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| The Last Durango Kid Movie; Tuesday on TCM | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 13 2008, 09:13 AM (963 Views) | |
| kirgo2 | Dec 13 2008, 09:13 AM Post #1 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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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 (Originally, TCM was scheduled to air another rare Durango title, "The Kid From Amarillo" at 1 p.m. but it's been replaced by Tim Holt in "The Stagecoach Kid".)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 | Dec 16 2008, 10:19 AM Post #2 |
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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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| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Dec 16 2008, 10:21 AM Post #3 |
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Sapient Balconeer
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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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| igsjr | Dec 16 2008, 02:25 PM Post #4 |
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Nostalgia blogger
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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. |
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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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| Don Diego | Dec 16 2008, 02:51 PM Post #5 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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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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