Ep. 144 Cattle Drive Westerns

All episodes are made available to Patreon subscribers, the most
tender and sensitive of all audiences, one week before their
general release. https://www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke We're joined
by the great David Lambert to discuss one of the greatest Western
subgenres, stories of cattle drives and the swarthy, sweaty men who
oversee them! It's an overlooked subgenre despite the fact that
from Red River to Lonesome Dove, some of the defining films of the
Western genre are about the grueling world of cattle-men. When it
comes epic Westerns about terse, determined men pushing themselves
to the limit under the biggest skies imaginable, there's few
subgenres as likely to deliver. Join hosts Christopher Funderburg
and John Cribbs for a lively, comprehensive conversation that sets
out to do justice to the suprising breadth of work found in "le
cinema de cattle drive," as the French call it. And as always,
there's no better guest with whom to discuss Westerns than the
bottomlessly knowledgeable Mr. Lambert! This is an incredibly fun
journey spanning decades of saddle adventures which make up the
western equivalent of the road movie. Questions asked along the way
include: Is cattle driving exclusive to men? Who would be your
preferred trail boss: Monomaniacal John Wayne from Red River?
Reformed gunman Billy Green Bush of The Culpepper Cattle Co.? Tough
but fair Glenn Ford in Cowboy? Should anyone under any circumstance
have to experience 1951's Vengeance Valley? Join us as we blaze
this trail - keep your eyes open for rustlers and we'll meet you
back at the chuckwagon. The Pink Smoke site: www.thepinksmoke.com
David Lambert on X: twitter.com/DavidLambertArt The Pink Smoke on
X: twitter.com/thepinksmoke Christopher Funderburg on X:
twitter.com/cfunderburg Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"