For the record, I'm just an old cowboy who sees the world thru a different lens than most. One thing I have learned from putting one of my most favorite movie clips of all time onto RU-vid, mainly for my enjoyment, is this.....the world is full of some rude, arrogant, ignorant, and opinionated sonsabitches who think their opinion is THE ONLY opinion that matters. Kinda sad! I ain't trying to win an Oscar for the film work folks, I'm just trying to share and enjoy a really cool scene from a cool cowboy movie! Again, for those who dont like it....WATCH SOMETHING ELSE! For those who do like it, ENJOY!
Squeaky Reed. I know Tom Selleck is an excellent actor and plays great cowboy roles such as Quigley Down Under. To me Monte Walsh was meant for Lee Marvin. Never should’ve remain this film. The clip was enjoyable to watch but the original will be my favorite.
squeaky Reed I did enjoy it and thanks. I'm an old cowboy myself. Worked cattle on divide creek out of Silt Colo. Worked for a man named Leonard Christianson, salt of the earth, and his wife Wilma cooked a hell of a ranch house lunch every day. I was foreman of the ranch and lived in a house across from the barns where we moved the cows who were ready to calve. At about midnight last of march in co. temp 15 below, Raymond our latest hire a kid out of New York wanting to get back to nature, came and woke me....a cow was in distress. I went over and pulled that calf (reached inside and grabbed the hooves and put my feet on her ass and pulled the calf out before it and she died). She then proceeded to prolapse. So I pushed her back together and yelled at Raymond (who was throwing up) to go get the Big needle and shoelaces we kept in the barn. I then proceeded to sow that cow together while being shoulder deep holding her internal parts. So long story short I, as a bartender I once told a couple of would be cowboys...…"if you've never laid shoulder deep in below zero temps. in the blood and afterbirth of calving, and sowing a cow up with one hand while your holding her prolapsed insides in with the other"......Maybe your just a guy who can ride a horse! lol
jim bishop Been there brother, even before I was considered a legal adult. I love everything about the cowboy life, even being shoulder deep in a prolapsed momma cow. I appreciate your kind words and the story, ain't many of us left!
Thanks man. Reminds me of a funny story. I was just turned 18 and we were feeding cows, and we knew we had an about year month old calf with scours. Well I spotted him and went to grab him by top of the back leg and throw him, I missed and all I got was tail. Off we went him dragging me through the mud and cow shit, with Ronny Hayes and old Leonard running behind yelling "hang on Geno". Well they finally caught up and we gave him some azimiacin. From then on I was considered a "hand"!!
As an old horseman myself I of course have an opinion. Selleck rides up clean as a whistle, spotless chaps, saddle gleaming, never been on a horse, those leather gloves, you can't get new ones that clean. And the topper they go thru the fence, man an beast in the dirt, up and bucking for a while longer. And when the horse calms down, it's not sweating, breathing hard and spick and span clean. Toms clothes could be worn to church. Every time I ever got bucked off, I was a mess, mashed hats, broken belts, shirts ripped and always dirty. Guess that's why I'm not in the movies.
You got to like Tom thou. What the movie. Makers doesn't know always comes thru the TV. Guns, horses, cows and rope, its funny . They did pretty good on LONESOME DOVE
Not sure I agree with the best ever, but for me it certainly is the funniest horse breaking scene I have ever seen. Thanks for the upload, never seen it before 😂😂
Monte Walsh is a Great Book. Well written. Fantastic character, loyal, boyishly reckless, tough as nails, 100% Cowboy through and through, dead set in his ways. The guy that can see the job through or die trying. Lee Marvin played Monte Walsh back in the 70's and was as close to who and what Monte Walsh was as originally written. Because of Lee Marvin's similar personality traits to Monte Walsh. I believe the best version of this story is yet to be filmed. Take Care and God Bless
Only a handful of actors were ever, "born to play a cowboy." A far more difficult task to accomplish than most people can appreciate. Perhaps because they do it so naturally and with such fluidity. We have been fortunate to have this man entertaining us for all these decades. Thanks for the post, Squeaky.
