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What's your favorite Western movie location?
« on: September 22, 2009, 10:46:39 AM »
Landscape obviously plays a big part in Westerns.
Which one is your favorite?
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2009, 11:05:30 AM »
Landscape obviously plays a big part in Westerns.
Which one is your favorite?

Hard to pick just one, ya know.

The Owens Valley region, along the eastern slopes of the Sierrra, is probably the most-often used.  Lofty, dramatic, snow-covered mountains to the west, desert and "dry" mountains to the east, etc.

I also like Monument Valley, large areas of New Mexico, the Big Bend area of Texas, etc.

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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2009, 02:17:33 PM »
What was I thinking? Just one? Must have been the coffee. :D

I have a hard time picking myself. I'm very fond of seeing the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, CA. The West Texas landscape is very rare sight on the big screen and just recently I became interested in the Four Corners region. New Mexico is just stunning when the light hits the landscape at a certain time of day.
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2009, 07:37:52 PM »
Hands down, no competition.

It's one of my favorite westerns ... and you can't find a DVD/VHS of it for love or money...

The movie? The Wonderful Country with Robert Mitchum.

I have spent time north of the border in that area ... and between the heat, dust, scorpions, tarantulas and rattlesnakes (including the two legged kind), I can honestly say I never want to visit the area again.

But the director and filmmakers obviously loved the country ... and watching the movie almost makes me change my mind ... *S*
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2009, 03:29:16 PM »
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2009, 05:03:03 PM »
Tesas Lawdog,

I would LOVE to own a copy of this movie, so I clicked the website offered.

Sure enough, the website was ziptv, but it was for some movie named Hand in Hand with John Gregson, Kathryn Byron et al ...

Is there something to direct a person away from this sight and back to The Wonderful Country ?

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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2009, 02:37:38 PM »
Try MovieLead website, they have a couple of toll free numbers.
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2009, 02:40:42 PM »
My favorite Movie locale, The Original "Old Tucson" movie set before the big fire.
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2009, 06:22:17 PM »
Monument Valley. It is so mystical that it extends from West Texas (the Searchers) clear up into the northern plains (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon). John Ford took one look at the place and understood that this was the mythical West of every American's imagination. The Grand Tetons (Shane) made a wonderful background for the Mountain West.

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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2010, 10:11:24 PM »
Vasques Rocks in Acton, California are used over & over again due to the craggy nature for the desert scenes since the silent ones of Bill Hart, Gene Autry and soooo many others.  :)
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2010, 11:14:03 PM »
Vasques Rocks in Acton, California are used over & over again due to the craggy nature for the desert scenes since the silent ones of Bill Hart, Gene Autry and soooo many others.  :)

It was used several times in the original Star Trek television series. It was the "foundation" for some of the computer-generated terrain in the current Star Trek movie.  AND it was also used in a couple of Schwartzenegger movies.

I've been to a couple of powwows there as well.  Its as interesting (an understatement) in person as it is onscreen.

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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2010, 11:43:32 PM »
Again, watch 'The Wonderful Country' ... I think technicolor must have been brand new and they let the color go wild in this film!
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2010, 06:11:22 PM »
Hard to not like the scenery in Lonsome Dove. You get the dusty desert scenes and then you get the beautiful Montana look. Rivers, prairies, deserts, dried up creek beds and much more. Its very stunning visually. 
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2010, 01:42:02 PM »
Loving the Sergio Leone westerns, I would have to say the old Italian and Spanish town sets are my favorite. Of those, I would have to pick "Flag Staff" from Once Upon a Time in the West, as one of my top favorite sets.

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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2010, 01:04:13 AM »
Loving the Sergio Leone westerns, I would have to say the old Italian and Spanish town sets are my favorite. Of those, I would have to pick "Flag Staff" from Once Upon a Time in the West, as one of my top favorite sets.



Yeah the Flagstone set in Almeria. Part of it, or rather parts of it are still standing even today.
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2010, 04:16:19 PM »
Well, I kind of hate to say it, but I like the Canadian scenery used in "Open Range" and "Broken Trail".  I'm much more of a northern mountains/woods kind of person than I am a southern desert kind of person...
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Re: What's your favorite Western movie location?
« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2010, 02:37:38 AM »
Vasques Rocks in Acton, California are used over & over again due to the craggy nature for the desert scenes since the silent ones of Bill Hart, Gene Autry and soooo many others.  :)

I just watched "Along Came Jones" with Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, Dan duryea, and Ralph Demarest tonight. The movie was filmed partially at Vasquez rocks.

I starrted listening to the Theme music, which sounded really familiar. It was "False Hearted Lover," an old 1950 popular song. It took me a while to figure it out, since it has only been fifty-five years, since I last heard it.

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