"Western Movie Clichés Hot List online at Hawgleg" Topic

Just a short note to let ya'll know that I posted a new "Marshal Mitchell's Hot List" over at hawgleg.com (sroll to the bottom of the page).

I decided to go with the list of my Favorite Western Movie Clichés (and yes, I do give credit where it is due to everyone here at TMP who helped me out with it).

You know, this was one of my favorite lists in a long time (last ones that I enjoyed this much are probably the Western Town names and the real-life outlaw names). On this list, I can actually see the scenes in my mind… and you know what? I see them in black & white!

By the way, if you want to take a look at all 17 of the published Hot Lists, you can find 'em here:
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I'd like to see an abandoned tuba as a wagon train rolls by…

The crusty old '49-er/Mountain Man/drunk, stinking up the whole place, full of wit, wisdom and spitting all over the place. Think of the Old-Timer from Blazing saddles and his "..fine example of Frontier gibberish."

I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter!

#3 Indians attacking the Cavalry in their wooden fort behind that tall fence . . .
The forts tended to be bases from which the cavalry would sortee to fight the Indians, not defensive works to protect them from Indian attack. Ft. Larned (central Kansas near the junction of the Arkansas and the Pawnee) got a nice stone blockhouse by a special appropriation from Congress, after Indians actually did come by and run off livestock. Ft. Phil Kearny (northern Wyoming, near the mountains) did have a fence with pointy logs, but the replica wall section isn't much taller than I am, certainly not the two or more man heights you see in the movies. Is this kind of fort a New York, French and Indian War sort of thing? Did anybody ever build movie style forts, besides RKO and the other film companies?

#13. The sheriff grabs a posse out of the saloon . . .
No matter how much they've had to drink, none of them fall out of the saddle, nor do they need to stop to visit the little building with the sickle moon cut into the door.

I enjoyed reading the list. The Old West is kind of like having an epic like the Iliad or Odyssey almost within living memory. When some of the movies were made, it was within living memory. There used to be a little old lady from southern Texas in out neighborhood, who said her granddad knew Judge Roy Bean--didn't like him, but he knew him.

Good list!

Grelber

What a great list!

Like der alte Grenadier, I also will start looking for those sad discarded tubas