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Posted by Jerry Brown on 10/17/06 22:18
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:26:58 GMT, "Covenant"
<covenantWITHNOSPAMPLEASE@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>Okay...
>
>It may be a cowboy movie, or it may be an *American war of independence*
>film, or one of those *Alamo* type movies...
>
>Point is, I ony saw it on TV when I was about 10 (over 30 years ago!)
>
>But one scene sticks in my head cos it may have been my first exposure to TV
>violence..
>
>Some guy comes into this room/tent/something...
>
>And all the rest of the guys in there are playing cards.
>And this one guy has done something horrendous (Nope, dunno what!)
>
>And he gets well stabbed up (But surounded by the pother guys so you see
>nothing..)
>
>BUT while they are stabbing him up they are singing or whistling, "John
>Brown's Body"
>and the scene ends with a shot of a card table (with a gratuitous ace of
>spades showing) and a knife having the blood wiped off onto the
>tablecloth...
>
>Any ideas???
ISTR a scene like this in one of the Leone Eastwood westerns, but I'm
not sure if that was the actual tune or precisely which one of the
films it was.
BTW, are you still in alt.cult-movies.alien and is the Alien^3 egg
debate still raging? IIRC it was still going strong when I left 5
years ago.
Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)
<http://www.jwbrown.co.uk>
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