Conte figure from The Horse Soldiers?? (1 Viewer)

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I was looking at UK Reb's Civil War diary figures and spotted this figure.

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Does this figure represent Carleton Young as Col. Jonathan Miles from The Horse Soldiers (1959), the one armed Confederate officer leading the charge up the town street from the train depot?

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That figure was the my 2nd Metal figure after getting back in the hobby.
in 2003 (My first was "my eyes have seen the Glory".
Anyway six months after buying that Confederate i was watching The Horse Soldiers.
and almost jumped off the couch when i saw that guy running down the street with one arm and Flag :D Conte must realy love his movie's :cool:
 
A lot of Conte figure seem to be movie based. The left handed Norman in the Warlord series IS the left handed actor in the movie. Not to mention the Heston, Boone, and Marriet Hartly figure. The Alamo series had most of the principle actors from the John Wayne film including John Derke as Jocko.
 
Joe Baker our playsetaddict created an outstanding photo diorama featuring him leading the charge as it appeared in the movie The Horse Soldiers............The Lt.
 

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The Lt. said:
Joe Baker our playsetaddict created an outstanding photo diorama featuring him leading the charge as it appeared in the movie The Horse Soldiers............The Lt.
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Kind of ironic that two of the Yankees pictured behind the barricades are actually Marx Confederates painted as Yankees and the Reb in front of the freight office is actually a Marx miner converted to a Confederate.
 
The Horse Soldiers-one of my favorite all-time civil war movies and grossly under-rated at the time of it's release-Ford and the Duke at their best.

However, does anybody know why the film seemed to finish rather abruptly immediately after Wayne blew the bridge?;););)

Reb
 
I know but I'll let you tell. It's sad. The released ending seemed to "finish" the story.
 
UKREB

Your query about the abrupt ending throws up two answers.The first being that footing had already been shot of the Union troops parading through Baton Rouge accompanied by a huge fanfare,but production costs had shot through the roof so this scene was deleted.Another,rather sad factor,was the untimely death of actor/stuntman Fred Kennedy,a good friend of John Ford,who broke his neck whilst performing a stunt in the final bridge scene.It seems that Ford was so upset by this tragedy that he simply called a halt to any more filming.
An excellent book which a aquired a couple of years ago is 'Fiction as Fact.The Horse Soldiers and popular memory',which gives a good account of the film,the actors and the Grierson's raid itself.

Tullock
 
The Horse Soldiers is a "Guilty Pleasure" movie for CW reenactors. It's short on authenticity and long on entertainment.


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Scott said:
The Horse Soldiers is a "Guilty Pleasure" movie for CW reenactors. It's short on authenticity and long on entertainment.


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Interesting photo Scott. Where does that come from? Amusing to see Constance Towers firing a pistol in a towel. I remember the bath scene of course but I don't recall that she was armed in it.;) Maybe I need to see it again soon.:)
 
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Interesting photo Scott. Where does that come from and is that Constance Towers?
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Bill it's an off screen shot on location and yes that's Miss CT herself.

Tullock is right until I read the book he mentioned I could never understand why the soundtrack album included the track The Girl I left Behind Me but was not in any of the scenes in the film.

Ford himself was an ACW buff and had always wanted to film the Grierson Raid but he hated the script and got it revised umpteen times by using a certain amount of artistic licence. But he failed to finish the film and left out 3 or 4 concluding scenes or camera shots that were supposed to have been shot on the studio back-lot.

The abrupt ending of the bridge being blown didn't quite gel for a 50's movie.

The clues for the missing scenes are in the dialogue throughout the movie-Wayne spreading a rumor that the Union cavalry were going to Nashville for a grand parade until they found by the postion of the sun they were heading into Reb country as examples and other utterances that just didn't link with The End appearing on screen

First of the final scenes was supposed to be as Marlowe (Wayne) and his bedraggled troop appear on the outskirts of Baton Rouge- a purdy spick and span major rides up to inform him that he and his smart cavalry troop would be escorting Marlowe and his men through the town in honor of their raid and the BR general staff will be taking the salute.

Next scene would show the major and his perfectly turned out troopers in the lead followed by Marlowe and his filthy, ragged and some wounded troops followed behind. Next shot shows a smiling Wilkie (who had previously worked out that they were originally heading south) turning to another trooper and saying "Well it ain't Nashville but we sure got our parade"-as Marlowe reaches the assembled officer staff Marlowe orders "Eyes Right" with music swelling of The Girl I Left Behind Me-Fade Out.
Music obviously referring to Miss Towers he left on the other side of the bridge and why it was included on the soundtrack album.

Reb
 
It's a Corbis photo of Constance Towers from the clothes drying scene. Firing the pistol must have just been a stunt for the camera.

Seeing this movie as a little kid, I thought I was seeing an "adult movie" when Constance leaned over John Wayne in the low cut dress with the plate of chicken. She asked if he wanted more leg or breast. "I've had enough of both." Said Wayne.

The actress playing Lukey (Hannah Hunter's maid) was Althea Gibson

"She was the first to break the color barrier of the American Lawn Tennis League in 1950 and played in the U.S. National Tennis Championship in Forest Hills. She became the first African-American player to play in Wimbledon in 1951. She won the French Championship in 1956. She won in Wimbledon in 1957, the trophy presented to her by Queen Elizabeth. She successfully defended her Wimbledon title in 1958. She won the U.S. National Tennis Championship at Forest Hills in 1957 and 1958. She retired from Tennis in 1958 and played for a while with the Harlem Globetrotters. She also broke the color barrier in golf,launching her golf career in 1964 and joining the LPGA."
 
Denver Pyle ... Jackie Jo (rebel deserter)
Strother Martin ... Virgil (rebel deserter)

In our Union reenactment unit we would unofficially assign the "Virgil and Jackie Jo Award" to the worst stereotype "Reb" impressions we saw.

These two actors are really great character actors.
 
Thanks Bob and Scott. I had forgotten the clothes drying scene until I refreshed my memory with some searching. I really do need to see this again.
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Scott said:
Denver Pyle ... Jackie Jo (rebel deserter)
Strother Martin ... Virgil (rebel deserter)

In our Union reenactment unit we would unofficially assign the "Virgil and Jackie Jo Award" to the worst stereotype "Reb" impressions we saw.

These two actors are really great character actors.
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Were great character actors;)
 
An interesting note on the photo of CT aiming the pistol while in the towel is that the pistol is a large frame (maybe K or N) Smith & Wesson, not a Civil War era prop pistol. -- lancer
 
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