boots and saddles ( film )
joe kane, and raoul kraushaar. boots and saddles. usa, 1937 .
joe kane & raoul kraushaar. (1937) boots and saddles. usa .
about this recording 8. 225079 - steiner: they died with their boots on
* anachronisms: the saddles used on the horses are a mix of
western
style and army
mcclellan
saddles. however, the mcclellan saddles used are brown and of the 1904 pattern, whereas the 1859 mcclellan that was in use was a black saddle .
— two songs included in the film are “welcome to the empty saddles ranch” and “orchid of the prairie. ” the composer for each is unknown .
empty saddles from the film
rhythm on the range
( 1936) (billy hill / j. keirn brennan) bing crosby (film soundtrack) - 1936 also recorded by: roy rogers & the sons of the pioneers
trippy indie madeline' s madeline is the movie that lakeith stanfield and boots riley from sorry to bother you want to see the most .
the
comedy
western (i. e. , cat ballou (1965), blazing saddles (1974) )
master saddle - maker chas. weldon of billings, montana, created saddles, chaps and hand - tooled belts finished with sterling silver buckles from the historic studio of edward h. bohlin. weldon has been making tack, custom saddles and chaps for buck brannaman for 17 years .
[ 4 ] canutt with a few of his trophies, including his oscar, saddles won at pendleton, and four police gazette belt buckles .
empty saddles is a b - western starring one of the biggest cowboy stars of the time, buck jones. the somewhat confused plot revolves around buck, who attempts to convert the seemingly haunted “empty saddles” ranch into a resort, but soon discovers a group of crooked sheep ranchers have other plans. louise brooks plays boots boone, bucks’ love interest, who helps out on the ranch .
in addition to the soundtrack songs that bissell worked to coordinate, film composer thomas newman collaborated with the filmmakers to compose his original score for the film .
sand (1920), reportedly pres. woodrow wilson' s favorite hart film
the film was based on harold sinclair' s novel of the same name .
the historic 5th cavalry came to tv in the fall of ‘57 as “boots and saddles” picked up the exploits of the 5th in 1871 at fort lowell in arizona territory, even though the series was filmed entirely—except for interiors—around kanab, ut, utilizing the stockade originally built for “pony express” with charlton heston in ‘52 .
“he walked into this lake with his $ 1000 boots on, just to make a point. after a second take, all was good, and he started walking to the next set, when burt reynolds said: your boots sound funny buddy, you might scare our all - star cast with those soggy $ 1000 out of tune boots. . hal and everybody started laughing, ” richmond wrote. “thanks hal needham, than you and your family. and thanks for letting us be a part of your stunt family” .
— empty saddles was released around the time that a song of the same name was made into a hit by bing crosby. the matching titles led to some confusion, and at least one exhibitor complained that the crosby hit was not included in the jones’ film. the famed crooner’s version had already appeared in a 1936 film ,
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— jones’ daughter maxine was born in 1918. she also had an uncredited bit part in empty saddles. she later married actor noah beery jr. , the son of the actor who co - starred in the brooks’ film evening clothes (1927) .
take me back to my boots and saddle (1935) (uncredited) music and lyrics by teddy powell, walter g. samuels and leonard whitcup played during the opening credits played by the ranch hands and sung by gene autry and the townsfolk reprised by gene autry and the ranch hands at the end
— besides empty saddles, writer cherry wilson collaborated with jones on a handful of films including the branded sombrero (1928), the throwback (1935), and sandflow (1937) .
* anachronisms: at the beginning of the engagement with the boys from the military academy, colonel marlow orders
assembly
be sounded. it is clear from the immediately preceding shot, that many of the troops are not only not mounted, but the horses are not even saddled. therefore, the correct bugle call would have been
boots and saddles
.
the film started off well, and was pushed along by uncle jack' s enthusiasm, for civil war films .
peggy says that joe yrogoyen did the famous jump with champion over the buick now housed as part of jim rogers collection in the lone pine film museum. a large poster photograph of that scene hangs over the car, and peggy’s cowboy boots are next to it. that concludes gene autry and republic pictures in lone pine .
