Rich Hall's "How The West Was Lost" (2008) BBC4

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  • @grikney
    @grikney Рік тому +29

    Rich Hall is a national treasure!

  • @garryb374
    @garryb374 Рік тому +22

    Can't believe this only has 2K likes. Mr Hall is a very funny comedian but has enormous potential to move to documentaries with a sense of humour. Like Baldric did.

  • @TheWesternunionman
    @TheWesternunionman 3 роки тому +105

    The collective Rich Hall docos are frickin great Thank you Rich

    • @ogami1972
      @ogami1972 2 роки тому +5

      absolutely, just found these and haven't gotten a thing done since.

    • @seniorslaphead8336
      @seniorslaphead8336 Рік тому +1

      He's a great writer and performer.

  • @stephenwade5534
    @stephenwade5534 Рік тому +10

    Exellent, insightful and thought provoking. Can't remember a documentary I've enjoyed as much

  • @SarahGreen523
    @SarahGreen523 Рік тому +31

    I don't think I've ever seen Rich Hall do a stand up routine, but after watching this, I probably should. He has nailed this topic on the nose. I've thoroughly enjoyed this whole series of him explaining America and Americans to the Brits. I really like his style.

    • @deplorablecovfefe9489
      @deplorablecovfefe9489 Рік тому +9

      He's a veteran stand-up. Been around for ever, he made the rounds in the 80s.

    • @LowLight420
      @LowLight420 Рік тому +3

      Check out QI

    • @maartenvandam344
      @maartenvandam344 24 дні тому +1

      There are quite a few Live at the Appollo clips of Rich's stand-up here on UA-cam. He's excellent.

  • @tomball7009
    @tomball7009 3 роки тому +46

    Rich Hall is more than just a sniglet. Great comedian / historian.

    • @grindelston5968
      @grindelston5968 Рік тому

      What the fuck is a sniglet?

    • @maxheadrom3088
      @maxheadrom3088 Рік тому

      @@grindelston5968 If it's not on Webster then look into Urban DIctionary. Tom, btw, is a real Rich Hall fan!
      sniglet
      (n.) A word that should be in the dictionary but isn't. The word is derived from an HBO show from the early 80s titled Not Necsessarly the News. Sniglets was a segment on the show by Comedian Rich Hall.
      The word Musquirt was one of the many Sniglets, Its that runny stuff that comes out of the mustard bottle before the mustard does.
      by John Ryan Byrd June 17, 2005

  • @josephturner4047
    @josephturner4047 4 роки тому +25

    I was a train driver at Reading station depot. Rich Hall was standing waiting for a train on platform 4. The down platform for heading west. I was going to the West end of the station to take a West bound local from a bay platform. I looked at him, he looked at me. Our eyes met. I nodded. He ignored me. For one glorious moment, I thought I was in Spain. Ennio Moricone erupted through my consciousness. Then the tannoy said 'The next train............ "

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  4 роки тому +13

      Fantastic. Ignoring celebs (or your heroes) is cool. Both parties go away happy!

  • @dicem8977
    @dicem8977 Рік тому +10

    This is so funny, I loved how Rich Hall took the piss out of both the Brits and our American cousins pointing out our respective hypocries.

  • @donphilp7511
    @donphilp7511 2 роки тому +29

    This is the 2nd rich hall Documentary I have seen today. They are beyond excellent.

    • @akadacat
      @akadacat 2 роки тому +6

      I know right? I've just discovered him, I feel I understand a lot more about the American experience. This bloke is erudite and insightful.

    • @andersdottir1111
      @andersdottir1111 2 роки тому +5

      This is the kind of content the BBC should still be doing. Quality and smart.

  • @christopherjameslee3341
    @christopherjameslee3341 5 років тому +85

    I could listen to Rich Hall all day, every day.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 3 роки тому +6

      He's not half bad is he, I have only come to know of him in later years but delighted to have nonetheless, a real smart and empathetic chap 😉👍

  • @adamf34
    @adamf34 Рік тому +3

    Rich Hall is the best. He was a regular on late night with David Letterman. Loved his book,Sniglets

  • @murphbee
    @murphbee Рік тому +4

    Thanks for including Little Big Man. I very rarely hear it mentioned.

  • @richardmycroft5336
    @richardmycroft5336 4 роки тому +57

    This is funny. Rich lives in London with a British wife and his film analyses are broadcast on BBC 4. Still, he's damned smart and funny.

