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| Durango Kid; Thursday on TCM | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 27 2007, 05:37 PM (815 Views) | |
| kirgo2 | Nov 27 2007, 05:37 PM Post #1 |
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TCM will be airing 5 of Charles Starrett's Durango Kid series this Thursday, November 29th starting at 6:00 a.m. Eastern. 6:00 am "The Durango Kid" (1940) ... one of Starrett's best 7:15 am "Return of the Durango Kid" (1945) 8:15 am "Both Barrels Blazing" (1945) 9:15 am "Blazing the Western Trail" (1945) 10:30 am "Lawless Empire" (1945) All of the 1945 entries feature Dub Taylor in the sidekick role before Smiley Burnette joined the series. Starrett's films from the late '30s and early '40s are his best but these are fun to watch. |
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| igsjr | Nov 18 2008, 01:56 PM Post #2 |
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Watched my first Durango Kid western today--I've never seen one before, honest. It was Trail of the Rustlers (1950) and the plot is pretty straightforward: a gang of malcontents are scheming to buy up all the ranchland in the sleepy little hamlet of Rio Perdido (Spanish for "lost river") because of the recent drought...and are able to speed things up a bit, saleswise, when one of them masquerades as Durango ('who's always worked outside the law...but never against it") and starts terrorizing the town. It's pretty much your run-of-the-mill B-oater stuff, but what I did notice was differerent about it was that the villain isn't the usual respected-by-all-banker but some dame what runs a hotel and her idiot sons. (I've always believed that when it comes to programmers, Columbia excelled at them more than their competition.) That having been said, I was a little perturbed that Gene Autry protege Gail Davis gets second billing rather than Gene Roth--the poor man's Elisha Cook, Jr.--and Roth has more screen time than Gail! |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Nov 18 2008, 03:49 PM Post #3 |
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Where in the world would you get such a notion???? |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| shelbyvinje | Nov 18 2008, 07:50 PM Post #4 |
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I have seen the first two and they are not part of the Durango Kid series, if I recall accurately. More like individual films that were made, and later decided to format the character into a series of westerns. So don't expect the first one to resemble much of the rest of the series. TCM has a bunch scheduled on their network in the coming months and talk around the campfire is that some of the Starrett westerns being shown on TCM will be non-circulating entries of the series so if you have almost the entire series, get your DVD recorder ready! |
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| mort bakaprevski | Nov 18 2008, 09:38 PM Post #5 |
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I find that a bit mysterious myself!!! |
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| igsjr | Nov 19 2008, 04:40 AM Post #6 |
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A very wise holy (mackerel) man who resides on a mountain top in Tennessee and preaches the gospel of Criterion releases and Sun Drop. I learned a lot from him. |
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"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director So many DVDs...so little time... | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Nov 19 2008, 04:45 AM Post #7 |
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I bet you could take everything you learned from "HIM" and put it on paper in ...oh...about 10 seconds! |
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| mort bakaprevski | Nov 19 2008, 08:01 AM Post #8 |
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Y'know, it does suggest a fun new game: Lucien Prival-the poor man's Glenn Strange |
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| Vornoff | Nov 23 2008, 01:33 PM Post #9 |
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OK, I'll play. Robert Lowery -the poor man's Victor Mature. ![]() ![]() |
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| mort bakaprevski | Nov 23 2008, 02:26 PM Post #10 |
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No! No! No! No! Going with jgs' example, the two have to be as physically dissimilar as possible (Gene Roth & Elisha Cook)!!! |
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| Vornoff | Nov 23 2008, 08:23 PM Post #11 |
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Color me clueless. Oh well - I'm never surprised anymore at my screwups. Anyway, I do think Robert Lowery and Victor Mature were separated at birth. |
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| Black Tiger | Nov 24 2008, 12:43 AM Post #12 |
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Lowery is a VERY poor man's Victor Mature. |
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| Vornoff | Nov 24 2008, 12:14 PM Post #13 |
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Yes, BT, he's certainly charismatically and thespianically challenged for sure, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for him since I first saw him as Big Tim Champion in CIRCUS BOY back in the ol' days. |
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| Mantan | Nov 24 2008, 09:40 PM Post #14 |
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CRAP! Missed 'em by a year!!!! When I first read this post, I didn't bother myself with noting the date it was posted-- November 27, 2007. I'd really been counting on dvr-ing those Durango Kid titles. Looks like I miscomprehended again. |
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| mort bakaprevski | Nov 26 2008, 07:57 AM Post #15 |
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James Arness--the poor man's Audie Murphy |
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