Got another movie for you to watch with dad. My guess is he will remember the time. Lost Horizons with Ronald Coleman. It is an interesting diddy but the historical connections is great. It is about the mythical place Shangri La, shown in the movie houses in 1937. After the Dolittle raid on Tokyo in 1942, reporter asked FDR where those plane came from? FDR waves his arm and declares Shangri La. Every one catches on that is some mythical place but what is cool is the way FDR did it. Just like Ronald Coleman same wave of hand, same unique tone as in the movie Lost Horizons. The next Essex class Air Craft Carrier off the ways was named, Shangri La. I think the US Navy should always have a Carrier named the Shangri La.
Boone. That's it. Great bad guy although he was a good guy as Palidin. He played the good guy in another movie, I can't remember the name of the flick, but he was the skipper on and Air Craft Carrier headed into harms way. Not a great flix at all but it always sticks in my mind. There was a young nobody in that flick playing the role of and Ensign, one of the skippers boys sort of a dip shit like Ensigns tend to be. End of that tale. Now this same dude, his real name is Jack Diamond (is that real?) in the movie credits and onboard my ship. Damned if he doesn't get assign as the Main battery Director officer in Sky one. Which is mine, I lead the main battery fire control. I am also the Shore team leader for what ever mission ashore needs to happen. Well one comes up. I go ashore and check it out, come back with a plan, while the Navy gets the Marines onboard. A serious mission ashore always requires a Naval Officer in charge, so the Captain assigns Ensign Jack Diamond. As I am leaving the Ward room for the gig, the Captain touches my arm and leans in, Bring those Marines Back!
I have told the above tale, before, maybe here, no doubt elsewhere. I do recall people asking me, have you ever been an Ensign? Ha! The answer is yes. But I did not suffer it long. Almost as soon as I caught the ship after the commission, a reason to be promoted to JG in fleet happened before I had a bunk. Not all that long after leaving the Navy, I was recalled for Cuba. That procedure wise was even more bazaar. The Navy and IBM worked out a deal to send me to Virginia where they gave me LCdr suite and a mission. When the fracas was over, I went home from the class I was attending and that was that. No new DD214s or nothing. IBM paid my salary and that was it. I expect they were reimbursed but I do not know.
My favorites are The Outlaw Josey Wales Unforgiven Tombstone The Quick and the Dead The Good the Bad and the Ugly A Fist Full of Dollars McCabe and Mrs Miller. Blazing Saddles The Magnificent 7 Just saw The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. It was pretty good.
Every fall/winter my wife brings out John Wayne movies to remember her Grandma by. Her Grandmas favorite was Chism, so we watch that one every time.
He played in many good movies. Among them are some of my favorites: Westworld; The Ultimate Warrior; The King and I; The Ten Commandments; The Buccaneer; Taras Bulba (which I saw the night before I went to Vietnam in the morning); The Magnificent Seven; Cast a Giant Shadow.
Haven't you ever seen The Big Country, The Gunfighter or The Bravados? Then there's The Searchers. How about High Noon? Last Train From Gun Hill and Stagecoach and Bend of the River, The River of No Return and The Appaloosa and One Eyed Jacks. These are all must see Westerns.
"Unforgiven" and all Clint Eastwood cowboy classics are in my list. The Russell Crowe movie "3:10 to Yuma" was edgy and "Cowboys vs. Aliens" seemed absurd but was entertaining. Tombstone featuring Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell and Sam Elliot-great movie script and acting.
Yul Brenner (obviously not his real name) was never fit for Westerns. IMHO. I sure liked Steve McQueen.
Clint Walker-Best Cowboy voice ever! Lee Marvin-Gritty and tough. Jack Palance-Worst teeth. I liked Glenn Ford's work but Gary Cooper never knocked me over as an actor. Yul Brenner was noted for Magnificent 7 and if had to carry that movie alone it would fail.
Tombstone was one of the few good movies Val Kilmer did. I loved him in that movie. "I'm your huckleberry"
Good movie and an excellent novel by Cormac McCarthy. He also wrote Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (many people refer to this as his masterpiece) and the novel to The Road (which also became a movie).