    • @MotionMcAnixx
      @MotionMcAnixx 4 роки тому +6

      @vunderground1 I think he spends his time between Montana and Arizona. I love his comedy

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 3 роки тому +2

      I live in east anglia but from Liverpool and have a grasp of Merseyside better than most, hardly uncommon...

    • @mumblesbadly7708
      @mumblesbadly7708 2 роки тому +6

      He has a small ranch near Livingston, Montana, at which he lives part of the year.

    • @rossclaughton6068
      @rossclaughton6068 25 днів тому +1

      Where he lives and who he is married to are irrelevant.

  • @thedevilinthecircuit1414
    @thedevilinthecircuit1414 Рік тому +6

    "For a man of action, he spends a lot of time sitting." If Hall had added, "and eating donuts," he would be describing Steven Seagal perfectly.

  • @RayEmanuel
    @RayEmanuel Місяць тому +1

    Rich Hall and his docs are brilliant. TY

  • @P.willow
    @P.willow Рік тому +5

    I'd listen to a podcast by rich Hall anyday he's so funny and very entertaining 😂

  • @annahazlett19
    @annahazlett19 Рік тому +2

    So I interesting. Really enjoyed Rich Hall , so informative . Tells it straight. I'm hooked

  • @TheWesternunionman
    @TheWesternunionman 4 роки тому +48

    "A friend will help you move house, a good friend will help you move a body." Rich Hall (priceless.

    • @oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164
      @oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 3 роки тому +2

      I said that 25 years ago.
      PS: Correction, I was reminded by a family member that I said it 45 years ago.

  • @edstein5642
    @edstein5642 Рік тому +12

    In western mythology “Apaches” attacked in vast swarms of mounted warriors. In reality the several bands of actual Apaches seldom put more than a few dozen warriors out on raids, horses were hard to maintain in the severe wilderness the Apache retreated to, so warriors were frequently on foot. Their incredible toughness & determination fooled the US military into thinking there were hundreds of Apache striking all over when it was usually dozens, on foot, running single file in one another’s tracks, a pebble held in their mouth to deter thirst, covering more miles in one night than soldiers on horseback could cover in several days. AND, they had to secure their women & children during these raids. This near-supernatural fighting ability & the Apache’s penchant for torture & mutilation is why the Americans & Mexicans feared them so. Some writer called them “…the tigers of the human race.”

    • @Stephan5150
      @Stephan5150 Рік тому +2

      History is usually more interesting, you have me hooked. I would watch this movie!

    • @mcleod300
      @mcleod300 Рік тому +1

      I believe General Crook put forth that description. But at one time the Apache were located in the southern plains until the Comanche kicked them out.
      1:28:34 sout

    • @mcleod300
      @mcleod300 Рік тому +2

      Check out "Ulzanas Raid." Burt Lancaster and Richard Jaeckel.

    • @robinantonio8870
      @robinantonio8870 Рік тому +1

      ​@@mcleod300my favourite movie

  • @FantasticOtto
    @FantasticOtto Рік тому +16

    While I love all of Rich Hall’s documentaries, including this one, I can’t help feel he is underestimating Sergio Leone’s influence on later film makers.
    His raw talent for cinematography and cinematic originality, especially in The Good, the bad and the ugly, is unsurpassed by any of the great directors mentioned in this documentary. That film is pure brilliance.
    Of course, this isn’t Rich’s focus when talking about films. He centers more on story depth, characters and representation of culture through cinema. But it would be have been nice with a cinematographial (yes I made that up) nod to Leone though.

  • @danieljob3184
    @danieljob3184 Рік тому +2

    Wow, you managed to make a doco about Western movies without acknowledging Once Upon a Time in the West! I am impressed! 😲

  • @stevensica89
    @stevensica89 Рік тому +2

    One glaring omission : Te Quick and the Dead [1995], which comes across to me as a parody of a spaghetti western.

  • @kevinclick9026
    @kevinclick9026 Рік тому +1

    RFG! Very insightful. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is my favorite. Wish you could continue - Dead Man, Westworld, Lucky, Nope....

