FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 but never Joel's technicolor *Buffalo Bill*...why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Yes, Buffalo Bill is a great old color movie. I'm enjoying these films today. I've never seen some of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 < Yes, Buffalo Bill is a great old 'color' movie. > Hey babes'... ...it's 'colour', remember..."much classier" !! Twink PS Enjoy your Westerns ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Sorry, but we aren't very well educated down here in the Colonies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 ..huh,... maybe it is the other way around ! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 We Americans (US version) tend to dumb things down I recorded the McCrea movies this morning and I will watch them soon, I never got all of the JMc movies recorded back when TCM had him SOTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Is it color or colour on them thar tcm festival cruises? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 It's 'colour' : Ranked just above n'est-ce pas with the hoity-toity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 ..it was babes'.. who said he thought the spelling of "colour" has a lot more class than "color"! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Well, it's a reference from Fred; a way of life among others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 It use to turn up now and then on the Fox Movie Channel so it appears to be one of those films that Fox has been keeping for itself. Still, TCM has been getting more films from Fox of late so perhaps at some point in time it will end up on TCM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heuriger Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 >Ranked just above n'est-ce pas with the hoity-toity In the third slot is that evergreen, je ne sais quoi which the hoi polloi would never use. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosebette Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Colorado Territory is my favorite McCrea Western. It's a Western remake of High Sierra, by the same director, Raoul Walsh, but I think it's just as good in its own way. I always tear up at the end. Trooper Hook made in the 50s with Barbara Stanwyck is another underrated film. She plays a woman who was captured and lived as a wife of an Indian, and McCrea acts as her protector as she returns to her husband. Great chemistry between McCrea and Stanwyck and balanced portrayal of native Americans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 >heuriger said: In the third slot is that evergreen, je ne sais quoi which the hoi polloi would never use. ;-) Yes, that's several decks above steerage if I recall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I recorded the Joel McCrea westerns from Friday morning and I am starting to watch them. Colorado Territory and Wichita were the two I was most interested in but will watch them all. McCrea just seems so natural in these movies, dare I say this, as good as the "Duke" as far as I'm concerned, and that's no knock on Mr Wayne either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 To me that was a knock on McCrea. He was more natural than Wayne by a mile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I would agree that McCrea has a much more easy going style as opposed to Wayne's . But there's no denying that Wayne was the bigger box office star. Yet I believe that Joel McCrea could have been a very good substitute for Wayne in most of his films. If McCrea had gotten some of those roles (Wayne's) McCrea would be more highly regarded today. The more I watch Joel McCrea the more I like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I like both McCrea and Wayne but when it comes to a comparison of their westerns, there's not much doubt who appeared in the better ones. Wayne was highly fortuntate that both John ford and Howard Hawks wanted to work with him. McCrea didn't have that same luck (though, of course, Colorado Territory and Ride the High Country, both done by master western directors themselves, are fine efforts). A look at Wayne's non-Ford and non-Hawks westerns puts him closer to the level of McCrea's work in that genre. (The one noteworthy exception to that for Wayne would be Hondo, a genuinely fine effort with the Duke at his best, in my opinion). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanceroten Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I like the Joel McCrea westerns better than John Wayne's. Just a personal preference. Same for Randolph Scott. I prefer his westerns >>> Wayne's. That's not to say I don't like John Wayne's overall (westerns + all else) body of work. It's picking nits. They all their have good and bad films. Comes down, at least for me, as to who you like better as an actor, and the style they portray. I go with McCrea-Scott-Wayne. But that's just me. We're all different. It's what makes watching and discussing movies fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Rogers Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Ride the High Country would be my favorite, but it had the benefit of so many elements. (McCrea, Scott, Peckinpah, Hartley, Oates). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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