Westward Ho 1935 John Wayne 

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Celluloid heroes are inspiring as well. They're immortalized on the screen for generations to come. They're the heroes we're first introduced to as kids and we carry them with us the rest of our lives. At least those of us still young at heart do.😁

@@vleldaddio210 he did wonders for the American troops morale, & American spirit. The National Archives holds his re- application for service after he tried again to join. Even though he was exempted bc he had a family.HE WAS A HERO.

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They certainly don't make singing cowboy movies anymore, except as a joke, like The Three Amigos. In fact, how many Western themed shows do they even make anymore except Yellowstone?

Duke at his best and yes wonderful cast.

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Ben Johnson was a great rider and trained many in his time acting too. He was a rodeo winner many times over.

Yes, you’re correct as I mentioned Canutt above. But, it was John Ford who molded Wayne into the personified Cowboy he became later. Love John Wayne!

It amazes me how many people have no idea how influential Canutt was. In most documentaries about John Wayne his name isn't even mentioned.

Yakima Canutt was in over 30 John Wayne movies, along with dozens and dozens of others. As you said he was a real cowboy, one of the greatest stuntmen ever and a huge inspiration for how John Wayne developed his cowboy persona. A true Hollywood legend that doesn't get nearly the respect he deserves.

The Big Trail was John's 22nd movie appearance, but first starring role. All of his roles after that were starring roles. Westward Ho was his 63rd movie, so not only 5 years, but 41 movies can mature someone a lot!

Good memories. Back then, I had a girl friend that liked watching them also, then she would insist that I take her to a local livery stable to rent horses for a couple of hours. She always seemed to get the good riding horses and I seemed to get the horses that were lazy, kept trying to go back home, stopping...... and made me work and it took me a bit to realize that was an incredible education. I learned that horses do not act like John Wayne's majestic white horse.

I think John Wayne was already good in his first starring picture, THE BIG TRAIL (1930).

Jim was allus gunna die.

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That was indeed a satisfyingly authoritative movement and sound.

RomaBoy when I used to watch these movies and listen to the sound of the letter squeaking in their saddle and the jingle of their Spurs on their boots to a little kid watching today it's Politically Incorrect it's too moncho! Saturday morning no school happy breakfast then sit down in front of the TV at 10:30 and watch Sagebrush theater Hoot ,Gibson Hopalong Cassidy ,Lone Ranger, the Durango kid, Bob Steele ,Tex Ritter ,Roy Rogers ,Smiley Burnette ,Gabby Hayes ,Home on the Range then I move to the San Fernando Valley and lived a quarter of a mile away from where they filmed over half of those movies!

And did you notice when the horse's tail flopped to the other side how the horses but kind of made a fluttering sound almost like.... Oh I'm sorry I can't help myself

It is good. It's called Foley sound.

More than twenty years before they were invented. That awareness makes ya wonder how tough it really was for the genuine settlers to fight off injuns & outlaws with the true period weapons; percussion cap muzzle loaders. Tough days that most folks don't realize, just HOW tough!

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ENJOY THE MOVIE, NIT PICKER

Steve McConnico Just to let you know those Winchester's we're actually not Winchester's but Henry Lever Action repeaters which would be around the correct time When the Henry's were invented was just prior to the Civil War and Winchester manufacturing picked up and bought the design and then it became a Winchester lever action repeater

@@johnrettig1880 bravo!

He was my neighbor when I was a kid. He would dress up in full Dracula costume for Halloween and lurk in the shadows on his porch. No one dared Trick or Treat at his door!

donald Clifft ...he was.

and a great singer--not! I think that was Dick Foran that was actually singing--Wayne was just mouthing the words, badly at that

WAS!

No, John Wayne is/was NOT a great actor. John Wayne was great at playing John Wayne but his range was limiting.

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This movie very beautiful...

Western movie

John Wayne had a multitude of movies better than this--he said himself that "The Searchers" was probably his favorite movie and I have to agree-one of my favorites also

Enes, still watching westerns?

A career that spanned 6 decades, with him being a Superstar in 5 of them!

