It's that time of the month. Coming up on Wednesday, the 1st of March, the gang from the SRPC will be rounding up a few stray movie fans and conducting Cowboy Movie Night. We will be showing our monthly cowboy movie, again, this time at the Sunny Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. We normally show the movies at the club but since Grogan got bucked of his bunk and broke his femur, we have been using Sunny Ridge as our venue while Grogan rehabilitates.

The movie will be the 2003, Tom Selleck version of Monte Walsh. The 1970 version, if you recall featured Lee Marvin and Jack Palance. It was a pretty good movie but the newer version, in my opinion, is better directed (Simon Wincer - Lonesome Dove), has better cinematography, better costuming and some additional scenes not presented in the 1970 Version. I feel this is a good selection for the crowd at Sunny Ridge. Running time is 117 minutes.

Movie starts at 6:30 PM.. Bring your own victuals for dinner. Popcorn and beverages will be provided. I see some new members were added to the list of interested parties so I hope to see a new face or two. If you possess some cowboy attire, wear it but you will be admitted without it.

Happy trails to you until we meet again.

Scipio Sam

Greetings to all of you hibernating ranch hands. I know it's frigid outside and ice needs to be broken to water the stock but you have an opportunity to get away from the cozy bunk house stove and your blankets and out to some entertainment on Wednesday evening. Cowboy Movie Night doesn't care about the weather. We will be showing "Open Range" Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM. The showing will be at the the Sunny Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at 3014 Erie Avenue in Sheboygan.

"Open Range" is a 2003 classic western starring Keven Costner, Robert Duvall, Abraham Benrubi, Diego Luna, Annette Benning, and Herber Kohler, Jr. as the Cafe Man. Movie runs 139 minutes. We've seen this one awhile ago but it is popular enough to be requested again.

Put on your Mackinaw and muskrat hat. Bring your dinner or your snacks and get out of the cold and enjoy some warm action and a little romance as well as one of the Top Ten Shootouts in western movie history. We are once again inviting the residents of Sunny Ridge to join us so no cussing or spitting on the floor.

Directed by Kevin Costner.
Running time: 139 minutes

Scipio Sam

Greetings all of you bunk house lurkers. Because of various conflicts on the schedule, the club Cowboy Movie Night will be held next Wednesday, January 18th. Same time, 6:30 PM. One difference next week will be the location. We are having Cowboy Movie Night at Sunnyridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at 3014 Erie Avenue. Augie Margenau is a temporary resident there and this will accomodate his attendance at the function. Enter at the main entrance. A cowboy will be there to direct you to the auditorium for the movie. We can still bring our snacks and food as usual. We have also invited any interested residents of Sunny Ridge to join us. Arrive on time or a little early so you can be let in. Other wise, you will have to suffer the embarrasment of being "buzzed in" by staff.

Wear your cowboy duds. Even a cowboy hat and boots would be nice but not a requirement. They are excited to have us and this will go a ways in projecting our club image.

The movie will be "The Three Amigos" that timeless comedy classic.

I hope to put an eye ball on you next week.

Directed by John Landis.
Running time: 105 minutes

Scipio Sam

Holiday greetings to all of you Cowboy Movie fans. Our next Cowboy Movie Night will be this coming Wednesday, December 7th. Show time is 6:30 PM at the SRPC club house. Usual format, bring your dinner or snacks and settle back for another great western.

This week's feature is Old Henry. The story is about a widowed farmer and his son. They take in a stranger who has been shot and is in possession of a bag full of money. Shortly, a sheriff and his men visit looking for the man and the money. The farmer isn't sure who to believe, the wounded man or the sheriff. His choice is revealed as the plot develops. I won't spoil it for you.

The movie features Tim Blake Nelson (Ballad of Buster Scrugs), Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins, and Stephen Dorff. There is no romance in this one. All male cast, no women Russ.

The movie was released in 2021 and runs 99 minutes. Thank you, Rusty Mike, for bringing this film to my attention. Hope to see a gang of western movie fans in attendance for this one.

