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The Last Durango Kid Movie; Tuesday on TCM
Topic Started: Dec 13 2008, 09:13 AM (963 Views)
kirgo2
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A brief alert to all Charles Starrett fans...TCM will be airing the final Durango Kid feature on Tuesday, December 16th at 2 p.m. eastern time.
It's "The Kid from Broken Gun" and co-stars Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Angela Stevens, Tris Coffin and Myron Healey.

(Originally, TCM was scheduled to air another rare Durango title, "The Kid From Amarillo" at 1 p.m. but it's been replaced by Tim Holt in "The Stagecoach Kid".)
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Laughing Gravy
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Balconeer Chief Thunder Cloud sent me the poster for this film. Ain't he just the bestest?

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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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Yes he is. I dig that Smiley Burnette get up.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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I watched this today, and was amused to find out that Columbia treated their B-westerns in the same fashion as they did their comedy shorts: The Kid from Broken Gun (1952) contains generous portions of an earlier Durango Kid opus, The Fighting Frontiersman (1946). I didn't catch on to the chicanery until I began to wonder why star Starrett looked a little too young in the "flashbacks."

The best thing in Broken Gun is a brief comedy bit by Smiley and an unbilled Snub Pollard. Well, it made me laugh fit to beat the band--parts of it, anyway.

That is an awfully nice poster, too.
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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Don Diego
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The poster is great - I'm using it as a cover for the DVD I burned from the broadcast today.
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