This is the story of Daniel Boone and the Shawnee Indians after the establishment of Fort Boonesburrough. Daniel Boone helped establish the West when the West was Kentucky. It starts with the death of Daniel Boone's son, who in fact was killed by Indians. However from there it tells a story which I am not sure is based in history or just a story. The story presents the British turning the Shawnee against the white settlers, resulting in an all out assault against the fort.
This movie has plenty of action and death. It has romance between Boone and his wife, as well as his daughter and a settler. It does not have Native Americans portraying the Native American parts. This movie features Bruce Bennett as Daniel Boone, Lon Chaney as Chief Blackfish, Jaqueline Evans as Boone's wife and Nancy Rodman as his daughter and Faron Young as her love interest.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Music Review: Joanne Shenandoah, Orenda: Native American Songs of Life
Joanne Shenandoah, Orenda: Native American Songs of Life, with Lawrence Laughing, AllMusic, 1998.
This
is some beautiful music. They sing in their native language, Mohawk.
However there is included a type of written narration which gives some
idea of what is being said. These are songs for the long house. The
music and harmony are very nice. They sing alone, and then sing together
and it makes for a nice blend. There are a couple times when they have
narration under the vocal or instrumental and this I didn’t care for.
It was usually to soft to actually hear.
My
favorite song is “In Love.” It has a lively celebratory tone. You can
feel the happiness of being in love. This is the Mohawk rabbit Song, a
traditional dance in which the women select yheir partner and they
dance around the singers. An elder said the Rabbit Dance was like a
marriage ‘two steps forward, one back.”
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
TV Review: *^Enter the Lone Ranger
Enter the Lone Ranger 1949
This I think is the original Lone Ranger. I didn't like it very much. It was just too syrupy. The narration played into this, heroic stuff which comes off as not genuine. Clayton Moore stars as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk from Canada, as Tonto. This first movie talks of where the Lone Ranger got his identity, why he wears a mask, why he uses silver bullets and doesn't shot to kill.
This is c rated material at best. I love William Tell's Overture, and the reason I love it is be cause of watching the Lone Ranger as a youth.
This I think is the original Lone Ranger. I didn't like it very much. It was just too syrupy. The narration played into this, heroic stuff which comes off as not genuine. Clayton Moore stars as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk from Canada, as Tonto. This first movie talks of where the Lone Ranger got his identity, why he wears a mask, why he uses silver bullets and doesn't shot to kill.
This is c rated material at best. I love William Tell's Overture, and the reason I love it is be cause of watching the Lone Ranger as a youth.
TV Review: ***^Rawhide: Pilot 1959: Incident of the Tumbleweed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YrRx3GMXzQ
There are eight seasons and at least 216 episodes of Rawhide This is the first. We are presented to trail hand Rowdy (Clint Eastwood) and Trail Boss Gil Favor (Eric Fleming.) In this episode, tumbleweed refers to a prison wagon that they run into along the trail. There are seven prisoners inside, one of them being the girlfriend of a notorious outlaw, and also a couple of his gang.
They make their escape, and the cattlemen intervene. However one of the gang escapes, supposedly to go get the leader of the gang. The deputy is killed, and the sheriff is wounded. Favor chooses Rowdy to come with him as they handle the prisoners. The other men will drive the herd.
Eventually the gang catches up with them, as they are crossing a river. This episode has a different ending than might be expected, as some of the prisoners seek redemption.
There is some gun play and fist fighting, and even violence towards the woman--although she gives back her own. Terry Moore guest stars as the woman prisoner.
This episode was entertaining. I didn't watch Rawhide as a youth. However this film had plenty of action, and the prison wagon was very interesting the way it was portrayed. Very enjoyable.
There are eight seasons and at least 216 episodes of Rawhide This is the first. We are presented to trail hand Rowdy (Clint Eastwood) and Trail Boss Gil Favor (Eric Fleming.) In this episode, tumbleweed refers to a prison wagon that they run into along the trail. There are seven prisoners inside, one of them being the girlfriend of a notorious outlaw, and also a couple of his gang.
They make their escape, and the cattlemen intervene. However one of the gang escapes, supposedly to go get the leader of the gang. The deputy is killed, and the sheriff is wounded. Favor chooses Rowdy to come with him as they handle the prisoners. The other men will drive the herd.
Eventually the gang catches up with them, as they are crossing a river. This episode has a different ending than might be expected, as some of the prisoners seek redemption.
There is some gun play and fist fighting, and even violence towards the woman--although she gives back her own. Terry Moore guest stars as the woman prisoner.
This episode was entertaining. I didn't watch Rawhide as a youth. However this film had plenty of action, and the prison wagon was very interesting the way it was portrayed. Very enjoyable.
Music Review: Britney Spears: The Singles Collection
Britney Spears, The Singles Collection, 2009.
This
CD tells me definitely I do not like the songs Britney Spears sings.
