MovieMadness Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Lucky us get to see three Clint Eastwood movies, holsters required, lol. h1. 5:00 PM h2. [Fistful Of Dollars, A (1964)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3645/Fistful-Of-Dollars-A/] A mysterious stranger plays dueling families against each other in a Mexican border town. *Dir*: [sergio Leone|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/112180%7C139416/Sergio-Leone/] *Cast*: [Clint Eastwood|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/55386%7C33326/Clint-Eastwood/] , [Marianne Koch|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/103966%7C106069/Marianne-Koch/] , [Gian Maria Volontè|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%7C61153/Gian-Maria-Volont-/] . C-100 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format h1. 6:45 PM h2. [For a Few Dollars More (1965)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3646/For-a-Few-Dollars-More/] Two bounty hunters join forces to bring an outlaw to justice. *Dir*: [sergio Leone|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/112180%7C139416/Sergio-Leone/] *Cast*: [Clint Eastwood|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/55386%7C33326/Clint-Eastwood/] , [Lee Van Cleef|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/196666%7C96762/Lee-Van-Cleef/] , [Gian Maria Volontè|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%7C61153/Gian-Maria-Volont-/] . BW-132 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format h1. 9:00 PM h2. [Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, The (1966)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/18724/Good-The-Bad-And-The-Ugly-The/] Three men seek hidden loot during the Civil War. *Dir*: [sergio Leone|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/112180%7C139416/Sergio-Leone/] *Cast*: [Clint Eastwood|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/55386%7C33326/Clint-Eastwood/] , [Eli Wallach|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/201192%7C46248/Eli-Wallach/] , [Lee Van Cleef|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/196666%7C96762/Lee-Van-Cleef/] . C-179 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Even though I have the DVDs for all, I'll still be putting the triple play on tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 > {quote:title=cigarjoe wrote:}{quote} > Its actually more accurate to call the Sergio Leone Films I didn't call them anything in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike00 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I wish they would air other Sergio Leone movies on occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 *clore wrote: I didn't call them anything in the first place.* its for the OP Edited by: cigarjoe on Nov 9, 2012 5:53 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 . . . poncho optional. I'm not super "into" those films, but understand why some are. One thing I appreciate about them is that even though I do not have smell-a-vision, I really can smell how funky all of those characters are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 > {quote:title=cigarjoe wrote:}{quote}*clore wrote: > > I didn't call them anything in the first place.* its for the OP > Wouldn't have been preferable then to respond to the OP? Anyway, here's some phony Leone, a prologue for A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS that was shot for the 1977 ABC network airing of the film. It was shot by cult director Monte Hellman and features Harry Dean Stanton and a stand-in for Eastwood. My jaw dropped when I saw this back then, even the wife noticed that he must have traded the horse for a mule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 I think that Kurosawa also borrowed a bit of THE GLASS KEY for YOJIMBO, so it all gets to be a bit interesting when one throws in LAST MAN STANDING and MILLER'S CROSSING as variations on a theme. One of these days, someone is going to set the story in outer space with a lone hero conspiring between two warring nations on some far distant planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Try Harry Harrison's Deathworld series, particularly Deathworld 2 and Deathworld 3. A long time ago, in a city far away, a theater scheduled an entire day of Leone films, including all of Eastwood's no-names, plus Once Upon a Time in the West. A group of friends decided to see all of them. Some ten hours or so later, emerging into the sunset light, groggy, disoriented, our brains gooey, we felt like we had just eaten two Thanksgiving dinners in a row with our minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 That's better than the fest that I went to - the three Eastwood/Leone films plus HANG 'EM HIGH. I don't know why we stayed for the latter, we had all seen it before and found it lacking to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 But it's a very mediocre revenge flick - my least favorite Eastwood movie. Mine also, at least among his westerns. It's the only one that I don't have, I even bought JOE KIDD and I think that one pretty much rots also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 The next good western he was in was hizzown High Plains Drifter, and it was his last. Man, that opening shot for Good, Bad, and Ugly is fantastic. Leone had it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike00 Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Will they ever air that on TCM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike00 Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 I think it might have aired once before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimalac91748 Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 You're correct. "Unforgiven" aired 3/2/08 as part of the '31 days of Oscar' in 2008. