William Boyd

[olbod]

I mentioned in another thread that my hero a long time ago was Hopalong Cassidy.
Bring back memories ?
Youse young blokes wouldn't know but he had a faithful mate called Topper.
Topper, of course, was not related to Tony or Trigger but I believe was more intelligent.

I think that once he reached adulthood, Les Hiddens may have become a fan also. Clue below !!!

Robert.

[numpty]

Gee Robert.

Of all the cowboys and gunslingers from that era, I've always thought Hopalong (what a name) to be the most namby pamby.:eek:

But to be fair in these PC enlightened times, all are entitled to their choice :D

Perry

[DeanoH]

...................................Topper, of course, was not related to Tony or Trigger ...................................Robert.

Nor was he related to the (Cosmo) 'Topper' character from Thorne Smiths successful book and movie trilogy of the '40's. :D

Deano :)

[Disco44]

Mine were Smokey Dawson , Roy Rogers,Gene Autry then Hopalong.
Remember Smokey on radio and Greenbottle ?
John.

[olbod]

Gee Robert.

Of all the cowboys and gunslingers from that era, I've always thought Hopalong (what a name) to be the most namby pamby.:eek:

But to be fair in these PC enlightened times, all are entitled to their choice :D

Perry

Perry, I think it might have had something to do with the hat.
He stood out.
In the forties us kids were wrapped in Hopalong, Tom Mix and Roy, we were avid collectors of those comics and later at the Saturday arvo pictures we cheered our hero's.
Didn't like Gene Autry.
I think Hoppy got his name because in the early days of chasing baddies, he got shot in the leg ?

For those to young to remember, Tom Mix was a famous cowpoke in his day. He died a hero whilst trying to save people from a theatre fire in 1929, I think.
He used to sneak up from behind and leap into the saddle, dig in his spurs and shout : DIG DIRT TONY.
Of course Tony in fright and pain would take off like a mad thing. Wouldn't need to slow down for roundabouts I bet. The Tom Mix movies were silent.
My all time favourite comic was and still is The Phantom !!!

Cheers.

Robert.

[olbod]

Nor was he related to the (Cosmo) 'Topper' character from Thorne Smiths successful book and movie trilogy of the '40's. :D

Deano :)

Deano, I loved those movies. I have copies on DVD.

Robert.

[olbod]

Mine were Smokey Dawson , Roy Rogers,Gene Autry then Hopalong.
Remember Smokey on radio and Greenbottle ?
John.

Yep, we used to listen to all that on the wireless.
Greenbottle was brilliant.
Another favourite at the time was Hop Harrigan.

In 1955 or 6,not sure exactly, when I was serving an apprenticeship with Consolidated Neon, we were inside a service station at West Ryde, I think. fixing the lighting. One of the blokes who worked there came rushing in and told us that Smokey Dawson was out the front filling up, he was an adult and nearly wetting himself !!! I never forgot that.
My mate rushed out to look but I didn't bother.
The day before I had spoken to Katherine Hepburn in Martin Place when her limo pulled up, I dont remember what was on at the time or why she was there.
I winked at her ( I must have been fifteen or so ) and she came over and spoke a few words to me, I think I did wet myself. Cripes she was beautiful.
Smokey who ?

Robert.

[Aussie]

He looks Gay

[justinc]

Yep, we used to listen to all that on the wireless.
Greenbottle was brilliant.
Another favourite at the time was Hop Harrigan.

In 1955 or 6,not sure exactly, when I was serving an apprenticeship with Consolidated Neon, we were inside a service station at West Ryde, I think. fixing the lighting. One of the blokes who worked there came rushing in and told us that Smokey Dawson was out the front filling up, he was an adult and nearly wetting himself !!! I never forgot that.
My mate rushed out to look but I didn't bother.
The day before I had spoken to Katherine Hepburn in Martin Place when her limo pulled up, I dont remember what was on at the time or why she was there.
I winked at her ( I must have been fifteen or so ) and she came over and spoke a few words to me, I think I did wet myself. Cripes she was beautiful.
Smokey who ?

Robert.


Thats just GOLD Robert, thanks for that anecdote.
Try that these days with those so called 'stars' and you'd not get 50ft from them:mad:

JC

[Ferret]

I thought he was a 'goodie'. Why has he got a black hat?