There was a time I enjoyed listening to her, but this was too sexualized
or something. I could just see her make a fool of herself. From the
titles of the songs, you can see something wrong: Born to Make you
Happy, Oops I did it again, I’m a Slave for you, Gimme More, Piece of
Me, Womanizer. This C.D. is for women who want to feel like someone’s
possession, and men who want to possess. Not much redeeming value here.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Movie Review: ***Against a Crooked Sky
This is a Western film with some Mormon influences. For example the lead is played by Stewart Petersen who is Mormon. Doug Stewart wrote the script. It was produced by Feature Films for Families, if not a Mormon Company caters to Mormon families. Lex de Azevedo wrote the music.
The story line goes that older sister is kidnapped by a native American group nobody knows about. They live in a secluded area and it is hinted they are descended from the ancients. They use many southern Utah locations like Dead man's Point. They visit the Shoshone and the Cheyenne seeking information, then go through Apache territory and then find the tribe beyond the crooked sky where the overlook Dead Man's Point. The cliffs and the terrain have much to do with the story, but the geography of where tribes are located is screwy.
Sometimes the acting is a little stiff as well. As is the story. Turns out, the character played by Petersen, the younger brother Sam, feels guilty about his sister being kidnapped, so takes off trying to find her, and is saved from drowning by Russian, (Richard Boone) an old trapper. He does find a head band with some secret symbols; and when he tries again this leads him to a mute guide from amongst the Cheyenne, who wants to go home to his people to die.
And so he does, but he is murdered. The older sister is accused, and Sam has to beat the Crooked Sky in a one-day run, or his sister will be shot with an arrow.
This movie has an emotional ending which depicts a mother's love. However it does offer much on the way other the the trapper drinking a lot and being mad his dog is killed. It does show sisterly love between the kidnap victim and the sister of her kidnapper. They have a relationship based on love.
The story line goes that older sister is kidnapped by a native American group nobody knows about. They live in a secluded area and it is hinted they are descended from the ancients. They use many southern Utah locations like Dead man's Point. They visit the Shoshone and the Cheyenne seeking information, then go through Apache territory and then find the tribe beyond the crooked sky where the overlook Dead Man's Point. The cliffs and the terrain have much to do with the story, but the geography of where tribes are located is screwy.
Sometimes the acting is a little stiff as well. As is the story. Turns out, the character played by Petersen, the younger brother Sam, feels guilty about his sister being kidnapped, so takes off trying to find her, and is saved from drowning by Russian, (Richard Boone) an old trapper. He does find a head band with some secret symbols; and when he tries again this leads him to a mute guide from amongst the Cheyenne, who wants to go home to his people to die.
And so he does, but he is murdered. The older sister is accused, and Sam has to beat the Crooked Sky in a one-day run, or his sister will be shot with an arrow.
This movie has an emotional ending which depicts a mother's love. However it does offer much on the way other the the trapper drinking a lot and being mad his dog is killed. It does show sisterly love between the kidnap victim and the sister of her kidnapper. They have a relationship based on love.
Movie Review: ***^Concrete Cowboys (Tom Selleck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_7vsH1FYw
This is a 1979 made-for-tv movie starring Tom Selleck as Will Eubanks and Jerry Reed as J.D. Reed. Eubanks and Reed are two down on their luck drifters from Montana, who end up in Nashville after hopping a train. In Nashville they have a friend, Lonnie (Randy Powell) who says they can stay at his house, provided they pick up a package for him He is going to be out of town.
This they do, and then they get sucked into acting as private detectives to find a sister of their customer named Karla (Morgan Fairchild.) The sister had come to Nashville to make it in music, and although she didn't make it big, she met some stars, most recently Woody Stone (Claude Akins.) However, in their search, they become the target for attempted murder. First someone shoots at them, and then their car is blown up. It gets more and more interesting--and our two drifters are not really detectives. Can they figure this mess out and get away with their lives?
This movie also affords the opportunity to show a couple Nashville acts. We see Ray Stevens perform a funny song and also meet Barbara Mandrell and Roy Acuff.
I liked this show. It had some action and some humor and some mystery. It also had some country music and artists.
This is a 1979 made-for-tv movie starring Tom Selleck as Will Eubanks and Jerry Reed as J.D. Reed. Eubanks and Reed are two down on their luck drifters from Montana, who end up in Nashville after hopping a train. In Nashville they have a friend, Lonnie (Randy Powell) who says they can stay at his house, provided they pick up a package for him He is going to be out of town.
This they do, and then they get sucked into acting as private detectives to find a sister of their customer named Karla (Morgan Fairchild.) The sister had come to Nashville to make it in music, and although she didn't make it big, she met some stars, most recently Woody Stone (Claude Akins.) However, in their search, they become the target for attempted murder. First someone shoots at them, and then their car is blown up. It gets more and more interesting--and our two drifters are not really detectives. Can they figure this mess out and get away with their lives?
This movie also affords the opportunity to show a couple Nashville acts. We see Ray Stevens perform a funny song and also meet Barbara Mandrell and Roy Acuff.
I liked this show. It had some action and some humor and some mystery. It also had some country music and artists.
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