Because of the date, I will be staying to watch Tora, Tora, Tora after the featured film.

Directed by Potsy Ponciroli.
Running time: 99 minutes

Scipio Sam

Greetings to all of you fans of the western movie genre. Just a quick shout out to you all inviting you to attend the last SRPC Cowboy Movie Night of the winter.

This week's movie is a 1948 Black and White classic entitled, "Yellow Sky." The feature stars Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark and quite a few recognizable character actors.

The story line follows a surly gang led by Gregory Peck. They hold up a bank and escape across a desert. Suffering from severe thirst, they stumble across an abandoned mining town. An old man and his grand daughter are the only two inhabitants left in town. Why are they still living in the town? It seems that the pair stayed behind and continued to mine for gold in the hope of finding a new vein of gold. When the gang realizes that the pair have saved up a small forturne with the possibility of more, gang cohesion begins to crack and the fun begins.

If you get past the film's opening credit stating, "The West 1867" then notice a plethora of 1873 Colt Pecemakers, you will enjoy the movie.

Looking forward to seeing a few cowboys at this final showing. Running time is 1 hour 38 minutes.

Directed by William A. Wellman.
Running time: 98 minutes

Movie begins at 6:30 PM at the clubhouse.

Scipio

The movie was released in 1933 and stars a young Randolph Scott (with pencil thin mustache), Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Buster Crabbe, Judith Allen (her first movie) and Blanche Friderici.

The story is about two competing buffalo hunting outfits. One is an honest operation and the other, not so much. The movie was originally produced as a silent film in 1925 as "The Thundering Herd." The 1933 remake, with sound, has a different cast but the same story line.

The movie was praised by critics as being one of the best B westerns ever made. The film is also noted as being one of the most historically accurate depictions of the hide hunting outfits of the 1870's.

The story is based on a Zane Grey novel The Thundering Herd . Paramount Pictures made a series of westerns based on other Zane Grey novels in the 1930's. You may recognize some of the scenery that was filmed in the Alabama Mountains in California. The backdrop is familiar to those that remember the Hoppalong Cassidy and other matinee westerns of the day.

Directed by Henry Hathaway.
Running time: 60 minutes

Hope to have you joins us as we enjoy this classic western of yesteryear.

Scipio Sam

Greetings cowboy wanna bees and fans of the western movie genre. This is a reminder that Cowboy Movie Night at the Rifle and Pistol Club is Wednesday, March 2nd. Movie begins at 6:30 PM at the club house. Bring a snack or your dinner and enjoy a 1946 classic western produced by David O. Selznick.

This week's movie is "Duel In The Sun." It stars Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotton, Lionel Barrymore, Jennifer Jones, Lillian Gish, Charles Bickford and Walter Huston.

Sultry half breed, Pearl Chavez, is a magnet for tragedy. After the death of her parents in a domestic dispute, Pearl goes to live with her aunt on the large "Spanish Bit" ranch owned by wealthy Senator Jackson McCanles. The two McCanles sons are attracted to Pearl along with one of the ranch hands. The McCanles family is torn apart by Pearl, the home wrecker. Senator McCanles has trouble accepting that the railroad is coming to his territory.

Producer, David O. Selznick had hoped that this western would equal or surpass his previous block buster, "Gone With the Wind." Running time is 2 hrs. 26 minutes.

See you at the show.

Scipio

Greetings all of you cowboy movie fans and SRPC lurkers. After a January layoff, we will once again get back on our regular schedule for Cowboy Movie Night. We will be showing the 2008 release of the movie, "Appaloosa," Wednesday night, February 2nd at 6:30 PM at the clubhouse. Same format, wear your hats and boots and bring along a snack or your dinner and relax while watching another good western movie.