Oh your right ! I just seen the bit your talking about, he was singing very high ystday with his back to us kinda of in the movie, lol, oh he’s worth it! I don’t even know if that’s him singing ,, I just love him,,,,

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Please look again. The horse were not saved from anything. It appears the front two horses were intentionally tripped, and the back two horses stumbled over them, which stopped the wagon. Who ever planned this stunt wanted an impressive fall and must have had no sympathy for the animals that were used.

Yeah me too lol...Seriously though, I was just about to post a comment that they either should have let him sing that song himself or had him dubbed by a voice that was a more plausible match.

He was a smooth dancertoo

He was later greatly ashamed of his 3 "singing cowboy" movies" because he could neither sing, nor play guitar and they always dubbed in voices that were very different from his. He was often embarrassed by fans asking him to sing some of the songs from the movies.

He doesn't. Its a voice over. He said himself he couldn't sing.

Poor John actually sang while playing agent "Singin' Sandy"... I'm not sure of the title but I think it's "Randy Rides Alone." Anyway, if John, Shatner and Nimoy had formed a trio it would've finished American music forever!

Itcis, since the Vigilantes were hunting wanted fugitives, it would make sense that they would be getting paid the bounties on each of them. We saw them bring many dozens of fugitives to justice, but it implies they had brought others as well, so they would have had plenty of money to take care of their needs.

@@indy_go_blue6048 ​ @indy_go_blue6048 "The chief reason behind John Wayne's embarrassment of being known as a singing cowboy (in 3 films) was the fact that he could neither sing nor play the guitar. His voice had been dubbed in each instance by either Bill Bradbury or Glenn Strange from pre-recorded songs."

@@indy_go_blue6048 He may have been singing sandy in more than one movie because I just watched him in Riders of Destiny.

Made in the days when often people spent a nickel for a movie ticket to escape the absolute drudgery of day to day life in the 1930s.

I Love my westerns!

A lot of these me are real.cowboys acting.playing in these movies were just a side line for most I see actor Glenn Strange is one of the actors here he played in several John Wayne movies

@@oldjake912 one of my wife's grandfather was an extra in the old westerns. Wish I knew what ones.

Horseback riding, horsemanship and many stunts you can thank Yakima Canutt. Probably the greatest stuntman that ever lived and a mentor to John Wayne in the early days.

@@europeon2wheels89 Took time to look Canutt up and there is a biography with his life story which is impressive. He really has an impressive life and stayed busy with rodeo riding, stunt riding, and directing. He started using the running-w to throw stunt horses and some stunt riders were killed when they were tramped and crushed by the tumbling horses. So he created the L stirrup which helped riders escape injury when the horse was thrown with a trip wire.

@@JE-western-rider If you like understanding the early days of westerns just watch the credits at the end. Canutt is listed as an actor, stuntman or director in various movies. There is a long list of the stunts he created or made safer during his life. Walter Brennan is another that had quite a career before "The Real McCoys". He won 3 Academy Awards as Best Supporting Actor between 1936 and 1940 making him only 1 of 3 male actors to win 3 Academy Awards. Was one heck of a supporting actor. Then there's there Smiley Burnette. As Frog Milhouse in his primary role of Gene Autry's sidekick. I also saw him in a Flash Gordon style movie in an ill fitting body suit from the 30s. His career ran from 1934 until the 60s. Also played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes more than one simultaneously. He invented some instruments and wrote more than 400 songs recorded by many others from Willie Nelson to Bing Crosby. Or look around for the early Gene Autry movie where a young Leonard Sly (Roy Rogers real name) is a bad guy in a black hat and where Leonard changes turning into a good guy snitch at the end.

@@europeon2wheels89 Thanks. Will do some more reading and looking and watching.

