50 Westerns From the '50s with Toby Roan
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Film historian and author Toby Roan talks about his ongoing book and website project 50 WESTERNS FROM THE '50s, Friedkin, war movies, and a lifetime of movie fandom.
Toby's websites:
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Another Run Through The Gauntlet: amzn.to/3YIAwMI
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A Million Feet of Film: The Making of One-Eyed Jacks amzn.to/46Jv1iO
Another Run Through The Gauntlet: amzn.to/3YIAwMI
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Lawman 1972. Tubi . Burt Lancaster. Excellent western. Great video
Graham Robinson
Growing up in the 50s and 60s was a great time for westerns.Im from the UK
All the American tv westerns we had back then plus all the movies in the cinema usually double bills with many B movie westerns or cowboy films as we called them.
Saturday morning children's matinees with either a serial western or full length feature. And I can tell you now I fell in love with the movies even before I was six years old.sitting there in the dark, the big screen in front of you. The escape from the real world into this make believe place for a few hours I was hooked till this day.
So a big thanks Heath for always taking us on your journey. Great stuff.
Quantez is a pretty fantastic "chamber western". Dorothy Malone is...wow. The lighting. The color. The tension.
A great conversation with maybe my favorite commentator. I have purchased at least a dozen movies, just because Tony Roan did the commentary. One of the top reasons why I love Kino Lorber: because he is one of their first squad.
And for anyone who is discovering or already into Roy Rogers, I highly recommend his final film, MACINTOSH & TJ, which is a cool little 70’s elegiac neo-Western, with Roy as an older cowboy trying to still work in modern times. And TJ is this kid he mentors. It’s great. Highly recommended.
Thanks a bunch! I really appreciate that. Macintosh & TJ is really terrific.
We need the Anthony Mann / Jimmy Stewart westerns in quality transfers on Blu-ray, preferrably a box set!
The ones that are available are great. I did a commentary for Bend Of The River.
@@tobyroan8537 Agreed! One problem is that Mann and Stewart made westerns for different studios: Universal, Columbia, and MGM. That's why a box set isn't likely.
Was fortunate to see all 7 pf the Budd Boetticher./ Scott./ Brown westerns on a big screen here in NYC at MOMA. ALL are terrific. I couldn't pick a favorite.
That's incredible!
Fred F. Sears did more with less than many Directors. I love his stuff. Fred Sears FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. Fantastic interview. Toby Roan is a personal favorite commentator. So much enthusiasm and fun with his conveying of the facts. P.S. No Name on the Bullett is my new favorite 50s Western.
Funny story regarding SORCERER. This happened a few years earlier than when I was there in 1980, but when I was working at the Hollywood Theater across the street from the Chinese on Hollywood Blvd. my manager told me that when STAR WARS opened in May of 1977 at the Chinese, they had booked SORCERER to play there 2 weeks later (having no idea of the insane amount of business STAR WARS was going to do). So at the height of STAR WARS Mania with lines going around the block, the Chinese had to honor its contractual obligation and run SORCERER for 2 weeks (which, whatever its merits as a film, basically played to crickets). Meanwhile, our little theater across the street did turn away business showing the hottest movie in town for 2 weeks...
Enjoying this discussion. And I appreciate how you add the posters of the movies! Thanks!
You're very welcome! Good to get some feedback on that, as people rarely mention it.
Another great conversation, Heath! This one really speaks to me - from 8mm to film-school-by-viewing to Roy Rogers to Sam Katzman to "Sorcerer"! Tick, tick, tick - ALL the boxes!
I loved Toby Roan's commentaries on "Trigger, Jr." and "Sunset in the West" - and I'm with him 1000% (that's right 1000%!) on the latter run of Roy Rogers films - and particularly, "Trail of Robin Hood". I hope he gets a chance to do a track for that one as well sometime. Love George Chesbro considering how to get some information out of a Christmas tree rustler: "I always favored a knife..."
More of these, please! And thank you.
Trigger jr is one of my absolute favorite Roy Rogers movies. First time I saw it I thought the horses were actually fighting
I love "Trigger, Jr." as well. I was watching "Son of Paleface" the other night. At some point, Trigger gets p.o.'d at Bob Hope and starts chasing him, really going after him. It made me think of "Trigger, Jr" and my other favorite, "The Golden Stallion." I suddenly realized Trigger is a much more complex character than Roy, with a richer emotional history. He loses his temper in "Son of Paleface", In "The Golden Stallion" he gets mixed up with a "bad girl" horse, who has his baby and dies. And in "Trigger, Jr." he's blinded by a sucker punch, regains his sight, and kicks the living tar out of a killer stallion going after his son.
