Lee Marvin / John Wayne
Lee makes it to the Top of the Mountain – A Western with John Wayne
… But he’s still 5th on the Bill
The Comancheros Trailer
Marvin Western Filmography 6 The Comancheros (1961)
Marvin Western Filmography 6 Pillars of the Sky (1956)
Lee Marvin and Jeff Chandler
Marvin … 5th on the Bill
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Marvin Western Filmography 5 The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
Lee Marvin and Randolph Scott
DVD Talk – Partial Review / Review by Stuart Galbraith IV | posted August 24, 2005
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/17309/stranger-wore-a-gun-the/
The Stranger Wore a Gun is a muddled mess made palatable by Scott’s likeable hero, a strong supporting cast, and the novelty of 3-D at its most nakedly exploitive.
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Marvin Western Filmography 4 … Seven Men from Now (1956)
Lee Marvin and Randolph Scott
Lee moves up to 3rd on the Bill …
Warning: Huge Spoiler below …
… Lee gets killed …
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Marvin Western Filmography 3 … The Raid (1954)
Lee Marvin and Van Heflin
Lee moves up to 4th on the Bill
… a change of plans …
One Line Reviews: Iain Stott
http://1linereview.blogspot.ca/2009/03/raid-1954.html
The Raid (1954)
Recommended
USA Feature Film
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Writers: Sydney Boehm, Francis Cockrell, Herbert Ravenal Sass
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Composer: Roy Webb
Cast: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin,
Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves
Fregonese’s fact based US Civil War film, chronicling a confederate soldier’s infiltration of a small town in Vermont as he prepares to sack it, complicated by his meeting of an attractive young widow, is, with its excellent performances and uncompromising scripting, a thrilling yet intelligent examination of the ambiguities of war and human relationships.
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Marvin Western Filmography 2 … Gun Fury (1953)
Pretty lousy posters …
Marvin molesting … what? again?
MFW: about the only thing I liked about Gun Fury was that is was filmed around Sedona, Arizona – one of my favorite places on the planet.
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Marvin Western Filmography … Hangman’s Knot 1952
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8UconzOq5lo
Lee is 5th on the Bill
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Lee Marvin … Wandering Star
Lee Marvin … Wandering Star
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Monte Walsh … a real maverick … reposting June 2014
“Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever.”
– Jack Palance
Monte Walsh … a real maverick
MFW: Monte Walsh seemed to get decent promotion – lots of excellent posters – and boasts a stellar cast …
yet somehow seemed to slip under the fence.
But I believe this is one Western that will age well and eventually earn it’s rightful place at the bar.
MFW: “100%” from critcs and “57%” from viewers ??
That’s a pretty large canyon.
But I liked it.
“When we get through… you’re gonna want to take a nap, sit on the porch and wait for the mares to come callin’.”
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Monte Walsh … 1970
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Lee …
Lee Marvin … Wandering Star
Bad Guys of Western Film … cont’d …
“I’ve had the simple pleasure of being present when the sun was shining and the rain was falling.
I’ve had mine, and nobody can take it away from me.”
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Badguys: Part 1 … Lee Marvin
Badguys: Part 1 … Lee Marvin
(The Man who Shot) Liberty Valance – Gene Pitney
Lee Marvin
“This time, right between the eyes.”
Lee Marvin Western Filmography
Gun Fury (1953) / The Raid (1954) / The Comancheros (1961) / The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) / Cat Ballou (1965) / The Professionals (1966) / Paint Your Wagon (1969) / Monte Walsh (1970) / The Spikes Gang (1974) …
TV Westerns: Wagon Train, Bonanza, and The Virginian …
Military career
Allegiance – United States
Service/branch United States Marine Corps
Years of service 1942–1945
Rank Private First Class
Unit 24th Marine Regiment
Battles/wars
World War II
Battle of Saipan
Awards Purple Heart
Not so bad after all …
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Dragons Loyalty Award !
Folks / Friends / Western Fans !
I was given yet another Award by kind Blogging pals and gals.
Here is the esteemed:
Dragons Loyalty Award !
The Dragons Loyalty Award is a combination of The Versatile Blogger Award and the Very Inspiring Blogger award.
This award has been given to me by the Serendipity:
http://teepee12.com/2013/03/10/1001-posts-and-the-dragons-loyalty-award/
Rules for The Dragons Loyalty Award:
Display the Award Certificate on your website
Done
Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented your award
Done
Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers
Not Done
Drop them a comment to tip them off after you’ve linked them in the post
Not Done
Post 7 interesting things about yourself.
Not Done
I have not complied with some conditions.
Well … it’s a major event for me just to figure out how to get these award images onto my sidebar widget …
And I still don’t know how I finally succeeded.
It’s all basically trial and error for rookie Blogger like me …
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The Lone Ranger Creed
The Lone Ranger Theme / William Tell Overture / Gioachino Rossini
The Lone Ranger: “Only you, Tonto, know I’m alive. To the world, I’ll be buried here beside my brother and my friends… forever.”
