I would imagine many a shooter was taken by surprise when those loading levers dropped. If the cylinder was locked up the shooter still had a 4 1/2 pound club in his hands. I never shot a Walker, Is it WHEN it dropped or IF it dropped?
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The Making of Outlaw Josie Wales
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IIRC the Texas Rangers would tie a rawhide thong around the lever/barrel to prevent the lever dropping. At least some of them did.
My Walkers only drop the lever when I load them with too much powder. Under 50 grains is the cutoff for having the lever stay in place. Easier on the wrist too...!!
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http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Outlaw_Josey_Wales
I thought Chief Dan George and Will Sampson were great in this too.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Outlaw_Josey_Wales
I thought Chief Dan George and Will Sampson were great in this too.
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The Big Country is a really great western in my books, one of the best ever, and has an actual muzzleloading dueling pistol scene.
All actors and actresses played their parts very well. Thats one if the makings of a good movie, the typecasting.The part played by Sandra Locke was probably the exception. Although she played her part just fine in this movie.Its the other Eastwoods movies that she should have stayed out of.
It’s hard to say no to your girl friend or wife ( you should only have one at a time... but we are talking about Hollywood).
Some times just everything falls together in a movie. There is not a formula for it. Over and over someone tried to imitate success. Casablanca and Maltese Falcon were both back lot movies. And Hollywood has had lots of big money flops.
The acting was good, the story engaging. Josie a tragic figure finds peace and love at the end, filming in the Missouri, on the plains and finely the high desert was a big step when so much was filmed in California at the time.
Some times just everything falls together in a movie. There is not a formula for it. Over and over someone tried to imitate success. Casablanca and Maltese Falcon were both back lot movies. And Hollywood has had lots of big money flops.
The acting was good, the story engaging. Josie a tragic figure finds peace and love at the end, filming in the Missouri, on the plains and finely the high desert was a big step when so much was filmed in California at the time.
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It sounds to me, listening to the actors in the video, like they filmed most of it around Kanab, UT, for the plains and high deserts and Northern California for the Missouri parts. Am I wrong about that. Isn't that what they said?
To answer myself, I found this. Nothing in Missouri:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075029/locations
To answer myself, I found this. Nothing in Missouri:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075029/locations
The movie was based on two western novels written by Forrest Carter, Gone to Texas and The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales. Carter had also written another book, The Education of Little Tree. Carter claimed to be Cherokee and the novel dealt with a young Indian boy. Oprah Winfrey had placed this book on her Book Club List however Carter was later found out to be a member of the KKK under his true name, Asa Earl Carter. Forrest Carter was his pen name. Winfrey subsequently removed the book from her list. The movie remained very true to the book unlike some Hollywood renditions of popular novels. It's been some years since I read the books, I'll have to dig it out and re read it now.
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Well if Oprah is agaisnt it, I'm all for it. Who needs her permission to enjoy anything anyway?
I just did some searching to remind myself of the circumstances and have revised my post. See the changes I made. Puts a different light on things. Its still a damn good movie taken from 2 good books.
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Agreed.
Was that "Missouri Boatride" in the novel or did Hollywood add that?
I recall seeing Gone To Texas in the credits of the movie. I remember way back in school we learned many poor folks just left GTT on their old homes in Missouri right after the War. Not just Missouri but other war torn states as well. I believe in a history book there was an artists rendition of a board nailed to a door with GTT on it.
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I've got the Uberti Repro of the '47 Walker. I only load it to 50-60 grains every once in a while when the guy in the lane next to me gets obnoxious. Only had the lever drop once so far but I heard in the lane next to me "I think his gun just broke". 
Thank you. I love a good Walker story.I married mine, her name was Walker!
Franklin was a womanizer, so was Ike and FDR,Washington owned slaves, Poe a boozer, Wells a socialist, Plath a suicide,.....
I’ve seen some of Hitlers paintings, they looked to me as pretty as others impressionlist art. Hollywood is full of folks I don’t agree with and many I would say pretty bad, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying a work they did.
‘Pappy’ Gerory Bouinington (Hero-drunk) said show me a hero and i’ll Prove he’s a bum. We all have clay feet.
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She was eastwoods wife for awhile
Nope. Locke and Eastwood never married.
She married someone else in 1967, and never bothered going through a divorce. At the time of her death last November (2018) she was still legally married to the same guy. Seems she and Eastwood never cared about the legalities. After her long term affair with Eastwood ended, she sued him for "palimony" and lost.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?noredirect=on
Well guess what, as I am writing this at 1930 hrs. in Ca. on DIRECTV channel 254 Josie Wales has just started, had the boss pour me an adult drink and we are kicking back and going to enjoy the movie.
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