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Bliss said:
Played left half for Ohio State didn't he?
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Sorry, not the same person.

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No one has mentioned it (I don't think), but I'll watch "Major Dundee" any time. Charlton Heston is terrific, and Richard Harris (a bit miscast as a Confederate officer) is good, too. Lots of good supporting actors (James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Jim Hutton, etc.) and the underappreciated and scintillating Senta Berger is worth tuning in for all by herself.
 
bantamlaker said:
Thanks for this interesting rock and toll trivia. I picked up some other trivia from this thread. Watching the High Noon clip I recognized the name Sheb Wooley in the cast. This is the same Sheb Wooley who had the big hit Purple People Eater in 1958. Then last night I watched Hoosiers (which someone on the BY mentioned was on) and there’s Sheb playing the high school principal who hires Coach Norman Dale. Isn’t it amazing all the useful stuff you can learn just by hanging around the Boneyard !
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Also had a recurring role on Rawhide, where Clint Eastwood started.

 
A classic from Rawhide. How young Clint Eastwood was! The actress who plays Jeanie is Reba Waters.

 
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.

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Steelerone said:
Does that make you a Huckleberry?
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FWIW, I was listening to a talk radio show today and the topic, oddly enough, was best westerns. A caller made reference to the 'huckleberry' comment and said a huckleberry was a pallbearer.
 
Hope said:
FWIW, I was listening to a talk radio show today and the topic, oddly enough, was best westerns. A caller made reference to the 'huckleberry' comment and said a huckleberry was a pallbearer.
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I have been told that the term "huckle bearer" was used in the South as a slang term for pall bearer. Have never heard it used personally. So does Doc Kilmer say huckle bearer rather than huckleberry? I have no clue. Anyway it was a pretty fair movie!
 
Bama fan said:
I have been told that the term "huckle bearer" was used in the South as a slang term for pall bearer. Have never heard it used personally. So does Doc Kilmer say huckle bearer rather than huckleberry? I have no clue. Anyway it was a pretty fair movie!
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Fwiw, I was in Tombstone, AZ last Sunday and all the touristy t-shirts spelled it "huckleberry".
 
PoppaBear said:
Fwiw, I was in Tombstone, AZ last Sunday and all the touristy t-shirts spelled it "huckleberry".
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After his playing career was over, Phil Rizzuto spent many years doing radio and TV broadcasts of New York Yankee games. During these broadcasts, he often would jokingly refer to someone as being a "huckleberry".
 
I personally love this topic. Need to mention Errol Flynn in Dodge City & San Antonio, and Glen Ford in Arizona. Clark Gable/Jane Russell in Tall Men, as well as Gary Cooper in Plainsman & The Westerner. Outlaw Josey Wales is my preferred Eastwood movie. Mountain Men w/Brian Keith & Heston, North to Alaska w/John Wayne, Big Country w/ Gregory Peck, Liberty Valance and Rio Grande as classics, the Maverick series, Gunsmoke, … FYI you can watch some episodes of old time shows on YouTube. I recently watched a RinTinTin, Shotgun Slade, and although not exactly a western, Swamp Fox episodes with Leslie Nielson. I'm also liking the Wyatt Earp series now that I understand an awful lot of it is based on actual events chronologically. Enjoyed How The West Was Won, and the James Arness series by the same name, all the Lonesome Doves, Centennial, The Sacketts, Deadwood...(had never realized until later that the real Seth Bullock was best friends with Teddy Roosevelt). Joel Macrea, Randolph Scott, Sam Elliott, Ward Bond, Audie Murphy, Guy Madison....

What a Hollywood disaster over a short time to lose Errol Flynn Oct 14, 1959 (age 50), Ward Bond Nov 5th, 1960 (age 57), Clark Gable 11 days later Nov 16, 1960 (age 59), Gary Cooper May 13, 1961 (Age 60). Amazing how many movies I have enjoyed with these greats and how young they died in quick succession.
 
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AND, if this doesn't get your juices flowing on a Saturday morning, nothing will....

 
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Carnac said:
Oh yes sir, I remember ol' Hoppy, and his saddle pals Lucky & California. ;) His shows are aired every week on the Starz Encore Westerns channel.
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Yep. Russell Hayden played Lucky. Was it Gabby Hayes who played California?
 
Carnac said:
No, Andy Clyde.
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From 1935 to 1939, Gabby Hayes played the part of Windy Halliday, the humorous "codger" sidekick of Hopalong Cassidy (played by William Boyd). In 1939, Hayes left that role at Paramount Pictures, in a dispute over his salary. and moved to Republic Pictures. Since Paramount held the rights to the name Windy Halliday, they renamed him Gabby Whitaker, in virtually the same role. As Gabby, he appeared in more than 40 films between 1939 and 1946, usually with Roy Rogers (44 times), but also with Gene Autry (7) and Wild Bill Elliott.

Hayes was also repeatedly cast as a sidekick of the Western stars Randolph Scott (six times) and John Wayne (fifteen times, some as straight or villainous characters).

He moved to television and hosted The Gabby Hayes Show, a Western series, from 1950 to 1954 on NBC and, in a new version in 1956, on ABC. The show was sponsored by Quaker Oats, whose products were prominently advertised during the show. Gabby would promote the puffed wheat product by saying to stand back from the screen and firing a cannon loaded with cereal at the screen as a tie in to their ad slogan ‘shot from a guns’. He introduced the show, often while whittling on a piece of wood, and would sometimes throw in a tall tale. Halfway through the show, he would say something else, and at the end of the show, also, but he did not appear as an active character in the stories.

