had both of his six guns in their holsters.
Of course, the Lone Ranger never shot and killed anybody in any of the hundreds of Lone Ranger episodes. He just shot the guns out of their hands. Which was, of course, a ridiculous common plot element of thousands of westerns.
As was the quick draw, fast gun, shoot from the hip character. The stereotype fast gun duel of countless westerns was mostly of figment of western screenwriters imaginations. One of the few instances where it might have been true was the Wild Bill Hickok-Dave Tutt gun battle in 1865 in Springfield, Missouri.
I've read several accounts of that shootout one which claimed it was a real fast draw duel and a different one where they both had their guns out looking for the other guy. At any rate, the fast draw duel was a staple of innumerable tv and movie westerns.
Nevertheless, I still love the old tv and movie westerns. Just watched "Winchester 73" with Jimmy Stewart and Steven McNally for the umpteenth time yesterday.
BTW, "Winchester 73" had a scene where after an Indian battle, Jimmy Stewart told cavalry captain J.C. Flippen to collect the repeating rifles of the attacking Indians who had been shot and killed and lying on the battlefield. That's the only time I've ever seen that happen in any Western I've ever watched.
roamer_1:
Battlestar Galactica 04 is on Prime.
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