@@JE-western-rider We're a bit alike as I normally look up people I read or hear about in movies, stories and books just to see who they are. Been doing it for about 50 years back before the internet when it took effort and several trips to the library. Today there's a world of information a few keystrokes away. If you get into WWII people the person I'm investigating today is Duško Popov. A Serbian double agent that fed misinformation to the Nazis helping the allies win WWII. He was one of Fleming's inspirations for the character James Bond. Among things he did was turn over advance information to the FBI about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor but Hoover didn't trust him so it was discounted. He also fed misinformation to the Nazis about the landings in Normandy causing them to send over 200,000 men to the wrong landing site. Yet, half of the Serbians I ask about him have never heard his name.

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dickie jones was the voice of PINNOCHIO 1940 in 1939 he was in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN ,later in THE RANGE RIDER t.v series.

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but his singing... should be censored; that aside he is great in this earlier role

That is not John Wayne singing. I don't know who it is, but John Wayne is lip-syncing.

exactly because he would have been better

@@rivrdottir "The chief reason behind John Wayne's embarrassment of being known as a singing cowboy (in 3 films) was the fact that he could neither sing nor play the guitar. His voice had been dubbed in each instance by either Bill Bradbury or Glenn Strange from pre-recorded songs."

he cant. sounded like a bullfrog. lol

I hope you were kidding--he couldn't sing a whit

In his 3 "singing cowboy" movies, John mouthed the words, but the voice was dubbed in from others. He also didn't know how to play guitar.

Long Comment: The canyon stunt was a thrill to watch and it must have been a thrill for the horseback riders to perform and it should have been filmed and shown from a couple of views. The Chestnut / sorrel ? in the bottom right corner is thrown and as the horse tries to get up, it can't. Look closely, the trip wire is still tight, and the horse can't extend its legs. And if you listen closely, you can hear the rider yelling at the frantic horse. The horse stunt with the wagon team gave me a totaly opposite feeling and made me gasp. This men that did this were cold-blooded, they set up and executed a stunt that could kill or cripple four trained horses. Looks like the front horses are tripped, then the second pair runs over the tripped horses. Just don't see this stunt ending well. Also, I'd hate to have been one of the crew for this stunt. It would have been heartbreaking to be on set for this stunt. I would really not want to untangle those heavy harnesses,which can weigh upwards of 125 pounds ] and deal with the hurt horses. Hurt horses don't handle pain very well. As a young teen, I learned to ride livery horses by waching westerns. Later on, during the summers, I worked at a couple of livery stables. I had a chance to watch other riders that were very hard on the horses or cruel to their mounts. I was watching my younger self ride the horses, and I realized that the livery horses had no way to protect them selves from cruel riders. Also, I had the opportunity to work with a couple of teams of Wagon horses. They are seriously incredible.

My long lane has a big hill and several times a year for decades I regouge several angled ruts to drain off rainwater and ice melt preventing erosion. Doing this I take my 'hoe' for a walk as I retrieve the mail. My honey remarks, "I see your with that hoe again'. I love both her and her humour dearly. Stay safe.

A pity they did not show a bit more originality in picking the name. At least they owed that to Charles Kingsley.

@@alecblunden8615 Funny that. Also Kingsley's novel is Elizabethan in setting and it's about seafaring adventurers, a lot different than this movie. No six-shooters for instance.😂

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And we see the riders galloping their horses, the trip wires going tight. Imagine being one of the riders, sailing over its head, hearing it scream, and a bone snap. Before ya get up, ya already know thats one less horse ya have to take back to the barn after filming.

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Opera level singer at minimum.

mrmrmosse ...um, John Wayne didn't really sing. that was an over dub... Lol.

Dennis Coon I always worried about them being hurt.

@@dorothycoker8830 Many of them were hurt - broken legs, backs, necks or any combination of broken bones. We must understand that those horses were not pets but tools. The riders and stunt crews had a very different outlook on things.

Canutt, Yakima Canutt

@@anangryvet6403 yeah, I tried to say he was a native Indian. He used my grandfather because my grandfather was native. Yakima canutt means he's from the state of Washington and from Canada. That's what Yakima canutt means.

That has to be one of the most cold hearted horse stunts on film. The stunt is hard to see due to the size. It looks like the stunt men tripped the front two horses and let the back horses run over them.