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Aluminny69 said:
From 1935 to 1939, Gabby Hayes played the part of Windy Halliday, the humorous "codger" sidekick of Hopalong Cassidy (played by William Boyd). In 1939, Hayes left that role at Paramount Pictures, in a dispute over his salary. and moved to Republic Pictures. Since Paramount held the rights to the name Windy Halliday, they renamed him Gabby Whitaker, in virtually the same role. As Gabby, he appeared in more than 40 films between 1939 and 1946, usually with Roy Rogers (44 times), but also with Gene Autry (7) and Wild Bill Elliott.

Hayes was also repeatedly cast as a sidekick of the Western stars Randolph Scott (six times) and John Wayne (fifteen times, some as straight or villainous characters).

He moved to television and hosted The Gabby Hayes Show, a Western series, from 1950 to 1954 on NBC and, in a new version in 1956, on ABC. The show was sponsored by Quaker Oats, whose products were prominently advertised during the show. Gabby would promote the puffed wheat product by saying to stand back from the screen and firing a cannon loaded with cereal at the screen as a tie in to their ad slogan ‘shot from a guns’. He introduced the show, often while whittling on a piece of wood, and would sometimes throw in a tall tale. Halfway through the show, he would say something else, and at the end of the show, also, but he did not appear as an active character in the stories.

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To quote Lynn Belvedere....."That is correct". But Steelerone's question was: who played California? :cool:
During his run, Hoppy had several side-kicks including Edgar Buchanan as Red Connors.

As portrayed on the screen, white-haired Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy was usually clad strikingly in black (including his hat, an exception to the Western film stereotype that only villains wore black hats). He was reserved and well spoken, with a sense of fair play. He was often called upon to intercede when dishonest characters took advantage of honest citizens. "Hoppy" and his white horse, Topper, usually traveled through the West with two companions—one young and trouble-prone with a weakness for damsels in distress, the other older, comically awkward and outspoken.[1]

The juvenile lead was successively played by James Ellison, Russell Hayden, George Reeves, Rand Brooks, and Jimmy Rogers.[2] George Hayes (later to become known as "Gabby" Hayes) originally played Cassidy's grizzled sidekick, Windy Halliday. After Hayes left the series because of a salary dispute with producer Harry Sherman, he was replaced by the comedian Britt Wood as Speedy McGinnis and finally by the veteran movie comedian Andy Clyde as California Carlson. Clyde, the most durable of the sidekicks, remained with the series until it ended. A few actors of future prominence appeared in Cassidy films, notably Robert Mitchum, who appeared in seven films at the beginning of his career.

Thanks to the earlier series which showed edited versions of his films, Boyd began work on a separate series of half-hour westerns made especially for television; Edgar Buchanan was his new sidekick, Red Connors (a character from the original stories and a few of the early films). The theme music for the television show was written by Nacio Herb Brown (music) and L. Wolfe Gilbert (lyrics). The show ranked number 7 in the 1949 Nielsen ratings, number 9 in the 1950-1951 season and number 28 in 1951-1952.[11] The success of the show and tie-ins inspired juvenile television westerns such as The Range Rider, Tales of the Texas Rangers, Annie Oakley, The Gene Autry Show, and The Roy Rogers Show.
 
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Ricker said:
I personally love this topic. Need to mention Errol Flynn in Dodge City & San Antonio, and Glen Ford in Arizona. Clark Gable/Jane Russell in Tall Men, as well as Gary Cooper in Plainsman & The Westerner. Outlaw Josey Wales is my preferred Eastwood movie. Mountain Men w/Brian Keith & Heston, North to Alaska w/John Wayne, Big Country w/ Gregory Peck, Liberty Valance and Rio Grande as classics, the Maverick series, Gunsmoke, … FYI you can watch some episodes of old time shows on YouTube. I recently watched a RinTinTin, Shotgun Slade, and although not exactly a western, Swamp Fox episodes with Leslie Nielson. I'm also liking the Wyatt Earp series now that I understand an awful lot of it is based on actual events chronologically. Enjoyed How The West Was Won, and the James Arness series by the same name, all the Lonesome Doves, Centennial, The Sacketts, Deadwood...(had never realized until later that the real Seth Bullock was best friends with Teddy Roosevelt). Joel Macrea, Randolph Scott, Sam Elliott, Ward Bond, Audie Murphy, Guy Madison....

What a Hollywood disaster over a short time to lose Errol Flynn Oct 14, 1959 (age 50), Ward Bond Nov 5th, 1960 (age 57), Clark Gable 11 days later Nov 16, 1960 (age 59), Gary Cooper May 13, 1961 (Age 60). Amazing how many movies I have enjoyed with these greats and how young they died in quick succession.
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Thanks. I forgot about the highlighted movies above. All 3 are among my favorites.
 
Bama fan said:
I was quite young when I first heard this song. I did not know for sure what a "craven coward" was, but it was really bad for sure.
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Bama - In the early fifties my Aunt worked at a place in New Kensington called Hotel Kenmar. One Saturday she called the house and told me that Tex Ritter was at the bar. He was on a tour for one of his movies. I ran almost five blocks to get there and she told me he was in the bar. I went in and approached him for his autograph. I think I said, "Tex, could you give me your autograph?" He turned to the guy next to him and said "Get this little bastard out of here." I was never a Tex Ritter fan again.
 
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