Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here: 1969 Western Movie

The Willie Boy incident was the most savage chapter in frontier history!

'Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here' from 1969

Starring Robert Redford, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Katharine Ross, Barry Sullivan, John Vernon.

Directed by Abraham Polonsky

Writers: Harry Lawton (book), Abraham Polonsky

IMDb Movie Outline: In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie.

• Also known as: Willie Boy
• Filming locations: Banning, California, USA
• Rated/Certification: M
• Release date: October 31, 1969 (West Germany)
• Runtime: 1hr 38min

Movie Info Source: 
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Showdown: 1973 Western Movie

Together they fought for survival...now their guns must turn against each other!

'Showdown' from 1973

Starring Rock Hudson, Dean Martin, Susan Clark, Donald Moffat. 

IMDb Movie Outline: Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.

Directed by George Seaton

Writers: Theodore Taylor (screenplay), Hank Fine (story)

• Release Date: June 20, 1973 (United States)
• Rated PG
• Runtime: 1h 39min
• Also Known As: Once Upon a River
• Filming Locations: Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA

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Flaming Star: 1960 Western Movie

The white man's song was on his lips...but an Indian war cry was in his heart!

'Flaming Star' from 1960.

Starring Elvis Presley, John McIntire, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, and Dolores del Rio; directed by Don Siegel.

IMDb Movie Outline: When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence.

• Also Known As: Black Heart
• Filming Location: Janss Conejo Ranch, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
• From the novel 'Flaming Lance' by Clair Huffaker, also one of the screenwriters along with Nunnally Johnson.

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The Man from the Alamo: 1953 Western Movie

 

Was he the coward they branded him...or the fighting Texan with a secret mission of revenge!

The Man from the Alamo 

Released: August 21, 1953

Starring Glenn Ford, Julie Adams (credited as Julia), Chill Wills, Hugh O'Brian.

Directed by Budd Boetticher.

IMDb Movie Storyline: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?

Also Known As: Covek iz Alama

Filming Locations: Mexican Street, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

IMDb Review Excerpt: 

"I didn't know we were at War with Children"

There is always something interesting and just a bit different in this Director's Movies. This one is no exception. It is replete with thought provoking ideas like cowardice, bigotry, loyalty, and other values only found in the better Westerns.

This is an action filled Film with guns blazing, galloping Horses, Wagon Trains, bushwhackers, Mexican impersonators, fist-fights and all that is expected in this type of thing. But the difference here is the intelligence. Source: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2775267

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Catlow: 1971 Comedy Western Movie

The Mexican cavalry wanted him murdered. The Apache nation wanted him massacred. Texas ranchers wanted him mangled and his only hope was a Marshal, who wanted him hanged. 

Catlow from 1971; starring Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, and Leonard Nimoy (with a brief nudity scene!); directed by Sam Wanamaker.

IMDb Movie Outline: An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.

Musical suite from the movie; composed & arranged by Roy Budd; performed by Roy Budd and his orchestra: 

Fun Facts:

Based on the Louis L'Amour novel 'Catlow'.

Also Known As: Maverick Gold

Filming Locations: Sierra de Gádor, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Release Date: October 1, 1971 (United States)

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Rawhide: 1951 Western Movie

 A story told with a blazing .44 !

Rawhide from 1951; starring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe; with Dean Jagger, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan.

Directed by Henry Hathaway.

Also Known As: Desperate Seige

Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA

Release Date: March 25, 1951

Movie Outline: A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.

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Audie Murphy: Western Movie Star

 Audie Murphy in 'No Name on the Bullet' from 1959

Born: June 20, 1924 in Kingston, Texas, USA
Died: May 28, 1971 in near Catawba, Virginia, USA  (plane crash)
Birth Name: Audie Leon Murphy
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)

About Audie Murphy:

- Audie Murphy became a national hero during World War II as the most decorated combat soldier of the war.

- Among his 33 awards was the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive.

- In addition, he was also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium, and was credited with killing over 240 German soldiers and wounding and capturing many more. 