  • @julesotis13
    @julesotis13 Рік тому +2

    didnt know what i was clicking on esp since this version aired on BBC just wanted something on...im sure glad i did as from the disposal of the shmuck annoying character in the intro (well played) all the way thru to the film analysis, culutral analysis and historicla perspective this is one of the best film docs ive ever seen and ive seen many braov thanks for sharing yall!!! - SJOCR

  • @nigelbagguley7606
    @nigelbagguley7606 2 роки тому +4

    Although "The Magnificent Seven" was based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, that film was actually Kurosawa's personal tribute to John Ford.

  • @stevensica89
    @stevensica89 Рік тому +1

    The music played under the intro / titles is from The Big Country ]1958].

  • @greifinn24
    @greifinn24 4 роки тому +17

    "sooner or later Quentin Tarantino is going to have to make a film about orphan puppies" i hope Rich made this one up.

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  4 роки тому +3

      I wonder if the producers of "John Wick" saw this program and thought..:):))

    • @the_unrepentant_anarchist.
      @the_unrepentant_anarchist. Рік тому

      ​@andrewharper1609
      Wait- what??
      *YOU* "came up with the concept of John Wick".
      TWENTY YEARS AGO?!
      "as a coping mechanism against my grandad's cancer"??!!
      What absolute bollocks.
      Are you on crack or something.
      Or just delusional.
      🤡🤡
      🍄

  • @pninnabokov3734
    @pninnabokov3734 Рік тому +2

    Still waiting on a film version of Cormac McCarthy's, "Blood Meridian."

  • @richardmycroft5336
    @richardmycroft5336 4 роки тому +41

    I can remember when I got over John Wayne, finally seeing him for the pretty much one dimensional actor he was in my late teens. What is sad is how simplistic movies have been baked into the American self vision, the heroic cavalry coming over the hill crest to save the settlers when in reality Custer and a general who's name I cannot remember, maybe Sheridan, literally wiped out whole villages of native Americans in vile massacres. And Ronald Reagan as cowboy? The only thing I ever saw him do, other than play president, was shill for Borax.
    Other than that a great review of the western. I hope some day the US will get over the idea that the solution to every problem is a gun, too many are stuck in that way of thinking.

    • @hannahjordan9833
      @hannahjordan9833 4 роки тому +12

      What I found fascinating from these movies is how the young female lead is usually in love with someone old enough to be her father. I wonder if it was the projection of the writer's sexual fantasies? No 18 year old woman I have met wants a man in their 40's

    • @grahamparr3933
      @grahamparr3933 4 роки тому +2

      Watch the searchers and red river.

    • @simonclare100
      @simonclare100 4 роки тому +2

      @John wayne more because the audience liked to see beautiful young women, that will never change

    • @robertayoder2063
      @robertayoder2063 3 роки тому +1

      Go sip tea head back to England natives tell u the same Nancy

    • @robertayoder2063
      @robertayoder2063 3 роки тому

      U seen Duke cavalry coming over the hill in lot his movies i think of one stared fonda Duke going against his order so u not seen much of his fool like red river shootist true grit searchers among other one dimensional your a fool knows nothing even got stuff from Earp wich je meant or harrey carrey Paul fix others

  • @admiralbenbow5083
    @admiralbenbow5083 Рік тому +2

    Brit here. I have actually been to Cody.
    Not only have I bin ta Cody, I have actually watched Rodeo IN Cody. Not many Brits can say that.

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  Рік тому

      What I don't understand is this sudden interest and comments on this very, very old upload. What happened? :)

    • @admiralbenbow5083
      @admiralbenbow5083 Рік тому +1

      @@Mango62uk Great mysteries of the World.

    • @petertorvik8413
      @petertorvik8413 19 днів тому

      the algorithm got bored

  • @nickprohoroff3720
    @nickprohoroff3720 3 роки тому +21

    Such a work of history. Such a work of Art. Bravo Mr. Hall.

  • @cathalleddy8144
    @cathalleddy8144 3 роки тому +9

    McCabe and Mrs Miller is the only film that ever made me cry, brilliant. Surprised Soldier Blue didn't get a mention.

    • @deepcosmiclove
      @deepcosmiclove 2 роки тому

      McCabe and Mrs Miller is the most depressing film I have ever seen and I've seen more than 1000.

    • @cliffwheeler7357
      @cliffwheeler7357 2 роки тому +2

      He featured Soldier Blue in his documentary “Inventing the Indian”.

    • @hankworden3850
      @hankworden3850 Рік тому

      Wuss

  • @catholiccrusader5328
    @catholiccrusader5328 Рік тому +2

    First time me seeing this and I'm hooked, thanks!