“i used to meet with john (pickard) at santa anita. i miss him enormously. ‘boots and saddles’ was a big success in england. it was shown twice on the bbc. in fact it got me a job. the very popular ‘dr. who’ hired me to play wyatt earp in two consecutive episodes. kids over there greeted me as sgt. bullock. ”
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prior to its release, empty saddles was previewed at the el portal theatre in north hollywood, a neighborhood house considered similar to the small town theaters where the film was likely to show. according to reports, “the audience was satisfied with what it saw on the screen. ”
film daily liked brooks in empty saddles, stating “louise brooks has quite a dramatic role as the heroine, which she handles very well. ” variety wrote, “louise brooks, cast as a poor trader’s child, is not flattered by the camera, but does a good bit of acting. she is the outstanding femme player in the slight romance. ” despite these few favorable notices, empty saddles failed to reignite brooks’ career. only one more featured role, another western, awaited .
- steiner saw the opportunity to create epic music for an incredible legend and national myth. history? history was for classrooms, this was the movies. and they died with their boots on is a prime example of movie - making at its best .
[ 19 ] final good - bye: the show - piece of the entire score - heard here for the first time in its original orchestration – and one of the prime examples of the genius of max steiner. boots & saddles opens, then is softened by libby' s theme. libby packs custer' s campaign bag while he checks his revolver, a brilliant visual symbol of life on the frontier. libby' s theme
publicity materials describe the duel as a western, but except for the fact that it unfolds in texas, in the aftermath of the war between the u. s. and mexico, it doesn’t resemble anything by john ford. you won’t find any cowboys, indians or john wayne lookalikes in stetsons, just bloodshed all over the boots and saddles, and plenty of it. the theme is racism, insanity and savage brutality in texas. some things never change. i guess it’s a new - fangled old - fashioned western .
the collection consists primarily of kern' s show music, some holograph sketches; most are manuscript full and vocal scores of kern' s orchestrators and arrangers, especially frank saddler and robert russell bennett. film and ...
yates entered the business world through the american tobacco company. by 1915 he was working for hedwig laboratories processing film, and in 1918 he financed republic labs, which he joined with several other film labs into consolidated film laboratories in 1924. in 1927, nat levine had founded mascot pictures, which was primarily financed by yates. by 1935 the studio had an established reputation of respect in the filmmaking world, particularly for their serials, and at yates’s request consolidated with his film lab. yates wanted to improve upon mascot’s feature film business and approached w. ray johnston and trem carr of monogram pictures to join the project, which they did. incorporating other independent small studios such as liberty, chesterfield and invincible, republic pictures came into being and yates rented the old keystone studios .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
the work was steady: canutt starred in eight westerns a year from 1923 to 1926. it was also dangerous. in one film, when his horse balked and threw him over the edge of a bluff, the actor fell twelve feet and broke his nose on the rocks below. in the 1926 film
photo here latitude: n 36°36. 237 longitude: w 118°07. 022 gene autry rock several movies have been filmed at this location... it could have been called john wayne, errol flynn, or roy rogers rock. this cucumber shaped rock can be seen in
boots and saddles
,
lives of a bengal lancer
,
how the west was won
, and
guns of hate
. (# 6 on self - guided tour. map available from lone pine chamber of commerce )
due to the untimely death, in the making of the film, of one of his stuntmen, of some 25 years .
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typical elements in westerns include hostile elements (often native americans), guns and gun fights (sometimes on horseback), violence and human massacres, horses, trains (and train robberies), bank robberies and holdups, runaway stagecoachs, shoot - outs and showdowns, outlaws and sheriffs, cattle drives and cattle rustling, stampedes, posses in pursuit, barroom brawls,' search and destroy' plots, breathtaking settings and open landscapes (the tetons and monument valley, to name only a few), and distinctive western clothing (denim, jeans, boots, etc .) .
johnny called patrick mcvey “really easy to get along with. no ego at all. ” mcvey began his film career, after becoming a successful broadway actor, in 1941’s “they died with their boots on”. from ‘50 - ‘54 he was editor steve wilson on tv’s “big town” and later played another newspaperman on victor jory’s “manhunt” (‘59 - ‘61). he died in new york in 1973 at 63 .
john ford suspended location filming in louisiana after fred kennedy was killed performing a riding stunt. the film was later completed in california .
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( 1941). a few years after serving in world war ii, he re - entered the film business behind the scenes, becoming a prominent film editor and then a sound editor in a career that lasted forty years. he was also president of the california branch of the humane society .
