Cowboys & indians

[tregyblue61]

Admittedly missing Indians (or Native Americans as we should say these days) I'd recommend that timeless classic, Shane, starring Alan Ladd as the itinerant gunslinger trying to escape his past and Jack Palance as the ultimate cold-hearted villain. Any 10 year old viewer couldn't help but identify with the homesteaders' son who hero worships Shane, hired to fight an evil cattle baron and his henchmen intent on driving the family off their land. Exciting and poignant in equal measure, Shane is not only a classic Western but, in my view, one of the best movies ever made.

Even better dubbed in Welsh...

;)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Dances With Wolves
Last Of The Mohicans

Be nice if we offered up films that'll finish before he starts having to pay tax mind........... ;-)

 

[smeeagain]

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned The magnificent seven , surely one of the best.
I used to get cowboy stuff for Christmas , hat ,holster etc , I was the fastest draw in our street.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned The magnificent seven , surely one of the best.
I used to get cowboy stuff for Christmas , hat ,holster etc , I was the fastest draw in our street.

Bet you weren't..I bet I was faster than you.

 

[PragueBlue]

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned The magnificent seven , surely one of the best.
I used to get cowboy stuff for Christmas , hat ,holster etc , I was the fastest draw in our street.

That's a western but no Indians involved. More cowboys and Mexicans than cowboys and Indians. Great film though.

 

[smeeagain]

Bet you weren't..I bet I was faster than you.

Have you still got your holster then?
I used to practice for hours ,and all that spinning the gun etc .

 

[Magicpole]

There is only one film you should show him.....
Soldier Blue.

The way the indigenous people were treated by the settlers was absolutely disgraceful.

Yes. My dad told me the truth, I was always cheering for the Indians. I loved Custers Last Stand. Happy days.

 

[Bluesince1979]

How old are you? Im 50 and i dont really recall it being a ‘kids thing’ in the late 70s/80s.

 

[cityontheup]

How old are you? Im 50 and i dont really recall it being a ‘kids thing’ in the late 70s/80s.

If your asking me mate, I’m 62

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Cowboy/western films with native(s) in a predominant role.

Navajo Joe (1966)
Hombre (1967)
Little Big Man (1970)
A Man Called Horse (1970)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
*Thunderheart (1992)
*Dead Man (1995)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (2007)
Hostiles (2017)

* Neo-westerns

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Looking forward to Blood Meridian

 

[Bluesince1979]

If your asking me mate, I’m 62

Yes sorry. So you are a kid of the 60s, 70s. My point was at 12 years younger it had finished as a thing to an extent for my grneration. In my opinion. Never mind a kid of the 00s

 

[stonerblue]

You won't find many cowwy films that will teach him the truth. Most of them were propaganda

 

[Bill Walker]

You won't find many cowwy films that will teach him the truth. Most of them were propaganda

Actually most good Western movies show the Indians in a positive light as honourable people but show white men as liars and murderers.

 

[stonerblue]

Actually most good Western movies show the Indians in a positive light as honourable people but show white men as liars and murderers.

Out of the hundreds of them i watched as a kid i can't remember any that showed the natives in a fair light.

 

[bennyboy]

Still a bit yong for most westerns 70's onwards.
Loads of early Western but most do not show the Indians in a fair light.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

The Searchers is the last movie he should watch.

I just typed that into YouTube
It gave me lots of different versions
I liked When You Walk in the Room, and Needles and Pins, but I thought Love Potion Number Nine was a bit shit.

Didn't see any one with a silly hat on, or feathers in their hair and lipstick across their cheek, though.

 

[its a Barm]

Blazing sadles

 

[KS55]

I remember this song from the 50s……
Born on a bus tram in Mersey Square
Paid tuppence ha’penny for four penny fare
Cop came in and kicked him up the pants
And now he lives in the middle of France.
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Yes sorry. So you are a kid of the 60s, 70s. My point was at 12 years younger it had finished as a thing to an extent for my grneration. In my opinion. Never mind a kid of the 00s

It wasn’t a thing when I was growing up either in the seventies. Cops and robbers, tommies and Germans maybe, but nobody was playing cowboys and indians in my neck of the woods. My parents did in the 40s and 50s because that’s what they showed at the cinema on a Saturday morning, but we had TV.