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Post by Jim on Feb 21, 2012 1:25:27 GMT 9
These guys, who were a big influence on mores and morality are gone, and apparently, never to be duplicated again. Most of them were never involved in drugs or scandals. To read the thumbnail captions hit the pause...... I remember them all, but then again, I am old........................... oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm |
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Post by bear (Deceased) on Feb 21, 2012 2:22:54 GMT 9
Movies were 5 cents then they to a dime had to find more pop bottle,s. Some people would say those movies had to much violence, they haven't watched one lately.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 21, 2012 2:50:15 GMT 9
Most of my Saturday mornings were spent in a movie theater, watching lots of cartoons, a serial, and usually a Western.
Mom would give me 25 cents.
That would pay for me, two bags of popcorn and two candy bars or boxes, I usually got Jujubes. My sister didn't have to pay, as she was too young, but I had to take her with me.
So, I saw most all of those great old Western movies.
They were great to me.
Later, I began to go to the movies to see the "higher grade" Westerns. It cost me a quarter when I was 12.
Then after I was at The SCAB, 1952 - 1959, I had TV, and got to watch all the great Western TV shows.
Sunset Carson had a TV show for a number of years, which had an old Western movie, and he would have some of the old stars in the studio with him to chat.
I have also seen many silent Westerns on TV.
Many of those old Western were shot in the San Fernando Valley, NW of LA.
If you watched any TV in the 50s and 60s, you saw many of the old Western stars and supporting actors, in various TV programs.
John Wayne used many of them in his movies, as most were friends of his.
Royal Dano was the original voice of Abraham Lincoln in the Disneyland Park Presidents show. His voice has been recreated and is now the voice of Lincoln in the new show.
Memories, memories.
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Post by pat perry on Feb 21, 2012 8:30:59 GMT 9
These guys, who were a big influence on mores and morality are gone, and apparently, never to be duplicated again. Most of them were never involved in drugs or scandals. To read the thumbnail captions hit the pause...... I remember them all, but then again, I am old........................... oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm Thanks for the stroll down memory lane Old Sarge. There were about 10-12 I didn't remember but then I'm 11 years younger than you. Great Post. Pat P. :2thumbsup |
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Post by Bullhunter on Feb 21, 2012 13:16:55 GMT 9
My wife and I along with two friends just got back from watching a movie called "The Gray".
It was a very good flick, but it seemed that almost every third word "F" this and "F" that.
I was a good movie but all the "F" words distracted from it.
What the heck is Hollywood thinking.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 2:13:36 GMT 9
That's your FCC at work
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Post by Gene on Feb 22, 2012 4:38:26 GMT 9
for some reason the FCC cant regulate cable..there was a program about it last week...i think the regular t.v. is getting to the point of no return...  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 12:34:18 GMT 9
I think that some years ago, it was ruled that FCC couldnt regulate cable because it is a subscription and therefore optional service.
Hmmmm, is there an OVER AIR network that doesnt own at least one cable outlet?
Can you tell me which cable service allows you to pick every channel you can watch?
Do you have the choice of selecting which channels you will pay for?
The rules enacted years ago went by by when the politicians decided to sell the new air wave bands to any body with enough money.
All the rules should be reviewed, but wont be. Too many politicians making too much kickback money.
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Post by Gene on Feb 22, 2012 15:25:01 GMT 9
it looks like the public networks are gearing up to be more racy like the cable... |
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Post by jimpadgett on Feb 23, 2012 0:27:08 GMT 9
Those were the days alright. You didn't have to see the meat fly out of someone's back to know they had been shot. We got money for those Saturday matinees by collecting the newspapers we had delivered during the week and selling them to the junkyard. Buck Rodgers, Sky King, Lash LaRue, Johnny Mack Brown, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans, Hopalong Cassidy, need I go on?
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Post by Gene on Feb 23, 2012 2:40:51 GMT 9
sure... keep going!! i'm right in the middle of a perry mason marathon... the first season starting in '57... all the murder and mayhem you could ask for... and its rated "G" by todays standards...no blood, no gore... just a fine plot and some serious acting... the "i dream of jeannie" star barbara eden looks like a teenie in her guest appearance... |
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 23, 2012 3:29:52 GMT 9
Thinking of the "old" Westerns.
I read and have read a bunch of "old" Western books.
Some made it to movies and television, but were not the same.
I have read all of the "Hopalong Cassidy" books by Clarence E. Mulford.
He was not a bit like the character William Boyd played.
Hopalong Cassidy had red hair, was a ranch hand who knew how to shoot, cuss, drink, fight, and all the other things "cowboys" did.
Yet, there was something about the Bill Boyd character that was rather likable.
If you don't read "old" Westerns, you are missing out on some fun stories.
Many of the newer Western writers write like they are doing a screenplay for an "R" rated movie.
I have read every Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey, many of them several times.
"Riders of the Purple Sage" is, in my mind, the best Western book ever written.
After that, "The Virginian", and some of the more epic books by Grey and L'Amour.
Those "old" Westerns taught a lot of lessons that the "blood and gore" books don't teach. Those lessons need to be taught to-day.
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Post by Gene on Feb 23, 2012 7:12:33 GMT 9
and the longest running western, Gunsmoke...starting with the 1/2 hour series marshall dillon, young mat walking around the tombstones on boothill reflecting on the good, and bad of the day... no blood, no back of the skull exploding red gore... just the law taking care of business... simple stories about bad guys doing bad( and in the fairybook land of the early '50's) getting caught and justice prevailing... |
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Post by Gene on Feb 23, 2012 7:27:37 GMT 9
These guys, who were a big influence on mores and morality are gone, and apparently, never to be duplicated again. Most of them were never involved in drugs or scandals. To read the thumbnail captions hit the pause...... I remember them all, but then again, I am old........................... oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm the only one i didn't see was jack lord as "stoney burke" :us_flag Thanks for the stroll down memory lane Old Sarge. There were about 10-12 I didn't remember but then I'm 11 years younger than you. Great Post. Pat P.  |
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 23, 2012 8:51:29 GMT 9
The radio version of Gunsmoke was on the air from 1952 - 1961, some of the years the TV show was on.
William Conrad played Matt Dillon
Howard McNair was Doc.
Conrad was the "Fatman" on Jake and the Fatman, as well as other shows.
Howard McNair played Floyd the barber on the Andy Griffeth Show.
I never could see Conrad as Matt Dillon, but, he had one of the greatest voices in radio. He also narrated the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
Conrad served in the Air Corp/Air Force in WW2.
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Post by Mark O on Feb 23, 2012 11:16:27 GMT 9
Guys, I absolutely love listening to Radio Classics on Sirius/XM radio!! Greg Bell is the host, and they have a really great variety of old shows. This is his web site... gregbellmedia.com/...and this is the channel on Sirius/XM. www.siriusxm.com/radioclassicsThere are several web sites that you can actually listen to some of the shows on-line! (Google "old time radio" or something along those lines.) You'll find them. Here's an example... www.otr.net/(For example, that site has 406 episodes of Gunsmoke!!) Great stuff! |
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