What Was The Last Western You Watched?

[Senta]

Originally posted by Hondo Duke Lane@Dec 4 2005, 09:30 PM
Hey Senta,

The setting of that movie is within a 50 miles of where I live.* The town is called Demopolis, Alabama, and it is a real french settlement town.* Just thought I'd let you know about the town that is a major part of the movie.* As far as I know, it was not shot in the town.* It was before my time, and there was not any scenery shot in the movie.

Cheers* B)

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Hi Hondo,
Thank you for the comment. It all sounds very interesting. It is still mainly french town and they came to it after Napoleonic wars?
I'm not quite understand in the film why they were in danger, when they settled according wrong landmarks?
Regards,
Senta

[Hondo Duke Lane]

Senta,

This is The History of Demopolis. At this web site you can read a brief history of the beginnings of the development of this town. There is some fact in this movie about what you ask about, but as for the movie, I am not completely sure if this is a true story or not. It seems to follow the same lines as the movie, but we can only guess if a character like John Wayne was a part of this history.

As for this not being a western, at the time the terrotory of Alabama in 1817 was as west you as you got in that time period. There was not much settlement any futher west as least to the Mississippi River, and this was the wilderness. I do know that Mississippi was a state at the time, but it was also mainly wilderness at that time. Most of the population was around the gulf coast and New Orleans, and along the river. Anyway, I wanted to voice my opinion about what Carl said about questioning this movie as a western. It was a wilderness movie along the same lines of a western. ;)

Cheers B)

[ethanedwards]

Originally posted by Senta@Dec 5 2005, 04:34 AM
Hi Hondo,
Thank you for the comment. It all sounds very interesting. It is still mainly french town and they came to it after Napoleonic wars?
I'm not quite understand in the film why they were in danger, when they settled according wrong landmarks?
Regards,
Senta

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Hi Vera,
In answer to your question.
Basically the bad man Hayden and his equally nasty band of bad rivermen, set up a scheme, to evict the French settlers, by switching the stakes,
set by the surveyors.

Best Wishes,
Keith

[Jay J. Foraker]

I see the Western as a depiction of members of society moving across these United States in its formative years (the term "taming of the West). As such, "The Fighting Kentuckian" certainly qualifies. A movie (or story) such as "The Last of the Mohicans" qualifies as well, even though it takes place in New York State, because, at that time, the area was mostly wilderness and settlers and pioneers were making their way through coping with the adversity and challenges found in that day.
Cheers - Jay :D

[ethanedwards]

Hi Everyone,
From this side of the pond, it seems,to me,
that if anyone landed on the East coast and moved inland,
they must have been going West!!!
To me any film made about this conquest
must be Western by nature, and Geography alone???

Best Wishes,
Keith

[SXViper]

You are both correct on what is the west. But, I think when most people think of a western or out west. They think of cacti, desert, horses, cavalry, indians, ect......

[Phantomstranger]

"Night Passage" with James Stewart and Audie Murphy

[Senta]

Hi Hondo and Keith,
thank you for answering my question. I read about history of Demopolis with great interest, it was all new for me and it is very much like the storyline in The Fighting Kentuckian. For me this movie is certainly a western, because of the plot and other western features. I never thought that western can be only in West States, and others are adventure films.
Regards,
Senta

By the way yesterday I'm with great pleasure watched The Searchers (for countless time). Wanted to show it to my mother (she watched it for the first time).

[ZACK613]

I agree that a Western doesn't have to take place in the Western States rather, they have to be about the American Fronter. Hence, Last of the Mohegins and Drums Along the Mohawk take place in upper New York State of the 1770 then that was the frontier, and are there for Westerns. North to Alaska takes place in the 1900 when Alaska was the fronter is in their fore also a western.

[Hondo Duke Lane]

Really enjoyed all your opinions about The Fighting Kentuckian and gave me a good explanation of what a western is. I guess Allegheny Uprising could be considered a western as well even though it is in Pennsylvania somewhere around the Pittsburgh area. :P

Cheers B)

[InHarmsWay]

Tom Horn (1980), starring the late..great KING OF COOL Steve McQueen.

Amazing film, i believe his last. 8.5/10


-IHW

[Phantomstranger]

Actually McQueens last movie was a 1980 action film called "The Hunter"

[The Ringo Kid]

Don't know if you can really classify this as a Western but, I watched the Phantom Empire Serial which had Gene Autry being captured by the Thunder Riders from the Kingdom of Murania.

[Phantomstranger]

"Geronimo"" with Chuck Conners as a blue eyed Geronimo

[The Ringo Kid]

Watched part of Two Mules For Sister Sara, yesterday. Interesting Clint Eastwood vehicle and even more interesting is that I actually liked this Western.