Lee Marvin version of "Monte Walsh..."

[Stillwater]

I have been waiting for this DVD for many, many years...

Amazon dot com just confirmed that the Lee Marvin version of "Monte Walsh," previously unavailable, has just shipped!

It will be here on November 19...

I think this calls for a drink.

Bill

[Harley Starr]

My copy should be in my mailbox by the end of the week!

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Could it be that they were waiting to make a move on it until after he was dead and they didn't have to pay him a royalty ?


Naw ... Hollywood would never pull a stunt like that ....

[Stillwater]

Could it be that they were waiting to make a move on it until after he was dead and they didn't have to pay him a royalty ?


Naw ... Hollywood would never pull a stunt like that ....

Lee Marvin's estate would still be in line to collect any royalities...

Bill

[The Elderly Kid]

Marvin died before actor's contracts had provision for things like video and DVD. Well, maybe his last film or two, but not the early ones. Lots of lawsuits right now trying to correct that. No, the reason so many good movies took a long time to make it to DVD is confusion about who owns the rights. When video popped up in the late 70s, all sorts of fly-by-night companies bought video rights to huge numbers of films. Then the companies disappeared without ever transferring their films to video and the rights remained in limbo. Some of this is still being sorted out.
Concerning "Monte Walsh," I once spoke with Jack Schaefer and asked him if somebody in casting was displaying a sense of humor, casting Jack Palance as a good guy in MW after making him one of film's most memorable villains in "Shane." He told me Palance had asked him why he killed him off in both stories. Schaefer explained to Palance that Chet hadn't died in the novel, so he should blame the screenwriter.

[Fox Creek Kid]

I once read that Jack Schaefer despised the casting of the runt Alan Ladd as Shane.

Anyway, the book ''Monty Walsh'' is better & if I remember Monty died in bed in 1916.

Another Western not to be overlooked in this era is the classic ''Will Penny''. 

[Stillwater]

My DVD copy of the Lee Marvin version of "Monte Walsh" finally got here.

Although I knew it would be great, it seems much better on DVD, than it did on tape.

Bill

[Old Doc]

Ever notice Lee Marvin's signature way of pointing a sixgun? He was in an episode of The Virginian and did it the same way I had seen him do it in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. As he would would start to push the gun forward to aim, the gun would be held sort of canted to one side as he flared his distal three fingers. As the gun was fully extended, he wold straighten it up and close his fingers around the grip. When I saw him do it on The Virginian, I remembered the same move from Liberty Valance as he pointed the gun at Jimmy Stewart just before being shot by John Wayne. Today's trivia lesson.

[Stillwater]

Ever notice Lee Marvin's signature way of pointing a sixgun? He was in an episode of The Virginian and did it the same way I had seen him do it in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. As he would would start to push the gun forward to aim, the gun would be held sort of canted to one side as he flared his distal three fingers. As the gun was fully extended, he wold straighten it up and close his fingers around the grip. When I saw him do it on The Virginian, I remembered the same move from Liberty Valance as he pointed the gun at Jimmy Stewart just before being shot by John Wayne. Today's trivia lesson.

I haven't noticed that before. However, I do have a faint recollection of what you mention.

Bill

[Drayton Calhoun]

I haven't noticed that before. However I do have a faint recollection of what you mention.

Bill

Come to think of it, I believe he also did it in Cat Ballou.

[The Elderly Kid]

I think he did it in "The Comancheros" as well. A neat bit of actor's "business."

[Drayton Calhoun]

I think he did it in "The Comancheros" as well. A neat bit of actor's "business."

Kind of like the way Glenn Ford drew, wonder if that's where the 'gang bangers' picked it up?

[WaddWatsonEllis]

I now have my DVD of The Lee Marvin 'Monty Walsh' ... I am just waiting on a sunshiny day whan I am at an emotional high ... 'cause as i remember it, the movie ends up with a 'what's the use? ending that leaves one feeling low ...