...and what about these two?

Jacksoncountyrifle

"A Man Called Horse" was mentioned in an earlier post and it's been 100 years since I have seen that movie. I think Richard Harris starred in that one and I think there was a sequel to that movie. I wonder if that could be "A Man in the Wilderness"? I will add both to my shopping list! Thanks. :thumbsup:

 

[Claude Mathis]

"A Man Called Horse" was mentioned in an earlier post and it's been 100 years since I have seen that movie. I think Richard Harris starred in that one and I think there was a sequel to that movie.

The sequel was titled "Return of a Man Called Horse". Neither have much basis in fact/history/accuracy.

 

[sprucefly]

The original "A Man called Horse" was more enjoyable than the sequel, IMHO.

 

[Rebel]

Yep, i agree with that. The sequel wasn't all that great. And even though it wasn't really all ML'ers, hows about Dancesd With Wolves? Not a bad movies for entertainment.

 

[Huntinfool]

Hey Frank,

I cut my credit cards up also but I got a debit card from my bank that lets me order online or mail order it takes the money right out of my checking account no interest involved!

The only way to go!

Chuck :thumbsup:

 

Huntinfool,

Yeah, I have to do something. So many good sites with great stuff. Waiting for the next rendezvous when ya just gotta have something NOW is not so good. Maybe a seperate acct just for internet ordering would be secure and controlable. Thanks for the suggestion.

There is a string asking about the worst ML movie. And I have learned about the pc from the responses here about numerous movies. Maybe a good question would be "What is your FAVORITE or MOST PC ML/historic movie?" All responses would be positive and there may be obscure flicks out there that some of us don't know about. I hate to start a new string that is so similar to this one so maybe if we wait around, others will continue to add to this one.

Take care,

 

And even though it wasn't really all ML'ers, hows about Dancesd With Wolves? Not a bad movies for entertainment.

I have the 4 hour version on DVD and really enjoy the movie. Certainly the views and lifestyles of the Indains seem credible to me but I am just beginning to learn about all of this.

 

[Rebel]

Well, now that you mentioned Old and obscure movies, i thought of another one. Seems like it was called Across The Wide Missouri, and i think it had Robert Mitchum in it. There was also an old one about Rogers Rangers with Kirk Douglas and i think his name was Robert Young, the guy who played Marcus Welby MD. Can't remember what it was called though.

 

[Claude Mathis]

Maybe a good question would be "What is your FAVORITE or MOST PC ML/historic movie?"

The Forum has a great search feature. ::

SEE POST

 

[Holley]

Across the Wide Missouri stared Clark Gable.
Rodgers Rangers was your Robert Young as the "drafted" your artist and the guy who played the father in "Guess whos's comming to dinner". Cannnot remember his name right now. Alawys seemed to play Catholic Priests. :: Katherine Hepburns flame for many years. Stacy something or other??
The one with Kirk Douglas had to do with a Louis and Clark type them in the West. He was with a fur trade company and they were towing the Keel boat up the rivers and back. Darn, have the movie...can't remember the name. The Young man in that looses a finger and falls in love with the Indian girl that Douglas likes. :haha:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Spencer Tracy.

The movie was "Northwest Passage".

Great flic.

 

[Holley]

That was it!!!! At least I got most of it right. :agree: :what:

 

[brushbuster]

I think you will find that in most cases that the book is always different. partly budget,partly imagination. thats hollywuud

 

[SquirrelsaurusR]

Just a word from a re-enactor of the Rev War era here...
Patriot... SPIT!!!
Not acurate at all in dress, story or they way the British actually were, old Mel demonized them to make a better story, no British Officer ever hung a boy like in the movie. Also a lot of the clothing is of a later time period.

Are you sure about that? I heard the Col. Tavington character was based on the real Tarleton (sp?), and wasn't he known to be 'not quite so friendly'?

 

[SquirrelsaurusR]

I can't remember the details, but it seems that one had consultants or advisors with some connection to the Book of Buckskinning, or was at least mentioned favorably in one of the first of that series.

Phil Spangenberger, who writes a lot of the old west stuff for Guns & Ammo, was technical advisor on the set of 'The Mountain Men'. I was at Suncoast Motion Picture Company last week (don't know if you have those in your area) and I saw 'The Mountain Men' on DVD for $6. I wanted to grab it, but I had just spent the last of my change buying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for my boys (okay, it was really for me :: ). If you can't order it online, one of the video specialty stores should be able to order it for you.

