We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
I tried to comment on your video on youtube, but it did not work. Then I made a comment here and it disappeared.
I have seen three 1949 westerns. Roughshod and Lust For Gold are favourites. I have also seen She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Favourite posters and stills are from Lust For Gold, Roughshod, and El Paso
I wasn’t able to post a comment on your video, Steve. I don’t know if it is because of my new computer or something wrong with youtube. Here is my comment:
I have seen 3 top westerns from 1949. Lust For Gold and Roughshod are favourites. I have also seen She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Merry Christmas
Favourite posters and stills are from I Shot Jesse James, Lust For Gold, Roughshod, Canadian Pacific, and El Paso.
Hi Flora, sorry your comment didn’t get through, it hasn’t appeared in my email folder either. Strange goings on as usual. I posted a comment on the channel and it seems to have worked. Maybe its a temporary glitch. You can try posting something on another video and see if it’s accepted.
The last video of the year and last in the westerns series I started in July. Your tally 3 out of 25, I’ve seen 3 too. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a favorite, I’ve also seen The Fighting Kentuckian and Colorado Territory.
Thanks again for commenting on all these videos, always appreciated. Happy you liked the posters and stills. More videos in the new year
Merry Christmas Flora. Take care and keep safe.
My pick of the STILLS/Lobby CARDS in Steve’s 1949 video
1/Rustlers
2/a 1st gloriously-coloured one for El Paso
3/2 for Calamity Jane and Sam Bass – DeCarlo in her heyday.
4/Canadian Pacific
5/Roughshod
6/2 for South of St Louis
7/Red Canyon
8/Cowboy and the Indians.
9/Doolins of Oklahoma – an obscure Randy western to me.
10/Fighting Man of the Plains.
11/2 for Streets of Laredo.
12/ALL for The Fighting Mancunian
13/2 for Walking Hills-another obscure Randy western in my book. In fact it sounds like one of Steve’s horror movies! and at first I thought it had escaped from his Christmas movies video!
14/A rather sinister-looking unshaven Glenn Ford [aka Charlie Bill Stuart] in Lust for Gold
15/Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend -Wow! GRABLE: one of the very few box office giants amongst actresses who could open a film on her own. My own nomination for Box Office Queen of the 1940s.
16/Stampede. Johnny Mack Brown in Steve’s still for this movie made droves of B westerns in the 1940s and early 1950s in which he often used his own name for the hero he played. At our local Castle cinema throughout the 1950-53 period there were wall-to-wall reruns of those films so that we small boys who loved them joked that Mack kept his horse in the cinema restroom overnights! The famous Belfast singer [and current high profile anti-vaxxer and opponent of mask-wearing!] Van Morrison mentions Johnny Mack and the Castle in one of his songs. Johnny made 3 western in the 1960s but the final “Johnny Mack Brown” western was 1953’s The Marshall’s Daughter. Decades earlier Johnny had been Joan Crawford’s romantic lead.
Best POSTERS in Steve’s 1949 video. FL=foreign language version of poster (s)
1/FL one for I Shot Jesse James
2/Rustlers – the B movie cowboy was on the way out.
3/ALL for El Paso -Payne in his westerns heyday
4/1st one for Canadian Pacific
5/Both for Stampede
6/1st 2 for Roughshod – wow!
7/South of ST Louis – a great fave for repeat-showings
8/All for Gal Who Took the West – wow!
9/ALL for Bad Men of Manchester
10/A stupendous 1st one for Doolins of Oklahoma
11/Fighting Man of the Plains
12/FL one for The Duke’s The Fighting Mancunian
13/2 FL ones for Colorado Territory
14/ALL for Streets of Laredo-routine lead man Golden Holden on cusp of eternal movie greatness
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15/1st and FL ones for Lust for Gold-the 1950s would bring superstardom to Golden Holden’s great mate Charles William Stuart as well after years that for Glenn were not muchr better than “lean” in the words of one historian.
16/ALL for Massacre River. Rory’s 1st western but many more would follow!
