User:deadred on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:17:52 +0000
[1947] Roy Rogers (and Trigger) is a bit before my time but I was keen to find out more. Apparently this movie is one of his better ones, made even rarer by the fact it is also in colour as most of his later colour ones have been said to be tired re-treads of his earlier B&W movies, but I can't say for certain. What you get here is a lot of sing-song in between the action and comedy, so if you are familar with Cat Ballou/Paint Your Wagon, it is sort of in that vein, though that is as far as I will compare those movies. I didn't think that I was going to like this much, but I was pleasently suprised that the songs, though plentiful, were uplifting and fitted in the movie well. The action scenes were well executed as were the humour scenes, particulary when involving portly Sheriff Cookie Bullfincher [Andy Devine]. It was strange to me that the setting was the 1940's because there is a mixture of 1890's Wild West and {ahem} modern buses and cars. It might help if you imagine they are in a remote border town that hasn't changed much in 50 years, and perhaps this is the reason why Western fiction writer Lee Madison was keen to visit. Don't take this one seriously, folks. It is a feel good movie with a Western theme. Video 8 / Sound 8.
User:deadred on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:17:52 +0000
[1947] Roy Rogers (and Trigger) is a bit before my time but I was keen to find out more. Apparently this movie is one of his better ones, made even rarer by the fact it is also in colour as most of his later colour ones have been said to be tired re-treads of his earlier B&W movies, but I can't say for certain. What you get here is a lot of sing-song in between the action and comedy, so if you are familar with Cat Ballou/Paint Your Wagon, it is sort of in that vein, though that is as far as I will compare those movies. I didn't think that I was going to like this much, but I was pleasently suprised that the songs, though plentiful, were uplifting and fitted in the movie well. The action scenes were well executed as were the humour scenes, particulary when involving portly Sheriff Cookie Bullfincher [Andy Devine]. It was strange to me that the setting was the 1940's because there is a mixture of 1890's Wild West and {ahem} modern buses and cars. It might help if you imagine they are in a remote border town that hasn't changed much in 50 years, and perhaps this is the reason why Western fiction writer Lee Madison was keen to visit. Don't take this one seriously, folks. It is a feel good movie with a Western theme. Video 8 / Sound 8.