Originally Posted by Honeykid:
Honeykid, you reminded me of a Western that was my granddad's favorite movie of all time, Jesse James (1939), directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott, John Carradine, and a scene-stealing Henry Hull. It doesn't try to be true to the real history of what went on but it's still an enormously entertaining movie, so popular at the time in fact, that it inspired a sequel (just as history-skewing) called The Return of Frank James (1940) the next year. Jesse James unfortunately became notorious in later years when it was learned that a scene where Jesse and Frank, trying to escape a posse, ride their horses off a cliff into a river. It was controversial because the two horses in the scene actually were killed while doing this stunt. Back then, there were not the restrictions and oversights that movies have now concerning the safety of animals. In fact, I believe that this was the very movie that inspired the forming of the American Human Society's Film and TV division to protect animals.
It's all a shame because as I've said, Jesse James is a very worthy film in any Western list and I wished I'd thought of it before this one started. Recommended very much but steel yourself for the "over-the-cliff" scene going in, knowing the fate of the horses.
One again, @Holden Pike, a truly great job!
The only one I'm not 100% about is Cheyenne Autumn which basically made my list because my granddad thought so well of it.
It's all a shame because as I've said, Jesse James is a very worthy film in any Western list and I wished I'd thought of it before this one started. Recommended very much but steel yourself for the "over-the-cliff" scene going in, knowing the fate of the horses.
One again, @Holden Pike, a truly great job!
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Last edited by dadgumblah; 07-11-20 at 05:36 AM.