[RichardK]

Greenbottle, Stanforth, Bottomly, and DePledge came in later plus Dr Pymm, I think there were a couple of others as well.

I think the show was called Yes What.

[Landy Smurf]

i am a big fan of smokey dawson

[olbod]

Greenbottle, Stanforth, Bottomly, and DePledge came in later plus Dr Pymm, I think there were a couple of others as well.

I think the show was called Yes What.

Yes what, exactly.
I think that is some of the best stuff ever produced.
It rivals another of my alltime favourites that came along later. The Goon Show.
I wonder if those radio shows are available on tape or CD ? I must check.

Being in that job as a young bloke often put me in the right spot at the right time. About the same time 55-6, we were servicing the lighting at radio 2GB, phillip st,. I think, when Bob Hope arrived for a radio interview. I got to speak to him for a few minutes also. I dont remember being really impressed as I wasn't into musicals of the type he made with Bing Crosby.

I remember being really impressed the day we met Arthur Morris at Stack and Co in William Street where he was working. At that time I played cricket for the Fairfield Sports Club. Six or seven years earlier when we were kids on the farm we used to huddle around the wireless and listen to the test match broadcast. Even Pop would come in from the paddock when The Don was batting.

I'll take you back abit. When we were working in the city, we used to have a few beers at the Ship Inn at the Quay. I was under age but nobody cared. Then quite often we would ( Syd and I ) go over to Bennelong point to eat our sandwiches. At the street front at that time was the old tram shed and the park was by the water at the front. Shortly after, they tore the whole lot down and built the Opera house.

Cheers.

Robert.

[bob10]

Robert,I remember Dad & Dave, Jason & the Argonauts,and Randolph Scott was my favourite cowboy. Life was a lot simpler back then. Bob

[numpty]

Perry, I think it might have had something to do with the hat.
He stood out.
In the forties us kids were wrapped in Hopalong, Tom Mix and Roy, we were avid collectors of those comics and later at the Saturday arvo pictures we cheered our hero's.
Didn't like Gene Autry.
I think Hoppy got his name because in the early days of chasing baddies, he got shot in the leg ?

For those to young to remember, Tom Mix was a famous cowpoke in his day. He died a hero whilst trying to save people from a theatre fire in 1929, I think.
He used to sneak up from behind and leap into the saddle, dig in his spurs and shout : DIG DIRT TONY.
Of course Tony in fright and pain would take off like a mad thing. Wouldn't need to slow down for roundabouts I bet. The Tom Mix movies were silent.
My all time favourite comic was and still is The Phantom !!!

Cheers.

Robert.

:eek::o

I dont think any more needs to be said :D

It's all good Robert

I may be just a youngster from the early 50's, but I remember all of those too and did enjoy them in their day.

Perry

[Disco44]

[QUOTE=olbod;1763324]Yep, we used to listen to all that on the wireless.
Greenbottle was brilliant.
Another favourite at the time was Hop Harrigan.

In 1955 or 6,not sure exactly, when I was serving an apprenticeship with Consolidated Neon, we were inside a service station at West Ryde, I think. fixing the lighting. One of the blokes who worked there came rushing in and told us that Smokey Dawson was out the front filling up, he was an adult and nearly wetting himself !!! I never forgot that.
My mate rushed out to look but I didn't bother.
The day before I had spoken to Katherine Hepburn in Martin Place when her limo pulled up, I dont remember what was on at the time or why she was there.
I winked at her ( I must have been fifteen or so ) and she came over and spoke a few words to me, I think I did wet myself. Cripes she was beautiful.
Smokey who ? Quote

Did you know that most ( if not all ) of the cast of Greenbottle were killed in WW2? They reportedly joined the RAAF and went and served in the RAF in bomber command.They were very talented as were most of the Aussies that were on radio and besides the pictures radio was our only entertainment,especially in the bush areas.
Another thing, as I a kid, I was always fascinated by my uncles short wave radio and all used to crowd around it listening to the test cricket from the UK.The sound would go up and down and always when something big,like a dismissal happened.
Things were so simple in those days....don't you reckon?
Cheers,
John