I've seen that wagon go over in other westerns too.

Film studios often used stock footage from previous movies to save cost and filming time. I've seen John ride across the same little bridge to the same little house in at least 3 of his movies. And a scene where he jumps his horse off a cliff into water has been used in at least 3 of his movies, as well.

John sullivan and what was the name of that movie where Wayne was Sandy the singing Cowboy it was so clearly not his voice

@For Truth Your point??????????

"The chief reason behind John Wayne's embarrassment of being known as a singing cowboy (in 3 films) was the fact that he could neither sing nor play the guitar. His voice had been dubbed in each instance by either Bill Bradbury or Glenn Strange from pre-recorded songs."

No, they had plenty of stunt men. Canutt probably did most of them for Wayne.

The Alabama Hills on the east side of the Sierra Nevada. You really should head out there. It is a wonderful area as is the whole range.

Whole bunch of black people at the beginning of the last century might just disagree with you there... just sayin'.

there's a difference between a vigilante and a lynch mob....

@bisquitnspanky this proves your ignorance of history.....

@bisquitnspanky the real question is - who sold them?

@@LukeA1223 You do know the _vigilantes_ that went after former slaves, did so because they had turned to crime, violence, and mayhem, right?

Oh yeah and back then the law didn't ride around in SUVsand maybe after something happened it would take a month for somebody to show up to investigate if anything was left to investigate, fortunately for me I feel like I was 6 or 7 years old again when I watched the movies so I don't really try to understand all the ramifications what did I know at that age of the world or maybe a ride to a family member's house or go to a movie today at 3 or 4 years old kids are given a motorcycle

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Scott Williamson ...some would have had to be killed. note at least 1 broken leg at the "rope across the road" trick. then when the wagon flipped. makes me mad that they had to be forced to quit those practices.

Dick Jones also had his own t.v. series called Buffalo Bill Jr. and that guy could ride like a trick rider, almost

Correct on handguns vs rifles but the cowboys' real love affair was with their horses, saddles and ropes. I'm pretty sure they typically had a lot more respect for a good cowhand than for a gun hand.

Fromthebatcave: Handguns would be much easier to shoot while riding a horse, although still incredibly inaccurate because of the bouncing of the horse. Handguns were also much cheaper to buy than rifles, so many cowboys may not have owned a rifle.

let not their sacrifice be in vain

ThisI movie should still be avaiable. While, the crew and riders were hard on the horses, the horse stunts, from what I understand, were not in violation of laws. If I was on the second unit team, I wouldn't have used a 4 horse team in front of the wagon. That was cold blooded cruelty to wipe out at least 2 of 4 horses.

@@westernrider100 I wasn't suggesting censorship. I was making a comment on what already is in the current mind-set of many people.

@@JohnSmith-ug5ci Sorry. I took your comment differently.

Good catch.

I affirm that.

Extremely thinner and younger, but you found him. Good going. Did you know he was also Cavindish in the original TV version of The Lone Ranger with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels?

Glenn Strange also played Frankenstein in the Abbott & Costello Movie

Silverheels was friends with my grandfather .

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The canyon stunt was should have been photographed from a couple of different angles. The Chestnut / sorrel ? in the bottom right corner is thrown and as the horse tries to get up, it can't. Look closely, the trip wire is still tight, and the horse can't extend its legs. And if you listen closely, you can hear someone yelling at the horse. Thats one horse that might not trust its next rider. I've worked with wagon teams and those horses are fantastic. The men that planned and did this stunt were cold-blooded. The front horses were tripped, then the second pair ran them over. This stunt could have crippled or killed four valuable horses. Besides, I'd hate to have been one of the crew for this stunt. It would have been hard untangling those heavy harnesses and dealing with the hurt horses. Also hurt horses, as strong as they are, they do not handle pain very well and that makes them hard to work with.

It was the period the 2nd Amendment was designed for. Back then on the frontier it was needed and made sense. Back east where there was civilization most people weren't carrying - but that was when the USA was still interested in being part of civilization.

so are all the brown ones and all the men and all the women......