That right I said it. While most of the world was celebrating freedom fighters by giving them all flash backs with their fireworks....never understood that tradition. I heard a roll go off in front of my house and wanted to grab my rifle, jump in the hole and aim in the direction. Took me a min to figure out that is was just a holiday, not a hell of a day...like many many many the soldiers have.....
Johny Wayne, I hope most of you burnt your movies and tshirts yesterday because there is a icon or a underrated underdog you should of been worshiping the whole time.
Robert Ryan
Take your favorite Wayne movies and put them up against these...then throw out your JW and buy you some RR flicks!
Day Of The The Outlaw (1959)
Best Western ever...and that's not a hotel recommendation. Where else can you root for the bad guy and not fell guilty. Even Burl "Snowman" Ives plays a baddy. Also "Ginger" Tina Louise plays a upstanding town lady that isnt flashy or Hollywood like. Two nice nice TV types playing against the stereotypes.
Great war film and one of the two best Korean war films ever made, next to Fuller's Steel Helmet. When all hope is lost and the soldiers are all burnt out you have groups of renegades geared for survival. Featuring Aldo Ray, the real one, not the one made up at the QT studios. Features a great cast and one of the best performances in a movie by Robert Keith. Doing so much with so little.
Robert Wise and Robert Ryan only need 70mins to tell this epic tale in real time about a fixed fight. Where everyone is in on it, except the boxer who is suppose to take a dive. Very refreshing is the role played by James Edwards (also fantastic in Fuller's Steel Helmet!) back in a day when black people played only servants, thugs and jazz musicians.
He plays a boxer not only just a boxer but one that is equal if not superior to the others around him. For those of you who are fans of African Americans in cinema should take note, James Edwards paved the way and made a better day for all black actors that came after him. D Washington, I am looking at you, time to get your tribute shoes on and pay some homage ol' Mr Edwards.
Speaking of race and the great direction of Robert Wise.
Check out, Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
Also starring the great Harry Belafonte. A boiler to the brim. Race relations
Controversial, something Wayne would of never done.
Not only was Ryan tougher and a better actor, (that is to say JW acted at all or acted like anyone other than himself) Robert Ryan could share the screen with others where as Wayne had so much power he made sure that he had all the great lines and scenes, notice how great Wayne's movies should of been instead of the mediocre tripe that they are.
Wayne was a great big cry baby pain in the ass
Robert Ryan would gave him something ton cry about, if he wasn't so busy making quality movies.
Stay cool in these hot days and do yourself a favor and get a little Rand R with the double R, Robert Ryan, the man who should be an American icon.
Whose your girl with the curl? Earl
whose your boy?
Earl Roy.
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