VAK, you're dead on with your opinion about the cowboy actors and everything else you said in this except one thing. The "Land of Vee"? Detroit? That shit happened in the Land of Lawdog. Vee wouldn't know what side of a horse to get on or which way to face. It has to have more horsepower and travel about 160 mph for Vee to get one it. He knows how to ride those things. Vee on a real horse, fuck I'd love to see that.VAK wrote:I just watched "Tom Horn" for the first time since I was a kid. Bought it as Steve McQueen's a bad motherfucker!
As a cool aside, when I was a kid still living in the land of Vee I knew the people who had Tom Horn's skull for an ashtray. I won't ruin the true story for those who have not seen it but way back when, the Cattlemen's Association in the Land of Vee was a bit powerfull. And Mr. Horn was as fucking tough as they came. Rode with Roosevelt's Rough Rider's and did his share of Frontier Enforcement-putting an emphasis on enforcing...
Anyway, great show just like all of Ol' Steve's movies. (Sam Elliot, Steve McQueen, Selleck, Eastwood and his Holiness John Wayne) just don't make enough of those type movies anymore. Too many 'colin farrel nutsack movies'
There was an old movie made around the same time as Tom Horn about the War on the Powder River, aka the Johnson County War. They did a recent re-make with Burt Reynolds, Tom Beringer, and that assclown that played Lane Frost in "8 Seconds" but it is so factually fucked up like most of Hollywood. The original was good though but I can't think of the name of it. Just found the name of it on Google.com, "Heaven's Gate". Check it out if you get a chance. Disclaimer: I was real young the last time I saw it.
Edit: I found this too. Evidently the critics nor the public liked it then. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedi ... 28movie%29
I am ordering the DVD to add to my collection.
