grinder Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 No not the bad workmen, I mean the American western kind. When I was a kid we called The Carlton picture house on the Arbourthorne "the Ranch house" I was later surprised to find out there were several picture houses called this which just go's to show how many Cowboy pictures there were back in those days... Roy Rodgers and Trigger, Gene Autry and Champion,the Lone Ranger and silver, even their horses were stars, every major Hollywood star had made or appeared in a Western at one time or another.. Even TV in the early day's of the Black and white screen was full of cowboy series, Champion the wonder horse,The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, Wagon train, Rawhide, Bonanza, Maverick, Tender foot, High Chaparral, there was even a Kung Fu western. Most of our hero's back then had high moral standards only the baddies would rob anyone or shoot any body in the back and women no matter what their occupation were treated like ladies .. Now Except for the odd movie they have vanished and all we seem to get in their place are Police series and quiz shows on TV and all the film hero's are Geezers.. Where have all those western good guys gone ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patto Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Saddle sore on Brokeback Mountain maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted December 9, 2011 Author Share Posted December 9, 2011 Saddle sore on Brokeback Mountain maybe? You must be one of the younger guys if you think that was a western pal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hardie Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Saddle sore on Brokeback Mountain maybe? First gay cowboy: Yup Second gay cowboy: Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awoollen Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 First gay cowboy: Yup Second gay cowboy: Yep all the cowboys work for rotherham council Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old tup Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Did you hear about the gay cowboy who rode into town and shot up the sherriff?:hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patto Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Never a great lover of cowboys & indians. Liked "spagetti" westerns better. Watched Outlaw Josie Wales last night and like Clint Eastwood a lot. If the popular era for westerns was about the 1950's, that would make the difference in time about 100 years after the real wild west. Maybe in 2011 we should be watching films set around the early 20th century. Anything interesting happen in the period before the Great War? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patto Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Not that young. Joint winner in a Davy Crockett fancy dress competition at Forum mid 1950's. Shared £3 with the other lad. Happy times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 those tv westerns were really popular in the 60s-70s as a child i enjoyed them too. there is now more awareness and often some criticism about the stereotyping of the native indians in early western films--portraying the white americans as the "goodies" and the indians as the "baddies" one later film that expressed a message more favourable towards the Native American,was that very successful film "Dances with Wolves" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 those tv westerns were really popular in the 60s-70s as a child i enjoyed them too. there is now more awareness and often some criticism about the stereotyping of the native indians in early western films--portraying the white americans as the "goodies" and the indians as the "baddies" one later film that expressed a message more favourable towards the Native American,was that very successful film "Dances with Wolves" Dances with wolves..dragged out for 3 hours. could have been done in much less time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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