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  Рік тому +1

      Always happy to see people enjoy Rich Hall's documentaries. Welcome.

  • @ktom5262
    @ktom5262 Рік тому +2

    Excellent documentary, but I have one problem with it: the comments about Sergio Leone's westerns. Rich clearly doesn't like or respect them, and I strongly disagree.

    • @Maisiewuppp
      @Maisiewuppp Місяць тому

      Because they are not really westerns in the sense of this documentary but something much more, needing a separate analysis for themselves alone.

  • @markdavids2511
    @markdavids2511 Рік тому +3

    Good body shot Rich, right on the button, folded him like a deck chair.

  • @harveyjswanson
    @harveyjswanson 3 роки тому +7

    That was well done. It's hard to include more than was presented but 'Lonely Are the Brave' would have fit well. It's an Edward Abbey short story, starring Kirk Douglas. 1958, I think. I don't recall who directed. Maybe Douglas, himself.

    • @ralphbradt9285
      @ralphbradt9285 Рік тому +1

      That movie was in a class by itself. Brilliant.

    • @harveycan5820
      @harveycan5820 Рік тому

      It was 62 or 63. My dad took me to see it. Way over my head. Very powerful movie of disillusion, a book end to another Kirk Douglas movie Ace on the Hole.

  • @michaelkeeble1480
    @michaelkeeble1480 4 роки тому +5

    Im English and grow up watching Raw Hide which got me into Western films and wanting to ride the trail etc.

    • @simonclare100
      @simonclare100 4 роки тому

      this was a very BBC production, I've been around too long to fall for this wholly negative history of the western, there was far more to them than the political dogma of the day and present day seeks to inject

  • @a.j.carter8975
    @a.j.carter8975 3 місяці тому +1

    ❤🇬🇧 maybe it's a persona....however much needed caustic evisceration. I could listen to the man all day.😊

  • @richardcatherwood7930
    @richardcatherwood7930 3 роки тому +8

    Really good documentary.....an entertaining look at the western genre of films.

  • @annalieff-saxby568
    @annalieff-saxby568 Місяць тому +2

    An obscure but excellent film, which should be remade with with an Indigenous cast and slant, is "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here!", from '69.
    The final image of the dead Willie's worn-out bootsoles, is one I will never lose.

    • @larrykelly-kf5pp
      @larrykelly-kf5pp Місяць тому +1

      I’ll look for it.bothers me how many great films seem to b e lost

  • @BrianRPaterson
    @BrianRPaterson 5 років тому +14

    Rich's documentaries are a joy to watch.

    • @johnhunt8264
      @johnhunt8264 5 років тому +1

      Iindeed, and a blessed counterpoint to t***s like Ross Kemp

    • @Page-Hendryx
      @Page-Hendryx 2 роки тому

      Yeah you Brits love Americans who badmouth their own country.

  • @Asylum_4
    @Asylum_4 4 роки тому +6

    Rich has a sharp and perceptive eye. Like Doug Stanhope, he understands both the US and the UK.

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  4 роки тому +3

      Stanhope is fucking brilliant. He's on Twitter and is worth checking out.

  • @markwatson5329
    @markwatson5329 Рік тому +3

    I see Rich Hall has the writing credit. Impressive vocabulary and analytical skills make this 90 piece fly by. What is he doing these days?

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  Рік тому +1

      He's on tour in the UK ..
      www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/rich-hall

  • @rocketman48
    @rocketman48 4 роки тому +2

    great videos Rich.Keep it goin,Bill from Ireland.

  • @peterlovett5841
    @peterlovett5841 4 роки тому +20

    What a fantastic analysis of the genre. My only disappointment was no discussion of "No Country For Old Men" which really is a modern western.

    • @richardmycroft5336
      @richardmycroft5336 4 роки тому +4

      Or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

    • @EmileJoulbert
      @EmileJoulbert 4 роки тому +3

      This documentary was shot pretty much at the very same time No Country for Old Men was released. Possibly even before. So it's no wonder it isn't mentioned.

    • @beth12svist
      @beth12svist 4 роки тому +6

      It _is_ mentioned, for crying out loud! Silently. With the cinema marquee behind Rich at the end and his "but then... you never know", the documentary gives a huge nod to it. I guess that sort of saying a lot by not saying anything is a very British approach...

