{"id":2948,"date":"2012-02-21T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T17:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2012-02-21T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T17:05:46","slug":"ive-heard-about-you-shane-2-one-eyed-jacks-with-marlon-brando-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/ive-heard-about-you-shane-2-one-eyed-jacks-with-marlon-brando-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’VE HEARD ABOUT YOU, SHANE #2’— “One-Eyed Jacks” with Marlon Brando (1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was raised on matinees, on Saturday afternoons.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lookin\u2019 up at Hoppy, Gene and Roy…oh boy!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I was raised believin\u2019, the best a man can do<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Is a be rootin\u2019-tootin\u2019, straight shootin\u2019 cowboy buckaroo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

—–Mason Williams & the Sons of the Pioneers<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s how it was for me. As a little kid, I grew up in a neighborhood where there weren\u2019t many other children. Billy Springstead was, at seven, four years older than me and didn\u2019t really want to be seen “with a little kid.” So I learned to entertain myself. On Saturdays I was glued to the television, and eagerly awaited one Cinema Cowboy hero after another. Later I\u2019d go out on the sidewalk and re-enact the episodes I\u2019d just watched. I even did my own Western background music, the lavish orchestrals that always accompanied a good horse opera. Oddly enough, all these years and decades later, my favorite musical genre is…you guessed it..the soundtracks to great Westerns. I\u2019ve run off more than one girlfriend, simply because I refused to remove my “Lonesome Dove” CD from the car stereo. I need my own soundtrack.<\/em><\/p>\n

I also love the great laconic dialogue that comes from a good Western. And so I\u2019ve gathered here some of my favorite lines from my favorite Westerns. It\u2019s not a complete list, by any means\u2014I don\u2019t even think I have a Top 10 list here…maybe a Top 7? I\u2019m not a movie critic and am not about to bore you with critic-ese about the fabric and texture of a film. I simply know what I like and these are the films that sustain me when I need a good jolt of Cinema West.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, here’s Volume 2\u00a0 of the great Western movie lines I love the most…JS<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>ONE-EYED JACKS (1961)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marlon Brando (Rio) Karl Malden (Dad Longworth)<\/strong><\/p>\n

My pal Judge Lewis Paisley introduced “One-Eyed Jacks” to me, just a few years ago. The Judge is a connoisseur of good cowboy dialogue and knew I could not resist Brando\u2019s over-the-top lines. And of course Brando could play it over the top\u2013this is the only film he ever directed and clearly, he decided to take it to the limit. You\u2019ve got to love a Western in which the leading actor can, with unheard of earnestness, call the Bad Guy, “A gob of spit.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“My home is any place I throw my saddle down, I guess.”<\/p>\n

Rio tries to seduce a young woman…\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

“I never did get much upbringin\u2019 as a kid and the manners I learned was in a saloon. Didn\u2019t have much chance to be around ladies like yourself…I\u2019m sorry Senora. Just hope you don\u2019t think too bad about me when I\u2019m gone….my mother give me this ring just before she died. It\u2019d mean a lot to me Senora if you\u2019d wear it for me. It\u2019d make me feel a whole lot better.”<\/p>\n

More eloquence from Rio..<\/em><\/p>\n

“Remember a little stick place just this side of San Felipe? Remember when you was drunk and you killed that lady\u2019s goat?<\/p>\n

Ben Johnson tries to interest Rio in a bank robbery..<\/em><\/p>\n

“How would you like to get rich, once and for all? You could stand a piece of change couldn\u2019t you? Fourteen days ride from here there\u2019s a town. And in that town is the fattest bank you ever saw. And it ain\u2019t nuthin\u2019 but a cheesebox…Word\u2019s goin\u2019 around you\u2019re lookin\u2019 for Dad Longworth…Hear there\u2019s dirt between yuh. Now if that\u2019s true, I can tell yuh where you can find him…You want me to keep talkin\u2019?<\/p>\n

“Now here\u2019s where the fun comes…it\u2019ll tickle you. The sheriff in that town is Dad Longworth. Now we gonna do some business?”<\/p>\n

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Rio\u2019s expressive vocabulary…<\/em><\/p>\n

“You get up, you big tub o\u2019 guts!”<\/p>\n

“We took to scufflin\u2019 and he come out from behind there with that scattergun. Yeah…he didn\u2019t give me no selection.”<\/p>\n

“Get up you scum suckin\u2019 pig! I want you standin\u2019 when I open you up! Get on up! You got right on the edge…you mention her once more and I\u2019m goin\u2019 to tear yer arms out!”\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dad Longworth to Rio…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Rio, you\u2019ve been tryin\u2019 to get yourself hung for ten years and this time I think you\u2019re gonna make it.”<\/p>\n

Rio to Dad…<\/em><\/p>\n

“You\u2019re a one-eyed jack around here, Dad, but I\u2019ve seen the other side of yer face….know where I spent the last five years? Rottin\u2019 my guts out down in that pen in Sonoma…what do you think of that?”<\/p>\n

“You gob o\u2019 spit!”<\/p>\n