17/The magnificent set of posters for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon are the pick of an overall great bunch in my view and a classy way to bring the curtain down on Steve’s westerns series
HI STEVE: When I started watching movies in the early 1950s we had no TV and most of the films from the previous years and decades had been released too far back to earn regular reruns in our cinemas.
However the 1949 releases were recent enough and they were repeated regularly in down-market movie houses until about 1953 after which TV started to take over.
You will be pleased to know that westerns got most of the repeat showings in the cinemas. The likes of the Al Leach so-called screwball comedies such as 1949’s I was a Male War Bride rarely featured in the reruns as even adults it seems didn’t find them funny. Over here in Northern Ireland we have our own tastes and standards and could never understand for example the apparent English love of 4-letter-word humor. Swearing is a SERIOUS business among the Irish!!
Audiences here did though flock to Archibald’s later reasonably ‘serious’ hits such as To Catch a Thief, Hitch’s N by NW and Charade. Also [if I may express myself exceptionally-hyperbolically as Hirsch did when he pontificated that NOBODY had any interest in Brando’s 1954 mega smash-hit Desiree] EVERYBODY went to see 1962’s That Touch of Mink because Northern Ireland’s fave actress Doris Day was teamed with Archie. Indeed as I’ve said before Al Leach was Doris’ own 2nd fave movie actor after Cagney.
In short, overall therefore the films in your 1949 westerns video are more familiar to me than some of the movies in your videos for the years further back and that adds of course to the already significant pleasure that I get from your videos. The video has a 99% rating with me and it certainly ends in style your long and comprehensive run of informative westerns videos. Well done!
Hi Bob, it’s Xmas! No lockdown here. The festivities shall go on! Let’s hope another covid variant doesn’t pop up in time to ruin next years Xmas. It’s all so suspicious.
Thanks for the comment, generous rating (oooh), info and trivia, much appreciated. Happy you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
Here we are Bob, the final video in the westerns series I started in July.
Here are some stats on this series –
40 films from the 1930s
175 films from the 1940s
300 films from the 1950s
211 films from the 1960s
127 films from the 1970s
30 films from the 1980s
30 films from the 1990s
25 films from the 2000s
25 films from the 2010s
37 videos and 963 westerns in total.
The first half of 2021 I was uploading movie author videos and the second half, westerns. For the first time since I started that channel there were no movie star videos this year.
One film scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. No films scored 9 out of 10.
My Video top 6 –
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 7.9
Colorado Territory 7.4
I Shot Jesse James 6.8
Lust for Gold 6.6
The Fighting Kentuckian 6.5
Streets of Laredo 6.5
The UMR Critics top 6 –
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 7.8
Colorado Territory 7.1
The Cowboy and the Indians 7.0
Lust for Gold 6.9
Riders in the Sky 6.7
Fighting Man of the Plains 6.4
IMDB trivia –
John Ford initially was uncertain who to cast in the lead role in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). However, he knew that he didn’t want John Wayne for the part, taking into account that, among other factors, Wayne would be playing a character over 20 years older than he was at the time. John Ford had considered casting Henry Fonda.
Reportedly, Wayne’s performance in Red River (1948) changed Ford’s mind. Wayne had grown considerably as an actor, and was now capable of playing the character he envisaged for this film. When shooting was completed, Ford presented Wayne with a cake with the message, “You’re an actor now.” John Wayne felt his Academy Award nomination for Best Actor should have been for this film instead of Sands of Iwo Jima (1949).
Merry Christmas Bob and thanks again for all the reviews which are hopefully still archived here in Bruce’s great tome of a movie site. A new video series in 2022.
Take care and keep safe.
HI STEVE
Thanks for your comprehensive and informative reply; you NEVER let me down in that respect.
It’s good that your western movies series ended with you being able to post some highly creditworthy stats. Once again very well done.
Anyway seasons’ greeting to yourself and please enjoy Christmas as much as you can while keeping safe at all times.
Provided you don’t break the law, don’t heed what Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson [aka AL Johnson] and others advise you to do: use your own judgement.
Look forward to chatting with you again in the new year and I hope that it is indeed a happy new one for you. You deserve THAT as you have given us all so much pleasure again this year.