James Stewart Westerns

LOL..that's pretty funny...I've loved Jimmy since i was a youngster...

 

There are also stretches of silence when Jimmy is done with an answer and the interviewer is figuring out his next questions, and I halfway expect Jimmy to say, "Could you please be quiet, I'm trying to watch the movie." He does seem kind of annoyed at having to stop watching to answer a question. I don't think he really understood what a commentary track was all about, but it's part of what makes it kind of a fun listen.

 

LOL! that's the funniest thing I've read today! just like Jimmy he pulls no punches...I guess he got lost in the movie considering he was there to comment on it!

 

"The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged. His skin is sun-dyed brown..."

Great show. Archive.org has the complete run of episodes (including the never-aired pilot) free of charge.

The Six Shooter -Single Episodes

 

Don't like his oaters.
Comes across as a wimp.
Best exemplified in Liberty Valence'which was he was perfectly suited in.

 

He's a wimp in The Naked Spur?

 

I thought he fit perfect as the Western hero. I like him best in that genre.

 

If you watch Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Winchester '73, Rear Window, and Anatomy of a Murder, You can see he is perfect for each of these roles and brilliant at all of them while portrays vastly different characters and the tone of each film is completely different. Jimmy was a master as a leading man that could bend himself into multiple roles and genres like a human Gumby! I can't think of any other star that was ever in so many of the best films ever made that were so vastly different from each other outside of perhaps Tom Hanks.

 

I love all of them but particularly The Man From Laramie, Night Passage and Winchester 73. The blu-ray of Man From Laramie is jaw dropping.

 

Prefer him to Tom Hanks ( just). Stewart is a brilliant drama/comedy actor. But when it comes to his cowboy films I prefer other actors in the saddle.

 

I don't think Hanks does bitter the way Stewart does. In those Mann Westerns, he frequently flirts with manic violence, but there's enough decency in him to pull him back from descending to the level of the antagonist, whether it be Robert Ryan or Arthur Kennedy, who are often the Stewart character gone bad in a fairly unbridled fashion.

 

I also like most of the Jimmy Stewart westerns mentioned here. Encore Play, the streaming service available if you have a pay TV service with Encore offers about a half dozen of his westerns mentioned here. I don't know how long those will be available and I would think the quality will be better than you might find on YouTube or Internet Archive.

 

"Bandolero!" is currently streaming both on Netflix and Amazon Prime. I gave it a re-watch last night. Stewart is surely the best thing in it - playing a character with a complicated, conflicted and shifting set of values. IMO the Raquel Welch love triangle portion of the plot drags the film down (as does her accent), but Stewart is terrific as usual, as is Will Geer.

As a (very) trivial aside, for an "Odd Couple" freak such as myself, the film features the actors who played legendary cowboy star Slim Daniels (Dub Taylor) and his sidekick Grubby (Patrick Cranshaw) in the episode "The Hideaway" (aka "Ernie the Eskimo").

 

A wee bit early ' but the Jimmy Stewart Christmas TV thing he did was special.

 

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