    • @filianablanxart8305
      @filianablanxart8305 3 роки тому +1

      This was made in 2008 .

    • @alexodonnell6191
      @alexodonnell6191 3 роки тому

      @@filianablanxart8305 and it shows 😁

  • @donovanmedieval
    @donovanmedieval Рік тому +1

    Hey, Rich. Great to see you again. It's been a long time. You didn't mention Three Amigos with you SNL co-star, Martin Short. I think it's wrong to blame parodies on the decline of movie Western. Laurel & Hardy and the Three Stooges did Western parodies. And I' not just talking about the feature film they did in '64 with Adam West. They did several Western shorts several years earlier.

    • @MarkTurner-u8v
      @MarkTurner-u8v Рік тому

      Rich Hall was a cast member on Friday’s, not SNL. Three Amigos sucked.

  • @PFWoody488
    @PFWoody488 Рік тому +1

    I wonder what Rich thought of Jeremiah Johnson. One of my favorites.

  • @granitesevan6243
    @granitesevan6243 2 роки тому +1

    I've never tried putting the chopped tomatoes in at the end. Looks delicious!

  • @Elitist20
    @Elitist20 2 роки тому +4

    When I saw the 1990 horror-comedy 'Tremors' it occurred to me that it was really a Western - Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward were odd job men, like the cowboys, and found themselves having to defend their Arizona community from a threat.

    • @Devilsblood
      @Devilsblood 2 роки тому +1

      The superhero film "Logan" is essentially a western.

  • @gwickle1685
    @gwickle1685 4 роки тому +2

    I just watched a phenomenal documentary on the history of the Western as a film genre and all I had to say was, 'What about Butch Cassidy?.' Thinking of that, what about Butch Cassidy?

  • @timongreen2230
    @timongreen2230 2 роки тому +1

    Rich Hall, have you seen The Proposition written by Nick Cave?

  • @seakelp3508
    @seakelp3508 4 роки тому +7

    Awesome presentation, and not one mention of sniglets.

  • @Tahir_Ali
    @Tahir_Ali 4 роки тому +5

    I was thinking of watching “My Darling Clementine” after he mentioned it - but then he gave away the whole plot.
    I guess I am still going to watch this later today.

    • @TS50ER
      @TS50ER 4 роки тому

      Yeah, I was irked how he was giving away the plot of all the movies.

    • @TS50ER
      @TS50ER 4 роки тому

      @smylexx , After watching this doco, I am not even sure if Rich is a fan of Westerns. He certainly wasn't interested in selling the genre to a younger audience by, A) panning two of the greatest westerns ever made, TGBU, and The Searchers; and by B) revealing the plot of 'antique movies'. Who knows, there may have been a young blood watching this who may have decided to stop watching Marvel Movies and mosey on over to the Wild West.

    • @TS50ER
      @TS50ER 4 роки тому

      @smylexx Well, to dismiss Sergio Leone's contribution to Westerns or American cinema in general is just unpardonable really. Let's just take two scenes from his films: The iconic shot of DUMBO in Once Upon a Time in America, and the equally iconic shot of the gorgeous Claudia Cardinale in the horse cart with the backdrop of Monument Valley in Once Upon a Time in the West. Two shots, one displaying man-made America, and the other the natural beauty of the country. Just two examples of his superlative film making; now throw Ennio's music on top, and it goes to a whole different level of brilliance.

    • @TS50ER
      @TS50ER 4 роки тому

      @smylexx , Amen Brother!

    • @TS50ER
      @TS50ER 4 роки тому +1

      @smylexx , Another interesting fact, the Bowler Hat, not the Ten Gallon Hat was the hat of the Wild West. Rich missed the mark on that one as well when he was waxing lyrical about 'cowboy hats' in the doco.

  • @backcombed2559
    @backcombed2559 4 роки тому +2

    Nice one Rich all the documentries are excellent,intresting guy intresting subjects ,just sorry theres not more

  • @daviddavid5880
    @daviddavid5880 Рік тому +1

    Post hoc ergo propter hoc? I think the influence is a tad overstated at times.

  • @Kurzula5150
    @Kurzula5150 4 роки тому +24

    "Mr Wallach. We'd like you to be in a film called 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'."
    "Great. Am I The Good?"
    "No."
    "Am I The Bad?"
    "No."
    "................. oh."

