Six Black Horses (1962)

[Tommy Tainant]

Six Black Horses (1962) ⭐ 6.4 | Drama, Western

1h 20m | Approved

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A beautiful woman hires two cowboys to escort her through Apache country but everything is not as it seems.
Audi Murphy and Dan Duryea share the male leads but the real staar is the stunningly beautiful Joan O Brian. She dominates every scene and lifts the movie out of the humdrum.
She must be Hollywoods most wasted talents, I could look at her all day. Elvis did more than look at her and they had a torrid affair while making " It happened at the World Fair".

Good western and well worth a watch.

 

[Flopper]

Six Black Horses (1962) ⭐ 6.4 | Drama, Western

1h 20m | Approved

www.imdb.com

A beautiful woman hires two cowboys to escort her through Apache country but everything is not as it seems.
Audi Murphy and Dan Duryea share the male leads but the real staar is the stunningly beautiful Joan O Brian. She dominates every scene and lifts the movie out of the humdrum.
She must be Hollywoods most wasted talents, I could look at her all day. Elvis did more than look at her and they had a torrid affair while making " It happened at the World Fair".

Good western and well worth a watch.

That story is very familiar. I probably saw it as I saw most Westerns in those days. Is it on YouTube?

Audie Murphy tops the list of solider actors. His book and movie "To Hell and Back" sounds like pure Hollywood fiction but it really happen pretty much the way he described it in his book.

Murphy was born into a large family of Texas sharecroppers. His father abandoned them, and his mother died when he was a teenager. Murphy left school in the fifth grade to pick cotton and find other work to help support his family. His skill with a hunting rifle put much of the food on the table.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy's older sister helped him to falsify documentation about his birthdate in order to meet the minimum age requirement for enlisting in the military. Turned down initially for being underweight by the Army, Navy and the Marine Corps, he eventually was able to enlist in the Army. He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army including the Medal of Honor, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism.

After the war, he was offered entrance to West Point but considering his education stopped at the 5th grade he turned it down. He then turned to acting even though he had no experience or training however he had no training or experience doing anything but soldiering, picking cotton, and other menial jobs.

Producer and Director James Cagney after reading an article in Life Magazine about Murphy, brought him to Hollywood put him under contract and provided him with acting and voice lessons. However, Cagney never cast him in a movie. Their professional relationship ended and Murphy found jobs in bit parts in movies and continued his acting lessons. He befriended director and writer David McClure who collaborated with him on his book. After a number of small parts in several movies, he got a staring roll in the movie, Bad Boy. Thus began a 20 year career. He made 40 movies and one TV series. Almost every production was either a western or somehow connected to the military.

His personal life was not a happy one. He suffered from what we now call PTSD. He said he had chronic insomnia and nightmares and slept with a gun under his pillow. He married and divorced, remarried and had two kids. He became a estranged from his second wife and was in and out of hospitals. Although he had a successful ranch that bread horses, a series of bad investments lead to money problems and bouts with the IRS. Addiction to alcohol and sleeping pills lead to problems with the police. He was arrested for assault and battery but released. in 1971 he died in a private plane accident. He was buried with honors in Arlington National Cemetery.

Murphy left a number of good westerns and a great military career . In his actoring career he followed Teddy Roosevelt's advice, "Speech softly and carry a big stick."

Audie Murphy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Tommy Tainant]

That story is very familiar. I probably saw it as I saw most Westerns in those days. Is it on YouTube?

Audie Murphy tops the list of solider actors. His book and movie "To Hell and Back" sounds like pure Hollywood fiction but it really happen pretty much the way he described it in his book.

Murphy was born into a large family of Texas sharecroppers. His father abandoned them, and his mother died when he was a teenager. Murphy left school in the fifth grade to pick cotton and find other work to help support his family. His skill with a hunting rifle put much of the food on the table.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy's older sister helped him to falsify documentation about his birthdate in order to meet the minimum age requirement for enlisting in the military. Turned down initially for being underweight by the Army, Navy and the Marine Corps, he eventually was able to enlist in the Army. He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army including the Medal of Honor, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism.

After the war, he was offered entrance to West Point but considering his education stopped at the 5th grade he turned it down. He then turned to acting even though he had no experience or training however he had no training or experience doing anything but soldiering, picking cotton, and other menial jobs.

Producer and Director James Cagney after reading an article in Life Magazine about Murphy, brought him to Hollywood put him under contract and provided him with acting and voice lessons. However, Cagney never cast him in a movie. Their professional relationship ended and Murphy found jobs in bit parts in movies and continued his acting lessons. He befriended director and writer David McClure who collaborated with him on his book. After a number of small parts in several movies, he got a staring roll in the movie, Bad Boy. Thus began a 20 year career. He made 40 movies and one TV series. Almost every production was either a western or somehow connected to the military.

His personal life was not a happy one. He suffered from what we now call PTSD. He said he had chronic insomnia and nightmares and slept with a gun under his pillow. He married and divorced, remarried and had two kids. He became a estranged from his second wife and was in and out of hospitals. Although he had a successful ranch that bread horses, a series of bad investments lead to money problems and bouts with the IRS. Addiction to alcohol and sleeping pills lead to problems with the police. He was arrested for assault and battery but released. in 1971 he died in a private plane accident. He was buried with honors in Arlington National Cemetery.

Murphy left a number of good westerns and a great military career . In his actoring career he followed Teddy Roosevelt's advice, "Speech softly and carry a big stick."

Audie Murphy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I found it on youtube but not under its title.

 

[Flopper]

I found it on youtube but not under its title.

I Google Six Black Horses and didn't find it. I think it's available on prime for rental.