This movie stars Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Arladna Gill and Tom Bower. The movie finds Vergil Cole and his partner, Everet Hitch who are hired guns that travel to lawless towns to try and establish law and order in towns that are desperate enough to hire them. Their methods are unconventional but effective. They are hired by the mining town of Appaloosa to deal with a rancher who is bullying and riding rough shod over the town. Their job becomes complicated when an attractive widow shows up in town and threatens their bond of friendship. Running time is 115 minutes.

Looking forward to seeing you all.

Scipio

Greetings. Just a reminder that Cowboy Movie Night is this coming Wednesday, December 8th. Meet at the clubhouse at 6:30 PM. Bring some victuals or snacks for yourself and maybe to share. This month's movie is another spoof, ala Rustler's Rhapsody. The title of the movie this week is Undead or Alive. It spoofs the walking dead/zombie genre using the old west as a backdrop. This entertaining 2007 movie stars James Denton, Chris Kattan, and Ravi Rawat. Looking forward to seeing you all.

Scipio Sam AKA Mike

Dear fellow cowboy movie fans,

Just a quick reminder about the Sheboygan Rifle and Pistol Club's Cowboy movie night. Wednesday, November 3rd is the first Wednesday of the month and time again for a western classic. This month's movie is a John Ford classic, Wagon Master. This 1950 classic, filmed in classic John Ford style in Monument Valley, stars Ward Bond, Ben Johnson and Harry Carry, Jr.

It tells the story of Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) looking for a wagon master to guide a group of outcast Mormons to San Juan Valley. A couple of horse traders played by Ben Johnson and Harry Carry, Jr. fill the bill.

The story depicts numerous setbacks along the way, especially when the Clegg family of outlaws takes refuge in the wagon train. You may remember Ward Bond as the wagon master in the T.V. series, Wagon Train. This movie was the inspiration for the T.V. series.

Running time is 86 minutes

I hope to see you all turn out. Bring your snack and come and enjoy an old classic.

Scipio Sam AKA Mike

Just a quick reminder that since the "Golf Rodeo" is finished next door, it is time to resume some of our normal activities. This would include Cowboy Movie Night. Cowboy Movie Night is held each month on the first Wednesday. Our first Cowboy Movie Night will be held Wednesday, October 6 at 6:30 PM at the club house.

Our first movie this year will be "There Was a Crooked Man" starring Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Burgess Meredith and Warren Oats. The story deals with a charming but ruthless criminal who is sent to prison for a holdup. He gets his fellow prisoners to assist in an escape plan with a promise to share the loot.

This movie was released in June 1970 and probably couldn't be shown today because of its lack of political correctness and wokeness. It runs 2 hours and 6 minutes.

It will be nice to see some of the old compadres and hopefully, some new western movie fans.

Scipio Sam AKA Mike

Greetings to all of you fans of the western movie and dime novel genre. I see that the snow has given way to more sunshine and warming temperatures. Crocus plants are peeking out from under the dry horse and cow manure around the corals and outbuildings. That signals the beginning of spring. I hope all hands are healthy and robust and able to prepare for the spring round ups and fence mending chores that come with spring. But before we saddle up and head out for the open range, let's all plan on attending the SR&PC's final Cowboy Movie Night of the year.

The club's final showing of the year will be Wednesday evening, April 7th at the club house. Shows will begin at 6:30 PM. I said, "shows" because this last get together will feature two movies or, as they say, a double feature.

The first movie will be "Code of the West," a 1947 black and white oater based on a Zane Grey novel of the same name. The plot is familiar. Boyd Carter, saloon owner. knows the railroad is coming and is after land owned by the surrounding ranchers. He intends to get the land either by buying it or intimidating the ranchers with violence. Hero, Bob Wade and sidekick, Chito, return just in time to save new banker, Harry Stockton, and his daughter, Ruth, from Carter's henchmen. Bob Wade's ranch is also targeted by Carter's henchmen as he works to expose the corrupt sheriff and Boyd. Raymond Burr, who at the time was just breaking into acting, is barely a footnote in the credits. He exhibits his early talents as Boyd Carter, bad guy.

