At 12:08 PM 5/29/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Mike, Aren't you from Canada or there abouts? One of my all time favorites,
>which any good Zuikohead should enjoy and perhaps identify with, was "The
>Grey Fox" with Richard Farnsworth. This movie which won major awards in
>Canada
>(and probably else where) was about a stage coach robber who had been
>incarcerated long enough that stage coaches were no longer in use when he
>was
>released. The technology had passed him by . . .
>
>It is beautifully filmed and a wonderful true story. It is worth an evening
>in front of the TV if you can find it a your local video store. I think
>I'll need to check it out again. Great stuff! Bill Barber
I love that one, Bill.
Am I alone in enjoying Lawrence Kasden's "Silverado"? Admittedly, it's
less than the sum of its parts ...
Of course, the film that drove a nail through the heart of the genre was
"Blazing Saddles." Hard to watch a scene around the campfire in one of the
straight westerns without cracking up.
Joel W.
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