    • @lostcat9lives322
      @lostcat9lives322 3 роки тому +2

      Missing in this conversation? Wallach: How much do I get paid?

  • @dmisso42
    @dmisso42 2 роки тому

    And ALL the heroes and heroines STUNK!

  • @behindthespotlight7983
    @behindthespotlight7983 Рік тому +2

    No mention of Grey Fox or Pail Rider. Two beautiful pieces of Western iconography that gave us not only great stories but literally kept the genre present (if not accounted for) in the long interim between Heavens Gate and Unforgiven. Two films that kept that sound of leather against horse flesh and the cocking of a Colt over exhaled cheroot smoke in American theaters. That 1980 to 1992 dead zone is kinda important to an entire generation of moviegoers. We saw Colors. Purple Rain. Beat Street. And Streets of Fire. But no Westerns. We saw Color of Money, Weird Science and Breakfast Club. Taps, Rumblefish and Sixteen Candles. But no Westerns. Except Gray Fox. And Pail Rider. Yeah okay- throw Silverado in there too. And that Bon Jovie soundtrack movie. Remember Lou Diamond Phillips with the Bowie knives?
    Still this doc was well worth my time from 1:30am through o dark thirty on a Monday/Tuesday laying in bed stressed out about mc’mericas future. Or seeming lack thereof. Who knows? Maybe if Americans had flocked by the millions to Heavens Gate? Maybe it all would have happened differently. Maybe…

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  Рік тому +3

      Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
      is also a great Western. Eastwood & Bridges at their best.

    • @hankworden3850
      @hankworden3850 Рік тому

      It's Pale...champion

  • @paddybpaddyb9940
    @paddybpaddyb9940 2 роки тому +3

    I like how Back to the Future III looks like My Darling Clementine at the dance.

  • @stormchasingk9
    @stormchasingk9 2 роки тому +2

    "This has a VRAM Video Card."
    Took me a moment to get the joke, but I got it. Well played.

  • @TS-qq7vr
    @TS-qq7vr 5 років тому +14

    I've been a fan of Rich Hall since the show Fridays in the very early 1980s. He only gets wiser. And he only gets closer to looking like William H. Macy.

  • @pninnabokov3734
    @pninnabokov3734 Рік тому +1

    "Little Big Horn" was known as "Greasy Grass." Custer's last stand occurred in a place called, "Greasy Grass."

  • @sugarsnap1000
    @sugarsnap1000 3 роки тому

    What’s the music at 37:44

  • @peterschief9778
    @peterschief9778 2 роки тому +13

    He’s got to get back into documentary making again

  • @richardhowell7040
    @richardhowell7040 Рік тому +1

    Rich, rich, rich, how could you make this show and leave out Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I mean really ? Absolutely iconic and a big moneymaker and StarMaker

    • @Eriugena8
      @Eriugena8 Рік тому

      same year as wild bunch. remake of Jules and Jim. done. (great flick)

    • @Eriugena8
      @Eriugena8 Рік тому +1

      and pretty sure Mel Gibson's Maverick is channeling Paul Newman

    • @Maisiewuppp
      @Maisiewuppp Місяць тому

      Because it’s not a western but a buddy movie set coincidentally in the western USA.

  • @HHM706
    @HHM706 4 роки тому +5

    Love the way he chucks his lap top at him! :-)

  • @DennisMoore664
    @DennisMoore664 4 роки тому +2

    Thanks for this.

  • @alexhumphries4057
    @alexhumphries4057 5 років тому +5

    I love this docu. I disagree with so much of what he's saying, but I love him giving his personal view. Great viewing.

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  5 років тому +4

      I think he's one of the best explainers of USA, ever!

    • @ulalaFrugilega
      @ulalaFrugilega 5 років тому

      I watch this in bits during my lunch break, and find that I disagree with ever more of what he says, but even though GBU is my favorite film of all times, I still like Rich, and pity his ignorance =;0).

    • @ulalaFrugilega
      @ulalaFrugilega 5 років тому +1

      Just found out that the one and only book Rich quotes, is in fact nothing but a 6-page article.
      Wish he'd play in a Western, though.

    • @barquerojuancarlos7253
      @barquerojuancarlos7253 4 роки тому

      @@Mango62uk... As having lived in the US for long time and being a student of cultural anthropology, i can say his interpretation of the relationship of film and American culture is as good as that of any academic i'm acquainted with.