Movie stars, James Warren, Debra Allen, John Lawrence, Steve Brodie, Rita Lynn and Raymond Burr. Run time is 57 minutes.

The second feature will be "Rustler's Rhapsody." This 1985 release runs 88 minutes. It was written and directed by Hugh Williams. Stars in the movie are Tom Berringer, G.W. Baily, Marilue Henner, Andy Griffith, and Fernando Rey.

The plot follows singing cowboy, Rex O'Herlihan, as he makes a transition from a black and white horse opera into a modern technicolor spoof of the Saturday morning cowboy hero who always shoots the gun out of the bad guy's hand. This delightful romp through Saturday morning cowboy cliches should entertain most fans of the Saturday morning westerns or cowboy matinees of the early l950's.

Please plan to join us Wednesday evening.

Scipio Sam AKA Mike

Greetings to all of you fans of the western film genre. The club will be holding its next to last Cowboy Movie Night of the season. If you have not attended one of the club showings, you are running out of time. The April showing will be the last showing of the season until next fall.

This week's story line follows young Rio Carter and his sister Sara on the run from their uncle after the young boy, Rio, shoots and kills his abusive father as the father is beating the mother to death. The uncle catches up to Rio and Sara and snatches Sara and forces her into prostitution. Young Rio is searching for his sister when he crosses paths with Billy the Kid and Pat Garret. The rest is history: sort of.

I hope to see more of you attending this get together for western movie genre entertainment with like minded fans of "cowboy" movies. Bring a snack or your whole dinner and join us Wednesday evening, March 3rd, at 6:30 PM.

M. Hansen

Just a reminder about Cowboy Movie Night at Sheboygan Rifle and Pistol Club. Tomorrow, February 3rd. A great opportunity for fans of the Cowboy/Western genre. Again, the featured film will be In a Valley of Violence starring Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Taissa Farmiga, and James Ransone.

Running time is 104 minutes.

For those who expressed an interest in Cowboy Movie Night on your membership renewal, this is a great opportunity to meet like minded folks interested in cowboy movies. Bring a snack to enjoy and join us tomorrow at the club house, 6:30 PM. Enjoy the big screen and stereo sound.

Scipio Sam AKA Mike

Greetings to all of you desperados. You may not be a desperado but you look like one when you are all masked up against the COVID-19 pandemic that has been creeping across the range and playing havoc with many businesses in town; not so much on the ranches. Now that we have most of the work done around the place such as plugging the cracks in the bunk house with aokum against the winter winds and laying in a supply of fire wood against the coming winter cold, it's time to think of entertainment activities and ways to pass the time as we wait for and dream of the spring round up.

In spite of all the edicts by government, steps of mitigation for the Chinese Cooties, and business closures, the Sheboygan Rifle Pistol Club Movie house will be open for business the first Wednesday of every month now until April. Cowboy movies fill the play bill. Bring snacks, your cowboy bandana (in lieu of the commercial masks if you choose) and the other hands from the area.

The first show this year will be the 1954 classic, "Johnny Guitar." Directed by Nicholas Ray. In starring roles are Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ron Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, and John Carradine. Crawford plays a strong and independent women who runs a saloon at the edge of town. She is battling towns people who want her gone, especially, Emma (Mercedes McCambridge) the town's sexually repressed and lynch happy wench. This was a ground breaking film in 1954 as it deals with role reversal and women who are, at times, stronger than the men.

Scipio Sam AKA Mike

Greetings fellow cowpunchers and rounders. Can you believe the weather lately? The Farmer's Almanac says nothing about climate change but I like the warming. Turkeys and deer are beginning to show themselves around the ranch and it should be a mild spring which bodes well for the upcoming round up. A few of the boys have been out back limbering up the six guns and Winchesters. I spent the beautiful day gathering up all of the tumbleweeds that have blown up against the west side of the out buildings and in the fences. The next talkie showing in town this Wednesday will be "Shootout at the OK Corral." Great opportunity to relieve a case of cabin fever. Grab some grub and plan to attend. Wednesday's showing begins at 6:30 PM.

