Cowboy (1958)
Actors:
James Westerfield (actor),
Víctor Manuel Mendoza (actor),
Russ Bender (actor),
David McMahon (actor),
Strother Martin (actor),
Paul McGuire (actor),
Glenn Ford (actor),
John L. Cason (actor),
Robert 'Buzz' Henry (actor),
Frank DeKova (actor),
Richard Jaeckel (actor),
Brian Donlevy (actor),
Jack Lemmon (actor),
King Donovan (actor),
Guy Wilkerson (actor),
Plot: Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
Keywords: based-on-book, cattle, cattle-drive, cigar, cigar-smoking, cowboy, cowboy-boot, cowboy-boots, cowboy-hat, gun
Genres:
Western,
Taglines: THE REAL, TRUE STORY OF THE WEST! (original print ad - all caps)
Quotes:
Tom Reese: Anybody know the right words? When something like this happens, people start asking how come it happened. Was it his fault... or somebody else's fault? Well, that isn't for us to say. You see, we don't know all the answers. All we know is a man is dead and that's that. In the long run, I don't think it would have made any difference anyhow. I mean, if it hadn't been a snake that got him, it would have been a steer, or a Comanche, or it might have been a... his horse might have stumbled into a prairie dog hole some dark night. He was a good man with cattle and always did the best he knew how. I hope someone could say the same over me.
Wagon Driver: [after a snake is thrown on him] He got me.
Tom Reese: [after shooting a hole in a pipe] I thought I saw a spider.
Frank Harris: I thought I was gonna ride with some men. You're just a bunch of animals.
Senor Vidal, Maria's Father: I remember him, he writes poetry.::Tom Reese: Do you write poetry?::Frank Harris: I used to.
Frank Harris: We rounded up most of the herd... that is, all we could find.::Tom Reese: How many head did we lose?::Frank Harris: Just over 200.::Tom Reese: That's a lot of cows.::Frank Harris: Yeah, it is. It's too bad. It's too bad for you.::Tom Reese: What?::Frank Harris: We found all my cows. It seems it was yours that ran off and got lost.
Tom Reese: Well, what makes you think you'd like to go trail herding?::Frank Harris: Well, ah, all my life I've been dreaming about going into the cattle business. Getting out on the trail and... and I hate Chicago. I'd like to live in the open. You know what I mean?::Tom Reese: Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. You mean lying out there under the stars listening to the boys singing around the campfire. And your faithful old horse standing there grazing at the grass by your side. You do much riding?::Frank Harris: Me? Well, I bet I could ride all day and all night.::Tom Reese: Oh, is that a fact? You know, I bet you like horses.::Frank Harris: Yes, sir, I sure do.::Tom Reese: Yeah, I thought so. Well, you're an idiot! You're a dreaming idiot, and that's the worst kind. You know what the trail is really like? Dust storms all day, cloudbursts all night. A man has got to be a fool to want that kind of life.
Slim Barrett: Tell the boys the time you ate them Indians, huh? Come on!::Joe Capper, Trailhand: Ah, I only ate but one injun in my whole life. An even then it was just a haunch.::[a little later]::Paul Curtis: Hey, old Joe would be rather fighting Indians all the time, wouldn't you, Joe? Look at him, boss. It makes him hungry just thinking about it.::Joe Capper, Trailhand: Ah, cut it out, will you, Curtis? I was near starving to death. In fact, I didn't even know that injun. Anyway, I threw away everything except for one haunch.::Paul Curtis: Which haunch did you keep, Joe?::Joe Capper, Trailhand: Well, the left one, of course! The right one is the working haunch. They're always tough.
Tom Reese: How's the arm, Charlie?::Charlie, Trailhand: All right, boss. It's my drinking arm, not my loving arm.
Doc Bender, Trailhand: What about this fellow Reece?::Paul Curtis: He's all right if you're all right.::Doc Bender, Trailhand: When does he pay off? At the end of the run?::Paul Curtis: You ask him for what's coming in the middle a river crossing, and he'll pay off. He'll you off in dry bills.
Grand Canyon (1949)
Actors:
Edward Mann (editor),
Noble 'Kid' Chissel (actor),
Reed Hadley (actor),
Frank Hagney (actor),
Olin Howland (actor),
Robert L. Lippert (actor),
James Millican (actor),
Zon Murray (actor),
Stanley Price (actor),
Mike Ragan (actor),
Grady Sutton (actor),
Charles Williams (actor),
Joyce Compton (actress),
Margia Dean (actress),
Mary Beth Hughes (actress),
Plot: A film director is making a picture called 'Grand Canyon" and goes to the Grand Canyon to shoot it. He meets and hires three mule-skinners to work for the company. Tex Hartford, the male lead is injured. and Mike Adams, one of the mule-wranglers is asked to play the part. Mike falls in love with the feminine lead, Terry Lee, and this makes the already-unhappy Hartford even unhappier, and he resorts to finding ways to embarrass Mike and force him out of the film.
Keywords: 1940s, 35mm-projector, actor, actress, arizona, b-movie, b-western, california, cameraman, cigarette-smoking
Genres:
Comedy,
Romance,
Western,