Tonto: “You are alone now. Last man. You are lone ranger.”
The Lone Ranger: “Yes, Tonto, I am… the Lone Ranger.”
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Award Recipient: Epically Awesome Award of Epic Awesomeness
Dear Friends / Folks / Western Fans !
Time to toot my horn a bit.
I am the proud recipient of the:
Epically Awesome Award of Epic Awesomeness
http://teepee12.com/2013/04/14/epically-awesome-award-of-epic-awesomeness-twice/
Amazing !
But as I said, with exceptional subject matter like The Lone Ranger and Tonto, how could I fail?
In truth, this is about the 5th Award that kind Bloggers have sent my way, but I’ve been callously negligent in posting and responding to these expressions of valued appreciation. I hope to rectify this in the near future and post all these kind awards I’ve received.
In compliance with one condition of the Epically Awesome Award of Epic Awesomeness I am to post 10 epic and/or awesome facts about myself.
I will therefore just re-post my comment from Serendipity Blog.
http://teepee12.com/2013/04/14/epically-awesome-award-of-epic-awesomeness-twice/#comment-13834
“10 epic and/or awesome facts about myself ???
Ah shucks … I can only think of none.
I’ll have a couple of jiggers and make some stuff up.
1. i didn’t graduate from high school. True.
i don’t figure I wuz stoopid. just disinterested.
2. My Dad, myself and my 3 older brothers were all in the Calgary Highlanders.
My Dad fought in the war. The rest of us just fought each other.
3. I have been ‘out of the body’ on several occasions.
Mostly on purpose.
4. I held a broad jump record that lasted 14 years.
5. As a 15-year-old grocery clerk I once gave a customer (who said he was looking for “butterfly nuts”), a box of mothballs. (Hes’ still laughing)
6. I don’t own any guns.
Or a horse.
7. I was once saved from getting hit by a car by an invisible hand that pushed me back onto the curb. I believe in spiritual guardians.
8. i was never sure I was on the right planet. Is this Naboo?
9. I quit drinking, smoking, and drugs.
God I’m bored. (Just kidding … about being bored)
10. I’ve had seven partners.
This last one – Rose – is a keeper.
OK .. Part One of my Duties of Compliance have been completed.
Part Two is Give it to 10 bloggers you think are awesome and/or epic – or both.
Well … being a reclusive Cowboy, I can’t rightly think of 10 offhand, but I’ll just start sending them out till the dust settles.
Have a good one.
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Tonto … Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels / Canadian Mohawk
Jay Silverheels achieved his greatest fame as the The Lone Ranger’s friend, Tonto. Being irreplaceable as the Lone Ranger’s best friend he subsequently also appeared in films, The Lone Ranger (1956) as well as in The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). – Wikipedia
Silverheels began working in motion pictures as an extra and stunt man in 1937. During the early years of his screen career, he was billed variously as Harold Smith or Harry Smith, and appeared in low-budget features, westerns, and serials. He adopted his screen name from the nickname he had had as a speedy lacrosse player. From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, I Am an American (1944), Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart (1948), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford (1949), Broken Arrow (1950) with James Stewart, War Arrow (1953) with Maureen O’Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River (1954), Walk the Proud Land (1956) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James (1959) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint (1964) with Johnny Crawford. He made a brief appearance in True Grit (1969) as a condemned criminal about to be executed. He played a substantial role as John Crow in Santee (1973), starring Glenn Ford. One of his last roles was a wise white-haired chief in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973). – Wikepedia
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… those thrilling days of yesteryear …
The Lone Ranger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w6Geh0NWiYg#t=17s
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty “Hi Yo Silver!” The Lone Ranger. “Hi Yo Silver, away!” With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains, led the fight for law and order in the early west. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. The Lone Ranger rides again!
From the Website:
CLAYTON MOORE, THE LONE RANGER
http://claytonmoore.tripod.com/
The Lone Ranger Creed!
By: Fran Striker
“I believe that to have a friend,
a man must be one.
That all men are created equal
and that everyone has within himself
the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there
but that every man
must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared
physically, mentally, and morally
to fight when necessary
for that which is right.
That a man should make the most
of what equipment he has.
That ‘This government,
of the people, by the people
and for the people’
shall live always.
That men should live by
the rule of what is best
for the greatest number.
That sooner or later…
somewhere…somehow…
we must settle with the world
and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever. In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.”
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… those thrilling days of yesteryear …
The Lone Ranger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w6Geh0NWiYg#t=17s
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty “Hi Yo Silver!” The Lone Ranger. “Hi Yo Silver, away!” With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains, led the fight for law and order in the early west. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. The Lone Ranger rides again!
From the Website:
CLAYTON MOORE, THE LONE RANGER
http://claytonmoore.tripod.com/