An entertaining movie overall, but typical of Charleton Heston movies thirty years ago, severe overacting in some parts. Like when they show up at the rendezvous and finally get their hands on some whiskey. Arrggghh! Someone get me a barf bag! But if you can put up with that, it's still a good movie.

 

[madstone]

Capt. My fav book is Allen Eckert's The frontiersman? If you like "The Last" read this! Probably have already! For Jeremiah J, I found a book once, called "Crow Killer" I beleive. It had lots more details that the "Jer Johnson" book and movie left out! Not as PC either? Gave lots of references, too. I lost it!

 

[madstone]

Sorry Dave, I kinda agree with the idea of villain redcoats. ( But the war is over?) Hamilton was known as the "hair buyer" who sent Shawnees into KY to bring back Colonial scalps. British officers supposedly participated in some really gory stuff! Of course they said it was that the Indians got out of control! I would like to think the average "Highlader" would be repulsed at some of the ugliness of war. But, sometimes things happen that we can't do anything about? I liked Cornwallis' character. Being English doesn't make him bad, he tried to do the assigned job honourably, but it couldn't be done.
I understand the atrocities, real and propaganda, in NC and SC led directly to the slaughter at Kings Mtn. Someone once told me or I read that T Jefferson sent a runner to the colonial taverns of Va, KY, NC and etc. He said, allegedly, something like " The king said ya'll wuz a bunch of SOB's and if you know what's good for you ..." Of course the King didn't say that, but it seemed to work.
Now if the Brit's had been armed w colonial rifles? Or Fergusons!? We might still be "mates", mate!

 

[Wayne Combs]

Madstone,I've said for years if they would make a movie of "The Frontiersman" and stay true to the book it would be one of the best movies ever made,but then I think,leave it to Hollywood to screw up a good book :imo:.Wayne.

 

[madstone]

I wish they would make a ML movie with the hero "dog-butt" ugly so's I could identify with him! :crackup:
I have read the cover off that book! Literally! Be sure to try to find the "Crow Killer" from the early 70's. It got me started reading about Johnson and fur trade before Redford ruined it for ME.
I pretended I didn't watch Dances with wolves for years cause I thought that young captive squaw was Jane Fonda! Had so much detail, inaccurate though hollywood will be, that I had to cheat! My wife finally shocked me a decade ago, by revealing it wasn't her! She knew all along it wasn't her and let me go on...!! She's a foxy one, all right. Course outsmartin' me ain't nothin to brag about! The hollywood leftists were careful to miss every point to be gleaned from Liver-eater's story. Even eating the livers!! It changed to JJ the mountain man who left "Bad Old USA" ( another war?) and chose instead to commune with nature and the aboriginal inhabitants who, after all, only wanted " multicultural world peace"! To hunt buffalo as long as grass green. He didn't even take the scalps! Del Gue uses my native hill talk when he says "Mother Gue never raised such a foolish chile"
They left out the part about using that Blackfoot's leg for meat! Crow killer is almost as detailed as frontiersman. No wait, nothing can beat Eckert's documentation, can they? Lots of Crow Killer was in Del Gue and Bear Claw Chris Lapps? actual recantations of JJ's life. Pretty stark in it's accurate portrayal of the everyday peril risked by the pioneers. Boone, Kenton, etc. of an earlier age did not feel free to describe their struggles in such a fashion. Sad that their pre-victorian reticence robbed us of all the real details. Eckhert tried to find some of it.
I especially liked the expose on Jackson. I love to go to Crowe's Inn and see where SK nearly killed "Old Hichory". May find a red hair stuck in the wood floor? I retired to Danville last year.

 

[Huntinfool]

Madstone,I've said for years if they would make a movie of "The Frontiersman" and stay true to the book it would be one of the best movies ever made,but then I think,leave it to Hollywood to screw up a good book :imo:.Wayne.

Yea me too wcc I've even gone so far as to study up on screen play writing. But I don't know about the legalities of adapting a screen play script from such a book!
Guess I'll have to ask Allan himself I've got his E-Mail addy he's a fine gentleman and a scholar. I've communicated with him several times. :redthumb:

If I could get someone in Hollyweird to make it the way I've imagined it from reading the book it'd be a great movie for telling our viewpoint of history.

Chuck Goodall
The Original Huntin' Fool
&
Kanawha Ranger Scribe