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Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 10th, 2011, 11:05 pm
by pvitari
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 11th, 2011, 5:24 pm
by pvitari
And more...
The beginning of a discussion between the Garretts in which Alison complains about the Colonel's slobby appearance, his inability to get assignments to "fashionable" posts, and his overall uselessness.
This is the point where, to get his goat, she informs him that Captain Thompson made love to her. (I assume she was using the phrase "make love" in the old-fashioned sense, i.e., courting or pursuing her, rather than the actual act... though that fadeout at the end of their kiss a couple of scenes back made me wonder what exactly went on after the fadeout! Though how they could get away with it with the troopers a few feet away makes it unlikely.)
The Colonel does not receive this news happily.
The Colonel, freshly shaved and groomed, calls a meeting to discuss how to bring in the Apache leader Victorio and his band, which have been on the rampage since Major Wharton's little massacre. (You all remember Victori0 -- he was played by Michael Pate in Hondo!) ;)
Dr. Freud, what is your diagnosis about Major Wharton's constant fiddling with arrow? "He iss sufferink from several sexual inadequacies and insecurities, and no doubt he compensates for this by belief-ink that he can proof hiss manhood by killink as many Indians as possible."
The Colonel comes up with an ingenious plan -- send out Captain Thompson to tell Victorio he and his group have to surrender, without any conditions. How very King David of him!
Thompson knows the dangers but he'll do it. At this point he doesn't realize the motivation behind the orders though.
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Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 12th, 2011, 7:27 pm
by pvitari
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 12th, 2011, 7:37 pm
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Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 13th, 2011, 9:25 am
by pvitari
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 14th, 2011, 8:10 am
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Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 14th, 2011, 8:21 am
by pvitari
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 14th, 2011, 1:55 pm
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Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 15th, 2011, 8:13 am
by pvitari
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 15th, 2011, 8:17 am
by pvitari
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 15th, 2011, 10:59 am
by JackFavell
Beautiful caps- makes it look better than it is. The inside-the-fort part where the men line up on the high railings or battlements always makes me think of Beau Geste. I wish the director had learned something of how to film battle scenes from that movie.
Not to say that Fort Bowie isn't worth watching, it is, but it could have been so much better with a little style or knowledge of how to create better fight sequences.
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 15th, 2011, 11:26 am
by pvitari
but it could have been so much better with a little style or knowledge of how to create better fight sequences.
Or how to meld the personal stories with the military stuff. (Something John Ford was a master at.)
Trivia time while I work on more screencaps:
Ben and Jan Harrison (who played Alison Garrett in Fort Bowie) worked again together four years later, when she played saloon girl Joyce in the Bonanza episode "The Gamble." Ben plays a crooked deputy who participates in a bank robbery because he's in love with Joyce and she's tired of hearing him talk about how he's going to get some money so they can go away together. In fact, it's pretty obvious from their one scene together that her ONLY interest in him is money. :)
"The Gamble" is an excellent episode directed with verve and crispness by the great William Witney, and with beautiful lighting (especially in the night scenes) by cinematographer Haskell B. Boggs.
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 15th, 2011, 11:33 am
by JackFavell
Hey! I didn't realize that was Jan!
Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 16th, 2011, 1:43 pm
by pvitari
Saturday batch... getting near the end! There are some Ben pics but a lot of it is still the climatic battle, plus a revelation :) for Alison.
A wounded soldier is brought into the mess hall and...
Alison is repulsed by... ick... blood. (She should have seen the pencil eraser-size chunk of flesh the nice lady doc took out of my arm yesterday when she removed a mole... gross!) :)
Sergeant Johnny Western!
The Indians overturn a wagon so it can provide cover
Fingerpointing!
Chanzana and Thompson have met up with Lt. Maywood and Sgt. Kukas
The colonel is so cool, calm and collected under fire...
...that even Alison is impressed. In fact, she suddenly falls in love all over again with her husband. Convenient, that!
Another moment for Dr. Freud! He gives her his empty pistol (revolver? I don't know from guns) and she gives him the rifle she just loaded for him.
"Oh, Jim, you're the only man I've ever loved. You must believe me." Who WROTE this dialogue? ***Paula looks up screenwriter...Maurice Tombragel.*** Some actresses could pull it off -- imagine if Barbara Stanwyck had played Alison; she'd put a ferocity and yearning into it that would make it REAL -- but I'm afraid that Jan Harrison delivers her lines in a simpering, breathy little voice that has me rolling (unintentionally) in the aisles.
These two young men are so cute, I was rooting for them!
Maywood's soldiers roll a wagon up to the fort's walls.
Thompson and Sgt. Kukas gallop up to the wagon... to be continued.
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Re: Fort Bowie
Posted: July 17th, 2011, 3:53 pm
by pvitari