Mitch Wise

So Mike, I felt with my minor challenge you would have come back with about 20 great songs from movies. We head off for Lisbon and Porto in the near future, then Jan will be haveing some foot surgery that will keep us Bordeaux bond for a while.  I understand she will be in the apartment for at least 4 weeks. Boot, crutches, etc.  I better practice being nice.

Lloyd Gladden

I've got one.  Name your top 10 westers from the 50's and early 60's.  Here are mine.

Roy Rogers

The Cisco Kid

Hopalong Cassidy

Rin TIN Tin

Have Gun - Will Travel

Wild Bill Hickock

Sergent Preston of the Yukon

Gunsmoke

The Lone Ranger

Kit Carson

Okay MIke here you go

Michael Elliott

I'll add:

Maverick

The Rifleman

Sugarfoot

Cheyenne

Wanted Dead or Alive

Greg Cook

Mike I would add Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney) before Adele won for Skyfall and Sam Smith for "The writings on the wall" (Spectre). LALD was nominated for a Grammy

Favorite western? F Troop

Linda Wonn (Carpenter)

How about Bonanza and The Big Valley?

Jerry Labuda

One of my favorites Greg. How about "Paladin".

Jerry Labuda

How about bringing some of these ideas to breakfast tomorrow at 9:30 AM at Keno's, 2661 LaPalma in Anaheim. Love to see you there.

Kathleen Daulton (Dacey)

How about Spin and Marty on The Micky Mouse Club show?

 Sky King was one of my favorites.   "Sky" had a  cool airplane, Songbird,  that could seed the clouds to rain and also help find people in distress as well as crimals and spies from the air. Wow!

Jack Fiskin

I didn't see Wagon Train on anyones list.

Greg Cook

Kathleen, I'd forgotten about Sky King but not about Sky's niece Penny. Jimmy Buffett and I both had crushes on her.

Michael Elliott

She was taken.  Had a boyfriend, another Jimmy in the show.

How about The Westerner, High Chaparral, The Big Valley, and The Virginian.

Charlie Groh

Mike, it sounds like you were so taken in by the "drama" you forgot it was a written script...there's still a chance!  Hahaha, every time I see a Beechcraft I think of this show...although, upon some YouTubing, I find the airplane was actually a Cessna T-50...lol...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I0xwm8J814

Lloyd Gladden

Here are a few others I thought of.

Jim Bowie, Annie Oakley, Bat Materson, Gene Autry

Jack Fiskin

Let's not forget Hopalong Casidy

Kathleen Daulton (Dacey)

I don't know if Monte Montana had a t.v. show but he was a great rodeo rider.  He came to our school in Manhatten Beach and did a show for us when I was in the 2nd grade.  At the time it was very exciting.  He rode very fast and did rope tricks on our school playground.  I so wanted a horse after that.  I read all the Walter Farley horse books and begged my dad to let me have a horse.  He said if one ever came into our back yard that I could keep it.  My dad was funny.  

Kathleen Daulton (Dacey)

Did we mention Roy Rogers and Dale Evans?  His  palmino, Trigger, was beautiful! Andy Divine and Gabby Hayes often appeared on the show. Andy drove a jeep, Nellie Bell.  Hence the phrase, "Whoa, Nellie Bell!". Roy Rogers was known as the "Singing Cowboy".  

My dad's military training was at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell New Mexico.  He was trained as an equestrian soldier.  He owned and trained horses including cutting ponies most of his adult life.  He loved everything western.  We watched a lot of cowboy shows and movies on t.v.  Most of us are too young to remembet him but Tom Mix was his first favorite cowboy.  Those old reruns were always part of our t.v. time.

Mitch Wise

How about the Cisco Kid?  Hey Cisco, wait for me.  ( Poncho)

Greg Cook

Not sure if it qualifies as a western (it was western Tennessee) how about Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone.

Fess Parker starred in both. Speaking of which, if you haven't been, Fess Parker has a very nice winery in Los Olivos. 

Mitch Wise

Thanks Gregg,  had the Davy Crockett song running thru my head for about a day.  Had to start singing other songs to get it to leave. 

Greg Cook

The teachers always were smarter:

Michael Elliott

The next genre for Mike's list of personal favorites is Film Noir.  You know, those dark, slightly cynical films with the Sam Spade type detective at the heart of the story and at least one fascinating female interest to help motivate Sam and please audiences.  So here we go:

• M (Fritz Lang/Peter Lorre)
• The Maltese Falcon
• Double Indemnity
• Farewell My Lovely
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Mildred Pierce
• The Third Man
• Chinatown
• Body Heat
• L.A. Confidential

Greg Cook

LA Confidential one of my all time favorites.

BREAKING NEWS! Had to share this with my classmates. I know I'll sleep better tonight knowing it.

Kathleen Daulton (Dacey)

Breakfast in bed old people style.  I wonder who made the tray?  The sweet resident care giver I'm sure.

Next subject.  My favorite film noir is "Blood Simple" (1984) with Francis McDormand by the Coen brothers.  It was sooo crazy dark in some places it made me laugh.  "Body Heat" is on the top of my list.  It gave me chills when William Hurt caught his breath while in his prison bunk as he realized she was alive!

Joan Elliott (Euans)

Jack Fiskin

I don't know if this flim fits but I liked Deliveracne with Burt Reynloids, Warren Beatey.