This 1957 classic starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Flemming, Jo Van Fleet and John Ireland depicts the running feud between Doc Holiday, the Earp brothers and the Clanton-McLaury gang in Tombstone, Arizona. The feud reaches a climax at the end of Fremont Street at the OK Corral. The result is the legendary shootout on October 26, 1881. All hell breaks loose at 3:00 PM and only lasts 30 seconds, but of course, the movie makers draw it out a little longer. Tom and Frank McLaury are killed, along with Billy Clanton. Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp and Doc Holiday are wounded. Ike Clanton and Billy Clairborne run for the hills. Nominated for two Academy Awards, this film plays loose with history but is still considered one of the best westerns ever made.

Directed by John Sturgis.
Running time: 122 minutes

Grab a snack and a cowboy hat and join me and few of the boys at 6:30 PM Wednesday evening this week. Cowgirls and kids always welcome.

Life around the ranch has been a little messy; what with all the melting ice and snow turning the area around the ranch a quagmire interspersed with islands of ice and melting snow. The farm wagons are leaving huge ruts in what passes for a road and common area around the corals and bunk house. Keeping the mud from boots off the bunk house floor is a big problem. The one saving grace of the mild weather is that we don't have to venture out to bust the ice off of the water troughs. A few of the hands are planning to ride into town and catch this week's talkie, Lawman, playing Wednesday evening at the SRPC movie house. This week's feature is a classic Burt Lancaster film released in 1971.

Burt Lancaster plays the part of a hard nosed, by the book lawman who sees the world as black or white and does not compromise his principles. A group of drunken cowboys shoot up a town but accidentally shoot a bystander. Marshal Jared Maddox sees it as his duty bound mission to return the cowboys to face a judge. Marshal Maddox tracks the cowboys back to their town and makes it known that he plans to take them back for trial or kill them where they stand. Wealthy ranch owner, Vincent Bronson, can't talk his cowboys into going back to stand trial so offers Marshal Maddox a deal. The no nonsense lawman refuses and the lead flies.

"Lawman" is a 1971 classic written by Gerald Wilson and is directed by Michael Winner. The movie stars Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall and Sheree North. Running time is 99 minutes.

Grab a snack and a cowboy hat and join me and few of the boys at 6:30 PM Wednesday evening this week. Cowgirls and kids always welcome.

Greetings all you bored drovers and wranglers. I was just sitting around the bunk house wondering what I could do outside in this mild January weather. I got the idea of hitting up cookie, over at the cook shack, for some number 10 bean cans and going out to the gully behind the barn and burning some powder in the old colt plow handle with a few of my bunkies. The noise attracted the foreman and he came around wanting to know what all the noise was about. When he saw we were just lolly gagging around, he decided to put us to work. "Saddle up your semi-retired cow ponies and get out and scout the fence lines for any breaks in the wire." After riding fence all day we ate chow and retired to the bunk house dead tired. I happened to pick up a dime novel from the stack of old reading material and hit upon a story about Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Then I got to wondering what would be playing at the Rifle and Pistil Club Cowboy Movie Night. Lo and behold, this week's feature is going to be "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid."

"Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" a movie written by Randy Wurlitzer and directed by Sam Peckinpah will be playing. The movie was released in 1973 and runs 155 minutes. The story is about two well known characters of western lore who were not only acquaintances but friends at one time. Pat Garret is made sheriff and hired by the New Mexico Governor and some cattle barons to bring Billy to justice. Pat warns Billy to head to Mexico but Billy ignores the advice and Pat is forced to track him down. History is made at Fort Sumner, New Mexico when Pat catches up to Billy. Pat Garrett, himself, is shot under mysterious circumstances many years later.

The movie is classic Sam Peckinpah with plenty of shoot outs and spurting blood. The cast is classic western starring James Coburn, Kris Kristopherson, Richard Jaeckol, Bob Dylan and a host of familiar character actors such as, Chill Wills, Jack Elam, Jason Robards, Rita Coolidge, Slim Pickens, Barry Sullivan, and Katy Jurado. The sound track was written and performed by Bob Dylan.

