"Jory" Who's Read This?

[The Elderly Kid]

Back in the '70s I read a book called "Jory" by Milton Bass. It was about a teenager in the old West who inadvertantly becomes a gunfighter because he is a gifted "natural." I remember liking it a lot at the time, but can't locate a copy. Has anybody here read it?

[W.T.]

Ain't read it, Kid, but here ya go:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?tn=jory&sortby=2&sts=t&an=bass&bi=0&bx=off&y=10&ds=30&x=80

[RRio]

Yep! Read it and saw the movie. Same kid that played in the "Culpepper Cattle Company" and "Cahill - US Marshal". The book was way better.

[The Elderly Kid]

WT, thanks for the info. Rawhide, I didn't know it had been filmed. I guess I'll pass on it since you think they did a bad job.

[thehairlessone]

I have a copy. It is probly my favorite book. I have the next one too called Mister Jory I think.

I didnt know they made a movie of it though.

where could i find that?

rick

[thehairlessone]

I got the movie from half.com

it is pretty good even though it is old. I dont like that robbie benson though for some reason.


rick

[Frenchie]

I remember the book and the movie, though I couldn't have told you the title until I read this. Good story.

[Drayton Calhoun]

Yeah, and B.J. Thomas, the singer, plays a gun-twirling show off.

[Stillwater]

Yeah, and B.J. Thomas, the singer, plays a gun-twirling show off.

The above and B.J. Thomas's "girly man voice" would be enough to turn almost anybody off.

The song "Rain Drops keep falling on my head" sounded out of place in a Western theme movie. The Movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," would have been much better without B.J. Thomas's song in it...

For my tastes, Robbie Benson doesn't have enough "personal physical presence" to be credible in a western theme movie...

Bill