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Just when you thought it was safe to go blog surfing, one more Worst Silver-Screen Animal Hero Western! Nooooo! Actually, it’s not too bad. In this flick, Rex and Rinty far outshine the human actors and the ridiculonkulousness of the script. Like their man’s-best-friend comrades in the real world, Rex and Rinty prove themselves to be . . . → Read More: The Animal Hero’s Journey into Serial Darkness; or, Not Another Worst Silver-Screen Animal Hero Western!?   4 comments  CowboyLands Lists, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Uncategorized  1930s serials, animal westerns, animals in westerns, cliffhangers, cowboy hero, Movie Quotes, rex and rinty, silver-screen animal heroes, silver-screen western hero, the adventures of rex and rinty, western cliches, western serials On January 4, 1847, Samuel Colt sold his first revolver to the United States government, allowing buckskinned frontiersmen and uniformed soldiers everywhere to sheathe their Bowie knives and mail their powder-and-ball kits to their poorer relations. When Samuel Colt, cigar clamped manfully between his teeth, shook hands on the deal for one thousand .44-caliber revolvers to be . . . → Read More: Colt’s .44; or Western History Triggers Countdown 6 comments Buckaroo Gear, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, On This Day in Western History, State of the Union 2010, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events Colt .44, colt in westerns, colt invention, cowboy cliches, cowboy facts, gun that won the west, guns in westerns, Samuel Colt Two words: Special Features. If your Silver-Screen Western Hero wanna-be has a New Year’s resolution that entails learning to kick miscreant butt in showdowns then he or she is going to need a go-to pick-me-up for those . . . → Read More: The Modern Buckaroo’s Guide to Happiness; or What Else to Give the Silver-Screen Western Hero of Your Life 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Film Reviews, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly appaloosa, cowboy gifts, cowboylands, deadwood, deadwood blu-ray, gift guide for cowboys, reach for the skies, self-help, silver-screen western hero, the bad and the ugly, the good, western movies, western soundtrack, westerns The chasm yawns below me. My fingers ache from their grip on the rock; my feet kick wildly for purchase, nothing between them and novel-revision and work deadlines except dead air–and too few hours. I feel my fingers giving and I regret the many hours I spent on Twitter rather than doing finger exercises, and I . . . → Read More: The Good, the Bad and the Rinty; or, Another of the Worst Silver-Screen Animal Hero Westerns 7 comments Best Western Lists, CowboyLands Lists, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Film Reviews, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wrangling a Novel animal heroes, animals in westerns, b-westerns, cowboylands, mighty flapjack42, Movie Quotes, reach for the skies, rin tin tin, serials, silver-screen animal heroes, silver-screen western hero, the lightning warrior, top ten worst westerns, western movies, westerns Just when I thought it was safe to go back to blogging, my novel does a feint to the left, then makes a fierce uppercut to my chin and tosses me across the bar, onto a table, then out the plate-glass window. I land on my back in the mud of the road, staring up at . . . → Read More: Once Upon a Dog in the Yukon; or, Yet Another of the Worst Silver-Screen Animal Hero Westerns Leave a comment Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wrangling a Novel cowboylands, flapjack42 rocks, novel writing is no fun, sacchia, silver-screen animal heroes, silver-screen western hero, spaghetti westerns, top ten westerns, top ten worst westerns, western movies, westerns, white fang to the rescue, yukon westerns Bucko here! Raging floods! Avalanche! And revisions! I’m teetering on a precipice of novel decisions (one false move and I’ll fall into the Maelstrom of Indecisive Despair…) Yikes! …when to my rescue comes BARK! BARK! BARKITY BARK BARK! That’s right, Lassie! Saved! Guest blogger Flapjack42 is back with the Top 10 Worst Animal as Silver-Screen Western Hero movies . . . → Read More: Bark! Bark!; or, Two of the Worst Silver-Screen Western Animal Heroes “The heroes in modern action movies seem to spend the whole films WINNING.” Lordy, how I wish I had come up with that zinger, by blogger dcairns of Shadowplay, because it explains a lot. These days if you don’t get insta-happiness in the time it takes to make instant coffee (for those who do), Tang breakfast drink (to . . . → Read More: The Anthony Mann/James Stewart Ring Cycle; or, Silver-Screen Hero as Everyman Leave a comment Cowboy Moments, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowgirl Mythos, Film Reviews, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web anthony mann, cowboy code, cowboy hero, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, james stweart, man from laramie, naked spur, reach for the skies, silver-screen western hero, western movies, westerns, winchester '73 The most satisfying part of a quiz are the answers. It’s as if having something hard and fast–a yes/no/write/wrong/you are this/you are that–keeps all the demons of uncertainty at bay and hence make us happier and more satisfied, right? Who wants to be consumed by doubt when so much is at stake (you, your love interest, . . . → Read More: Which Silver-Screen Western Hero Are You?; or Part III, The Answers 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, What Would Gary Cooper Do? cowboy hero, Cowboy Mythos, cowboy quiz, cowboylands, reach for the skies, silver-screen western hero, silver-screen western hero quiz, western hero quiz I’m on a quest to find kick-butt cowgirl heroines, and although I appreciate the girl-next-door look of the singing cowgirls and I love-love-love the whip of Linda Stirling in Zorro’s Black Whip, I find that while there are many cowgirls that are hawtness personified, there are none with the on-screen charisma of a Clint Eastwood. 5 comments Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowgirl Mythos, Film Reviews, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Movie Quotes, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly Cowboy Mythos, cowgirls, gene hackman, linda stirling, Movie Quotes, quick and the dead, sharon stone, the good the bad the ugly, vengeance plot, western heroines, western movies, women gunslingers A Western definition: |
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