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became the first autry film to play a broadway movie house in new york city. it was also the first to garner a review in
porter' s film was a milestone in film - making for its storyboarding of the script, the first use of title cards, an ellipsis, and a panning shot, and for its cross - cutting editing techniques. one of its stars with multiple roles, gilbert m. anderson (max aronson), later took the name
broncho billy
anderson and became famous as the first western film hero - the genre' s first cowboy. as in other genres, westerns quickly became character - driven and stars began to be developed .
as a stunt performer and coordinator, needham worked on more than 30 films, including the spirit of st. louis (1957), how the west was won (1962), our man flint (1966), little big man (1970), blazing saddles (1974) and chinatown (1974) .
young cecil b. de mille' s first motion picture was the squaw man (1914), usually credited as the first feature filmed entirely in hollywood. [ de mille remade the film in 1918 and 1931. ] even in the early days of the film industry, some real - life cowboys and legendary western figures appeared in films :
was the eighth film in six years that featured flynn and the beautiful olivia de havilland. it was their last together - she wanted more challenging roles - and their final scene plays with a special sense of poignancy and real life farewell .
cut !
yelled director john ford, and one of the most famous action scenes in motion picture history was on film. the movie was the 1939 epic western ,
among the hundreds of productions shot there, a few of the more famous ones are
blazing saddles ,
the
flintstones
live - action films — where the rocks provide the backdrop for the town of bedrock — and some episodes of the original
star trek
tv show .
until empty saddles, jones’ westerns were generally well regarded — each crisply edited and action - packed, and each with lots of the aforementioned hard riding and straight - shooting. despite satisfactory reviews, this and jones’ following films marked a decline in the actor’s productions. the hollywood reporter offered the lone critical review, “this buck jones western must be set below par because of a rambling and cluttery story that is almost menaceless until the last reel or two and then, in the final chase and battle, is confusing and inconclusive. ”
but the' first real movie' or commercially narrative film that gave birth to the genre was edwin s. porter' s pioneering western the great train robbery (1903). porter (named' the father of the story film') was responsible for the one - reel, 10 - minute long film, shot - curiously - on the east coast (new jersey and delaware) rather than the western setting of wyoming. [ the first westerns were shot, until 1906, on the east coast. ] porter had also directed and filmed edison' s short publicity western - themed film a romance of the rail (1903) .
the film showed in the west and in small towns and neighborhood theaters elsewhere around the united states. j. e. stocker, manager of the neighborhood myrtle theater in detroit, reported in motion picture herald, “i tried out a buck jones picture for a sunday play date once before, on january 17 th, which drew better than average so i tried again with empty saddles, march 14 - 15, and again it drew better than average so we can assume that buck jones is still popular. ”
the black horse in the accident scene, the one called
gulliver
in the film, is rex' s horse justin & emdash; also known as docs keeping time. he is the same horse who played the title role in the relatively recent film version of
black beauty .
introduction to this blog and to the obsession a growing number of vintage film and tv fans have with the iverson movie ranch — the most widely filmed outdoor location in movie and tv history — please read the site' s introductory post, found here .
in addition to the ranch house and creek house, hutman and his crew also built a picnic area along the river, and two round pens for work with the horses. an existing barn and small corral were used for the branding scene, a sequence that allowed horseman and accomplished ropers buck brannaman, curt and tammy pate, ty hillman, mike boyle, rex peterson and the company' s wranglers to ride and rope on film .
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my pal trigger, a fiction story of roy’s famous horse, was shot in the eastern sierra and represents the final roy rogers / republic film made locally. although idaho is reported by the local newspaper as having shot scenes here, it is difficult to identify any in the finished film, so this location work remains unverified at this writing .
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a 1957 feature from robert goldstein productions starring john derek, john smith and carolyn craig. the film' s director is gerd oswald, with cinematography by oscar winner joseph lashelle .
, documented screenings of the film took place in canada, jamaica, netherlands antilles, and the british isles (england and northern ireland). elsewhere, this motion picture was known to have been shown under other - language titles including
( ray faiola, in addition to his duties as director of audience services for cbs television, has supervised audio production on several classic film score restorations. )
needham often ended his films by showing humorous outtakes during the credits. he eschewed “serious” film talk: “directing, it’s a snap, ” he once said .
at the time, needham also created the boat jump record when he flew 138 feet over a georgia swamp in gator (1976), another reynolds film .
