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Got held up over last weekend and spent last Sunday in a hotel room in San Angelo, TX. One of the movie channels ran Lee Marvin films, and before you know it, I was glued to a TV.

Of particular interest was Monte Walsh, a western, that I'd never seen before. Laughed so hard during a couple of scenes my sides hurt.

Seems to me, modern movies excell in special effects, but pale in comaprison - when acting is the criteria.

I agree entirely about the special effects. It seems that movies nowadays are more about car crashes, gunfights, and explosions, than they are about acting.

Lee Marvin is a favorite of mine. Always got a kick out of the interview he gave where he named Captain Kangaroo the best or toughest Marine he knew.

What's not to love........Dirty Dozen...Big Red One. He died too quick in Comancheros..

Scene from one of my favorite Lee Marvin films, Monte Walsh

Liberty Valance

Yeah, that ol' Bob Keeshan rumor still has legs.

Many of Marvin's roles left a lasting impression. I'll watch The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, at every opportunity. Wish I'd get the chance to see it in color though.

Watch4bear,

Cat Ballou played just prior to Walsh. That scene with the drunk Marvin, and the dozing horse, is just classic!

He was also very good in Donovan's Reef with John Wayne.

That would be hard to do, it was shot in B&W

Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday for another good one

Been a longgggggg time since I've seen that one.




Digging through a Lee Marvin website at the moment, had no idea he'd made that many films (gotta be fifty of 'em). There's a number of 'em I've never seen.

Death Hunt with Charles Bronson was pretty decent, too.

Marvin was great in The Killers and The Professionals. Both are terrific films that you don't hear too much about.

That'd make it real tough!

That, and the Dirty Dozen are films I remember Marvin, and Bronson working together in.

yup, The Professionals with Marvin & Burt Lancaster, great movie

A couple more lesser known Lee Marvin movies that I like are Emperor of the North and Hell in the Pacific.

Paint Your Wagon....

Iron legs with me � because I heard him say it.

And yeah, I've read all the nay-saying Monday-morning quarterbacking that denies it, too. All that crap came long after he said it.


"I'm gonna prove to ya that y'ain't here."
"Oh, yeah? have at it!"
"Y'ain't in China, are ya?"
"No."
"Y'ain't in Russia, are ya?"
"No."
"Well, if y'ain't in China or Russia, ya must be some'eres else. An' ya can't be here 'n' some'eres else at the same time."


So much for the denunciatory powers of Monday-morning bar-stool "logic."