Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...

[Manedwolf]

From "Purgatory", a made-for-TV movie. Sam Shepard did a great Wild Bill Hickok, and Randy Quaid was a perfect Doc Holliday.

If you've not seen this one, I recommend it. It was like a Western with a good bit of the Twilight Zone. A town called Refuge, in the middle of nowhere, where the old legends were trying to lead other lives...long after they were dead.

Two really well-choreographed gunfights, and this scene, which was just really well done, I thought. If you read stories of the old legends, the outlaws and all, might give you goosebumps. The moment someone straps on their gunbelt with the guns reversed butt-forward and steps out into the street... you know who that is. And a newcomer standing amid the line of the legends, looking left and right, about to fight alongside them...I think that'd affect anyone who watched Westerns. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmkV2duDZRc

[SADShooter]

Really enjoyable film with a neat plot twist.

[Werewolf]

+1

Well worth the watch. The message sent by the ending is especially poignant considering the times we live in today.

[grampster]

Is that a cable movie?  Or can it be rented on DVD?

[Manedwolf]

It was produced and shown on TNT, but you can buy it on DVD. Look in any store that has movies, it's with the westerns. Target had it.

[Daniel964]

Now you done it. After watching that I gotta go buy a copy.

[Rocketman56]

+1 Daniel964..

Wow..  Guess what just got added to my Christmas list.. 

Night,
Steve

[Perd Hapley]

The moment someone straps on their gunbelt with the guns reversed butt-forward and steps out into the street... you know who that is.

Not really. 


(Yes, I know since I watched the clip that it was supposed to be Hickok.)

[mustanger98]

Well, if you studied Hickock (sp?), you know that he wore his pair of 1851 Colt's butt-forward in his sash for a "cavalry draw". Yet for some reason Hollywierd always portrays him as using holsters... as well as portraying him as more clean-cut, and sometimes even, more decent. But yeah, just the two revolvers worn butt-forward is generally the tip-off that's it's him.

[CAnnoneer]

So if 5 people carry that way, they are all Hickock? 

[mustanger98]

So if 5 people carry that way, they are all Hickock? 

Only on tv. Or you know one of 'ems him and the other four are posing as him.

[gunsmith]

I've seen that movie, no one ruined it for me like they did with sixth sense