How many guys did it take to haul Matt Dillon up there? He was pretty burly….
Matt was born before Chuck Norris and had all the bases covered in regards to toughness. He was shot over 56 times in 20 years, even Chuck can't beat that record...
It goes beyond that.
He was part of Operation Shingle in WW2. Otherwise commonly known as Anzio. He was wounded badly from a bloody and costly battle. He never fully recovered throughout his life. It bothered him greatly to ride a horse.
Mark Clark stayed too long on the beach and the Allies paid for it.
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Always found it amusing, Festus (played by Ken Curtis) studied medicine in real life before going into acting. The scene where he explained how to tell if a pregnancy was going to be a boy or girl was funny.
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Always found it amusing, Festus (played by Ken Curtis) studied medicine in real life before going into acting. The scene where he explained how to tell if a pregnancy was going to be a boy or girl was funny.
Funnier than that, it was “leanwolf” here on the fire that wrote that episode…
Always found it amusing, Festus (played by Ken Curtis) studied medicine in real life before going into acting. The scene where he explained how to tell if a pregnancy was going to be a boy or girl was funny.
Funnier than that, it was “leanwolf” here on the fire that wrote that episode…
Shrapnel, I didn't write that episode. In fact, I don't recall ever watching it. I'll have to check around and see if I can find out who was the writer of that episode. If i find out, I'll post his name.
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It is funny how they showed the good guy getting hit in the shoulder. A little blood flowed out, it was "just a flesh wound" and he would be OK.
In fact, the lungs run way up high into the shoulder, within 2 to 3 inches of the top of the shoulder. A bullet in the lungs means a collapsed lung, which would cause death.
The collarbone runs across the shoulder, a .45 slug in the collarbone would require sophisticated surgery, otherwise the guy would be crippled for life.
The subclavian artery runs through the shoulder, a bullet through the subclavian, in the absence of immediate surgery means death.
It's sad that towards the end - the 1970 shows - they had to write scripts that hardly featured any of the three primary actors at all. A show would open with Matt telling Kitty he had to catch a train, and we'd not see either of them again until the last three minutes. Matt and Kitty sure showed their age by then. (You could tell Kitty was a chain smoker, she looked so yellow and sick by then.)
Yup. The good guys always got hit in the shoulder or leg. Plus, bullets never penetrated good guys more than an inch or so, rifle or pistol, no matter the range.
Bad guys died instantly with bloodless hits to the chest.
Yeah, that’s how it was for the Cowboys and the heroes of my youth. I had no trouble buying into the idea. Then I was suddenly transported to a place called (forgive my phonetics) Nokatomi Plaza and any time somebody got shot, (good guy or bad) their innards got splattered on the walls behind them!😀 (IT AINT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE!)😀 I got the idea of what was going on when John Wayne and Maureen O’Hare turned off the light and closed the door. A soft corp porno scene was not necessary! I’m not a prude. Any one who knows me can tell you that I know some pretty good jokes!😀 But movies and TV have changed a heckuva lot since I was a kid, and I don’t think all the changes were for the better! To be honest though “Gunsmoke” was Dad’s tv show. I liked Bonanza and a couple others way more, and I usually read while Matt Dillon was on. Reon
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Yup. The good guys always got hit in the shoulder or leg. Plus, bullets never penetrated good guys more than an inch or so, rifle or pistol, no matter the range.
Bad guys died instantly with bloodless hits to the chest.
Yeah, that’s how it was for the Cowboys and the heroes of my youth. I had no trouble buying into the idea. Then I was suddenly transported to a place called (forgive my phonetics) Nokatomi Plaza and any time somebody got shot, (good guy or bad) their innards got splattered on the walls behind them!😀 (IT AINT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE!)😀 I got the idea of what was going on when John Wayne and Maureen O’Hare turned off the light and closed the door. A soft corp porno scene was not necessary! I’m not a prude. Any one who knows me can tell you that I know some pretty good jokes!😀 But movies and TV have changed a heckuva lot since I was a kid, and I don’t think all the changes were for the better! To be honest though “Gunsmoke” was Dad’s tv show. I liked Bonanza and a couple others way more, and I usually read while Matt Dillon was on. Reon
My Father was a GUNSMOKE fan too. I remember sitting around on whatever night it was on watching it on an old black and white Admiral tv in a big wood cabinet. For whatever reason, nobody in my family cared for The Big Valley or Bonanza, only Gunsmoke. We lived pretty far back in the country and didn't get cable until the early 1970s. Since the only 2 network station that we got particularly well were WCAX out of Burlington, VT, and a station that I forget the call letters for out of Plattsburg, NY, so my options were limited 60 odd years ago.
How many guys did it take to haul Matt Dillon up there? He was pretty burly….
Matt was born before Chuck Norris and had all the bases covered in regards to toughness. He was shot over 56 times in 20 years, even Chuck can't beat that record...
Yes, and half the time, it was in the left shoulder. He'd have been "One-Armed Matt" anywhere in the real world. If he'd lived.
I recall one episode in which he got shot pretty badly when a gang of bad guys took over the town. Everyone thought he was dead, even Kitty. Doc patched him up and he was back in no time taking care of bidness…
He may actually have been shot more as The Thing though. That critter was one tough vegetable……
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