r/Westerns

He was Chill long before chill was cool--so to speak. First movie I ever saw him in was The Westerner (1940) where he played Southeast, one of Judge Roy Bean's henchmen or lynchmen as the case may be. He also had a fairly brief but very memorable part as a saloon owner in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). But my favorite turn from Chill was as an affable, big-hearted rancher in From Hell to Texas (1958). That said, his performance as mystical mountainman Abe Blocker in the Gunsmoke episode of the same name was absolutely one for the ages. So, he was clearly versatile. He could be everything from avuncular, to seedy, to ominous. Regardless, few Western character actors were as distinctive as Chill Wills. Truly one of a kind, that man.

Hail! Hail! All hail Chill Wills!

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I'm a newbie for Western movies.

Last night I've just finished the Conagher (1991), I'm Sam Elliott's fans and love this novel too.

But I have ambivalent feeling after watch it. It has some good points - Evie and her children and something I don't like it but I can't explain - maybe Conagher's deep loneliness feeling and Strength of him that hard to see in the movie🫤

Anyway I love this movie and want to rewatch it, if I had the time.

I want to know everybody who have watched this, Do you like or dislike it and why?

Thanks for sharing 🤗

For my money, James Drury is one of the more overlooked character actors in the Western genre. And unjustly so, I should say. He really excelled at playing hotheads, either on the side of good or bad. And very few actors had more expressive eyebrows than Drury. He could knit them in anger, furrow them in concern and arch them in surprise with the best of 'em. And Drury was certainly a handsome rascal. There are tons of pics of him on the Internet and most of 'em were posted on Pinterest by chicks. Heh.

So, hail! Hail! All hail James Drury!

Edgar Buchanan's acting career was almost exactly coterminous with the Golden Age of the Western. He got his first roles in 1939 and his last was in 1974. Buchanan brought a downhome decency to most of his roles, even when, as he sometimes did, he was playing an alky. To my mind, his most memorable performance was in Ride the High Country (1961) where he played the besotted preacher of Coarse Gold, California. At a rude, shotgun wedding he unexpectedly delivers a very moving and sapiental sermon on the nature of marriage--"A good marriage has a simple kind of glory about it. A good marriage is like a rare animal; it's hard to find and almost impossible to keep. You see, people change." Yes, Edgar, in some ways they do. But Buchanan himself was constant. You could rely upon him to deliver a touch of roughhewn class to the films in which he appeared.

And so, hail! Hail! All hail Edgar Buchanan!

Enjoyed this movie.

Early Van Cleef appearance was a surprise as he wasn’t billed in the blurb of my recording.

Start reminded me of another movie by Milland called Thief where there was hardly any dialogue and you didn’t really know what was going on

Milland was a bit old to be the romantic lead but think he thought “I’m the director so I’m the star!” Still a great performance though.

3:10 to Yuma (2007) Great performances and tense scenes dominate this story about a struggling, drought-plagued rancher who agrees to escort a captured, outlaw to the 3:10 train to the Yuma territorial prison. So are you a fan?

I watched it and it's actually pretty good.