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  4 роки тому +1

      @@barquerojuancarlos7253 100% agree. He's able to look at his own country without fear or favour. A bit like Bill Hicks, perhaps?

  • @Xanatos712
    @Xanatos712 4 роки тому +2

    No mention of 1993's Tombstone?

  • @videosfromelsewhere926
    @videosfromelsewhere926 4 роки тому +14

    True Grit is still the most meaningful Western to me. The original is the best in my book, however the Coen brothers' dark humor and modern camera work in their remake is memorable.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 3 роки тому

      Nothing beats Django and even Butch and Sundance is in the top 5*

  • @pninnabokov3734
    @pninnabokov3734 Рік тому +1

    REcomend research into Eisenhower's Death Camps.

  • @johngcahill9583
    @johngcahill9583 3 роки тому +2

    Brilliant as usual

  • @stewartw.9151
    @stewartw.9151 4 роки тому +6

    Well, I still can watch a good western and one which lives in memory - although a series and not a movie - is Lonesome Dove made IIRC in 1989. The book by Larry McMurtry is wonderful and the series enthralling!

  • @vitabricksnailslime8273
    @vitabricksnailslime8273 2 роки тому +3

    "All hat and no cattle"; must remember that one. Kinda wish Cannibal the Musical (available on UA-cam) got a mention. I think it's a much funnier piss take of the genre than Blazing Saddles.

  • @widetrackerinkazoo6559
    @widetrackerinkazoo6559 4 роки тому +4

    For a guy living abroad Rich sure spends a lot of time in the good ol USA!

    • @tynebar
      @tynebar 4 роки тому +3

      Do you thinks it's cos he's American?

    • @googlesucks7840
      @googlesucks7840 4 роки тому +4

      He also lives in Montana.

    • @filianablanxart8305
      @filianablanxart8305 3 роки тому +1

      I take it he's well known outside of the US ?

  • @thomasthomas2418
    @thomasthomas2418 Рік тому

    this must have been made before "Open Range" because there is no way you could overlook that classic.

  • @michaelconners2226
    @michaelconners2226 Місяць тому +1

    Wonderful and insightful thought his knowledge of the American allies in Iraq is unfortunately lacking

  • @roc7880
    @roc7880 Рік тому +1

    He filmed in Tombstone. Been there

  • @erikred8217
    @erikred8217 Рік тому +1

    no mention of once upon a time in the west?.

  • @stevegeeves900
    @stevegeeves900 3 роки тому +1

    Great program

  • @jessecaldwell4195
    @jessecaldwell4195 3 роки тому +1

    Broken Trail with Robert Duvall is a good Western..2006 ?

  • @neuromantoo
    @neuromantoo 4 роки тому +3

    Slim Picken's death scene with Katy Jurado in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

    • @TheophilusBoone
      @TheophilusBoone 4 роки тому

      That's not Chill Wills. It's Slim Pickens.

    • @neuromantoo
      @neuromantoo 4 роки тому +2

      @@TheophilusBoone You are so right! That was a complete senior moment on my part.

    • @mumblesbadly7708
      @mumblesbadly7708 2 роки тому +1

      Wondering if Mike Ermantraut’s death in Breaking Bad, where he was sitting in the grass by the river after getting shot in the stomach by Walter was an homage to that scene in PG & BtK.

  • @yasdnilknarf1885
    @yasdnilknarf1885 Рік тому +1

    The idea of using a double action revolver for hunting is beyond ludicrous, good versus evil mythology, as is the complete lack of any mention of the Comanche.

  • @mumblesbadly7708
    @mumblesbadly7708 2 роки тому +1

    Uhhh… Little Big Man came out in 1970, not 1975.

  • @ScoriacTears
    @ScoriacTears Рік тому +1

    1:01:06 Well! horses were definitely hurt or died in this film.

  • @simonf8902
    @simonf8902 2 роки тому +2

    Cavalry/ Calvary. Excellent.

  • @xstensl8823
    @xstensl8823 Рік тому +1

    you omitted the Big Country by William Wyler

    • @philipmcdonagh1094
      @philipmcdonagh1094 Рік тому +1

      Maybe you can set me straight seen as its only 4 hours since you watched this. I'm trying to find out what westerns Rich was in, IMDB says none, or is he just the spitting image of someone who always played the bad guy in some westerns. Don;t suppose you know who that was. Thanks.

