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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

IMAGINATION and FANTASIES

trees, between the boulders, until they dodged the Sheriff. Six
guns blaring, never exhausting the ammo. Each shot finding

it’s mark, with bad guys dropping like flies. Saloon brawls,
with dance hall beauties, and scheming bankers.

It was unending, movie after movie mostly the same thing.
sappy singing cowboys, like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The
Son’s of the Pioneers, or Tex Ritter with his country twang.
Serious good guys, with white hats that always ran their
enemies down, like Johnny Mack Brown, or Hopalong
Cassidy. Talking and reasoning cowboys like Tim Holt or
John Wayne. Each had bad guys, bank robbers or land thieves
plotting against the town or homestead citizens, right on
camera.

The coolest part of earlier John Wayne movies were scenes
where riding across the plaines his horse would be shot out
underneath him, or he’d jump off a cliff into a river. They
always survived. He worked with a group of about 8 actors,
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like 2 City in Chicago, or the Saturday Night Live crew on
TV. George ‘Gabby’ Hayes played with the group. They
made lots of movies, playing different characters.
Mostly, the movies were black and white. Many were Class D,
bad acting with the same old ranch house, and often the same
lines repeated endlessly. Class D movies were turned out by
the hundreds, like today’s ‘Chick Flicks’ by Hall Mark the
greeting card company. Ken Mayard, and Bob Steele, a little
guy probably 4’10” or tops at 5 feet would always get into a

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