[ 13 ] the letter: despondent and drinking as civilian life passes him by, custer spurns an offer by sharpe to become president of a trading - company. a desperate libby visits her adopted uncle, gen. scott and asks him for an assignment for her husband. scott agrees. later, boots & saddles trumpets as the michigan brigade sends custer a commemorative gold watch with a miniature portrait of libby on the fob. general scott' s letter arrives ordering custer to fort lincoln in the dakota territory. low strings for libby' s theme as she bids good - bye to the comfortable life that she has lived for one on the wilds of the frontier .
using one of the largest sets in film history, an 18 - acre arena, and 78 horses imported from yugoslavia, canutt staged a violent and apparently deadly race that holds audiences spellbound throughout its 20 - minute length. for years after
it' s an amiable film, with good action and stunts, that moves right along. as per usual in an autry western, it' s also full of comedy relief from sidekick smiley burdette - - as in the scene where he practices the bugle, unknowingly causing a post full of soldiers to race around answering his military calls. additionally, autry sings some pleasant songs including
take me back to my boots and saddle
and
the one rose that' s left in my heart
( the personal favorite of autry' s second wife, jackie) .
( republic, 1940), canutt and three other men rode a wagon off the bluff into a lake. no one was hurt and the horses were back to work in an hour or so. canutt was doubling john wayne in the film .
the film marked the beginning of mega - deals for hollywood stars. john wayne and william holden received $ 775, 000 each, plus 20% of the overall profits, an unheard - of sum for that time. the final contract involved six companies and numbered twice the pages of the movie' s script. the film, however, was a financial failure, with no profits to be shared in the end .
the nevadan (columbia, 1950): douglas’s second scott film features an interesting cast (forrest tucker, dorothy malone) and great stuntwork by jock mahoney. douglas was still learning to be comfortable in the saddle .
, in solo violin, creates a heart - breaking moment, and in that moment walsh and steiner beautifully shift the focus of the scene to libby as the violin takes up a moving reference to the 7th cavalry and george custer. her theme returns, to be interrupted by the demands of boots & saddles. deep drums signal custer' s departure .
good - bye ,
he tells her. libby' s theme brushes the tattoo of brass aside as custer tells her ,
walking through life with you, ma' am, has been a very gracious thing ...
departing, custer bumps a chair, leaving it to rock back and forth in emptiness. almost as a gesture of comfort and love, walsh and steiner stay with libby. then the camera abruptly dollies back in the wake of george' s departure. libby collapses, steiner catches her - and us, too - in an emotional orchestral rush .
was a brooding, film - noir western and steiner took an appropriately darker approach to the music. his score for john ford' s the searchers is a classic evocation of tragedy and irony embodied in a lone determined figure. steiner' s last western, a
the republic formula though, is often used today with independent, low budget films, and the lessons are learned again and again by young producers and filmmakers. the nostalgia audience is left with many exciting and action - oriented films to enjoy on late night tv or on dvd. from that point of view, lone pine and the eastern sierra film history is considerably richer thanks to republic pictures .
when editing and restoring they died with their boot on for the present recording, we were determined to present the music faithfully to max steiner' s vision. steiner was always careful to interpolate historically correct tunes and bugle - calls in his scores. for this score, he utilised period bugle calls such as
boots and saddles
,
assembly
,
drill call
,
reveille
,
guard mount
, etc. most of these on - screen bugle - calls were recorded separately and married to the sound track in the final mix, however, steiner never left anything musically to chance and carefully indicated in his sketches the exact placement for these overdubs and composed his music with this in mind, although he would frequently have the overdubs played
off key
to clash purposely with the underscore. where musically appropriate, we have restored many of these bugle - calls to this performance of the music .
* anachronisms: at the film' s end, dr. kendall tells col. marlowe that he has decided to stay behind with the wounded union soldiers. col. marlowe replies ,
even if it means andersonville [ a notorious confederate pow camp ] ?
andersonville did not exist in 1863, when this film was set; it was established in 1864 .
when the names of errol flynn and olivia dehavilland appear on the screen. then strings, brass, and percussion combined for the rollicking tune of
garry owen
over the film' s title. after a couple of rough starts, the orchestra recorded the entire main
chuka (paramount, 1967): rod taylor starred in this western based on richard jessup’s novel. claustrophobic, with a brutish performance by ernest borgnine and fine acting by john mills, the film is intriguing, but bleak .
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porter' s other film in the same year was a non - western, life of an american fireman (1903) featuring more overlapping action and cross - cut editing, and a last - minute rescue of a mother and child in a burning building. and edison' s a race for millions (1907) also featured typical western plot elements - a high - noon shootout, and claim - jumping. in fact, a number of major film studios were making westerns as early as 1907, and by the end of the first decade of the century, about twenty percent of all of hollywood' s films were westerns .
westerns are the major defining genre of the american film industry, a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed american frontier (the borderline between civilization and the wilderness). they are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically american genres in their mythic origins .
