My tag answers are below. :)
Tag rules: List a character for each role below (also including the name of the film). Elaborate as you like! (They don't have to be your favorite or even the main character, just someone / a role you found memorable.)
Legends of Western Cinema Week Tag 2026
1. Cavalryman – Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. (An old review, but yes, I still love it.)
2. Stagecoach driver – Ok, so it’s not quite a stage, but Yul Brynner's character driving the hearse with Steve McQueen riding shotgun in the opening scenes of The Magnificent Seven. One of the best scenes ever.
3. Doctor – Doc Boone in Stagecoach.
4. Judge – Harry Morgan's Justice of the Peace (and sheriff... and barber...) in The Apple Dumpling Gang.
5. Sheriff – I was going to say Henry Fonda's character, Morg, in The Tin Star, but technically, he's a deputy, so I'll say his co-star in the film, Anthony Perkins as Sheriff Ben Owens.
6. Cowboy – Kevin Costner as Charley Waite in Open Range.
7. Homesteader – In terms of characters I’ve thought about for years (and still can’t quite make up my mind about)... Penny in the original 1947 or Temperance in the 2009 remake of Angel and the Badman.
8. Gambler – It's a tie between...
Doc Holliday in Tombstone
and Feathers in Rio Bravo.
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9. Native American – It's set nowadays, but Officer Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) in Longmire.
10. Outlaw – Ok, he’s not exactly an outlaw (seeing as he got released for time served), but the psychological power of the villain in High Noon is pretty unmatched.
11. Storekeeper – Glenn Ford as George Temple in The Fastest Gun Alive.
12. Schoolteacher – Another character I'm pondering to this day is Molly Stark in The Virginian (the 2000 adaptation specifically). Hopefully I'll sort out my thoughts some day and be able to do a review. ;)
So there you have it! I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of the above and also which characters you'd choose. :)
Having shared my tag answers today (at last), now I can read yours and not worry about getting influenced by them!
ReplyDeleteI was hoping someone would use a character from the Cavalry Trilogy for the first prompt! Especially since I didn't...
We quote that opening scene of The Magnificent Seven SO much around here. Especially the exchange of "You elected?" "No, but I sure got nominated real good." But also other bits. I mean, we quote the whole movie a lot, heh.
Doc Boone is so lovely :-) And so is the sheriff/justice of the peace/judge/barber from Apple Dumpling Gang.
I really need to show my kids The Tin Star. They know the soundtrack exceedingly well because I listened to it allllll the time while writing One Bad Apple.
Did you see they're making another remake of Angel and the Badman? And it has Tommy Lee Jones in it :-o And Zachary Levi, hmm. I don't know who TLJ is playing, but I am dearly hoping it's the marshal!
I allllllllllmost used Doc Holliday for the gambler prompt too. But I have rhapsodized about him pretty recently, so decided to go a different direction. My text message alert sound is actually a line of his, though.
I just showed my girls The Fastest Gun Alive last month, as one of them lurves Glenn Ford, and we got to the ostensible end of that one and they almost rioted, but I convinced them to watch the actual ending and then they were happy :-D It's my favorite switch-on-a-switch ever.
And we had one answer in common, sorta! I did use Molly Stark in my review.