Saw TS on his commercial for home sale, getting your money now and they get the home later. Anyway, TS was walking up to the camera I noticed he was not only breathing hard but walking a bit stiff. So I googled him and saw he was 74 years old. I mainly remembered him on Magnum PI, but i realised also that was many years ago. But, you know I did enjoy his westerns, especially Monte Walsh, Quigley Down Under and Last Stand at Saber River. So he had a pretty darn good career.
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
I still have difficulty in seeing Quigley Down Under as a western. To me it's just like saying any story about Ned Kelly or something set in the NZ Goldfields is a western. :7 Les Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
We'll, amigo, with Alan Rickman, who was a really fine baddie I think it was very close to our western movies. We've see QDU so many times though it's kind of too familiar.
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
Like Blue Bloods & Jesse Stone... Loved Crossfire trail & Mark Harmon as a bad guy. Great cast and wonderful direction. Had the feel of the old west...Got two signed autographs from him when he had something to do with the NRA... Its a shame they didn't make more L'Amour westerns right after The Day Breakers/ Sackett.. Lord, can you imagine 'The Sackett Brand', ' Lonely on the mountain & Treasure Mountain with Ben Johnson following.... Never to be...I even think 'Ride The River' would have been a good film... Something I never new; 'Last Stand At Papago Wells' was made inti a movie staring Rory Calhoun ;'Apache Territory'....
I'd also would've loved to see The Sackett Brand made in to a movie.
Thinking about that though, and not complaining mind you, they would have needed to take some "artistic liberties" to give some screen time for characters such as Orrin, Tyrell, Cap, Logan etc. After all, the book was pretty much all Tell.
That said, it would have been great to see.
"In case of snakebite always carry a small flagon of whiskey, and furthermore always carry a small snake." W.C. Fields
"In case of snakebite always carry a small flagon of whiskey, and furthermore always carry a small snake." W.C. Fields
Think of A Sackett's series you could use every book and pay homage to books like Borden Chantry and Bendigo Shafter.
Would need to have a bigger name for Tell as he would feature most prominently others would have their own chapter/s and then pop up from time to time.
with 12 x 1 hour episodes we could get a few seasons out of this :7
Les Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
Check the filmography on this site. There are a couple that the rights are held but nothing produced. I would wish for Last of the Breed and CGI Putin in as a KGB Heavy :7 in the part where Zamatev is called to Moscow.
Les Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
Oh man, LAST OF THE BREED would be an easy film also. So who is JoeMac? I'm thinking someone with an native American look. How about Bradley Cooper? But, like I say, an easy film. At least compared to, say, a location in the city.
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