[ 8 ] meeting father: steiner' s film - music counterpoint is classic comedy as custer sees libby' s father through a stereoscopic viewer. (see pages 25 - 27. )
almost all the essential elements or conventions of typical westerns were included: good guys vs. bad guys, a robbery or wrong - doing, a chase or pursuit, and a final showdown, all in a natural setting. the film ended (or began) with a stunning close - up (the first !) of a gunman (george barnes) firing directly into the camera - and audience. it was the most commercially successful film of the pre - nickelodeon era .
stuntman and actor boyd stockman was born on february 12, 1916 in grants, new mexico. boyd moved to california in the early 1940' s where he and his brother worked for the bakersfield land and cattle company. stockman began his film business career doing stunts at monogram pictures in the mid - 1940' s ...
director john ford' s only feature film set during the civil war, although he did direct a segment of how the west was won (1962) that was set during the civil war .
and griffith' s last major biograph western filmed in s. california, titled the battle of elderbush gulch (1914), a two - reel pre - cursor to his most (in) famous landmark film, birth of a nation (1915), with lillian gish and mae marsh
matthew roubert was born in new york in 1907 was a child star from about 1910 - 1921, and his father william l. roubert was involved with
little matty roubert
and his silent screen adventures. matty' s earliest film appearances were at vitagraph and biograph. he was one of the kids in
john ...
after high school gene autry worked as a laborer for the st. louis and san francisco railroad in oklahoma. next he was a telegrapher. in 1928 he began singing on a local radio station, and three years later he had his own show and was making his first recordings. three years after that he made his film debut in
) was the great hugo friedhofer, who himself would develop into one of the most respected film - composers in the 1950s, although friedhofer was slow, methodical and deliberate in his composing, his orchestrational ability was fast, accurate and inventive. they died with their boots on was a long movie (142 minutes) with music occupying over ninety minutes of its running time. friedhofer orchestrated the entire score himself, which resulted in nearly a thousand orchestral pages. as friedhofer has said ,
steiner' s sketches were so complete they required a road - map to find your way around them... he would write different musical lines in coloured pencil with written instructions to me in the margins .
in preparing previous marco polo film - music albums where i had to orchestrate steiner' s music from his sketches, i can certainly attest to the detail, logic and brilliant orchestration this composer writes into his music .
costume designer judy l. ruskin also seasoned her designs with the flavor of the authenticity of the double divide environment .
the approach was in how to represent an american ranch in the contemporary west ,
says ruskin .
the ranchers wear predominantly american - made clothing from levis, wrangler, woolrich and carhart, with justin boots and hats by bailey. i believe that people working on ranches try to support american products, so that credibility is seen through the wardrobe .
stuntman and actor leo j. mcmahon was born on november 11, 1913 in sonora, california. the son of an irish father and a mexican mother, mcmahon grew up on a ranch. in 1936 leo decided to go to hollywood and pursue a career in the film business after producer harry sherman suggested that he do so... .
thematic material was always important to steiner and he normally started every score by sketching the main themes and motifs before actually composing the score. for they died with their boots on, steiner created an unique theme for crazy horse, first heard in the opening section of the main title. this completely original
indian
sound soon became the paradigm for most other film - composers when dealing with indians and soon became cliche. he also composed a secondary theme for the sioux (played by high woodwinds) that could be utilised quietly and mysteriously as well as screaming over the entire orchestra during the final battle sequence... especially when orchestrated for six piccolos, two soprano saxophones and two e flat clarinets! for custer' s martial theme, steiner composed it in such a way that he could gently and subtly incorporate it as a secondary accompaniment to libby' s theme, which musically and dramatically unites these two characters in a single bond .
it was as i tried to recoup both mentally and on a physical level that i kept recalling the words of the sons of the pioneers song, “empty saddles” and trying somehow to integrate them to the symbolism of the cavalryman’s fiddlers green. we had seen our comrade home and had paid all final and full respects. by way of symbol we had turned his horse out to rest in pasture and placed his saddle upon the corral fence - his saddle had been oiled and buffed, the silver polished and shined. his carbine had been cleaned, oiled, loaded, and placed in its sheath; as was his saber honed and in scabbard. his saddle had been placed where he would find it near to hand should he ever have need of it again, “for none but the shades of cavalrymen dismount at fiddler’s green” .
