tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post6110108168907242291..comments2024-03-14T01:51:27.974-07:00Comments on Buddies in the Saddle: The Wonderful Country (1959)Ron Scheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-31858302131029160302014-03-30T08:19:34.818-07:002014-03-30T08:19:34.818-07:00Roger Allen in the first comment mentions Malcolm ...Roger Allen in the first comment mentions Malcolm Lowry's UNDER THE VOLCANO. A difficult novel but it repays the time devoted to understanding it. I've read it a half dozen times during the last 40 or so years and love it. However it has scared me from ever thinking of visiting Mexico!Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-70231777402233663902014-03-29T15:01:40.661-07:002014-03-29T15:01:40.661-07:00Didn't know that Sachel Paige was a movie acto...Didn't know that Sachel Paige was a movie actor in anything besides baseball movies.Oscar Casehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328166606910469945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-73079096949468675692014-03-27T08:44:08.374-07:002014-03-27T08:44:08.374-07:00I had mixed feelings about it, good, but not witho...I had mixed feelings about it, good, but not without flaws: http://westernsontheblog.blogspot.be/2013/05/the-wonderful-country-1959.html<br />Simon Geltenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508149299818535491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-40010500400622722332014-03-25T13:58:12.147-07:002014-03-25T13:58:12.147-07:00"Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre al..."Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre also comes to mind"<br />...based on a book by a German-Mexican Marxist, B. Traven.<br /><br />It wasn't just Lawrence and Lowry among British writers who regarded Mexico as "a quest that becomes a test of ingenuity and courage, where death lurks in the shadows." A character in one of Saki's short stories has to flee to Mexico because "Conscience makes cowboys of us all." and the young British novelist Wilfrid Ewart was travelling in Mexico on New Year’s Eve 1922. He went out onto his hotel balcony to watch the locals celebrate the New Year by firing their guns in the air. A stray ricochet hit him in the eye, and killed him.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-10875318182999725692014-03-25T09:48:35.254-07:002014-03-25T09:48:35.254-07:00Gregory Nava's film El Norte maybe.Gregory Nava's film El Norte maybe.Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-27641108350887680732014-03-25T09:39:03.161-07:002014-03-25T09:39:03.161-07:00Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre also com...Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre also comes to mind.Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-27718443906781649962014-03-25T09:35:25.569-07:002014-03-25T09:35:25.569-07:00I have not been able to get into Lowry's book....I have not been able to get into Lowry's book. But your comment, Roger, reminds me of D. H. Lawrence, who also wrote of Mexico and its mysteries in The Plumed Serpent.Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-47030052438547507042014-03-25T07:28:33.009-07:002014-03-25T07:28:33.009-07:00I like Mitchum but haven't seen this one.I like Mitchum but haven't seen this one.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-9110436526465894022014-03-24T23:50:48.993-07:002014-03-24T23:50:48.993-07:00That's an interesting theme you've mention...That's an interesting theme you've mentioned. I wonder if Mexican novelists - even movie makers - have used it in the reverse.leaves on the Raney Treehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-47087631035442833742014-03-24T19:48:59.144-07:002014-03-24T19:48:59.144-07:00"The journey into Mexico is typically a quest..."The journey into Mexico is typically a quest that becomes a test of ingenuity and courage, where death lurks in the shadows,"<br /><br />The greatest work with this theme is Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, filmed by John Huston, though I don't think you could call it a Western.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com