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May 15, 2020 - 11:15 AM
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ajant
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I realize this is slightly off topic and that there are probably not a lot of movies that qualify, but titles of interest would have plots set within decade or so of the time they were filmed during this period.
Such as “Inferno” (1953), “Giant” (1954), “Bad Day at Black Rock” (1957), "Misfits" (1961), “Lonely Are the Brave” (1962), “Hud” (1963), “J.W. Coop” (1972), “Junior Bonner” (1972), “Westworld” (1973).
Color or b/w is immaterial.
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You could add COWBOY (1958), THE ROUNDERS (1965), and THE HONKERS (1972).
Then depending on how strict you are about your stated parameters, there are two worthwhile 1978 releases: COMES A HORSEMAN is set in 1945 and so takes place longer than a decade earlier, but you might appreciate it. Then Sam Peckinpah's CONVOY is kind of a Western with rebellious truckers on 1970s Southwestern desert highways, in place of cowboys on horses.
(This probably should have been posted in the Non-Film Score Discussion section, and so might get moved.)
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I apologize over COWBOY. I thought it applied here from my having read only a one-line description years ago, but I've never watched it (since I don't care for Jack Lemmon or Glenn Ford).
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May 22, 2020 - 1:10 PM
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ajant
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You could add COWBOY (1958), THE ROUNDERS (1965), and THE HONKERS (1972).
Then depending on how strict you are about your stated parameters, there are two worthwhile 1978 releases: COMES A HORSEMAN is set in 1945 and so takes place longer than a decade earlier, but you might appreciate it. Then Sam Peckinpah's CONVOY is kind of a Western with rebellious truckers on 1970s Southwestern desert highways, in place of cowboys on horses.
(This probably should have been posted in the Non-Film Score Discussion section, and so might get moved.) I’ve been forever collecting soundtracks so FSM has long been the place for me. I would have posted this thread in that Non-Film Score Discussion section if I hadn’t missed seeing it,
Btw, I didn’t include Western TV shows for several reasons. If I did then tops on my list would be Stoney Burke, again for several reasons.
“Convoy”, perhaps but probably way too much engine, air pollution noise and flaring tempers. Thanks for recommending “Honkers”. I see that Steve Ihnat wrote and directed it”; a shame his brief life left no time to do more like this well received movie promises to be. I’ll check it out. “Comes a Horseman” may work for me too.
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You could add COWBOY (1958), THE ROUNDERS (1965), and THE HONKERS (1972).
....I didn’t include Western TV shows for several reasons. If I did then tops on my list would be Stoney Burke, again for several reasons.
To clarify, the 1966-67 TV series The Rounders (which you're probably referring to there) was based on the theatrical feature THE ROUNDERS of the preceding year. Both are adapted from the same 1960 novel by Max Evans, who also wrote THE HI-LO COUNTRY. One film is comic and the other tragic -- but frankly, neither is as good as its source book.
THE ROUNDERS deals not with rodeo but the working life of 1960s cowboys.
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