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briefly, we should mention some of the other films made locally by republic pictures. a separate article will need to explore them in more depth. a very popular and successful series involving three cowboys was the three mesquiteers. the casts varied, but two films were made locally: wild horse rodeo and gunsmoke ranch. the largest budgeted film at the time, at $ 300, 000, was army girl, made here with the horse cavalry and a tank. footage from the film was edited into a rex allen vehicle called old oklahoma plains. allen also made under mexicali stars here. the plainsman and the lady shot locally and starred yates’s girl friend / wife vera ralston and was well received. the last republic film made locally also starred ralston and was called gunfire at indian gap. she as also in fair wind to java, with location work shot on mono lake including the eruption of the volcano krakatoa done in miniature. the model can still be spotted by canoe on the lake .
this history of the firm of freese and nichols and its substantial impact in texas constitutes a survey of 100 years of civil and environmental engineering .
* anachronisms: although the film takes place in 1863, dr. kendall is shown boiling surgical instruments to prevent them from infecting patients, a process that was not developed until 1879, by dr. louis pasteur .
reagan’s cavalry days have inspired the finest display of its kind that this military buff has ever viewed. “lieutenant ronald reagan and the u. s. cavalry: history and hollywood”—the latest exhibit at the ronald reagan presidential library & foundation in simi valley, california—covers the history of the american horse soldier with a colorful display of uniforms, weaponry, saddlery and other equipment pertaining to the mounted service—both real and the hollywood film version .
loren riebe was also a private plane pilot who died when his small aircraft crashed. he later died at lancaster community hospital. he was performing in an airshow in lancaster, california when his mishap occured. he worked as a stuntman and actor for republic film studios .
the iron mistress (warner bros. , 1952): colorful, but faceless, alan ladd vehicle tells the tall story of jim bowie. it’s the first of four ladd - douglas collaborations and costars another favorite, virginia mayo, but the film’s feeling is oddly antiseptic .
the approach to music on this film presented some intriguing opportunities and problems ,
observes robert redford .
since it has a big look and an epic quality, it would seem to automatically suggest that you put a big score over it. even though i' ve been affected by them sometimes, i have never been interested in scores that would lead you as opposed to being a part of the experience. i was intrigued by the idea of introducing western songs to the film because there' s a purity to it that seemed fitting .
robert redford was extremely dedicated to realizing his vision for this film with an accurate presentation of horses and horse handling. unlike many films with horses which center on racing ,
the horse whisperer
is as much about the animals as characters, and about their relationship with people, as it is about the human characters it portrays .
the first feature - length western was lawrence b. mcgill' s six - reel arizona (1913). the first film to feature an all - native american cast was hiawatha (1913), made by the colonial motion picture corporation and based on longfellow' s poem .
the big land (warner bros. , 1957): a warner bros. “mini epic, ” the big land was decent and well - made, with ladd in good form, but the film’s energy comes from the great edmond o’brien. mayo is again teamed with ladd .
opened to strong box office and critics liked it, too. but it would mark the beginning of a long period of decline for flynn as drinking and carousing took its toll. not unti11945, in the classic war film, objective burma, also directed by walsh, would flynn find another role as strong as that of custer in they
the fiend who walked the west (twentieth century - fox, 1958): this notorious western reworking of 1947’s kiss of death showcases future movie mogul robert evans crawling the walls as the psycho gunning for hugh o’brian and his family. this film is a slap - in - the - face blend of horror and western, but fun .
like most of brooks' films ,
the producers
is cheerfully willing to go anywhere for a laugh. in brooks' next film ,
blazing saddles
( 1974), he produced the famous campfire scene, long before eddie murphy' s klumps had their troubles with intestinal gas. gene wilder worked with him again in the wonderful
young frankenstein
( also 1974), and brooks has remained prolific; high points are
silent movie
( 1976), with its narcissistic burt reynolds shower scene; the hitchcock spoof
high anxiety
( 1977), where the tracking shot breaks a plate - glass window, and the underrated
life stinks
( 1991), inspired by preston sturges'
sullivan' s travels .
