Western B - Movie Actors!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Some of the great western actors worked in the B movie segment of the western genre. Here are some of the best.
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I have been wanting this one for a very long time! Thank you for spotlighting these excellent, but often overlooked stars!
Fred MacMurrey was the TV dad I never had. He did seven films for Walt Disney, and each week I would watch him on My Three Sons. My own dad was a bit abusive, but I always dreamed of having a dad like Fred.
Really good list. I always liked Audie Murphy in his role as "Destry", Dan Duryea in "Winchester 73" and Fred McMurray more so in his comedy roles.
Great list. These guys were the elite of B movies because of their drawing power.
Powerful actors
I enjoy the work of all these actors, being a longtime fan of Westerns. But Joel McCrea is one of my all time favorites; I can watch Trooper Hook over and over, same with Gunsight Ridge and Ft. Massacre. Can't say enough good about Audie Murphy as a man, as an American, as an actor. Without Van Heflin in Shane, the movie wouldn't have been nearly as good. Duryea is one of the great heavies in Hollywood history, great at being bad. Another fun one, Wrangler.
Thanks so much
One of the best Duryea performances was in the Twilight Zone episode Mr. Denton on Doomsday, as a former gunfighter who becomes an alcoholic. He actually gets the girl in the end. Co-Stars a couple of men on the way up: Martin Landau and Doug McClure.
@@famouspeople63 I forgot. George Montgomery was also a fine B movie actor, did a lot of Westerns and some other genres of films. I've always liked him. Gun Duel in Durango is a bunch of fun.
Best Montgomery film. The Brasher Doubloon. He does an excellent Phillip Marlowe ( although not on the level of Bogart ( The Big Sleep) and especially Dick Powell ( Murder My Sweet)).
@@davidbrown386 The Brasher Doubloon is a good one and he does a good Marlowe, have to agree.
Some of these actors were stars and great at their craft. Maybe we should call them B plus actors.
I agree. If you made a list of A-List Western stats: It would be Cooper, Wayne, Ladd, Peck, Widmark, Mitchum, Douglas, Stewart, Fonda, Scott, Eastwood, Bronson, McQueen, Ford, Taylor ( although criminally overlooked) and although I am no fan of his westerns ( Vera Cruz & Gunfight At OK Corral excluded) Lancaster. The rest ( ladies like Stanwyck excluded) are B * like Heflin, Murphy, McCrea and Marvin ( really a B * in westerns). Or a B like Calhoun, Duryea and Van Cleef.
Good idea!
Going back to the 40’s, there was the likes of Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Bill Elliot, etc., plus all those Saturday arvo western serials, and movies, churned out for eager youngsters.
Wonderful actors, all dedicated to their craft!
From your description of Fred McMurray, it would seem as if he ended his career on a low note. Nothing could be further from the truth! While like many he began in supporting roles, his appearance in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity signaled a shift in how he was used. He became a much more prominent figure in movies, even in supporting roles (The Caine Mutiny, The Apartment), and seemed to really hit his stride headlining Disney comedies in the late 50s/early 60s (The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber). And of course his most iconic role as the father in TVs My Three Sons (1960-1972).
His role in the Caine Mutiny is key to the movie. The man could act.
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Personally I always liked him, he had a real everyday mans touch much like James Stewart.
@@famouspeople63 And both could play against type as well!
Especially Stewart when it comes to “Playing Against Type.” Watch him in Some of his early work. It’s A Wonderful World opposite Claudette Colbert. He actually plays a Dick Powell/Humphrey Bogart type detective and plays it well. After The Thin Man is another. He is the villain and does it well.
Excellent list: The only one you overlooked is Rod Cameron. My favorite actor on the list? Van Heflin. I have yet to see a Van Heflin film I did not like and I have seen 2 dozen. McCrea is interesting. He is best known for westerns but two his best films were non westerns Foreign Correspondent and Sullivan’s Travels.
Second you on Sullivan's Travels!
Enjoy him in all his movies. Good comic talent too -- The More the Merrier is fun.
A class act.
Had the pleasure of visiting with him for a few minutes at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in OKC back in the ‘70s. A case of meeting one of your heroes and NOT being disappointed one bit. A real gentleman and helluva nice guy.
Don't know what the rest of you think . But to me they are all A listers to me.
I guess these movies were in their down time.
All these actors in the video made their contribution to the western film lore. Murphy headlined or appeared in nearly 35 western movies, all very entertaining and memorable, which would put him in an 'A' list for me. Not forgetting that he headlined the movie 'To Hell And Back', 1955, where he portrayed himself in a true life WWll film, a story that eventually earned him the title of America's most decorated war hero.
My favorite is Guns of Fotr Petticoat. Fantastic movie.
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Yeah my wife gets a kick out of that one. It's hard for me to pick a favorite of his, but 'Posse From Hell', 1961, always comes to mind first. Great supporting cast, Vic Morrow ( in a rare western movie role), John Saxon, and as always, Lee Van Cleef.
One thing I like about it is tough old broad Sergeant Lacey and Audies leadership.
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She's a tough ole gal as she says repeatedly, 'Worth more than any three men'. 😂
I will pick two Murphy films. 1: Column South. 2: Six Black Horses.
Great vid, Wrangler, all greats. Dan Duryea has always been a favorite of mine, ever since I saw him in “Incident At Phantom Hill” at my neighborhood theatre when I was a kid.
another great video but i would add George Montgomery & Rod Cameron to the list for there film & tv work
Nice, Selections 🤗😬