ONLY A HANDFUL IS A LOW ESTIMATE. EASTWOOD WAYNE BEN JOHNSON TOMMY LEE DUVALL Jack Elam Lee van Cleef Gary Cooper Henry Fonda Glen Ford Walter Brennan Strother Martin Lee Marvin Jack parlance. Just to name a few
I listen to Marty Robbins western songs a lot and I was thinking the other day that if he had lived to see this version of Monte Walsh, he would have been so in tune with all of it. The high jinks that were done, the comments made and standing for what was right and true. His song about the Strawberry Roan or Cowboy in a Continental Suit fits very well with this scene. I can also see him agreeing with the life style that was displayed in this move, as well as Crossfire Trail, and Last Stand at Sabre River. Those movies depict the songs and life style that Marty sang of so well. He painted pictures that one could envision in their minds eye of just what is shown here. Maybe he has watched it on the big screen in the sky and is laughing at all this, but feeling sad that this kind of life has come and gone, never to return. Thanks for the post and thanks to Marty Robbins for keeping the Old West and the Cowboy alive.
You aint kidding. Grew up on Marty Robbins and he could paint a picture in your mind. Music, like westerns, is dead. Not much good of either coming out these days!
@@carolmartin2503 out in the horse around standing alone, was an old Caballo the strawberry roan. Spivin bowlegs and long pigeon toes, pair of pig eyes and a long Roman nose. Little pin ears that were split at the tip, a big 44 brand was on his left hip.
Marty Robbins is still one of my favorite singers of all time. I might be a young’en, but I grew up listening to him on both the vinyl and 8 deck tapes. I’ve ridden my fair share of horses from dressage horses on the east coast, with Navajos chasing cattle in New Mexico, ranch horses in Montana, and several in between and enjoyed every ride and every experience: but nothing could truly compare to the life Mr. Robbins depicted in his songs. I salute Mr. Robbins, the days gone by, and all the honorable horseman of today!
When Monte Walsh first came out, I didn’t like it . But now years later, I understand what it’s message was about. A man still has worth, even when people thing he’s old.
AMEN! That's what it's all about! I tell ppl all the time that I personally feel like I was born 200 yrs too late. I honestly feel that way.....so did ole Monty. That's why I love this movie!
Great scene for sure Tom Selleck does a awesome job for this movie !!! ...And the original with Lee Marvin has this scene in it too ...both are great !!!
Probably the best western of all time. There are many outstanding westerns but this one shows the end of an era. The end of the west and the cowboy. Sad
Hombre - one of the best westerns. The final gunfight is THE best gunfight in a western - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YJTvMmulHsM.html
Sure did. I love riding an honest bucker. Edit. I should say that I USED TO love riding an honest bucker, too old for that now. My brain still says I can, but my bones know better!
Hey Squeaky. Thanks for the clip. Definitely scenes from a Charles M. Russell painting! Tom Selleck is my #2 favorite cowboy actor, with Sam Elliot being #1. Conagher is my personal favorite movie for what a cowboy is, with Lonesome Dove a close second. Thanks for your posting. I don't know what some of these commenters are trippin' about! You clarified in your title that you were sharing your opinion. Keyboard warriors.... Happy trails!
Thanks for posting this Monte scene . And WOW ! If I may - after reading some of the comments - correct you are - there are some absolute TasBards on the loose out there.
I love Tom Selleck in his cowboy movies. This was a good movie. But, one minute the horse has a bit and flank strap. Next, he has a halter and no flank strap. All of the tack and even the chaps look brand new. No saddle blanket. Hollywood. 😜
The no saddle blanket is how they started them back in the day and even today with broncy horses or even in saddle bronc or ranch bronc, the starting with a halter is right cus they started them with a bosal or halter i use both depends if they let me mess with their head, and a buck strap is used from time to time with horses even in rodeo they use them, some guys still do for the first fight so if the horse flips out and goes over you ain't in the hot seat
You’ve got a lot of thumbs up here, so I’m thinking you done good on this one. It’s not the technically correct stuff that matters as much as the idea of what this scene means, so don’t be discouraged by the keyboard warriors. Personally, I’m just happy my horse and I have a great relationship of mutual trust. So I don’t have to do this hard stuff at my age anymore. Great scene with one of the best western movie stars of the modern era. Wish he’d do more.