[ 23 ] dying declaration - finale: musically, steiner makes libby the sole survivor of the little big horn. garry owen, played in a much slower, more sombre cadence than previously performed in the film, identifies libby as the last member of the now gone 7th cavalry. it is up to her, not only to continue the tradition of the command, but to guarantee that those who have died with their boots on have not died in vain. with quiet purpose, libby shows a dying declaration to general sheridan and those who connived to take land away from the indians. in death custer achieves what he could not in life. his sacrifice, and that of his men, shoulder ideals almost lost to greedy men. libby' s theme returns, with strength and heroism as, for a last time ,
there was also a branding sequence in the film ,
continues gary liddiard, who has been robert redford' s chief makeup artist since' jeremiah johnson,' and who has been working with his son dennis for almost a decade .
we didn' t actually brand calves while making the film. the wranglers caught the calves and then we got to shave the brand patterns while they were squirming all over the place. it doesn' t hurt or harm the animals, but i will say it was as much work as anything else a make - up artist does .
the film is based on the true - life raid by col. benjamin grierson who, as shown in the movie, began his expedition - - known as grierson' s raid - - from legrange, tennessee, in april of 1863 .
the great missouri raid (paramount, 1951): this low - budget nat holt western about the james brothers was well directed by douglas, with a good, solid cast of contract stars. frank gruber adapted his own novel for the film, which was shot quickly and moves just as quick .
daredevils who thrill today' s movie audiences owe much to yakima canutt' s inventiveness. before he entered the field, stunt work was disorganized and often deadly. when canutt began risking life and limb in stunts for the early silent westerns, he realized the need for safer ways to get better effects on film. he is credited with designing lifesaving stunt maneuvers and equipment, such as the open
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stirrup that made it easier to fall or jump from a running horse. by the time he retired from the film business, he boasted a record of more than 100 pictures without a serious injury to a performer or a horse... .
veteran stuntman, actor, and horse trainer sandy sanders was born on may 23, 1919 in hereford, texas. sanders grew up all over the country. following service in the u. s. army during world war ii, sandy went on to put together a horse act. sanders ran across a film crew while working in kansas and ...
several important serials used lone pine for locations. t he lone ranger directed by william witney and john english shot here. h a wk of the wilderness shot in the mammoth area, starring herman brix. drums of fu manchu used footage from the lone pine film storm over bengal. zorro rides again and adventures of captain marvel both have lone pine footage .
a schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea - plane gets sick and dies .
[ 16 ] grazioso - train: sharpe and his backers want gold from the black hills - and custer out of the way. trumpets sound for custer and his cavalry at fort lincoln. at quarters, he and libby embrace .
the visual style of the film played a huge role in the making of' the horse whisperer,'
continues redford .
the visual aspect is very important to me because i was an artist, yet i didn' t want to put it out there and brandish it or headline it. you want to make it sort of seamless in a way that the audience will be able to experience something and feel it, rather than feeling urged to comment on it. robert richardson and i spent a fair amount of time up front discussing the concept of the use of light and the compression as well. the film actually has a one - eight - five matte when it starts, and it opens to a two - thirty - five as it makes the transition to the west. as the seasons change and the space opens to the west, we included more light and color .
latitude: n 36°36. 111 longitude: w 118°07. 101 this is where the tank rolled over the wall from the 1938 film
army girl
( # 3 on self - guided tour. map available from lone pine chamber of commerce )
* factual errors: the film is set in the spring of 1863 as part of grant' s campaign against vicksburg, which fell on july 4, 1863. the soldiers discuss their fear of being captured and sent to the notorious confederate prison at andersonville, the construction of which started in december, 1963 .
a big part of the reagan library’s cavalry show is the hollywood section, which displays costumes worn by film greats such as john wayne (kneeling, center), victor mclaglen (on wayne’s left) and george o’brien (on mclaglen’s left), shown in this photo from the classic 1949 movie fort apache .
markey also noted that brannaman became very savvy about film over the period of the summer .
buck and his number one man, curt pate, started suggesting shots and ways of covering scenes ,
says markey .
they saw different approaches to using the camera around horses, that sometimes ended up being more effective than what we had chosen to do, and they didn' t know anything about our business before starting production .
max steiner' s score to they died with their boots on wasn' t ground - breaking in the sense that a king kong or a citizen kane was, yet it certainly fits in the category of
one of the best of its kind
. although the composer preferred character - driven films such as the bette davis dramas, in truth, no one surpassed steiner in writing exciting, pulse - pounding action music. in scores such as the most dangerous game, the
, which was shot in england. in his first overseas film job, canutt had to teach his english horsemen to ride western using a one - handed neck rein, so they could hold swords and lances with the free hand. he directed one of the best jousting scenes ever captured on film, and staged the siege of the castle with many dramatic falls from the high castle walls. after several days of filming, he had sent so many men plunging to their
deaths
that the director told him good - humoredly ,
yak, i don' t believe there is room in the moat for any more bodies .
