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Lonesome Dove / Bandelaro
Posted on 4/14/10 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 4/14/10 at 10:25 pm
I am watching Bandelaro with Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, and Raquel Welch along with a lot of other stars.
Haven't seen it in forty years.
It just struck me that a lot of the names in this movie are the same as in Lonesome Dove.
The sheriff is July Johnson. His deputy is named Roscoe.
The principals in the movie are talking about starting a ranch in Montana - bur concerned about the indians there.
seems sort of weird.
Haven't seen it in forty years.
It just struck me that a lot of the names in this movie are the same as in Lonesome Dove.
The sheriff is July Johnson. His deputy is named Roscoe.
The principals in the movie are talking about starting a ranch in Montana - bur concerned about the indians there.
seems sort of weird.
This post was edited on 4/14/10 at 10:26 pm
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Posted on 4/15/10 at 12:15 am to ChineseBandit58
roscoe seems to be popular with the LEO's Roscoe P. Coletrain for ex.
Posted on 4/15/10 at 5:29 am to ChineseBandit58
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I am watching Bandelaro with Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, and Raquel Welch along with a lot of other stars.
Haven't seen it in forty years.
It just struck me that a lot of the names in this movie are the same as in Lonesome Dove.
The sheriff is July Johnson. His deputy is named Roscoe.
This has been noticed before
I used to post on a classic movies board where some nutcase would post at least a couple of times a year on how Lonesome Dove was a ripoff of Bandolero. Actually they have little in common besides those character names. Perhaps McMurtry did that as some sort of homage.
Betcha didn't know McMurtry originally began Lonesome Dove as a screenplay in the '70s, with the ex-rangers to have been played by John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda. That film was never made, so McMurtry later reworked the material into a novel.
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The principals in the movie are talking about starting a ranch in Montana - bur concerned about the indians there.
I'm sure a number of films have been concerned with starting ranches in Montana. The Tall Men (1955) with Clark Gable depicts a cattle drive to Montana from Texas.
That very funny scene in Bandolero where Jimmy Stewart and Dean Martin discuss the Indian situation is a classic:
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Posted on 4/15/10 at 5:53 am to Kafka
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This has been noticed before
good - I am not a movie buff at all.
I was watching the late nite western channel because my normal lineup of History, Discovery, et al absolutely sucked.
Was not really paying that much attention until the names July Johnson came up along with Roscoe - somehow that made me think of Lonesome Dove, primarily because July is such an odd name for a person.
Then they were talking about starting up a ranch in Montana, and it just seemed to me that McMurtry had taken a lot of trivia from Bandelaro for LD.
Homage is certainly a descriptor because the rest of the movie was not that similar.
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