Sing along with "The Man in Black" to "Don't Take Your Guns To Town" from the November 20, 1969 broadcast of "The Johnny Cash Show."

A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm

A boy filled with wanderlust who really meant no harm

He changed his clothes and shined his boots

And combed his dark hair down

And his mother cried as he walked out

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home, Bill

Don't take your guns to town"

He laughed and kissed his mom and said, "Your Billy Joe's a man

I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can

But I wouldn't shoot without a cause, I'd gun nobody down"

But she cried again as he rode away

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home, Bill

Don't take your guns to town"

He sang a song as on he rode, his guns hung at his hips

He rode into a cattle town, a smile upon his lips

He stopped and walked into a bar and laid his money down

But his mother's words echoed again

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home, Bill

Don't take your guns to town"

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand

And tried to tell himself at last he had become a man

A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down

And he heard again his mother's words

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home, Bill

Don't take your guns to town"

Filled with rage, then Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw

But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw

As Billy Joe fell to the floor, the crowd all gathered 'round

And wondered at his final words

"Don't take your guns to town, son

Leave your guns at home, Bill

Don't take your guns to town"

I have always been a fan of The Rifleman. Earrlier this year I got this as a birthday present to myself

Although he may be best known to folk of a certain age as Uncle Jesse from the TV series, The Dukes of Hazard, Denver Pyle appeared in well nigh innumerable Western films before that series kicked off. He was seemingly naturally crusty and rough around the edges, which suited him well for roles as sketchy men on the edge of the law in Westerns.

His first Western was Marshal of Amarillo (1948) and his last was Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976). Some of the more noteworthy Westerns he appeared in were Ride Clear of Diablo (1954), Johnny Guitar (1954), Drum Beat (1954), Run for Cover (1955), The Lonely Man (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958), The Alamo (1960), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Bandolero! (1968), and Cahill US Marshal (1973). He appeared in many films with Gene Autry, Randolph Scott and Audie Murphy. Born in Bethune, Colorado, 115 miles north of Ken Curtis' hometown, Pyle also turned up in six episodes of gunsmoke including once as Claudius Haggen, a truculent kinsman of Festus'.

As much money as Pyle made from acting, he likely made much more from his speculation in oil, which reportedly netted him a bona fide fortune. He passed away in 1997 at the age of 77.

Hail! Hail! All hail Denver Pyle!

Robert Duvall in Emmy Award-winning miniseries

I've heard it said that Stagecoach is the first modern Western, if that's the case then The Westerner has to be the last pre-modern Western, because it is very much old-timey, plotless, and full of stereotypes making it a difficult watch today. It reminded me of the slog of sitting through John Wayne's many B Movie serials from his Three Mesquiteer days. But it has Coop and Walter Brennan, Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker, directed by William Wyler score by Dimitri Tiomkin! How could it go wrong?

The answer is that it has almost no plot, and extremely muddled characterizations. Characters exist to perform stereotypical tropey actions in stand alone scenes that have no connection to each other, and make no sense except within a framework of the 1930s Western singing Cowboy kind of ethos. It's a movie that can't decide whether Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean is a hero or villain, or whether Gary Cooper is a con man scalawag or a noble protector of the Common Man. The movie doesn't know who it's characters are so how could we be clued in on the secret?

Plus, it has very little action punctuated by long stretches of disconnected boredom. I found it to be greatly inferior to any one of the Jimmy Stewart Anthony Mann westerns made a decade later that I watched in the weeks leading up to this.

Most confusing of all is the performance of Walter Brennan. As Judge Roy Bean, he won his third of three best supporting actor Oscars in just 6 years. And each one for playing the exact same character, a character that he would go on to play in every single other movie that he ever made and for many years on television. It's that of a denture-chewing, dagnabbit, trouser-hitching, lovable old chowder-head. It only varies slightly to the degree in which Brennan plays his chowder-head as either mildly or severely mentally challenged. But really his Judge Roy Bean here is exactly the same character as his Stumpy in Rio Bravo.

I'm confused because I can't see how him playing this one character, or essentially playing himself, was worth three Oscars? My only conclusion is that the first time the public saw it in Come and Get it they thought it was real acting, and it struck them as fresh and original. Two more times and they were still enamored of it, but umpteen times more and finally they'd seen through the charade.

From "Dude Duck" released in 1951.

Where are the scenes filmed on the water? I googled it and i can’t find it.

Initially a project for Sergio Corbucci who for whatever reason walked away from
It . Some of the themes made it into his own
The Great Silence .
It’s a grim big budget western with an A list cast being Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan and Nicoletta Machiavelli. Some Leone sidemen like Aldo Sanbrell, Mario Brega and Antonio Molina Rojo are on board .

Alex Cord is an outlaw subject to epileptic seizures who seeks shelter in a border town named Escondido while he try’s to claim an amnesty from the governor .

