"Gunsmoke" (1955) - Review & Commentary

[Atma]

What a polite outlaw.
Dude straight up toying with the inkeeper, tho, LOL.

Yankton: "About that breakfast you sent up to my room..."
Innkeeper: "Y-yes?"
(Menacing pause) "It was fine."
LMFAOOO

Innkeeper with the classic motion of wiping sweat off his mustache with a hanky and shaky hand.
Classic af.

[Atma]

Fuck, man. The interior of the general store is insanely cool. The level of organization, and the amount of texture and gradation (given that it's in black and white) is amazing optically.

[Atma]

21:10 Good Lord, the way Kitty stares at Cole as he's laying on the table with a bullet in him... that shit was fogging up the camera lens.

Cole: "Kitty, there's something I want to say to you..."
Kitty: "Save your strength, Cole, because I'm fucking your brains out tonight."
Cole: "thanks for coming, Kitty. I won't bother you no more."
Kitty: "oh, no, Cole, you... (Cole dies) ... Cole? Cole?"
The look on Kitty's face shook me a little.

The way she looks over at Matt while addressing the doctor, trying to hide her big eyes with bigger lids.... like shuttering two universes filled with sadness but twinkling with resent... "I think he's dead, Doc..." ... still staring at Matt. God DAMN.

[Mister Obvious]

S3 E5 - "Potato Road"

0:46 God he's so sexy. Sexiest Boot Hill opening footage of all.

3:55 oh look, it's that fineass Tom Pittman again... https://www.sectual.com/thread-18541-pos...#pid153774

He's playing a real wild one in this episode. That's hot, I like it. I like his fun-size stature.

8:15 dude this lady needs to put a bra on. I think Marshal Dillon is scared.

9:45 this is some kinda Deliverance shit with a wild west spin.

10:50 well I think he needs to learn how... it's on my list of things I wanna see on this show someday!

12:33 you know, he's absolutely right. Arguing with crazy peeps or just people who are too set in their ways to ever change really is a pointless waste of energy.

15:58 "We'll have to shoot these two later in the evening!" lmfaolol.

22:19 FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST!!! *dancing banana*

24:26 FREEEDDOOOOMMMMMM.

[Mister Obvious]

S3 E6 - "Jesse"

0:25 "If you walk around up here long enough, you start thinking there must be more dead men than there are living. It's the same thing a man asked me about once. 'Why aren't there more marshals than there are bad men? That way there wouldn't be so much law breaking.' It's a fool idea of course, but it got me to wondering why there are any marshals at all, it being the kind of job it is. I never could find an answer to that one. Matt Dillon, US Marshal."

3:15 wow, well that feller is just plain mean.

8:45 I'm getting dad vibes from this scene... super sexy.

10:55 again we see Marshal Dillon in a mirror. I think it's interesting. Mirrors couldn't have been all that common in the old west... are these mirror placements just for purposes of filming, for the screen, for scene or atmosphere enhancement? I think it's for a lot of reasons.

12:30 I dunno how anybody else feels about it, but fish is the way to my heart.

16:00 I lol'd.

[Mister Obvious]

S3 E7 - "Mavis McCloud"

1:20 oh damn, that's a real pretty and well dressed lady right there. Way better lookin' than that other stagecoach chick from the "Sweet and Sour" episode.

3:47 "GLANCED at it!?!?!?!" lmfao the way he said that was so perfect, the fussy relationship between Doc and Chester is iconic.

4:42 he mentions 1800s stage actress Lillie Langtry... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillie_Langtry

During the aesthetic movement in England she had been painted by aesthete artists, and in 1882 she became the poster-girl for Pears Soap, becoming the first celebrity to endorse a commercial product.

6:40 I mean yeah she's pretty but she ain't really too bright... I'm still team Kitty. Besides, I think Matt prefers them wild ladies of the night. Not just any woman can handle a whole lotta man like that.

8:00 after laying eyes on Marshal Dillon, why would she need to keep looking around?

9:37 that was pretty funny, he's like "THIS ONE is NOT working in the saloon!"

10:50 she definitely did land a good husband with that guy though.

11:37 BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA oh my God.

11:46 damn, Marshal Dillon looks extra good wearing that nice jacket with his hair done up all fancy.

12:19 "You know, Mr. Dillon, it looks to me like they'd find a way of coverin' up the sun." ... "Who's 'they', Chester?" ... "Well you know, the people that go to school and all." ... "Oh well, anybody who's been to school very long oughta know better than to try to cover up the sun." ... "Well, I didn't mean all of it, I just meant part of it." ...  Very interesting conversation.

13:05 lmao the look Matt gets on his face. So perfect. Once again... a whole huge bunch of meaning packed into just that one look. It's that ONE look that tells the whole story from here on out. HOW does it do that?

18:56 she doesn't know what she's doing at all... she's a silly little dumbass. This weird old dude's probably gonna kill her.

19:12 "Eh whatever, she's not my piece of ass anyway!"

22:50 - 23:06 perfect scene.

24:00 lmao oh he had me going for a second!!!

[user328]

S1 E9

Killed by his own son. He got tired of hearing his obnoxious whiskey laugh, no doubt.

That tiny rifle looks more like a BB gun than a 50 caliber buffalo rifle.

[user328]

Funny how all of the men wear wool trousers. Blue jeans had become popular amongst miners by then because regular pants weren't durable enough. They would bathe in a stream with their blue jeans on and squat to wring them out.

At least they're not wearing polyester, like in some Westerns.

[user328]

S1 E10

"This town is an abomination in the sight of the Lord."

There's a lot going on in Dodge that they're not showing us.

[user328]

The man who said that turns out to be fond of drink himself. Imagine that.

Now we have two bigots trying to run a Chinaman out of town as soon as he steps off the stagecoach. You'd think able-bodied men would have better things to do.

[user328]

They keep calling the Chinaman a boy, but he must be at least 30.

[user328]

They're worried about Dodge being overrun by Chinese immigrants.

It's fucking Dodge City. How can it get any worse?

[user328]

Apparently blue jeans didn't really take off until some 20 years later, when Levi Strauss introduced the 501.

[user328]

My God, Miss Kitty is pretty.

She isn't too keen about this dude putting his grubby hand on her shoulder.

[user328]

Two guys fist fighting just for the fun of it. They must be pretty bored.

[user328]

S1 E11

Arness didn't have enough time to shave between filming episodes.

[user328]

Whole lot o' folks getting run out of Dodge today.

[user328]

I feel sorry for the old wannabe army general. He seems to have dementia.

[user328]

He was right about the fake banker and his hired gun though.

[user328]

Funny how Dillon is so good-natured and baby-faced, but they all take him seriously.