Totally off effing topic

[Larry Reese]

The Searchers generally considered the best western ever made. (I'm not sure I agree with that, but I think they were coming at it from a comparison of what had gone before - when compared to most earlier westerns, Searchers was a whole order of magnitude different.) I also find it interesting to note that JW would never discuss that movie in detail; it seemed to have had a strange effect on many of the cast members.

Oh, and trivia for you guys who've seen the original True Grit: some of the stunt man jobs in the last half or so of the movie were done by Wilfred Brimley, uncredited. This was one of his very first ever movie roles - he was a friend of Duval's who was on the set to tend the horses and Duval got him a bigger role.

Oh, and on the new True Grit - I think some of it just departs to the silly. Like the guy hung from a noose thirty feet in the air. Come on. Happens all the time. And the carting around of dead bodies as trade items. Just plain silly; and smacking to me of the condescending BS about the barbaric ways of the "red man" instead of any historical accuracy. But again, that's just my opinion.

LR