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Post by neferetus on Sept 7, 2010 22:52:01 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 7, 2010 22:51:31 GMT -5
These screen caps are from an outtake scene from THE ALAMO that was used to cover the Mexican War segment in HOW THE WEST WAS WON.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 7, 2010 18:26:04 GMT -5
Guests, please join; members, please post.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 7, 2010 18:19:43 GMT -5
A good read, Ted. Thanks. I wonder who painted that huge Alamo canvass Phil Collins is standing in front of?
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Post by neferetus on Sept 7, 2010 18:18:07 GMT -5
David Alan Grier as Alamo survivor "Rip" in KING OF TEXAS (2002).
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Post by neferetus on Sept 7, 2010 18:17:13 GMT -5
In the 2002 TNT Original movie KING OF TEXAS in which Patrick Stewart plays a Texas version of King Lear, he has a black servant named Rip. Throughout the movie, Rip (David Alan Grier) repeatedly talks about his having survived the battle of the Alamo. Whether he is supposed to represent Travis' slave Joe, or another black defender, the story does not make clear. 1840's Texas cattle king John Lear (Patrick Stewart) and Alamo survivor Rip (David Alan Grier) in KING OF TEXAS (2002).
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Post by neferetus on Sept 6, 2010 12:30:46 GMT -5
Still one of John Wayne's funnier films. Ya Hey! MacLin! Big party, but no whiskey. We go home.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 6, 2010 12:26:40 GMT -5
Looks like a decent flick. My friend made me borrow REVOLUTION with Al Pacino but I've yet to watch it. Have you ever seen it? Hard to explain this one; something of a bizarre film. You might call it a sort of a dark version of Mel Gibson's THE PATRIOT, with elements of Jimmy Stewart's SHENNANDOAH mixed in. Al Pacino plays the lead character, a man who does not want to get involved in the war until he loses some family members and one of his sons runs off to fight with the Continental army. While the requisite love story interwoven into the plot comes off like a Harlequin Romance novel, the battle scenes are gritty and Donald Sutherland plays a rather sinister British pikesman. One thing that I remember particularly liking about this film when it first came out is how all the Colonials actually speak in British accents---and of course, why would they not?
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 21:19:50 GMT -5
Davy and Polly Crockett from THE HISTORY CHANNEL'S Crockett biography.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 21:18:22 GMT -5
Davy Crockett and Polly Finlay.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:34:17 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:33:34 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:33:04 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:32:36 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:31:56 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:31:24 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:30:56 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:30:12 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:29:26 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Sept 5, 2010 14:28:50 GMT -5
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