05-12-2022, 12:15 PM
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"Gunsmoke" (1955) - Review & Commentary
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05-12-2022, 12:20 PM
I bet they actually filmed this on an outdoor set in the dead of winter. I can't see them having a special effects guy running around putting ice on the weathered boards of the buildings.
05-12-2022, 12:27 PM
Ooooh, the dealer is Chester's brother.
They put Chester to bed drunker than Cooter Brown, and he comes rolling in next morning like nothing happened.
05-12-2022, 12:36 PM
Kitty's on a date at the Christmas dance with Chester's bumpkin brother, who's infatuated with her.
Oh hell, the holy roller crashed the party. He's got some kind of fixation on Kitty being "the prettiest and wickedest," and thinks she's the cause of whatever's eating his mind.
05-12-2022, 01:03 PM
She's cozying up to the young hired hand to get him to kill her older husband so she can get his money.
05-12-2022, 01:19 PM
Daaaamn, the hired hand was just riding through town when he got mixed up with her and ended up ruining his life.
05-12-2022, 01:59 PM
(05-12-2022, 12:09 PM)Dev Wrote: Funny how Dillon is so good-natured and baby-faced, but they all take him seriously. It's so interesting that you see him that way! When I was a teenager and I used to come across Gunsmoke on the TVLand channel, I never stuck around to watch... to me, Marshal Dillon looked like "just some older guy" and all I knew was that he wasn't Little Joe Cartwright! Even when I started watching Gunsmoke recently, I had no intentions of loving Marshal Dillon the way I do now. At the show's start, season 1, he and I are the same age and I still feel like he's older than me.
05-12-2022, 02:08 PM
I read most of the James Arness autobiography yesterday...
https://imgur.com/a/zvRCyNN Released in 2001 when he was about 78. Tells about his family history which was very interesting. There was a lot of detail on even very old memories, along with an admission that he can remember faces from 50 years ago, but he doesn't remember names... I have concluded that he most likely had a photographic memory. He hopped trains, slept in his car, slept out on the beach... He was impervious to hot temperatures and could hike for long distances like it was nothing... These are all qualities in a man that get me very excited, so I wasn't all that surprised by it, I had begun to figure James Arness was just my kinda guy from what I've seen so far. There were some other very interesting tidbits of info regarding Gunsmoke that I wouldn't have guessed, just as far as his own personal interpretation of his acting abilities etc. I was right about the season 3 era confidence he had found and how he'd become one with his character, it was confirmed by something I read in the book. There was a lot more to living the Gunsmoke life for 20 years than just shooting the show weekly.
05-12-2022, 02:21 PM
He even mentions this song...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_Gets_in_Your_Eyes It's always been one of my favorites too, but it's strange to think he's talking about a version of it that is even older than the one I know... The Platter's 1958 version is the one that I hold so dear, and Gunsmoke had been on for 3 years by then...
05-12-2022, 02:30 PM
(05-12-2022, 02:08 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: There was a lot of detail on even very old memories, along with an admission that he can remember faces from 50 years ago, but he doesn't remember names... I have concluded that he most likely had a photographic memory. I've seen other giveaways about the photographic memory watching the show, particularly somewhere in season one when he was telling this guy off and he was in his face while he was saying his lines... his eyes were scanning up and down the guy's face as he was speaking almost kinda like he was reading the lines from memory. I should have pointed that out in the episode during my commentary but I didn't.
05-12-2022, 02:40 PM
The eye movements were indicative of accessing data from visual memory word for word.
05-12-2022, 03:19 PM
05-12-2022, 03:22 PM
S1 E14
Some of the grave markers on Boot Hill are dated as late as 1883. I thought this was set about a decade earlier.
05-12-2022, 03:53 PM
(05-12-2022, 03:22 PM)Dev Wrote: S1 E14 Yeah it was supposed to be the 1870s... not everything is 100% accurate, I actually looked up a name on one of the markers and it was a real person from that era but the year of death was wrong.
05-12-2022, 03:55 PM
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