We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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Ranking Movies Since 2011
We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
BEST STILLS IN STEVE’s 1966 VIDEO [Rated 99% overall by me]
1/Kid Rodeo
2/The Plainsman
3/Dana Andrews and Lawrence Talbot in A C Lyles Johnny Reno
4/1st one for Return of 7
5/Manchester across the Tame
6/Man from Nowhere/Arizona Colt
7/Navajo Joe
8/Two for SW to Sonora-Premiered in a 2nd grade cinema over here. As one critic said “A Brando film is no longer a cinematic event.” Nor would it be until Godpop and Last Tango arrived.
9/Ride in the Whirlwind
10/Rare Breed
11/Ugly Ones
12/Texas Adios
13/The Shooting
14/Duel at Diablo
15/Django
16/Big Gundown
17/2 for the Professionals -wow!
18/All for El Dorado – Wow!
19/ALL for Good bad and Ugly
20/Billy the Kid versus Dracula. Ye Gods! – I regarded westerns as a deteriorating genre in the 1960s but I didn’t know they had come to THAT! As somebody once said “I don’t mind a bit of fun but I can’t stand a pantomime”! Wise ole Steve rightly keeps it at bottom of pile!
Best POSTERS in STEVE’s 1966 VIDEO [FL = FOREIGN LANGUAGE POSTER]
1/1st one for Kid Rodeo
2/FL one for Plainsman
3/A C Lyles’ WACO
4/1st and FL one for Texican
5/Gunpoint
6/2 FL ones for Return of 7
7/All for Arizona Colt
8/ALL for Navajo Joe
9/FL one for SW to Sonora
10/ALL for Alvarez Kelly
11/1st one for Rare Breed – Jimmy’s worst western for my money.
12/2nd one for Manchester Across the River
13/1st one for The Shooting
14/2 for Duel at Diablo
15/both for The Big Gundown
16/ALL for The Professionals
17/All for Nevada Smith
18/ALL for The Good Bad and Ugly
19/ Django
20/1st and one for FL one for El Dorado. “Sitting behind the cameras with Howard Hawks and watching John Wayne and my brother Robert walking side by side down the street is a big scene I had the impression I was watching THREE men coming towards the cameras and nor just two.” – Jim Mitchum actor.
Not being a fan of Italian/spaghetti westerns, for me 1966 was a lean year for the genre and I seem to remember the only 4 that particularly appealed to me were Burt Lancaster’s The Professionals; The Duke’s El Dorado and to lesser extent Duel at Diablo and Big Deal at Dodge City though not in my view the traditional western.
Though I thought of him as no great actor 1had been quite taken with Steve McQueen when he first appeared and I normally don’t allow a thespian’s private life within reason to bias me against screen performance.
However in my eyes McQueen revealed himself to be so shallow and vulgar an individual especially in his attitude to courteous Paul Newman that I could no longer warm to Steve on-screen. Nevada Smith was thus a miss with me and indeed I see it as simply ripping off Ladd’s 1964 character in The Carpetbaggers
Hey Bruce, your 1965 comment made it thru unscathed, first time in ages! 🙂
Bronson looks like he enjoyed working with young Kurt. I haven’t seen that film.
Your tally 6, Flora has seen 6 too. I managed 7, thanks to that epic English western Carry On Cowboy (Bob rolls his eyes). Thanks for the vote, share and comment, much appreciated.
Added in Steve’s latest You Tube videos….looks like must of my most of my comments disappeared on his You Tube channel. But I did like his movies…even though the amount of movies got shorter and shorter as the years advanced.