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  Рік тому +1

      @@philipmcdonagh1094 I could be wrong, but I don't think he's ever been in a Western. He's a US comedian.

  • @louistracy6964
    @louistracy6964 4 роки тому +4

    Slim Pickens' death in Pat Garrett is recalled in Breaking Bad.

  • @Asylum_4
    @Asylum_4 4 роки тому +12

    As a Brit, I whole-heartedly agree with Rich's mini rant at 23.00. "A nation of failed socialists and pessmistic pisswits who can't assemble a football team."

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  4 роки тому +2

      Rich does an even better takedown of Clarkson on a program about cars. It's on UA-cam somewhere.. :)

    • @Asylum_4
      @Asylum_4 4 роки тому +3

      @@Mango62uk yeah, Continental Drifters, I think. I'm no fan of Clarkson either.
      Thanks for this upload, too.

    • @Mango62uk
      @Mango62uk  4 роки тому +3

      @@Asylum_4 That's the one - it was something about muscle cars, wasn't it? JC's become a parody of himself!:)

    • @tonyduncan9852
      @tonyduncan9852 4 роки тому +3

      With Clarkson actually looking good by comparison. What a vomitfest.

    • @richardmycroft5336
      @richardmycroft5336 4 роки тому +5

      Didn't help with the election of the self satisfied and vastly over rated BoJo. Of course the brave Americans have a failing health care system that regularly bankrupts whole families and then pretty much cuts them off from treatment. Such a civilized place.

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 Рік тому +4

    Liberty Valance is one of the best films ever!

  • @jhubes73
    @jhubes73 Рік тому +2

    Damn skipped a bunch of good ones like Silverado, Young Guns and of course the biggest 9os hit Tombstone, and various others. I dont feel the western is dead

  • @fredcato8708
    @fredcato8708 4 роки тому +10

    Core 2 Duo and 2Gb of RAM, eh! That dates it.

  • @akadacat
    @akadacat 2 роки тому +2

    Wow. Just
    Wow.
    I sat through all 62 of John Wayne's films as a nipper, (Dad was a huge fan) again, and again and ag... I finally feel I have some context now. Rich Hall is a freaking genius.

  • @DaveSCameron
    @DaveSCameron 3 роки тому +1

    1:13:18. Leonard Cohen and superiour film is like Gin and Tonic, beautiful 👌🎥

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 Рік тому +2

    "The ordinary person today couldn't do that" LMAO. You'd be surprised dude. Common folk are tougher than anyone thinks.

    • @hankworden3850
      @hankworden3850 Рік тому

      I agree...but there's a lot of fat to be trimmed.

  • @kompst
    @kompst 4 роки тому +7

    Credit Marion Robert Morrison for creating John Wayne and playing him for the rest of his life. He rose from B movies to become one of the most popular actors of his time. I think his best acting can be found in Red River, The Searchers, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Shootist.

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 4 роки тому +2

      The model for Morrison's created persona was Yakima Canutt, who was the 'real deal'.
      I have a 1928 Glendale High School annual (my grandmother's) that was signed 'Jack Wayne' and 'John Wayne' over the 'Marion Morrison' captions of his photos.
      Morrison was just beginning to create 'John Wayne' at that time.

    • @akadacat
      @akadacat 2 роки тому

      His name was Marion I believe.

  • @gerryparker1390
    @gerryparker1390 Рік тому +2

    I love Rich Hall's approach. But then again I've been a fan for a long time, when ever I saw him on TV. Wasn't he a cast member on Fridays? I don't think I get the same out of westerns as he does. On the throw back TV channels westerns are on a lot and I am not a fan. Ironically, the movie he seemed to dislike intensely Good Bad and the Ugly are the type westerns I would gladly watch today. Never the less I am going to watch as many docs of his as UA-cam will allow.

  • @ryanharriss7950
    @ryanharriss7950 3 роки тому +2

    " and full of apaches " need i say more? Rich is awesome.

  • @meirwise1107
    @meirwise1107 4 роки тому +3

    After watching this I now understand why Rich married an Englishwoman and moved to England!

  • @kiasax2
    @kiasax2 Рік тому +2

    Rich Hall is fantastic! His treatment of Westerns is excellent and he speaks truth to power about how we Tribal People have been treated.
    The last western that was any good, really good was Unforgiven, end of file. 👍🏻😎