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I wouldn’t want to have had either of them pissed at me. Both good actors, and I’ve always admired James Arness.

Don't mess with Yellowstone Kelly..



The real Kelly was also a bad ass

2 of my all-time favorite TV stars. Both were quality men! Both served their country! And both were very good to fans. I still watch their reruns. It’s a draw between them.

When Hoss met his match.

James Arness was wounded in Italy during WWII, he never got over the wounds...that is where his limp came from.

Jim Arness was badly wounded at Anzio, WW II, as mentioned above. Flesh and bones don't do too well when they encounter 8MM bullets from a German machine gun. The last several years of Gunsmoke, Jim could not ride a horse other than to mount, start to ride away, and the camera would do a cutaway and Jim's stunt double did the rest of the riding. He was a very nice man who survived and prospered in a pool of sharks: Hollywood.

FWIW.

L.W.

James Arness is easy one of my favorite all time actors. His service to our country just makes him all that more iconic. They don’t make them like him anymore.

Throw in Leo Gordon. ......one of the few who looked real when in a fight scene with Walker. Leo was a true Bad Ass at one time. Great person later on.

Shot by a cop while he was attempting an armed robbery. Went to prison and was a convicted felon. Bad azz... or dumb azz? Now this actor was a real deal bad azz...


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I saw Clint Walker when I was about 12 or 13 years old at a place near Denver called Magic Mountain. He did a scene from Cheyenne with another guy. They had a shoot out. He was a big guy to a little kid but signed autographs and smiled after the skit was over.

They should've had Mr. Spock neck-pinch him.

Both seem like good guys, isn’t Walker still alive?
As far as actors I thought Arness was better more natural to his parts… until late in life. Seems to me those gunsmoke movies he did late in life were not his best and his acting seemed “forced” for lack of a better word. Trying too hard maybe?

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Clint died in like 2018 or so.

Jim did film work later in life, but was in a lot of pain to do so. It shows. It wasn't his acting that was the problem, it was the old war wounds weighing on him.

I like both. Arness gets the edge.

..... James Arness was Huge........ that is why they cast him in the "Thing".


I know that statement was not meant to take my mind where it did but I spewed coffee laughing..

I liked gals like that.

about the 3:23 mark she looked like she was gettin wet under all them petticoats and bloomers.

Their dubbed in fight sounds are out of sync. The biff sounds are coming before the fists.

Of course she got wet.

She started that fight. She was enjoying the resulting chaos.

Redhead too... True to form.

Props, and sound effects.

Haha! Good eye.