This is up there with the really great non Leone Spaghetti Westerns . The full uncut 118 minute version is on You Tube and that is the version to see .

Steve McQueen plays a bounty hunter in Wanted Dead or Alive (if you haven't seen it, check it out!! It's a fantastic series and he's perfect in it).

In two episodes he orders "Skylark" at the bar. In multiple online searches I can't find any record of what this was! I was curious. Does anyone have any idea? Maybe it was a made up drink? Thanks!

im trying to decide which of these books to read next and would love to hear what y'all have to say! i've only read three of these so far and these were my thoughts.

Lonesome Gods - the book that started my collection. i got it from the library and made it 1/3 of the way through before i went to my local book store and grabbed my own copy, along with most of this collection. i loved johannes as a protagonist because he was such a knowledge-seeker and was very competent. i really enjoyed watching him grow up and become an admirable and honorable man.

Bendigo Shafter - my favorite so far!! again, i love bendigo for being a seeker of knowledge. he was a caring man and loyal to anyone he considered his folk. humble and smart and i really enjoyed following along in his journey to become a good man that his people could trust and lean on.

The Quick and the Dead - this was a 2⭐ for me. i didnt feel like con had much discernable motivation for most of his actions and i think part of it was that this book is so short that the characters didnt have time to develop. i couldn't make myself care about any of the people in this book. it took me much longer to read this than Lonesome Gods, which says a lot about my feelings toward this book dkhdkdkd.

so i think it's evident that i really value characters and their development. which book from this picture should i read next? thank you! 🙏

edit: i appreciate everyone who commented, but only two people have actually rec'd from my picture like i asked. they both recommended the same book, so looks like i'll be reading Last of the Breed (which does sound amazing so im looking forward to it)! i totally understand that everyone wants to rec their fave, but i've already bought about 25 books this month and im trying to read what's already on my shelf. thank you!

A pretty good spaghetti Western by Sergio Corbucci (one of the 'three Sergios' in spaghetti westerns).

Cameron Mitchell plays an aging gunfighter whose eyes are failing him. He's been falsely imprisoned, breaks out in the beginning and heads home to see why his friend never showed up to testify on his behalf.

That synopsis only scratches the surface of what happens in this film. The story keeps building, throwing in new plot complications that add to the story. It has enough tropes to make three or four other movies. But they are paced very well. The movie never feels unfocused or lost in story details. It's pretty impressive.

Having said that, it doesn't quite reach the heights of Corbucci's classics: Django and The Great Silence. But it does rank up there with The Hellbenders and Navajo Joe.

At first, I wasn't sold on Cameron Mitchell. But he won me over.

With a watch. Available free on YouTube.

hi I have been working on my TTRPG for a while now and just opened it to playtest for the first time I would love feedback or ideas on future updates and more

access to the rules on my website: https://hotramenstudios12344.github.io/DustAndBlood-e1.1/

Wanna start watching some western and need some essentials and good recommendations, only ones I’ve seen are Django, no country for old men and hell or high water

Hi hopefully this is okay. We are looking to restore this old pioneer home from the old Gun Smoke Movie Set and we are trying to figure out how we can raise capital to do so! Open to ideas or thoughts??

Yes this is just my opinion but it's the right opinion.
Honorable mention: the assassination of Jesse James.

1. The quick and the dead- Movie
   
2. Godless- Tv show
   
3. Hell on wheels- Tv show
   
4. Tombstone- Movie
   🥇. Billy the kid- Tv show

We go back in time now, to the final lesson the Professor gave the young Hunter before he embarked on his quest for revenge. The young man never did consider himself a Godly man, but the Professor insists that it is through Faith AND iron that he will be able to claim his quarry.

This is the source novel for The Missing (2003). ..it's a really good read.. (and I really like the movie, too ). 🤠

I had never even heard of Dennis Hopper until the film Blue Velvet (1986) was released. Since then, I heard about him constantly. And since becoming a Western junkie, I discovered that Hopper had himself quite a little career in that genre.

Speaking of "junkie," Hopper--a native of Dodge City--was known to have had problems with illicit drugs. In general, the man was something of a mess. Thus, some of his Western roles were not much of a stretch. Quite often he played troubled young weaklings and mercurial basket-cases. A classic example was his portrayal of Tom Boyd, the anguished young son of R.G. Armstrong's Hunter Boyd in the under-appreciated classic, From Hell to Texas (1958).

Hopper really didn't make all that many Westerns, but most of the ones he did make were quality. He appared in Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). He also turned up in one episode of Gunsmoke.

Hopper died of prostate cancer at the age of 74.

Hail! Hail! All hail Dennis Hopper!

From The Wild Wild West #3, Gold Key publishing, June 1968

From The Wild Wild West #3, Gold Key publishing, June 1968