The Train Robbers (1973)

[ShortGrub]

I know how to rip audio from the DVD, but I have yet to come across a program that can separate music from dialogue. What software are you talking about?

I will look at the DVD and see if the audio can be ripped. Some have multiple audio layers.

[ringo kid]

a good movie but rod taylor was as good as john wayne.taylor was a very underratted actor.i 6/10

[ethanedwards]

a good movie but rod taylor was as good as john wayne.taylor was a very underratted actor.i 6/10

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Thanks for your post, but to compare Rod Taylor,
to Duke, is not even worth considering.
Rod Taylor in my opinion is a good actor,
but no where in the same league as Duke!!

[ringo kid]

i agree with you nobody could touch duke in a film.hes in a different
league with any actor living or dead.
sincerely
steven dwyer

[WaynamoJim]

a good movie but rod taylor was as good as john wayne.taylor was a very underratted actor.i 6/10

"Something to do!"

[alamo221]

This is a curious film. It has a lot of the normal Duke film trappings, but also tries for more-not quite succeeding. It's a fun ride tho, and it's a pity Rod Taylor didn't have a chance to do more films with John Wayne (and/or Ben Johnson) they all had good chemistry. I too would watch this more than, say, Rooster Cogburn. it's a good time killer. I just feel it's missing one undefinable element that could have made it REALLY good.

[Gorch]

Did anyone else pick up that Ann-Margaret's and Duke's characters are named Mrs. Lowe and Lane - the same last names from "Hondo"? That can't be an accident.



We deal in lead, friend.

[ethanedwards]

Trivia

* John Wayne's and Ann-Margret's character names, "Lane" and "Mrs. Lowe," are the same as Wayne's and Geraldine Page's characters' names in Hondo (1953).

Yes it's mentioned in the opening post on this movie

[pinto]

Not a bad film worth watching with a great twist in the end. The chemistery between the actors was brilliant.. I love JWs 'my way or the highway' attitude ..I see the Duke had a MAJIC horse who could change the stripe on his face to a blaze , then back again at the start when they all set off..kind of like the majic paint horse in Hildalgo who could change his coat pattern

[BILL OF PA]

This is a curious film. It has a lot of the normal Duke film trappings, but also tries for more-not quite succeeding. It's a fun ride tho, and it's a pity Rod Taylor didn't have a chance to do more films with John Wayne (and/or Ben Johnson) they all had good chemistry. I too would watch this more than, say, Rooster Cogburn. it's a good time killer. I just feel it's missing one undefinable element that could have made it REALLY good.

That element is that there is no face or identity to the bad guys.Hard to dislike if you do not know who they are. That and the fact there nust have been 50 of them.

[alamo221]

Well we KNOW who they are-more thieves out for the gold. I agree that it needed villain/leader, but I don't feel it was mandatory.

[ringo kid]

i once read when burt kennedy was directing the train robbers,he wanted jack elam for the part of grady(rod taylor part)but john wayne didnt want him because when they made rio lobo together,any parts elam had with john wayne he stole the show.how much of that is true i dont know.

[BILL OF PA]

i once read when burt kennedy was directing the train robbers,he wanted jack elam for the part of grady(rod taylor part)but john wayne didnt want him because when they made rio lobo together,any parts elam had with john wayne he stole the show.how much of that is true i dont know.

I do not know if thats true or not. I do know he had Stother Martin in several of his films and Stother stole every scene in any film he ever made.

[alamo221]

That was a curious thing to me. I read somewhere that Duke had problems with dogs and kids in films being scene stealers. As a result dogs didn't seem to have much longetivity in his films, and he didn't often work with children (except for his own, tho he did work with other children from time to time). Elam probably would have been a BIG thief in TRs. Taylor was grand in the part, but it always IMHO, seemed too small a part for him. As for Strother, you're dead-on. Maybe Duke really liked him.

[Lt. Brannigan]

The Jack Elam issue is in one of the more recent bios, but John Wayne had no problem with children, I remember a quote that went something like this, "A good story involves a dog, a child and a woman's love" that's what he looked for in his movies, of course if I'm remembering correctly this was a 50's quote.

EDIT: I found the quote, I was close but it actually goes "I always look for a story with basic emotions: a dog, a kid, a woman's love, a man's love"

and there is no date attached to it.