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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

IMAGINATION and FANTASIES

fight and throw hay makers. If that didn’t teach you how not
to fight the first time you saw it, then it would be repeated
every week in a similar movie.

A few cowboys were filmed in color. They had deeper more
complex plots, often, life long ambitions with stars like Jimmy
Stewart. He always sauntered around the West, from one
fabulous western scene to another, with his famous cowboy
drawl, and 6’4” mosey. Another and far more prolific was
Randolph Scott. He could get in fights and get banged up
pretty bad; something that never happened to the Class D
stars. For movies that was more realistic.
The full length movies always left me satisfied. They gave me
the whole story; a beginning, middle, always a shoot out and
never a love story, and an end. They were the opposite from
the Serials.

Every week there would be a new episode to the thrilling
Serial. All serials had the same format. They started by saving
the hero who was doomed at the end of the previous episode ,
but….. TO BE CONTINUED; and recycled next week with a
spectacular scene saving him.
Despite being left on the edge of your seat, and anxious they
had some of my favorite cowboy’s stars. The Durango Kid
was often disguised as the easy going sheriff, but when pushed,
Charles Starrett, would ride into the hills and change into
‘Take no hostages’ Durango Kid, dressed in all black, hat to
boot,

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