the film was shot in eleven days mostly in the alabama hills of lone pine, california, at a cost of about $ 43, 000. director joseph kane, a former editor, had made his directing debut with autry' s first starring feature ,
motion picture | feature film (over 60 minutes) .
blue gardenia
by bob russell, lester lee, arr nelson riddle, performed by nat king cole. (songs). nat king cole as the pianist / vocalist in the ...
making our way through the complex of buildings comprising mosfilm, we entered the recording - studio. soon, the moscow symphony orchestra members arrived and made their way through the large double doors. bill and john exchanged greetings to orchestra members with whom they had worked for the past four years. bill hoped he could familiarise the orchestra with the film whose music they would be recording for the next five days, but sasha, the first violinist who usually acted as bill' s translator, was ill that day. out went bill' s planned introduction to the film and up went the baton. just after 3: 00 p. m. the orchestra began its first of three run - throughs on the
the real 5th had served in the civil war with the army of the potomac and afterwards in kansas and nebraska against cheyenne and sioux. its proud ranks once included lt. col. robert e. lee and buffalo bill cody as chief scout .
and others, steiner had an uncanny knack of taking all the appropriate thematic material and by twisting, turning and combining these elements, he was able to compose a real piece of music that always had a forward propulsion and integrity of musical line .
born into a show - business family - his parents were circus aerialists - frankie darro appeared in his first film at age six. due to his small size and youthful appearance, he played teenagers well into his 20s. always a physical performer, darro often did his own stunts, many times out of necessity ...
nevada smith (mgm, 1975): this series pilot stars cliff potts as the lead character, taking over the role from both steve mcqueen and alan ladd. working from the original john michael hayes script, this reworking of the hathaway film is an indifferent footnote to douglas’s career out west, which had some true highlights .
joseph kane directed rogers and ruth terry again in man from music mountain, the same name but different film from the one he did with gene autry a few years before. then came utah, a big republic production, with a cast and crew of 103, as reported in the paper on december 1, 1944. the independent made it clear they would stay at the dow and that johnny morris of the mt. whitney café would handle catering .
[ 1 ] main title - west point: menacing drums and brass herald the warner brothers emblem. line drawings, like steel engravings from a history book, background main titles as garry owen takes prominence, the march of choice for gen. george armstrong custer and the 7th cavalry who will
die with their boots on .
( because of the nature of the music for the main titles, steiner didn' t use his traditional warners fanfare, which he composed in 1937 .) at west point, cadets march across parade - grounds and a montage ends, featuring new recruits for america' s premier military academy. (this cue was originally used for a similar sequence in
and why not? it was directed by a man of the movies, raoul walsh. he had done it all. one of the first real movies, the great train robbery, saw actor walsh get shot by desperadoes; walsh filmed newsreels of pancho villa, and the man who invented modern film - making, d. w. griffith, cast the dashing walsh as john wilkes booth in
the film was a great success and rogers was billed as “the king of the cowboys” ever after. his second film, directed by joe kane, was reported by the inyo independent as on location locally in the october 8, 1939 edition. the reporter was much impressed with the presence of doris day who was direct from broadway after appearing in the women there. “the story is set in ‘sundown valley’ about 1900. when the brothers are 12 and 5 years old, their father is killed in a fight over the water supply for the valley. the younger brother is kidnapped by gunmen, and grows up fighting against the ideal for which his older brother is fighting…. part of the picture was taken on the narrow gauge railroad. ”
boots and saddles is a 1937 american western film directed by joseph kane and starring gene autry , smiley burnette , and judith allen . based on a story by jack natteford , the film is about a young englishman who inherits a ranch that he wants to sell , but is turned into a real westerner by a singing cowboy . 
boots and saddles is a 1937 american western film directed by joseph kane and starring gene autry, smiley burnette, and judith allen. based on a story by jack natteford, the film is about a young englishman who inherits a ranch that he wants to sell, but is turned into a real westerner by a singing cowboy.
boots and saddles is a 1937 american western film directed by joseph kane and starring gene autry, smiley burnette, and judith allen. based on a story by jack natteford, the film is about a young englishman who inherits a ranch that he wants to sell, but is turned into a real westerner by a singing cowboy.