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Post by elisabeth on Aug 12, 2006 3:53:35 GMT -6
Get ready to set your videos, fellow Brits, for the silliest 7th Cavalry movie ever made (IMHO) -- "7th Cavalry".
It's the one where Randolph Scott is branded a coward for missing LBH and redeems himself by going back for the bodies. And where Dandy the Wonder Horse (or is it Vic? I can't remember, it's all so bonkers) saves the day. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll boggle in disbelief ...
It's showing on Tuesday afternoon, Channel 4, 1.20-2.45 p.m. Highly entertaining.
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Post by Tricia on Aug 12, 2006 10:21:32 GMT -6
Elisabeth--
This is--actually--my favorite Custer movie; probably because GAC isn't in it! But Dandy the Wonder Horse (he escapes from a fort you'll swear looks just like Fort Lincoln) scene is magnificent. And I particularly love all the Native Americans with New Jersey accents; makes you want to see if they're wearing Timex watches ...
There is a great rendition of "Garry Owen" in the film, sung by some drunk members of the 7th (or is that the 7 1/2th?) The words escape me, however ...
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Post by elisabeth on Aug 12, 2006 11:10:25 GMT -6
Glorious, isn't it!
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Post by Diane Merkel on Aug 12, 2006 15:30:36 GMT -6
Someone please let me know when that film will show in the U.S. It sounds like great fun!
All I know about Randolph Scott is that he was briefly married to one of the DuPont heiresses who apparently decided she preferred her horses to him. She owned Montpelier, James Madison's plantation, which I saw before renovations began, and it was full of art deco furnishings. From what I remember, she was more than a bit eccentric. At the time I meant to read about the DuPont-Scott marriage, now I'm curious again.
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Post by Tricia on Aug 12, 2006 15:45:08 GMT -6
Diane--
If you get the "Westerns" movie channel on your cable (it's usually a digital selection), just keep looking! They show "Seventh Cavalry" every month or every other month. I happen to have a copy I taped a year or two ago, so if all else fails ... this is one of those movies everyone's library should have, and treated with the same awe we normally reserve for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's not quite "where's your f---ing neck," but close.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Aug 12, 2006 17:10:12 GMT -6
Thanks, Leyton. I'm pretty sure we get that channel. I usually skip over it because I was subjected to enough of those old films by my brother in the 50s!
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Post by crzhrs on Aug 14, 2006 8:18:32 GMT -6
Re: Randolph Scott
He was a well-known and popular actor from the early 40-early 60s. He did many westerns and several WWII movies, most notably GUNG HO (a real over-zealous patriotic movie about training marines and then attacking a Japanese base) good . . . but a little over the top with the racist views of Japanese.
Scott also did some very good westerns. I think he also "lived" with another famous male actor (I forget his name) and you can determine what you want of that.
One of his best movies was with Joel McCrae done in the late 50s about two aging cowboys on one last round up or after bad guys (I think it was TWO RODE TOGETHER )
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Post by elisabeth on Aug 14, 2006 9:09:53 GMT -6
Would that be "Ride the High Country", perhaps?
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Post by crzhrs on Aug 14, 2006 10:00:22 GMT -6
Elisabeth:
Yes . . . it was RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY. Two Rode Together was with James Stewart and Richard Widmark, another Western . . . about trying to get white captives back from Comanches . . . which was also good, too.
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Post by elisabeth on Aug 18, 2006 5:27:39 GMT -6
A bit late in the day (literally) to mention this, but "Ride the High Country" is on UK TV this very afternoon. Channel 4 again, starting at 1pm. Sorry not to have flagged it up earlier!
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Post by harpskiddie on Aug 20, 2006 18:49:06 GMT -6
Im recording Seven Men From Now, even as I write - Turner Classic Movies. Scott made some excellent westerns throughout his career, including Frontier Marshall, one of the first Wyatt Earp movies, He also was the best Hawkeye in The Last of The Mohicans. He was always one of greatest heroes - I grew up on Saturday afternoon Matinees - two or three movies, at least one of which was a western, and two or three hours of cartoons. My mom could give me 15 cents, and be rid of me for the whole afternoon. Can you imagine? Movies, popcorn and a soda for 15 cents!!!
His later, more dark, westerns were his best, I think.
Gordie
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Post by elisabeth on Aug 21, 2006 2:58:52 GMT -6
Agree; all those bleak, spare Bud Boetticher movies were great. "Ride the High Country" is his absolute best, though, I think. Beautiful.
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Post by alfuso on Aug 21, 2006 8:18:53 GMT -6
Scott's roomate was Cary Grant when they were first starting out. A lot of guys took roomies in order to afford a flat
alfuso
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