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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] NOW: Westerns......
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:00:00 -0400
Yes, Once Upon a Time in the West finally released in the full length 
directors cut.   Only time Henry Fonda played a (really) bad guy.

John Hermanson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 3:14 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] NOW: Westerns......


> The first two minutes, with the smoke billowing from the steam locomotive 
> as it winds its way up a river gorge, is worth the price of the DVD --  
> except there isn't one, damn it!  Considering all the sorry, worthless 
> crap that's been burned to DVD, it's a crime that this hasn't made it yet. 
> We've got a VHS copy, fortunately, since it's one of my wife's favorites. 
> Fantastic photography.  And ya gotta love the story of an old stagecoach 
> holdup man just released from prison after many years seeing his first 
> motion picture, The Great Train Robbery, and getting new ideas.
>
> Some of my favorites not yet mentioned:
>
> Once Upon a Time in the West
> True Grit
> The Outlaw Josey Wales
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: NSURIT@xxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 5/29/2005 10:40:42 AM Central Standard Time,
>> watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> My  neighbor directed a lot of westerns and popular TV series during  the
>> heyday. You should see some of the photos he  has.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike, Aren't you from Canada or there abouts?  One of my all time 
>> favorites,
>> which any good Zuikohead should enjoy and perhaps identify with, was 
>> "The
>> Grey Fox" with Richard Farnsworth. This movie which won major  awards in 
>> Canada
>> (and probably else where) was about a stage coach robber who  had been
>> incarcerated long enough that stage coaches were no longer in use when 
>> he was
>> released.  The technology had passed him by . . .
>>
>> It is beautifully filmed and a wonderful true story.  It is worth an 
>> evening
>> in front of the TV if you can find it a your local video store.  I  think
>> I'll need to check it out again.  Great stuff!  Bill  Barber
>>
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