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Title: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: Manedwolf on December 06, 2007, 08:36:43 AM
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.  smiley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmkV2duDZRc
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: SADShooter on December 06, 2007, 10:24:21 AM
Really enjoyable film with a neat plot twist.
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: Werewolf on December 06, 2007, 11:12:37 AM
+1

Well worth the watch. The message sent by the ending is especially poignant considering the times we live in today.
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: grampster on December 06, 2007, 12:53:43 PM
Is that a cable movie?  Or can it be rented on DVD?
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: Manedwolf on December 06, 2007, 01:02:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: Daniel964 on December 06, 2007, 01:14:04 PM
Now you done it. After watching that I gotta go buy a copy.
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: Rocketman56 on December 06, 2007, 03:59:02 PM
+1 Daniel964..

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

Night,
Steve
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 06, 2007, 04:30:41 PM
Quote
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.)
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: mustanger98 on December 06, 2007, 04:45:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: CAnnoneer on December 07, 2007, 01:04:59 PM
So if 5 people carry that way, they are all Hickock?  rolleyes grin
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: mustanger98 on December 07, 2007, 01:11:07 PM
So if 5 people carry that way, they are all Hickock?  rolleyes grin

Only on tv. Or you know one of 'ems him and the other four are posing as him. grin
Title: Re: Nice movie moment from an unusual Western...
Post by: gunsmith on December 07, 2007, 10:13:11 PM
I've seen that movie, no one ruined it for me like they did with sixth sense