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« on: August 01, 2008, 05:21:04 PM »

Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) and Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) are two old cow hands facing the extinction of their kind.

They come down out of the mountains from riding line for the winter to find that all the ranches have been devestated by the harsh winter and there are no jobs to be found.

Most of the spreads have been bought out by a company in the east. Their friend Cal Brennan (Jim Davis) gives them a job on the ranch he is running for the company.

Lay offs and other travails (some of the out of work cowboys turn to rustling and robbery) plague the cowboys.

Chet marries the widow who owns the hardware store and becomes a townie. Monte even proposes to his long time love Martine (Jeanne Moreau).

Marvin does a great job as Monte Walsh, a man who by the end of the movie has lost everything he loves but his freedom .


The best sequences in the movie are when Monte and Chet first start work and the ranch and have to help deal with the cook, who is a great cook, but evidently has some industrial strength BO.

The cow hands jump him one morning and force bathe him in the cattle trough. The cook gets his vengeance the next morning by lacing their pancakes with croton oil. Some of the poor cowboys don't quite make it to outhouse.

There is a long sequence where Monte demolishes half the town breaking in a gray stallion.


If you enjoy westerns, this is a great one.


TNT produced an excellent remake in 2003 starring Tom Selleck as Monte Walsh, Keith Carradine as Chet,and  Isabella Rossellini as Martine.


The remake was directed by Simon Wincer, who directed the original Lonesome Dove miniseries.


Both movies are well worth the time to watch.
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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 10:16:12 PM »

Had a chance to see a VHS copy from Hollywood Video years ago before my VHS player finally gave out, but didn't. It's been on my Western list ever since. Westerns that I have yet to view.

Seraphin Falls
September Dawn
Monte Walsh
The Train Robbers
The Last Hard Men
The Hunting Party
Tepepa
Face To Face
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Most of the American Westerns that I haven't seen are recent releases and there are a few Spaghetti Westerns that I have yet to see and I've already watched about 70 so far. Here are two of the main ones that have been on my list now for many years.

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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2008, 05:42:31 AM »

Westerns that I have yet to view.

The Train Robbers - I have this in my John Wayne collection and I must say it is one of my least favorite John Wayne movies.  In my opinion, there is no need for you to rush to see this one.

The Hunting Party - I also have this one.  It's interesting and off-beat.  It's not as good as I hoped it would be, but it's significantly better than THE TRAIN ROBBERS. 

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - I loved this movie.  Some people think it's too long and drawn out, but I really enjoyed it.  I thought Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt were brilliant.
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2008, 12:34:33 PM »

I've heard that about THE TRAIN ROBBERS, but I'm determined to see all the John Wayne films that were made after RED RIVER int the 40's and all the rest of his Westerns in 50's, 60's, and the 70's. THE TRAIN ROBBERS have eluded me.

And I do recall your original post on THE HUNTING PARTY a ways back.

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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2008, 01:29:26 PM »

Finally saw the original a few years ago, excellent latter day western about the rough life of the men who worked in the cattle ranches of the American west. Some of Marvin's and Palance's best and most subtle acting. Wish they had done more work like this, and more films together in their heyday for that matter. To see Palance playing a likable, sympathetic normal guy was a welcome change of pace. I've yet to see the remake but I hear it is much closer to the source novel.

I've never been able to sit through all of The Train Robbers, I get bored and for get about it. It's one of those later Wayne westerns I just don't care for like Chisum.

I want to see some of the others you've mentioned, Conan (still find myself wanting to call you Scott, expecially since I'm not on this board as much these days). I know The Hunting Party is in my Netflix lineup, decided to knock it off after seeing the unrelated RIchard Gere film of the same name (an underrated gem worth seeking out IMO) and since I used to watch about anything I could find with Richard Harris in it but hadn't seen this one.

The Last Hard Men (it still sounds like a porn title) is kind of underwhelming. Interesting setup and it takes places during a setting I usually find interesting in western, the early 20th Century after the closing of the frontier but before WW1., and yet I just don't like it. James Coburn is hideously miscast as a half-breed Indian criminal, Chuck Heston is given too little to do but wear silly facial hair, act noble, and then p**sed off. Also the violence is strangely more brutal than I'd expect from a film, even from the mid-70s, with these leads. Lots 70's era Hollywood movie blood, think Big Jake and The Shootist. Should have been better than it was.
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