re: Tonight on TCM: Night of the Hunter, A Face in the Crowd, Westworld, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Rustler's Rhapsody is a favorite from my childhood and nobody ever knows what I'm talking about when I bring it up, awesome movie.

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I quite enjoyed it. Definitely on the list of "How come I'd never heard of it before?" when my father-in-law insisted we watch it with him. I wonder if part of the problem is that, like "Young Frankenstein", it becomes exponentially funnier if you're familiar with the source material it's parodying? Both are funny in their own right, but both are chock-full of jokes that reference some very specific moments in older films. Westerns and Western tropes aren't as familiar to people nowadays as they would have been in the '80s.