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Offline oneway

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The Shootist
« on: July 04, 2010, 11:14:35 PM »
The 'Shootist' is running on AMC in the loop this weekend..

The Duke, Becall and Young Mr.Howard...

A durable chronicle of changing times and character...

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Salute to the Duke...happy 4th Mr. Wayne

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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2010, 11:20:17 PM »
Quote from: oneway on July 04, 2010, 11:14:35 PM
The 'Shootist' is running on AMC in the loop this weekend..

The Duke, Becall and Young Mr.Howard...

A durable chronicle of changing times and character...

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Salute to the Duke...happy 4th Mr. Wayne



I was looking for John Wayne movies on youtube today.  Particularly this and True Grit.  I had a Jphn Wayne craving.  No luck.

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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2010, 11:22:56 PM »
True Grit will be watched a 100 years from now..

Another durable and timeless classic...
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2010, 11:31:59 PM »
In my humble opinion, both of Waynes most powerful performances are True Grit and The Shootist...

With Hepburn in the Rooster Cogburn, and Becall in the Shootist...he really hit his stride...

His best work was with powerful and veteran supporting actresses...as he grew older...



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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2010, 11:39:24 PM »
The Shootist, is my all time favorite JW movie. with True Grit, The Cowboys, and Big Jake following very closely behind.
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2010, 11:49:42 PM »
Quote from: SIK1 on July 04, 2010, 11:39:24 PM
The Shootist, is my all time favorite JW movie. with True Grit, The Cowboys, and Big Jake following very closely behind.

What a classic scene in Shootist when Books is in the Barber shop and the undertaker comes in and expresses regret at first for Books impending demise...while simultaneously applying good old fashioned turn of the century capitalism in an attempt to be the final guardian of Books' remains...and even more delicious is when Books calls him on it and shoves it back in his face...

Books: "I admire a man with get up and go"

Undertaker: "The early bird gets the worm"

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After Books stuffs it in his face for anticipating the windfall the undertaker will make on Books' notoriety...he squeezes the undertaker for 50 bucks...and charges him for the privilege of burying him..

Meanwhile Books has no problem conceding the barber the locks of hair on the floor...

Classic Wayne

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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2010, 10:56:07 AM »
Quote from: SIK1 on July 04, 2010, 11:39:24 PM
The Shootist, is my all time favorite JW movie. with True Grit, The Cowboys, and Big Jake following very closely behind.
i watched all of those on AMC this weekend
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2010, 12:01:37 PM »
McClintock is my favorite Wayne film. Great comedy especially in the mud slide fight.
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2010, 12:37:02 PM »
One of his best films, more ironic in that when he made it he knew he was dieing.

One of a few movies he 'died' in - I'll kick it off:

1) The Shootist
2) The Cowboys
3) The Sands of Iwo Jima

At least another 3 or so out there......
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2010, 02:11:29 PM »
Quote from: SIK1 on July 04, 2010, 11:39:24 PM
The Shootist, is my all time favorite JW movie. with True Grit, The Cowboys, and Big Jake following very closely behind.

Great moment from "The Cowboys"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBS_tC4eRE

Great moments in speech therapy

Gotta admit I've used similar hard tactics for getting my own kids to do something I knew they are able to but they did not believe they could.
It works
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2010, 02:36:30 AM »
The Searchers
True Grit
The High and the Mighty
El Dorado

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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2010, 07:25:31 AM »
Tall in the saddle !
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2010, 02:42:00 PM »
I watched it again a month or two back. It's a excellent film, and would be his best performance if it wasn't for... 'The Green Berets'   :D
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2010, 02:48:42 PM »
Top 5 John Wayne films:

They Were Expendable
True Grit
The Searchers
Fort Apache
In Harm's Way
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Re: The Shootist
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2010, 02:58:28 PM »
Any movie he did with Maureen O'Hara.
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