[olbod]

Did you know that most ( if not all ) of the cast of Greenbottle were killed in WW2? They reportedly joined the RAAF and went and served in the RAF in bomber command.They were very talented as were most of the Aussies that were on radio and besides the pictures radio was our only entertainment,especially in the bush areas.
Another thing, as I a kid, I was always fascinated by my uncles short wave radio and all used to crowd around it listening to the test cricket from the UK.The sound would go up and down and always when something big,like a dismissal happened.
Things were so simple in those days....don't you reckon?
Cheers,
John[/QUOTE]

No, I did not know that John. Its sad but that sort of talent has gone forever and all to soon.

Bob, yes, Dad and Dave and Pa Rudd. I still love those old movies.
I watched an old Randolph Scott movie on TV last week I think, I cant remember what it was called ? I would have to go and pull the TV Week out of the bin to name it.
Remember the books about the English kid called William, I used to search all the libraries searching to find out what he was upto.

Yes, things were simpler in those days. We worked hard and had fun without hurting anyone and folk were definately more content than they are now, I think. When TV was introduced I immediately noticed the change in peoples behaviour. I didn't like it. Didn't matter much out in the scrub because we didn't need that crap. In stead of people visiting and all talking at the same time and having time for each other, we had to sit quietly, glued to the TV screen. Stuff what was going on next door or down the street, we had to shut most else out. We all seemed to start drifting apart and there seemed to be no going back.

Its funny the things that jog your memory.
The other day Martyn posted a picture of a plough, it all came flooding back. I might put that in another thread.

Cheers.

Robert.

[mikehzz]

Audie Murphy (Destry), the real deal and the reel deal. :) Clint Eastwood was the first cowboy with cool clothes. I never did like Hopalong, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers or The Cisco Kid (except for Pancho's "let's went" line). They dressed like sissies and their horses were show ponies...sorry about that.

[RichardK]

If you dial up Utube, Yes what, there are plenty of episodes of Yes What................

[olbod]

If you dial up Utube, Yes what, there are plenty of episodes of Yes What................

Thats interesting, I'll have to check it out, thanks.

I also got a date thingy wrong, I wasn't happy with what I had written so I checked on the net. Tom Mix did not die in a theartre fire in 1929, he died in a car accident in 1940 !!!
So that leaves the question, who did die in that fire in 1929 ? Its etched in my memory so it will proably bug me now.
Also the Les Hidden hat is known as the Tom Mix hat and is for sale on the net, available to any and all. Pic below.

I remembered the name of the Randolph Scott movie that I watched the other day, it was: The Cariboo Trail.

Mikehzz, you must remember that those movies were made in the early days. Those times and styles were of a different era and people were enthralled watching what was on the screen before Tv, DVD's and the net and stuff.
I didn't mind Audie Murphy and some of his movies, in fact I have one or two on DVD.
An interesting fact about him. When he tried to enlist in the war he was rejected by all the services except the Army. He was only five foot five inches tall !!! His co workers were chosen by their height to appear with him in the movies. Bit like another shorty, Alan Ladd. You rarely saw a taller actor standing beside him. Even Sophia Loren had to walk in a trench beside him so as not to appear to tall.
I guess it's all just make believe, eh.
I reckon that Dr Who must be the only serious historical documentry on the box. PS: the Doc dons his cowpoke hat next Saturday night an becomes a sheriff. Tah Dah.

Cheers.

Robert.

[bob10]

Have a look here, Robert.

Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott - YouTube

[digger]

My all time favourite comic was and still is The Phantom !!!

Cheers.

Robert.

Robert!!

The Phantom does not appear in 'comics"!!

They are Chronicles!

Cheers
Digger
(jungle patrolman)

[mikehzz]

The Phantom was an awesome comic but they really stuffed the movie with Billy Zane. I used to give my father Phantom comics for fathers day.

[Disco44]

Audie Murphy (Destry), the real deal and the reel deal. :) Clint Eastwood was the first cowboy with cool clothes. I never did like Hopalong, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers or The Cisco Kid (except for Pancho's "let's went" line). They dressed like sissies and their horses were show ponies...sorry about that.

