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My favorite line from The Duke in that film,
"My boy Pompey; kitchen window." Pompey was played by Woodey Strode, a star on the 1939 UCLA football team. He served in WWII in the Pacific. My dad always spoke of Woody Strode and Kenny Washington playing on that team. He would say they were much better athletes and men than Jackie Robinson. That movie had too many great lines. Another favorite is when Strother Martin, in a panic,called the Doctor out to the street where Liberty Valance lay dead. Doctor:"Whiskey!" (takes a swig) "Dead!"
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I agree. Never saw him in a role I didn't like. Real cowboy too.
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Yup... Favorite western actor of all time. He was the real deal. For sidekicks/comic relief Chill Wills and Waler Brennan are my picks.. Anyone see The Rounders with Glen Ford and Henry Fonda? Classic Chill Wills in that.
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I always liked Leo Gordon.
Always played a great bad guy.
A true bad ass at one time.
But a hell of a nice guy. I believe he did a heck of a bunch of screenwriting too!!!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Liberty Valance is in my top 5 movies John Wayne was in.
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Pat Brady, Roy Rogers Tv series sidekick sure had me confused as a kid with him driving Nelly Belle, helping Roy, Dale and Bullet chase down bad guys, while most of the rest of the show was old west themed...
Yeah, that really threw me for a long time. Everybody was riding horses and carrying sixguns and lever action rifles and having shootouts except for one guy driving a jeep. Even when I was 5 years old I knew they didn't have jeeps in the old West. I was probably about 37 years old before I figured it out...
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Does anyone remember how Andy Devine got his high pitched voice? He was on Ralph Edwards 'This is your life' and told the story. He was out of work and no prospects so he stuck his head in the oven but instead of dead he ended up with a funny high pitched voice that helped him get several jobs. Don't know if the story is true but Andy said it was.
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I heard it was a childhood accident. That a window Curtain Rod he his and sister(?) were playing with, got shoved thru his upper palate. Eventually heeled leaving him with that voice.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Kinda like I also heard Jack Elam lost his eye at a Boy Scout meeting from an errantly placed pencil. Dunno?
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I heard that story too. You may be right all I know is this is what they told on "This Is Your Life" and Andy agreed with the story.
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What did they say in Liberty Valance? "When the Legend becomes fact, print the legend!" LOL! Probably so!!!! 
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Did you ever note that John Ford had Swedish characters as well as Irish. The couple that ran the restaurant in Liberty and the parents in The Searchers. Vera Miles was a looker back in the day. Had a little fire in her too!
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Jack Elam told me that he lost the eye control in a auto accident.
I had the great fortune of being neighbor to a gentleman by the last name of Coffe from Coffeeville TX. became good friends and was included in poker nights when his friends from AZ came around.
Both Jack Elam and Ben Johnson got a little richer off me!
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Did you ever note that John Ford had Swedish characters as well as Irish. The couple that ran the restaurant in Liberty and the parents in The Searchers. Vera Miles was a looker back in the day. Had a little fire in her too! Sure was! ![[Linked Image]](http://pics.wikifeet.com/Vera-Miles-Feet-335403.jpg)
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Jack Elam told me that he lost the eye control in a auto accident.
I had the great fortune of being neighbor to a gentleman by the last name of Coffe from Coffeeville TX. became good friends and was included in poker nights when his friends from AZ came around.
Both Jack Elam and Ben Johnson got a little richer off me! Sure works for me!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Did you ever note that John Ford had Swedish characters as well as Irish. He also must have been a Southern sympathizer, because he sure liked having ex-Confederates as some of the main characters. That was especially so in my two favorites, The Searchers and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.
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I always liked Leo Gordon.
Always played a great bad guy.
A true bad ass at one time.
But a hell of a nice guy. I believe he did a heck of a bunch of screenwriting too!!! Yeah. When he got married he found happiness. My sister in law worked a lot with his wife. So when we went to plays or such he was usually there. Nicest guy. BIG dude. When they made a prison movie where he had been an inmate they kept 2 guards with him........but none of the other actors .......seems he left quite an impression.
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