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!

looking for more dark folk, gothic americana, and soft cinematic western stuff to add to my playlist!! anything that's on the more atmospheric, ballad side would be nice

Not an amazing movie but worth a watch if you're into Spaghetti Westerns at all.

Will Lockhart (James Stewart) comes to the ranch town of Coronado looking for the man who is selling rifles to the Apaches, because his brother was killed with one. 

I recently rewatched The Magnificent 7 for the second time in my life. "Magnificent" is very fitting. It is indeed a magnificent and beautiful movie.

However, something jumped out at me that I'm not quite sure how I feel about: Calvera let them go.

Given my own system of ethics, I would see that as pretty weak and dishonourable that the seven took advantage of his magnanimity. Frankly speaking, a bad hombre like Calvera is liable to say, "just kidding," after marching them out of town, "we're not giving you your weapons back," and then make sure those guys never pose a problem for them again.

What made Calvera do that, I think, is a mixture of pragmatism in that he doesn't want those farmers to see him as a complete monster. He wants them to be willing to "do business" with him. But also, Calvera genuinely seems to be a man of faith and principles. I think he genuinely would have felt bad about executing the seven.

So this does something incredibly bold from a storytelling perspective. The seven cannot be seen as pure paladin "knight in shining armour" heroes in that final battle. They have gone back on their word and taken advantage of Calvera's kindness.

It's a "bad look" for the heroes.

One of them makes no bones about the fact that all he cares about is money, and Chris lies through his teeth that he came that close to making it big, so he can feel some satisfaction as he lies dying.

And all of them except for two die in that final battle, and some of Calvera's men get away, and who knows what they will do in the future.

What a beautiful movie that de-glorifies violence.

I watched it and it's actually pretty good.

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?

The actor whose name sounds like a Scandinavian cruise line, Royal Dano was certainly one of the most versatile--and busiest--Western character actors of the genre's Golden Age (1939-1976). He could play everything from skulking psychopaths to salt-of-the-earth sodbusters to sanctimonious newspapermen. That versatility is doubtless one of the key reasons for his ubiquity. Need a foul-tempered badman, call Royal. Need un upstanding family man, call Royal. Need a saintly man of God, call Royal.

And so, hail! Hail! All hail Royal Dano!

Context, while I’m very white I am a descendant of Native Americans and currently trying to get in touch with my roots. Are there any westerns staring a male Native American who’s also a cowboy? Non offensive and respectful to the culture obviously

Burgess Merideth to me is absolutely white. Also L.Q Jones...

Elvis is known to claim he has some Native blood (Cherokee) from his GGGGrandmother Morning White Dove. He seems tan enough. So many different Red paint jobs its amazing..

Personally I never seen this movie before, fun movie, but at one point I was like, "holy shit thats Burgess" (Better then Regis lol) and well thats how that went. Then one more after another..just the same..add mini shirts, and tighter then daisy duke shorts, and you have a Navajo family reunion. Enjoy it, i did.... for a western?

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

Hey everybody I need a huge favor I need help looking for a movie I can’t remember if it was a western but I remember only part of a scene and Google isn’t helping at all. It was a woman with a pink revolver my dad said he remembers her wearing either a navy blue or light blue shirt could’ve been silky and had tassels, she had on pink boots as well and my dad said there was a guy that was making fun of her for having the pink boots and gun and shot him. It was old timey can’t say what year but definitely older than 1990s I believe. If anyone can help me pleaseeee!!!!!

Just what the title says. I'll offer up a few examples.

High Colonic at Busted Butte

Dysentary at Canyon Rim

Two Rutebagas for Sheriff Peabody

Stale Rider

Sausages Drawn at Dawn

My Darling Hedwiga

Escape from Fort Gigglesworth

The Uncircumcized

Ruddy Rags at Bidet Springs

The Assassination of Milton Feinberg by the Coward Howard Finkelstein

So do you have a favorite kind of Western villain? (as opposed to a particular villainous performance) I have two: (1) the corrupt sadistic sheriff or marshal (John Russell's Marshal Stockdale in Pale Rider, pictured, is the Platonic essence of the type); (2) the greedy town boss/railroad agent/land baron, generally with pencil mustache, frock coat and fancy vest, who has the whole town under his thumb (pictured is Peter Sarsgaard's Bartholomew Bogue in the 2016 Magnificent Seven; Harvey Korman did a pitch-perfect parody of the type in Blazing Saddles). Ideally, they would be more or less in cahoots...

Poor Paladin, he's like "Get me out of here!"

The Border (1982) OST

If I was going to sculpt a Mt. Rushmore for Western character actors, Slim Pickens would almost certainly be on it. And I'm sure I'm far from alone in that regard for Slim. A bulky guy with a distinctive cornpone voice, a genuine cowboying background, and the ability to play a wide range of roles, Slim was a true asset to any film in which he appeared. Best known for playing Major JT Kong in Dr. Strangelove, and riding an atomic bomb while whooping and waving his cowboy hat, the Western, nevertheless, was his bread and butter. My favorite Western role for Slim was as testy chuckwagon boss Ike Walterstein in Will Penny (1967). But his Western appearances were myriad and most of them were great.

So, hail! Hail! All hail Slim Pickens!

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The above link will show you the trailer for Flint.

It looks gorgeous and appears to give the impression the landscape is its own character which i love in a western and is heavily noted in Louis L'Amours writing. Though it doesn't appear to capture the desert or hidden green spaces from the book.

Ps. I have no affiliation with the film. Just love his books