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...What do we do today?....WESTERN MOVIES?.........cowboys wearin' burkas?......horses......
......Gun fights?..........John Wayne?......cowgirls with SKINNY leggs?....I'm gonna cry.. ..
....giddy up!....cattle drives?........stagecoaches!.........COWBOY MOVIES!.....oh, BOY!!..git along, little' doggies....cavalry comes to the rescue.....yeaaaaa HAW!!!!.... Saddle up, Pilgrim! Camp Run-a-Muk rides again! 
Welcome to Camp RUN-A-MUK! 
Camp Run-A-Muk THEME SONG! Today's Feature: Western Movies! 
Where the Plan Of the Day is: Mirth...Merriment...and FUN!
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The BAR is OPEN! The POPCORN is POPPED! We've got Eye candy...Mind candy... and Chicken soup for the soul! 
Here's a few Westerns that I would like to share with you..   
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly --Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while Blondie learns the identity of the exact grave. Joined by mercenary drifter Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), they cross the desert, each of the desperadoes knowing half the secret and each focusing his squinty eyes on the $200,000 bounty.
 Angel and the Badman
--An old-fashioned Western with John Wayne at his best as a gunfighter who must choose between the girl he loves and his guns which always seem to attract trouble. When outlaw Quirt Evans (Wayne) is wounded during a bank robbery, he is taken in by a gentle Quaker family and nursed back to health by their lovely daughter Penelope Worth (Gail Russell). Quirt begins to rethink his violent lifestyle after falling in love with Penelope and being hounded by his rival Laredo Stevens (Bruce Cabot) and a laconic U.S. marshal named Wistful McClintlock (Harry Carey). With its excellent script, quirky characters, and a sweet-natured blend of comedy and action, ANGEL AND THE BADMAN is justly considered one of the best Westerns ever made. 
Big Jake
--John Wayne is Jacob McCandles, an aging cowboy in an Old West that is on the verge of modernization. When his eight-year-old grandson is kidnapped by a violent gang led by the evil John Fain (Richard Boone), Jacob's estranged wife (Maureen O' Hara) enlists his help to rescue the boy. Jacob and his three sons (one of whom is portrayed by Wayne's real-life son Patrick) set out to bring the gang to justice. This late-period Wayne western is characterized by a gritty realism not present in most of his earlier works. The surprisingly graphic violence is also tempered with abundant humor. 
The Magnificent Seven
--John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of its harvest to a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach) decides to hire a group of professional gunmen, headed by gunslinger-for-hire Chris (Yul Brynner), to protect them. Despite the meager pay, Chris and Vin (Steve McQueen) sign on after the Mexicans see them face down some racist thugs. Chris begins to pick up other gunmen, including Bernardo (Charles Bronson), Lee (Robert Vaughan), Britt (James Coburn), Harry (Brad Dexter), and aspiring gunslinger Chico (Horst Buchholz), as they ride back to the village.The Mexicans, who are at first ambivalent about having gunmen hanging around their town, finally let down their guard and allow their visitors to teach them how to shoot and how to best reconfigure the town to defend against Calvera. When the bandits return, they find harvesting the crops a little more challenging. This rousing, perfectly cast action film launched the careers of Bronson, McQueen, and Coburn. It also benefits tremendously from the unforgettably polyrhythmic score by Elmer Bernstein, among the most famous in film history. So popular was the film's theme that it was used to sell Marlboro cigarettes for years afterward. 
Do you notice one actor showing up more often then the rest? Could it be JOHN WAYNE?? We wonder why... America, Why I Love Her Face The Flag 
The Pledge Of Allegiance In HONOR of MEMORIAL DAY
....for my fallen brothers & sisters...
....THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE! Thanks, POPS! Thanks, Uncle Ted! Thanks, Uncle Pat! Taps
Got a favorite you wanna share ?
(My kid sister, Beth, with "skinny leggs", running wild) 
Hey, Maw! Can you try & get that rifle away from Beth before she hurts herself ?
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