On Feb 4, 6:36=A0pm, TT wrote:
> TT wrote:
> > Stone me wrote:
> >> I found this late Western a very refreshing and rewarding viewing.
> >> The plot is located in the last year of WWII, but the location is
> >> almost timeless, and little imagination is required to transport onese=
lf
> >> back to the early days of ranching.
> >> [IMDB says it was shot in Colorado, though the plot is set in Montana]
> >> The scenery is fantastic, ranging from the boring flat prairie shots,
> >> to ones with the snow-capped (Colorado?)range on the horizon.
>
> >> The romance of ranching, of chasing loose cattle through and out of
> >> timber, and all the standard shots of branding, lying flat under the
> >> stars,
> >> log cabins, a stampede, - all make it the tops for me.
> >> The plot? The acting? The general direction?
> >> Yes, them too.
>
> >> Loved every minute of it.
>
> >> Stone me.
>
> > Sounds something I might like, will get this immediately, thanks. Can't
> > go all wrong with Jane Fonda and Jason Robards...Cat Ballou and Cable
> > Hogue.
>
> Btw If you like quiet westerns with authentic feel...I watched recently
> "Junior Bonner"...a very good modern day western with GREAT performance
> from Steve McQueen. Not much beautiful scenery in that though.
i have a great affection for that movie and everyoneociated with
it--the PEOPLE are the scenery. It's the movie, and kind of movie,
that Peckinpah wanted to make, but the studios wanted blood, and he
gave them what they paid for. |