- He was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. According to cemetery records, the only gravesite visited by more people than that of Murphy is that of assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

Info source; learn more abut Audie Murphy here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001559/bio

Audie Murphy Filmography on IMDb:

 1969A Time for Dying
Jesse James

 196740 Guns to Apache Pass
Captain Coburn

 1966The Texican
Jess Carlin

 1966Gunpoint
Chad Lucas

 1965Trunk to Cairo
Mike Merrick

 1965Arizona Raiders
Clint

 1964Apache Rifles
Jeff Stanton

 1964Bullet for a Badman
Logan Keliher

 1964The Quick Gun
Clint Cooper

 1963Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Bob Gifford aka Judd Tanner

 1963Showdown
Chris Foster

 1962Six Black Horses
Ben Lane

 1961Whispering Smith (TV Series)
Tom 'Whispering' Smith

- Hired to Die (1961) ... Tom 'Whispering' Smith

- Prayer of a Chance (1961) ... Tom 'Whispering' Smith

- Trial of the Avengers (1961) ... Tom 'Whispering' Smith

- The Homeless Wind (1961) ... Tom 'Whispering' Smith

- The Interpreter (1961) ... Tom 'Whispering' Smith

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 1961War Is Hell
Narrator - Introduction

 1961Battle at Bloody Beach
Craig Benson

 1961Posse from Hell
Banner Cole

 1960Seven Ways from Sundown
Seven Jones

 1960The Unforgiven
Cash Zachary

 1960Hell Bent for Leather
Clay Santell

 1960Startime (TV Series)
Howard Wilton

- The Man (1960) ... Howard Wilton

 1959Cast a Long Shadow
Matt Brown

 1959The Wild and the Innocent
Yancy Hawks

 1959No Name on the Bullet
John Gant

 1958Ride a Crooked Trail
Joe Maybe

 1958The Gun Runners
Sam Martin

 1958General Electric Theater (TV Series)
Tennessee

- Incident (1958) ... Tennessee

 1958The Quiet American
The American

 1957Suspicion (TV Series)
Steve Gordon

- The Flight (1957) ... Steve Gordon

 1957Night Passage
The Utica Kid

 1957Joe Butterfly
Private Joe Woodley

 1957The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Lt. Frank Hewitt

 1956Walk the Proud Land
John Philip Clum

 1956World in My Corner
Tommy Shea

 1955To Hell and Back
Audie Murphy

 1954Destry
Tom Destry

 1954Drums Across the River
Gary Brannon

 1954Ride Clear of Diablo
Clay O'Mara

 1953Tumbleweed
Jim Harvey

 1953Column South
Lt. Jed Sayre

 1953Gunsmoke
Reb Kittredge

 1952The Duel at Silver Creek
Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid

 1952Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)
Extra

- The Bargain (1952) ... Extra

 1952The Cimarron Kid
Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid

 1951The Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming - the Youth

 1950Kansas Raiders
Jesse James

 1950Sierra
Ring Hassard

 1950The Kid from Texas
William Bonney ('Billy the Kid')

 1949Bad Boy
Danny Lester

 1948Beyond Glory
Cadet Thomas

 1948Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Copy Boy

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Kid Blue: 1973 Comedy Western Movie

A funny thing happened to Kid Blue on the way to the robbery.

Kid Blue from 1973; comedy western starring Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle. 

Directed by James Frawley (director of The Muppet Movie).

Written by Bud Shrake (writer of Tom Horn screenplay). 

Filming Locations: Chupaderos, Durango, Mexico

Rated PG

Time: 1hr, 40min 

IMDb Movie Outline: At the turn of the century, with the Old West fading away, Texas train robber Kid Blue goes straight and takes a factory job but old habits die hard. 

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Shoot Out: 1971 Western Movie

 He's Out of Jail, and Ready for Revenge.

Shoot Out from 1971; starring Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Robert F. Lyons; directed by Henry Hathaway (director of True Grit); a Hal Wallis production.

IMDb Movie Outline: A former bank robber searches for his double crossing partner who left him for dead, while having to look after a 6 year old girl.

Filmed in Chama, New Mexico.

Learn more about the movie & cast here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067750

Based on the Will James novel 'The Lone Cowboy'. Learn more about Will James here: 
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Blood on the Moon: 1948 Western Movie

LUSTY! VIOLENT! SAVAGE! (Movie Tagline)

Blood on the Moon from 1948; starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston; directed by Robert Wise.

