Freebooter
12-19-2004, 08:47 AM
Hey y'all,
I was not sure what forum to post this on. Cowboy Action Shooting seemed about right. I figure that y'all must be into the old west and movies and all too. So anyway, I was wondering what your favorite movie or tv show draw sequence or gunfight scene was? Personally I like several. I liked when Tom Sunday shot that laughing smart alleck in "The Sacketts". I also liked the opening scene of "Silverado". That one and the ending scene from "Quigley Down Under" are two of my favorites. Unless Tom Selleck does his own quick drawing I would also like to know who did that last draw scene for Selleck in "Quigley Down Under"?
Speaking of that, I was reading an article in True West magazine the other day about Phil Spangenberger and how it is his hands seen on a lot of fast draw sequences in some of our great western movies and shows. But can anyone tell me whose hands were shown doing the draw and firing for Tom Selleck in that last fight scene of "Quigley Down Under"?
For you guys who have never seen the movie it is during the Old West when an American cowboy (Tom Selleck) answered an add for a long range marksment and went to the Austrailian outback. When he got there he found out they wanted him to murder aboriginees and he refused. They beat him and his gal (Laura San Giocomo) and left them for dead out in nowhere. The aboriginese saved them and Quigley wound up fighting for them.
In that scene at the end ofthe movie, the bad guy ranch owner had his lackey stick an 1860 Army .44 in Quigley's (Selleck) belt. Actually they all had cap & balls. Then the ranch owner and his two lackeys arrayed themselves in front of Quigley. Then the bad guy, the ranch owner who fancied himself good with a gun and who was fascinated with the American west, gunfighters, etc., said, with a smug chuckle, something like, "It is said that some men are born in the wrong century. I think I was born on the wrong continent." Quigley (Selleck) looked at them for a moment and then said, "This ain't Dodge City and you ain't Bill Hickock." The ranch owner went for his gun and Selleck drew. Then the camara centered on Selleck's hands as he drew (or the hands of the quick draw artist who did the sequence). Whoever it was, Sellec, or a fast draw artist was a "bad arsed" pistolero for sure, and fast! He was so fast his three shots almost sounded like rolling thunder. I thoght it was trick photograph at first until I watched in slow motion. You could see that when Selleck or the mad who drew for him during that sequence, drew the Colt 1860 Army 44, he cocked it as he brought it up and level, firing the instant it as it came level. As he was bringing it up and cocking it with his gun hand thumb, he flung his left hand out even with the gun, it coming out and forward at the same time and speed as his gun hand, until it was out level with the gun as he fired. Firing the 1st shot he instantly fanned the 2nd and 3rd shots with his left hand. That was one bad assed draw and firing sequence.
Take care,
Freebooter
Millbrook, Al..
I was not sure what forum to post this on. Cowboy Action Shooting seemed about right. I figure that y'all must be into the old west and movies and all too. So anyway, I was wondering what your favorite movie or tv show draw sequence or gunfight scene was? Personally I like several. I liked when Tom Sunday shot that laughing smart alleck in "The Sacketts". I also liked the opening scene of "Silverado". That one and the ending scene from "Quigley Down Under" are two of my favorites. Unless Tom Selleck does his own quick drawing I would also like to know who did that last draw scene for Selleck in "Quigley Down Under"?
Speaking of that, I was reading an article in True West magazine the other day about Phil Spangenberger and how it is his hands seen on a lot of fast draw sequences in some of our great western movies and shows. But can anyone tell me whose hands were shown doing the draw and firing for Tom Selleck in that last fight scene of "Quigley Down Under"?
For you guys who have never seen the movie it is during the Old West when an American cowboy (Tom Selleck) answered an add for a long range marksment and went to the Austrailian outback. When he got there he found out they wanted him to murder aboriginees and he refused. They beat him and his gal (Laura San Giocomo) and left them for dead out in nowhere. The aboriginese saved them and Quigley wound up fighting for them.
In that scene at the end ofthe movie, the bad guy ranch owner had his lackey stick an 1860 Army .44 in Quigley's (Selleck) belt. Actually they all had cap & balls. Then the ranch owner and his two lackeys arrayed themselves in front of Quigley. Then the bad guy, the ranch owner who fancied himself good with a gun and who was fascinated with the American west, gunfighters, etc., said, with a smug chuckle, something like, "It is said that some men are born in the wrong century. I think I was born on the wrong continent." Quigley (Selleck) looked at them for a moment and then said, "This ain't Dodge City and you ain't Bill Hickock." The ranch owner went for his gun and Selleck drew. Then the camara centered on Selleck's hands as he drew (or the hands of the quick draw artist who did the sequence). Whoever it was, Sellec, or a fast draw artist was a "bad arsed" pistolero for sure, and fast! He was so fast his three shots almost sounded like rolling thunder. I thoght it was trick photograph at first until I watched in slow motion. You could see that when Selleck or the mad who drew for him during that sequence, drew the Colt 1860 Army 44, he cocked it as he brought it up and level, firing the instant it as it came level. As he was bringing it up and cocking it with his gun hand thumb, he flung his left hand out even with the gun, it coming out and forward at the same time and speed as his gun hand, until it was out level with the gun as he fired. Firing the 1st shot he instantly fanned the 2nd and 3rd shots with his left hand. That was one bad assed draw and firing sequence.
Take care,
Freebooter
Millbrook, Al..