Roy shows up, sings a few songs, punches a few guys, shoots something and goes home...every time.
Trigger actually has a lot more going on in his life.
On the fighting horses: My wife walked in just as that scene started up and I had to assure her it was mostly cutting and sound effects. That horse fight is pretty brutal.
Love Toby's "aha" movies (not his term; shortly after 2:00) -- No Name on the Bullet, The Tall T, and Last Train From Gun Hill. I haven't actually seen No Name (yet), but Yes and Yes to The Tall T and Last Train. Great conversation, Heath, too much fun!
Really nice discussion. I love his commentaries. It would be cool if you spliced little scenes of the westerns you talk about into the discussion. Thanks Heath
Great conversation. Definitely have him back for more conversations about westerns.
Awesome video! I was surprised and thrilled that Toby mentioned me at the end. Heath, no, you don't know me, although I've commented on your videos a few times. But I enjoy your videos and whenever I see you interview someone, I think. "Toby would be a great interview for Heath!". Little did I know when I casually mentioned that to Toby that it would actually happen! I feel like I've done some good in the world!! And hopefully Toby will return for more videos. I had no idea a few years ago when I went to the Graham Cinema and watched STAGECOACH with Toby and his daughter, that it would be ( probably) for the last time. Several months later he moved away from Central North Carolina. We text occasionally, but it's great seeing him again, even if it's on screen! Thanks Heath and Toby!
Hey, I'm glad you saw this! It was meant to be, huh?
Thanks for putting in a good word for me with Toby when you did, sir.
Interesting!
Awesome video!
Yeah, I have to get deeper into Westerns. I'm beyond the "I've seen The Searchers" guy but not at you guys' levels. I did add "The Last Posse" to my short list on YT.
Such a great interview. Not quite from the 50s yes but close enough as I kept thinking Yellow Sky is so good. PS I love Sorcerer so why no 4k?
Good interview and cool video Heath!👉🏼🙂👈
Wild Bill Elliott in The Showdown! Walter Brennen, and nearly every movie/tv cowboy.
Wild Bill Elliott is great! When I first started exploring B-movie heroes, his authenticity really came through and made an impression on me.
The Showdown is terrific. Any Western that opens with William Elliott digging up a grave has to be good! And Marie Windsor is my all-time favorite actress.
Always enjoy these western discussions. By the way, do you capitalize the word “western” in reference to the genre? I have seen some do it.
I try to capitalize Western when I'm using it as a proper noun and title, but I don't when it's part of a larger sentence. I don't capitalize any other genre names, like action, martial arts, drama, comedy, etc.
I was wrong about Trail Of Robin Hood. It was 1950, not 1949. Hellfire is the film that made me fudge the parameters of my book to make sure I could get it in there.
If you guys have any links to uncut roy rogers films, I'd love if you sent them my way!
I think RIFLEMAN is great, absolutely...I mean, our man Sam P. created it orginally and wrote and directed a lot of the first season eps. But HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL, and Sam's own series, THE WESTERNER... those two series are really huge standouts. I'd put Rifleman up there for the first two or three seasons, but I can't place it at the top of the heap. Great interview by thew way, and forgive the...what do we cal it now? GATEKEEPING?
To be fair, Toby didn't ask anyone to agree with him, he just expressed his own preference, and preferences can't be wrong.
@@CerealAtMidnight meant no offense, sorry if it came off that way...
No offense was taken, but you apologized for gatekeeping and I was just adding my two cents. Now I'm off to watch Johnny Crawford in Village of the Giants...
16mm bell and Howell sound projector?
Yep, and later a really nice Elmo (which I still have).
So did you immediatly watch the roy rogers christmas movie? I did
I enjoyed the western conversation but I was not crazy about the end of this. Feels kind of hypocritical to talk about young people not giving westerns and older movies a chance when it sounds like this guy doesn’t give new movies a chance. There’s a lot more going on in modern film than giant blockbusters.
I totally get your point. At times, I DO feel like a hypocrite. However, it seems to me that if you give old or new movies, or a particular genre, a real shot and end up not liking them, you've done your due diligence. You made the effort. That's what I think is missing with many folks. At the same time, the look and feel of cinema today is VERY different from stuff from just 30 years ago. I just don't care for it.