IMDb Movie Outline: Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.

Learn more about the movie & cast here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040175

IMDb Movie Trivia: The novel by Luke Short upon which this film is based was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from 15 March to 26 April 1941.

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The High Chaparral: 1960s Western TV Series

The High Chaparral, a TV western that ran from 1967 to 1971, with 97 episodes; starring Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Darrow, Linda Cristal and Mark Slade.

IMDb Series Outline: The Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory in 1870s. Learn more about the show and cast here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061263

The INSP channel airs an episode at 8am ET every weekday!

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The High Chaparral
Season 01 Episode 01: Destination Tucson (Part 1 of 2)

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Pioneer Woman: 1973 TV Movie

Pioneer Woman from 1973 (not to be confused with the cooking show).

Starring Joanna Pettet, William Shatner, David Janssen, Lance LeGault, and a very young Helen Hunt in her TV debut; directed by Buzz Kulik.

IMDb Movie Outline: 

Despite some initial hesitations, a family from the East decides to try their luck by settling in the harsh and dangerous West in 1867. 

Learn more on IMDb: 
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Winner of the Bronze Wrangler for Fictional Television Drama in 1974!

(The Bronze Wrangler is an award presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to honor the top works in Western music, film, television and literature. The awards were first presented in 1961. The Wrangler is a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback, and is designed by artist John Free.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Wrangler)

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Famous Faces: Kevin Hagen of TV Westerns

Kevin Hagen: April 3, 1928 - July 9, 2005

Kevin Hagen was well known as 'Doc Baker' on the series 'Little House on the Prairie' (1974 - 1983) but he also made many appearances in 1950s/60s western TV shows:

- 31 episodes of Yancy Derringer

- 7 episodes of Gunsmoke

- 6 episodes of The Big Valley

- 5 episodes of Have Gun - Will Travel

- 5 episodes of Laramie

- 5 episodes of Bonanza

- 4 episodes of Wagon Train

- 3 episodes of The Virginian

- 3 episodes of Daniel Boone 

- 2 episodes of The Rifleman

- 2 episodes of Lawman

- 1 episode of Tales of Wells Fargo

- 1 episode of Outlaws

- 1 episode of Bat Masterson

- 1 episode of Cheyenne

- 1 episode of Rawhide

- 1 episode of Maverick

- 1 episode of The Dakotas

- 1 episode of The High Chaparral

- 1 episode of Cimarron Strip

- 1 episode of The Wild Wild West

- 1 episode of Lancer

- 1 episode of The Guns of Will Sonnett

- 1 episode of The Cowboys

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3:10 to Yuma: 1957 Western Movie

Drink the whisky... Love the woman... Try to stay alive till the 3:10 pulls out of town! (Movie Tagline)

3:10 to Yuma from 1957; starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, and Felicia Farr; directed by Delmer Daves.

IMDb Movie Outline: 

Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him. 

IMDb Trivia: 

Yuma Territorial Prison in Yuma AZ opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909, and housed over 3,000 men and over two dozen women for crimes ranging from murder to polygamy. The site is now operated as a historical museum by Arizona State Parks as Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park.

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Watch John Wayne on July 4th!

Get ready for 24 hours of John Wayne films starting today, Saturday 7/3/21 at 8:10pm PT, kicking off with 'The Dawn Rider' from 1935!

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Movie Lineup:

The Dawn Rider (1935)

North to Alaska (1960)

The Spoilers (1942)

The Trail Beyond (1934)

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

North to Alaska (1960)

Paradise Canyon (1935)

The Comancheros (1961)

The Spoilers (1942)

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

The Comancheros (1961)

North to Alaska (1960)

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

The Spoilers (1942)

The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

Celebrate America with John Wayne on July 4th! 

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The Tall Men: 1955 Western Movie

As Big and Spectacular and Exciting As The Mighty West Itself! (Movie Tagline)

The Tall Men from 1955, starring Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell; directed by Raoul Walsh.

IMDb Movie Outline: 

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather. 

Learn more about the movie & cast here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048691

TCM Show Time: Saturday, July 3, 2021, at 7:15pm PT!

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