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 HIgh Plains Drifter was his last good western. The Unforgiven, like many of his movies, was High Plains Drifter, which, in turn, was A Fistfull of Dollars. That is, man comes to town, man shoots everyone, man leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaquelVixen Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 > {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}HIgh Plains Drifter was his last good western. The Unforgiven, like many of his movies, was High Plains Drifter, which, in turn, was A Fistfull of Dollars. That is, man comes to town, man shoots everyone, man leaves. Yes indeed, and this is why these movies appeal almost exclusively to men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted November 10, 2012 Author Share Posted November 10, 2012 > {quote:title=cigarjoe wrote:}{quote}Its actually more accurate to call them Sergio Leone Films Clint is lifting his poncho, and has a mean stare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Hey, Blondie! Yooouuu know what your are?! Just a dirty son-of-a- ayeeayeeayeeahhh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 The one exception is Once Upon A Time in The West Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbeckuaf Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 > {quote:title=cigarjoe wrote:}{quote}The one exception is Once Upon A Time in The West That appears to be true, every women I've ever introduced to that flick has really liked it! Coolio! It also happens to be my favorite of the Leone pasta westerns! It ROCKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceSaliano Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 > {quote:title=MovieMadness wrote:}{quote}Lucky us get to see three Clint Eastwood movies, holsters required, lol. > > > > h1. 5:00 PM > h2. [Fistful Of Dollars, A (1964)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3645/Fistful-Of-Dollars-A/] > > A mysterious stranger plays dueling families against each other in a Mexican border town. > > > *Dir*: [sergio Leone|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/112180%7C139416/Sergio-Leone/] *Cast*: [Clint Eastwood|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/55386%7C33326/Clint-Eastwood/] , [Marianne Koch|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/103966%7C106069/Marianne-Koch/] , [Gian Maria Volontè|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%7C61153/Gian-Maria-Volont-/] . > > > C-100 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format > > > > > > > > h1. 6:45 PM > h2. [For a Few Dollars More (1965)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3646/For-a-Few-Dollars-More/] > > Two bounty hunters join forces to bring an outlaw to justice. > > > *Dir*: [sergio Leone|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/112180%7C139416/Sergio-Leone/] *Cast*: [Clint Eastwood|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/55386%7C33326/Clint-Eastwood/] , [Lee Van Cleef|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/196666%7C96762/Lee-Van-Cleef/] , [Gian Maria Volontè|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/0%7C61153/Gian-Maria-Volont-/] . > > > BW-132 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format > > > > > > > > h1. 9:00 PM > h2. [Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, The (1966)|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/18724/Good-The-Bad-And-The-Ugly-The/] > > Three men seek hidden loot during the Civil War. > > > *Dir*: [sergio Leone|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/112180%7C139416/Sergio-Leone/] *Cast*: [Clint Eastwood|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/55386%7C33326/Clint-Eastwood/] , [Eli Wallach|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/201192%7C46248/Eli-Wallach/] , [Lee Van Cleef|http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/196666%7C96762/Lee-Van-Cleef/] . > > > C-179 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format > My empty chair enjoyed 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaquelVixen Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 My DVD Recorder was glad it got take a break form an overload of pasta Westerns, as did my empty chair because I turned off the cable box. :^0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Despite the lack of women characters, the trilogy of films are well made, well acted, and well directed. Sergio Leone was a superior visual stylist, with innovative ways of using both the field of the picture and it's border, perspective, different planes, and visual contrast. As cigarjoe posted, Once Upon a Time in the West is not all male. There is only one woman character, but Claudia Cardinale more than holds her own against all the males arrayed around her. For a western with a majority of women roles, try Westward the Women, by William Wellman, a great Western, unfortunately overlooked, and shown on TCM periodically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike00 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Speaking of Once Upon A Time In The West, does anybody know when/if it will air on TCM again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts