Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was one of the great American field collectors of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax also produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the U.S and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, '50s and early '60s. During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.
After 1942, when Congress cut off the Library of Congress's funding for folk song collecting, Lomax continued to collect independently in Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain, as well as the United States, using the latest recording technology, assembling a treasure trove of American and international culture. With the start of the Cold War, Lomax continued to speak out for a public role for folklore, even as academic folklorists turned inward. He devoted much of the latter part of his life to advocating what he called Cultural Equity, which he sought to put on a solid theoretical foundation through to his Cantometrics research (which included a prototype Cantometrics-based educational program, The Global Jukebox). In the 1970s and 80s Lomax advised the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival and produced a series of films about folk music, American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991. In his late seventies, Lomax completed a long-deferred memoir, The Land Where the Blues Began (1995), linking the birth of the blues to debt peonage, segregation, and forced labor in the American South.
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks out his abducted niece; Rio Bravo (1959), playing a Sheriff with Dean Martin; True Grit (1969), playing a humorous U.S. Marshal who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne an Academy Award; and The Shootist (1976), his final screen performance in which he plays an aging gunslinger battling cancer.
Wyatt Earp: You have to understand the War Between the States. The war formed us, made us who we are. After killing your own cousins, your own brothers, killing strangers meant nothin'. Lawless times followed those long dark years.
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Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke have pulled off every dodge known for conning a well-heeled sucker, but it wasn't until they hit on the old skin game that they started to clean up. The game is simple. Jason, though born a free man in New Jersey, poses as Quincy's slave as the pair ride through Missouri and Kansas in 1857. Quincy picks a likely mark in each town, sells Jason to him for top money and rides out of town. Then Quincy and Jason get back together on the road to another town, because if Jason can't just run off after dark, Quincy finds a way to spring him loose.
Keywords: 1850s, 19th-century, abolishment-of-slavery, abolition-movement, abolitionist, african-american, barroom-brawl, bath, bathtub, con
When men were men ...and women didn't forget it!
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It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Keywords: opening-action-scene, outlaw, ranger, street-shootout
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Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane. Circumstances make Sam richer by a very fast race horse. But his seemingly good luck with horses and women leads him to disaster. Will he be forced into a life of crime?
Keywords: calamity-jane, character-name-in-title
Abe Jones: How's the coffee, Dakota? Is it strong enough?::Dakota: Drop a rock in it! If it don't sink, it's strong enough.
Joel Collins: I've never seen anybody take to anything the way you have a gun. A man would think you've been shooting all your life.::Sam Bass: It's just like anything else. Decide where you want to go, then get there the best way you can.
[Sam Bass and friends have just held up a stagecoach and removed only part of the money from the strong box]::Joel Collins: Well, we could've had our ranch out of that box.::Sam Bass: No, we couldn't, Joel. The way we did it, even if this thing comes out, people will know that we took back only what he stole from us. They'll be on our side.::Dakota: Sure, we wouldn't want 'em to think we robbed this stage dishonestly.
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A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
Keywords: 1970s, ambush, american-flag, avenger, bank, bank-robbery, brutality, carpetbagger, civil-war, confederate-flag
IN HER ARMS...he forgot he was outside the law!
IT'S FIERCE...FLAMING...FURIOUS...FABULOUS ADVENTURE! (original print ad-all caps)
RAW...RUGGED ACTION! (original print ad-all caps)
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Belle Andrews' ('Constance Bennett (I)' (qv)) gambling hall burns down in the Chicago fire of 1871 and, now penniless, she accepts Jim Farrel's ('Warren William' (qv)) invitation to accompany him to Powder River, Montana, to open a gambling casino. Farrel has plans to get control of all the land in Powder River by hiring henchmen to file claims on the land, a proceeding overlooked by the settlers. On the stagecoach to Powder River, they meet Wild Bill Hickok ('Bruce Cabot' (qv)). Once there, Farrel has his claim jumpers go to work, and even has Ned Nolan ('Russell Simpson (I)' (qv)) convicted of a framed-up murder charge, and fixes the jury just to be safe. Hickok then begins to organize the settlers to fight back against Farrel.
Keywords: 1870s, bar-shootout, barber, casino, cattle, character-name-in-title, chicago-fire-of-1871, chicago-illinois, dam, dentist
More ruthless than the James Boys...More daring than the Daltons!
WILD! That's How He Lived! That's How He Loved! That's How He Fought!
The most dangerous pair this side of law and order!
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Chane Weymer ('Randolph Scott (I)' (qv)), an Arizona rancher goes after a gang that is trapping and catching wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures. He suspects Ward ('Fred Kohler (I)' (qv)), of being the gang leader but is unable to find the needed proof. Ward also has an eye on the lovely Sandy Melbarne ('Sally Blane' (qv)).
Keywords: 1880s, ambush, animal-in-title, arizona, b-western, barbed-wire, barbed-wire-fence, brother, canyon, cigarette-smoking
Um dia você diz pra mim
Que me ama, me adora
Que não se interessa por ninguém lá fora
Pura armação, pressão
Da cabeça de quem um dia
Bagdá chorando e você na calçada
Eu no meu orgulho e você não diz nada
Tanta gente no veneno e eu sem você
Senta aqui, pensa bem, pode crer
Que o amor é maior que tudo
Do que eu e você, você e eu
Sem abuso, sem abuso
Sem abuso
Se eu tô com você
Não sou de ninguém
Eu sou o seu bem
Tanta gente no veneno do mundo
Quem a gente escolhe
Não é feliz aqui
Senta aqui, pensa bem, pode crer
Que o amor é maior que tudo
Do que eu e você, você e eu
Sem abuso, sem abuso
Sem abuso
Se eu tô com você
Não sou de ninguém
Eu sou o seu bem