Bring something to chew on (no spitting on the floor) and enjoy this classic, Wednesday, January 8th, 6:30 PM.

Greeting fellow Caballeros. This weekend finds me hold up in the town of Knox Crossing waiting for suitable transportation back to the ranch. I ventured north for a quiet week of game hunting but 20 inches of snow put the kibosh on any real hope of success. I really need to get back to the spread in Sheboygan and the old bunkhouse. Another reason to get back is for Cowboy Movie Night. The next Cowboy Movie Night is scheduled for December 4th at 6:30 PM, same old movie house.

This week's feature film "Purgatory," is entertaining and has all of the usual characteristics of a western movie. That is, horses, guns, shootouts, good guys, bad guys, an Indian, gals and, yes, a little romance. If you are a fan of the western movie genre and the old "Twilight Zone" series then you will like this film. Some familiar names grace the screen in the form of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Doc Holiday, and Jesse James. Also, a plot tickler; Purgatory is the place where souls are believed to be kept until Judgement Day when they will be judged and either thrown into the fires of hell or taken by angels to heaven.

The movie stars Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts, Randy Quaid, Donnie Wahlberg, Brad Rowe, Amelia Heinle and Shannon Kenny.
Directed by Uli Edel
Written by Gordon Dawson
Released in 1999
Running Time - 94 minutes

Now, if the Overland can make it through the snow clogged passes, I should see you all Wednesday.

To all my bunkies and fellow cowboys and cowgirls, I am currently off the ranch anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Overland Stage next Tuesday. I will hop the stage and hopefully be back in time for Cowboy Movie Night. While I am enjoying the warm sun here in Florida I hope you can get your chores done, lay in a supply of firewood for the bunk house stove and clear a path through the snow to the Rifle Pistol Club on Wednesday, November 6th.

A 1973 John Wayne talkie will be showing at 6:30 PM. The film is entitled, "The Train Robbers" and stars John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Ben Johnson, Rod Taylor and Ricardo Montalban. Written and directed by Burt Kennedy the story line is about a widow whose husband robbed half a million dollars in gold from a train and buried it somewhere in the desert. The widow hires Wayne and his little band to help her recover the gold so she can return it to the railroad and clear her name. Wayne and his band are working for the $50,000 reward. Another bunch of outlaws also want to find the gold so they trail and dog Wayne and his group.

Running time is 92 minutes.

As I sit here removing my boots and spurs, it dawned on me that the cowboy summer is almost over. It's difficult to notice the change in season when the cacti and sage brush don't change color or lose leaves to indicate the fall. We took a break from Cowboy Movie Night beginning in spring when we all had to fall out for the round up of winter strays, the summer of grazing and fattening up the cattle and the late summer cattle drive to market. Now it's time to turn our attention to late fall and winter activities.

You don't have to spend those long, cold winter nights sitting in the bunk house making hand shadows in front of a lantern on a sheet hung on the bunk house wall. No sir! You can amble or mosey out to your local gun club on the first Wednesday evening of every month and take in one of them there talking motion pictures.

This Wednesday, October 2nd will be our first showing of the season. This month's feature film is
"The Missouri Breaks." Staring in this 1976 feature film directed by Arthur Penn (Little Big Man, Bonnie and Clyde, Night Moves) is Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd, and John Mcliam.

The story line follows Jack Nicholson as a leader of a gang of horse thieves who purchase a farm next to their next target, a wealthy landowner. The land owner hires a gunman or "regulator" played by Marlon Brando, to get rid of the rustlers. This is the first and last movie that Nicholson and Brando made together. Brando is just coming off of making "The Godfather" and Nicholson from making "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Rated 3 1/2 stars on Rotten Tomatoes. Running time 2 hrs, 6 min.

Grab a snack and a side kick and join us at 6:30 PM Wednesday evening at the SRPC Club House,