Audie Murphy was the most decorated US soldier in WW2.If you Google you will be amazed at the "Fruit Salad " He has and most of it is for heroics. They made a movie about him it's called " To Hell and Back" and for a yank movie it's all true.
John.

[olbod]

Have a look here, Robert.

Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJlD5roDqNw)

Yep, top stuff.

Tom's horse Tony was quite clever, when Tom was captured by the baddies and tied up, Tony snuk in and untied the knots with his teeth and Tom got away !!!
We were gobsmacked and tried to teach our old red dog Toby to do important stuff like that. Poor old Toby only wanted to follow us around and scratch his fleas. We concluded that Toby was not a horse anyway and so what would he know anyhow.

I still love those old sci-fi movies, you know the ones, It came from outer space, War of the worlds, When worlds collide, Rocket ship XM, Destination moon, The thing etc,. I collect them on DVD.

Few weeks ago I down loaded a classic called Alien Tresspass.
In it, a flying saucer had lucas electrical problems and crash landed on Earth. When the dust settled we learnt that a captive horrible glob thingy had escaped. We saw what a horrible glob it was when it made itself invisible. At all costs it had to be killed or captured before it multiplied and consumed all us Earthlings. It runs amok right from the start.
So our hero spaceman sets off to seek it out and of course he soon draws the attention of the locals who want to kill or capture him, because of the horrible stuff that is being carried out. Enter our local heroine who just happens to be the smartest kid on the block and so the hero and heroine set off together to save us. You can guess the rest, I wont spoil it by revealing the ending, eh.
Those old movies were made in about a week and were edited with warts and all. In this one our heroes are driving down the highway in the old pickup truck. The scene is shot ( quite a long one ) thru the winscreen and we can see in the background that vehicles keep appearing and disapearing
from view. It suggests that the scenes were shot at different times without regard for continuity. Typical old sci-fi stuff. In the westerns the shadows quite often changed direction.
I another scene the deputy sherriff meets some ladies and removes his hat before speaking to them. Instead of going over the brim to reach the crown
he runs into the brim and touches his face before he has a second attempt.
It suggests that the actor was not used to wearing a hat and to save time and budget, the scene was not reshot. You have to be sharp of course, to notice all this.
The movie has the look and feel of an early classic and is right up there with the best.
The thing is tho, the movie was made in 2009 !!!
Top stuff.

Keep pokin along.

Robert.

PS: I watched about ten minutes of that Billy Zane movie before I changed channels. Yuk.

[olbod]

Audie Murphy was the most decorated US soldier in WW2.If you Google you will be amazed at the "Fruit Salad " He has and most of it is for heroics. They made a movie about him it's called " To Hell and Back" and for a yank movie it's all true.
John.

Yes, I have it on DVD.

At one time some screen cowboy was bignoting himself, so Audie challenged him to a gunfight using real bullits.
Bloke declined, I cant remembered who it was.

Robert.

[Ferret]

... The Cisco Kid (except for Pancho's "let's went" line). They dressed like sissies and their horses were show ponies...sorry about that.

Mock Cisco or his horse 'Diablo' any further and there will be protests on the street.

[mikehzz]

Apparently he wasn't immune to his war time experiences. He suffered recurring nightmares and slept with a pistol under his pillow. Always seemed like a nice guy to me, he was one of the first people to publicly support and speak out on the war caused mental problems associated with returning veterans. Another feather in his cap. I like my heroes quietly spoken and under stated ie. no sassy fringes down the sleeves of their cowboy shirts or fluffy chaps. :)

[mikehzz]

Mock Cisco or his horse 'Diablo' any further and there will be protests on the street.

No worries, I'm wenting...

[Disco44]

Have a look here, Robert.

Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJlD5roDqNw)

Classic mate Thanks Now I know why I fell in love with "Trigger" when I was a kid,he was certainly a beautiful Palomino.

[olbod]

In my post 25, i mentioned our Dog.
Below is a photo of our red dog Toby in the backyard at Horsley Park.
He was actually Pop's dog but he had been our Mate all our lives.
In the pic you can see that he is very grey and reaching the end of his life.
He lived for twenty years.
Still brings tears to my eyes.

RIP Mate.

Robert.