Comments for 50 Westerns From The 50s. http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com Writing a blog about writing a book about old cowboy movies. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:47:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Happy Father’s Day. by David Arrate http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/happy-fathers-day/#comment-6282 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:47:05 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=6529#comment-6282 Happy Father’s Day, Toby! Love the photo. Had to add it to my Black Patch image gallery: http://mykindofimages.tumblr.com/post/52558820092/for-warner-archive-consideration-black-patch

]]> Comment on Screenings: Allan Dwan And The Rise And Decline Of The Hollywood Studios. by Paula http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/screenings-allan-dwan-and-the-rise-and-decline-of-the-hollywood-studios/#comment-6279 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:15:32 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8605#comment-6279 A big box BLU-RAY set. Especially Slightly Scarlet. Yeah, I know… it’s not going to happen. :(

]]> Comment on Screenings: Allan Dwan And The Rise And Decline Of The Hollywood Studios. by Paul http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/screenings-allan-dwan-and-the-rise-and-decline-of-the-hollywood-studios/#comment-6277 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:33:25 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8605#comment-6277 I could sit and watch these films all day. “Silver Lode” is a film that never seems to get old and “Slightly Scarlet” is an absolute classic. I have never seen “The Woman They Almost Lynched”, but would love to check it out. I think a nice big box set is in order!

]]> Comment on 50s Westerns DVD News #123: Short Grass (1950). by William. Patrick. Lester http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/50s-westerns-dvd-news-123-short-grass-1950/#comment-6274 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:19:45 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8482#comment-6274 Love tales of the old west. My wife and i watch them just about every night ,loce j.m brown ,tex ritter h cassidy, i could go on all night,got to get back to ordering,goodnight all. W lester

]]> Comment on Screenings: Allan Dwan And The Rise And Decline Of The Hollywood Studios. by Laura http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/screenings-allan-dwan-and-the-rise-and-decline-of-the-hollywood-studios/#comment-6269 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:49:57 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8605#comment-6269 What a fantastic series! THE WOMAN THEY ALMOST LYNCHED has a cast of actors I really love, I’ve got to see this one.

Wish this series would come to UCLA or LACMA. I saw Dwan’s SLIGHTLY SCARLET last summer at LACMA and had a wonderful time. :)

Best wishes,
Laura

]]> Comment on Character Actor Of The Day: Frank Ferguson. by Laura http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/character-actor-of-the-day-frank-ferguson/#comment-6268 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:47:08 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8599#comment-6268 Hadn’t heard Olive dropped A MAN ALONE from its plans and am terribly disappointed. As I mentioned up near the top of this thread, it’s one of my favorites — has been since I was a kid. Fortunately I have a good DVD copy from Encore Westerns (miraculously it’s even missing the Encore logo that is so often in the corner), but I would have really liked to have a nice release from Olive (hopefully with some of their nice cover art) to put on my shelf.

Best wishes,
Laura

]]> Comment on Screenings: Allan Dwan And The Rise And Decline Of The Hollywood Studios. by Stephen Bowie http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/screenings-allan-dwan-and-the-rise-and-decline-of-the-hollywood-studios/#comment-6266 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:33:39 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8605#comment-6266 Yeah, SLIGHTLY SCARLET and THE RIVER’S EDGE are just about perfect in the seamy, color, widescreen late-50s-noir department. About as close as the movies got to the John D. MacDonald-style hard-boiled fiction of that era.

Didn’t realize FRONTIER MARSHAL was so obscure before Fox sneaked it out as a bonus with that giant John Ford set.

]]> Comment on Character Actor Of The Day: Frank Ferguson. by john k http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/character-actor-of-the-day-frank-ferguson/#comment-6262 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:16:59 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8599#comment-6262 Simply Media have replied to my e-mail and sadly DAKOTA LIL will
be the black & white version.The two Scott movies will be black & white
also because that is how they are listed on Ignites website.
At a guess the Scott films SHOULD be superior to the versions released
in Spain and recently Germany.
I hope sales are good enough with this initial wave to encourage
Simply Media to issue more product from the Ignite catalog.
I am very keen to see BELLE STARRS DAUGHTER released plus the
oddball Alperson production SWORD OF MONTE CRISTO.
I am really interested in the latter title just to see George Montgomery
in a swashbuckler.
Yes Mike,it is really annoying that Olive Films have dropped THE LAST
COMMAND and A MAN ALONE.I do wish someone could convince
Olive that other people apart from The Duke made Westerns.
I hate the fact that the Republic library is owned by Paramount and all
these great films are going to remain unseen;unless of course Warner
Archive come to the rescue.
Sadly,at the moment this Warner/Paramount deal only seems to cover
more recent films not the vintage titles we all want.To make matters even
worse a whole chunk of the Allied Artists library was sold to Republic
so those titles are all lost too.
When I have news on the Simply releases I will post my views here.

]]> Comment on Character Actor Of The Day: Frank Ferguson. by Toby http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/character-actor-of-the-day-frank-ferguson/#comment-6258 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:14:19 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8599#comment-6258 That Dwan series is terrific. Scheduling Silver Lode for July 4th weekend is perfect. Wish I could go.

]]> Comment on Character Actor Of The Day: Frank Ferguson. by Stephen Bowie http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/character-actor-of-the-day-frank-ferguson/#comment-6257 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:41:39 +0000 http://fiftieswesterns.wordpress.com/?p=8599#comment-6257 THE RESTLESS BREED showing on 35mm at MoMA later this month, with Evelyn Rudie introducing the screening, no less:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1374

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