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good Mt.men movies
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MacRob46
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Not too many really good ones but I would recommend Jeremiah Johnson, The Mountain Men with Charlton Heston and Brian Keith, Across the Wide Missouri with Clark Gable and The Big Sky with Kirk Douglas. Man in the Wilderness is pretty good but an artsy type picture. There were a couple of really bad movies with excellent guns in them like Gray Eagle and Winter Hawk (not sure about the name of that one). The last two were filmed in appropriate locations with good costuming and props but the movies themselves were not very good. One scene from Gray Eagle featured a close up of two Indians pursuing some white guys with a telephone pole and line in the background, if that gives you an indication of what I am talking about.
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Not really as much mountain man but Sacred Ground sure was fun.
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"Jeremiah Johnson, The Mountain Men" as teens we quoted those two movies so much, if you hadn't seen them you might have no idea what we were talking about. :grin:
All these years later & I'll still say "You asumpted that? Well don't go doing no more asumptin! Mostly to collage age kids that think I'm :youcrazy:
All these years later & I'll still say "You asumpted that? Well don't go doing no more asumptin! Mostly to collage age kids that think I'm :youcrazy:
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A Man called horse.....and The return of a Man called Horse.
The last Trapper (modern but good)
and what everyone else said.
The last Trapper (modern but good)
and what everyone else said.
Bear Rider
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The Mandan from The Big Sky is still around:
Montana Historical Society
Look towards bottom of page.
Montana Historical Society
Look towards bottom of page.
You might enjoy Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Ken Burns. It's a documentary but a real good one. Lewis and Clark Documentary
Centennial the mini series is a good one. Also Death Hunt with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. The latter was more around the turn of the century and they used modern rifles but still a good flick.
MacRob46
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Thanks for the information. My wife and I, with a little luck, will head for Montana and Wyoming in mid-June for a three week visit. I am currently gathering information on what we want to see and will put the Heritage Center on the list. I lived in Great Falls for two years but was in the USAF at the time and the work schedule - on a SAC missile base - kept me from seeing as much as I would have liked. I was just a poor Ssgt at the time too, which did not help.
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Alden said:
In the lead box you go. :youcrazy: :slap: .
The Big Sky with Kirk Douglas was actually pretty good. He starts as a hunter from Kentucky or Tennessee. He goes to St. Louis. He signs up with a fur company. They cordelle (sic?) or pull the supply boat up the Missouri by wading in the river and pulling on ropes. Their tents are "mini-tepees" as described by Stewart, Marcy, and others. I was watching the movie a year or so ago and was surprised about the research that was used in making that film. My favorite is the Charlton Heston but the Kirk Douglas was a pleasant surprise (for me at least).
Sorry, but like waiting for the frigid ocean to take if not just shut up Leonardo Dicapprio in Titanic...
I always hope the pain of a Mountain Man movie would just end abruptly with an arrow through their heart out of nowhere, their being swept into a sharp rock in the rapids ("crack"), being chomped in the neck by a huge Mountain Lion, or taking a header off a really, really, steep cliff into the jagged chasm below. But they never do. The only thing that may be worse are...
...those old, dubbed into English, gladiator movies. The ones where Christians fight stuffed toy lions someone throws at them for example. But even this is debateable.
I always hope the pain of a Mountain Man movie would just end abruptly with an arrow through their heart out of nowhere, their being swept into a sharp rock in the rapids ("crack"), being chomped in the neck by a huge Mountain Lion, or taking a header off a really, really, steep cliff into the jagged chasm below. But they never do. The only thing that may be worse are...
...those old, dubbed into English, gladiator movies. The ones where Christians fight stuffed toy lions someone throws at them for example. But even this is debateable.
Afore this vers off in "the son of grits" I would like to add"The Wind Walker" to the list with Trevvor Howard. A little premountian man and the clothing is 1850-reservation period but good story. The kentucyian with Burt Lancaster is a little pre MM also and a might east to boot but I found it a fun one.
Sometimes reinactors have to close the reserch books and just enjoy the story.
Sometimes reinactors have to close the reserch books and just enjoy the story.
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OKAY, we get it, but the OP is looking for recommendations, not sour grapes. :shake:Alden said:
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I've yet to see an hc movie, although I wish they could be produced. Too many modern attitudes get thrust in ect. Some good books are out there though even the best novelist can let their own wiew point shine through. Even Histoians like Ekert wrote 'rifle' when he ment fusil or musket.
Still I can enjoy Richard the 3ed,julis Ceaser and the Illiad with all its non hc points.
To each thier own, no movie is as good as the book,no novel as good as the real history. Still I enjoied Kieth saying "if I dont get some whisky I'm gonna die" or It 'felt a might pecular"
I don't watch the ten commandments to learn about the exedus but just to enjoy the movie.
Howsomever some movies are just so bad I cant sit through them.
Still I can enjoy Richard the 3ed,julis Ceaser and the Illiad with all its non hc points.
To each thier own, no movie is as good as the book,no novel as good as the real history. Still I enjoied Kieth saying "if I dont get some whisky I'm gonna die" or It 'felt a might pecular"
I don't watch the ten commandments to learn about the exedus but just to enjoy the movie.
Howsomever some movies are just so bad I cant sit through them.
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The Mountain Men may not be a "good" movie but is a lot of fun. I like it a lot "if I don't get some whiskey I'm gonna die!"
And that's true for most people. They don't care if the lock on a rifle is "correct", because to them, it's irrelevant to the overall story. As an example, the producers probably feel that all people need to know is, during a certain period, people used flintlocks. It will make no difference to the viewing public if they're Besses, Jagers or Lancasters, as most people won't know or care.tenngun said:
We need to remember that movie making is not science or reenacting, it's "story telling". IMO