I read the book 50 years back. One of my all time favorites. I like the actors from both movies, neither movie does the book justice but what’s new. :)
This is 2021 and that is still a very good clip from the Monte Walsh movie love Tom Selleck Quigley Down Under I think was my favorite well idk he has a lot of good movies the Sackett movies that he made we're good also thank you for sharing this great movie clip and just ignore all those people out there with their ignorant loudmouth opinions
I've watched both,lee Marvin is 100% better is this that Tom is.i do love Tom in western but lee Marvin was better suited to play this ruff and tuff guy and not tom!!!!!
@michael boultinghouse Isn't it strange how stranger will tell you how you feel about things. I never said it was the saddest, "Brian's Song" or "Old Yeller" come to mind, and as you mentioned, there are others but nostalgia is not the same as sadness and this movie is sad. Suggest you watch "Ballad of Cable Hough".
@michael boultinghouse My my my what an erudite comment. I did say sadness about a single scene and the way the movie made me feel. I'm sorry that all you seem to be able to feel is a longing for a dirty, brutal period in our history. The overall plot for both versions is indeed nostalgic but it is not a happy movie. I suppose that you think that "Ballad of Cable Hogue" is only nostalgia.
@michael boultinghouse This was about a simple comment on a movie until you decided that, because I don't completely agree with your point of view, you attacked my character. Voted for the orange slug did you? Who the fuck are you to tell me I don't deserve to live here? My DD-214 carries a citation for a CIB with a ranger company, I might not survive the future but your sorry ass won't have anything to say about it.
If a horse is TRULY wild green stock then they are like dogs that want to serve, be loved and cared for, and will be easy to be broke to a saddle and trained to help their master who shows them respect and caring.
As remakes go, this one fairly well followed the original with Lee Marin and Jack Palance. I think both are good westerns but the ending to The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpaw is hard to top.
The ending to "The Professionals" was even better! The line delivered by the late Lee Marvin is one of my all-time favorites. When called "You Bastard" by the wealthy villain, he replies "In my case, an accident of bi8th. But you, sir...you are a self-made man!" Same era, I like Peckinpah, but prefer ""The Professional" by an eyelash.
I liked how they put a bay roan in the movie as a nod to Monte’s wedding gift to Chet in the book. Kinda wished they filmed that part, it’d been a hoot.
I like how Tom Selleck breaks the gate with his back when the horse falls down in the coral. And then Tom Selleck breaks the support board on the new building with his head, as the horse rides under it, and the walls fall down. Great stunts, and totally unrealistic.
I bucked on a lot of horses in my day. Most tried scraping me off using a fence, tree, or shrubbery, nearly had my head taken off by low hanging tree limbs (some were successful), but I never had one try jumping through a window. I think I’d have bailed off.
@Tim Mentzer I'm now of the opinion: if you want something done right you do it yourself. I get arab yearlings, untouched (uncorrupted). Apply some Clinton Anderson methods, and in a few years you can bring em in your house... well not quite. Lol
I love the Tom Selleck version the best but you should check out the version from 70 with Lee Marvin. The bucking scene in that one is crazy! Best scene ever!
Man do I love me a good western. I've seen this movie a handful of times, and it is a favorite. Has some real cowboy action (like this scene) and some touching moments too. My personal favorite western of all time is "Open Range". best gunfight scene ever.
I like Selleck, he's a great cowboy. The same scene from the 1970 version, with Lee Marvin, has them destroying half the town. Please watch it if you haven't already. Unfortunately the only version of he 70s movie I can see here is in German.
They had new saddles and ropes back then too ya know.I am a saddle and tree maker I can say that the saddle is a Modified Association which did not exist in this era.
Tommy Lee Jones tearing a Union Captain to shreds with a branding iron in Lonesome Dove comes to mind. Eastwood being Clint in Pale Rider or Unforgiven also. Bob Duvall with arrows in his leg fending off the Native American warriors is another. Bet I could give a hundred more examples. Selleck is good but he learned from the Masters.
