Charles Bronson is a Bounty Hunter in his 1st starring Western! FREE HD Movie! SHOWDOWN AT BOOT HILL

[@terryhurlburt9113]

Mr. Bronson did a very good job. A darn good script. This movie showed that the WESTERN format was more than just gun slingers and Cattle Stampedes. Thanks, Rob.

[@bobdudy7177]

It's a good old Western, never had seen it before. Charles Bronson was a one of a kind actor, and American WW2 Veteran. John Carradine always played memorable characters too. Thanks for the Movie..

[@rogertemple7193]

This is a really good western drama with Charles Bronson and a really good supporting cast including the always amazing John Carradine thanks for this great little known film.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Roger. Carradine sure is good in this. Bronson was terrific in the lead and I really liked RJ's restoration and wide screen black and white.

[@KenHartman152]

I was born 1950. So, I grew up with the Western's as my staple for movies and TV. I still enjoy rewatching those same Western's to this day. But last night I got to watch a Western I had not seen before on your "Words Wayback" channel... "Showdown at Boot Hill", With a very young Charles Bronson. Excellent movie and you can see how the camera loved Bronson your eyes just were drawn to his character in every scene he was in. Great watching a younger fantastic character actor John Caradine as well. 👍 Thank You Rob & Son!!! 🤠🎬🍿

[@cwtckness]

I was born 11:11:49

[@Ken-dv9uf]

​@@cwtcknessHowdy fellow Boomer!

[@cwtckness]

@@Ken-dv9uf yea hate to face it, so I don’t stand in front of mirrors toonlong

[@steveharris5008]

this is a great movie that's more than a western; some exceptional words wriiten throughout; "... there's a Boot Hill in every man's soul..." is one magnificent example; more than just a western...

[@WilliamJohnson-g6z]

I grew up watching westerns too. I was born in 1964. Westerns and then TV kind of switched to cop shows. But Westerns were my favorite. I always had a lot of respect for Charles Bronson. The fact he was a world war II vet cemented the fact that he was cool in my opinion. He was a regular guy that made it big. You have to respect that. He always had that cool look about him. Some of his first roles were villains. Him and Lee Marvin both had some roles as villains.

[@docbrown6550]

Charles Bronson, L Q Jones and Alex Cord were three great actors that we needed to see in a lot more movies that sadly never got to be made.

[@suev3339]

WOW!! Exceptional! Charles Bronson’s debut on the film screen really set the style for his acting. Wonderful for your sharing Rob. To think he had to do other films than westerns before he hit the genre of a classic western actor. Excellent acting and John Carradine never fails - he’s like a fatherly figure in his role here. 🤠

[@LeeZeidel-s1h]

I was born in 1956 there were a slew of westerns . Television shows movies etc . I started watching at a very young age 😊

[@zcosmos9]

Thank you for preserving this cultural history

[@atreb56]

Thank very much for posting. I only remembered Bronson buying the hand cream when I saw this years ago..

[@wuz2do]

Brings back memories of my childhood and waiting for the new episodes of all the great Westerns in the 60s Thank You for sharing I really enjoyed it

[@AWordonWesterns]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@brucetharp7610]

My all-time favorite actor since the 50's!!!

[@johnlamberti4424]

Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Dean Martin. The coolest of them all

[@Bonjour-World]

Best Charles Bronson movie that I have ever seen.

[@davidjennings1771]

Great movie, thanks I'd thought I 'd seen all of Bronson's movies. Hopefully I'm still wrong and still have another find to enjoy!

[@pizzagirl597]

Good film. Good cinematography. The music by Albert Harris is perfect. Thanks Rob. ❤

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, pg. Harris is an almost forgotten composer and orchestrator. This score is his best.

[@dextermaclean1842]

I was born in the sixties. Watched the westerns with gran . Have been addicted ever since . Love them . Yeehah 🎥👢🔫🐎

[@DEEBARNES-xb7jy]

It's late and a perfect time to see C. Bronson - Rob!! You named multiple series I'd never known about!! I'm sure RJ worked his magic-looking forward to this Wayback Western! I've gotta set an alarm next week😂 Thanks as always🎉

[@chrisloomis1489]

The end contains wise words: There is a Boot Hill in every town , and the Past buries it's dead . Better to focus on the now, and future. Great old movie. Love the two main actors , the cast was great too , no cussing , no filth , and no gore , but 100 % great story. Good.

[@g.m.robertson8700]

AMEN TO THE DECENCY, TOO...

[@1wheeldrive751]

Charles Bronson was an atypical Hollywood actor. He never really got sucked up into his own hype. His immigrant background is worth reading up on. He and his long time wife, actress Jill Ireland, eventually bought a tract of land in a small town in eastern Vermont, in the quiet horse country just south of Woodstock. They are buried there, at the very top of the cemetery, with the most magnificent mountain view that you could imagine. I know this because I live in that town, and I share that view. Unfortunately their heirs sold their place on Bronson Rd. But someone changes the flowers at their gravesite quite regularly.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks for this information, wheel. Nice that fresh flowers are at their gravesite, too.

[@1wheeldrive751]

@@AWordonWesterns - they aren’t real flowers, but rather artificial ones. Real Flowers don’t last very long in our harsh climate. But they are attractive, and show that someone cares since they change them often.

[@mingulay29]

Excellent movie with John Carradine head and shoulders above the rest, his acting almost English theatrical. Bronson has great screen presence and obviously admires the older man. Wouldn't you? Good script too.

[@jackvoss5841]

His acting demonstrates that he had already been capable of a leading role for a while. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

[@JackyUn-f2v]

Just for me,,these old movies much greater,,better to fresh ohr mind,!

[@PAULDMORGAN1]

Thank you Mr. Word for posting these great films. 👍

[@AWordonWesterns]

You're very welcome, Paul. Glad you like them.

[@anoldtoulon6978]

Bronson was a directors dream. He low-key but had so much presence.

[@jamesblacketter9854]

Awesome to sit down an catch an ending of a gud movie, blessings rob n crew,

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, James. You can even start it at the beginning to see Bronson's shootout.

[@marjoriesmithson5924]

Bronson is one of my favorites. Good movie !❤😊

[@guitartim2128]

Hey Word on Westerns,are we still on for Fridays? Not a complaint because Any day of the week that a W.o. W. is on I will gladly be here. Thanx for being here tonight!

[@AWordonWesterns]

We switched to Fridays a couple weeks ago, Tim. Thursdays seem to work better. Hope it's good for you, too.

[@edgarsnake2857]

Your intro was terrific. I watched CB develop into a superstar in real time and through many parts. I'm psyched for 'Showdown At Boot Hill.' Thanks.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Ed. I'm a big fan!

[@WillyPercival-m1d]

Any movie with Charles Bronson In it is good like this one 😅

[@KevinGarvin-l6n]

Such an unusual western movie with great actors and a great script!

[@stephendufort4154]

I appreciate your western Chanel , thank you!

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Stephen. We try to deliver the cowboy goods!

[@kevinhealey6540]

He was developing his character. At the time it wasn't complete but it was getting better and better.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

I love westerns and this isn;t too bad. England, September, 2024.

[@ep9360]

Brilliant. So many isms, still true today. RIP Mr Bronson. Forget about it.

[@arlineabdalian6594]

Hi, Friends! Will be back before we begin. Bronson Forever! Giddyap!🐴🐴🐴🐴

[@lynderherberts2828]

Mr. Bronowski was such a great actor. Handsome, too. Also, John Carradine. I can count on any movie he is in will be enjoyable. Liked and subscribed.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks.

[@stormbrooks1784]

Nice movie! Good acting, plot, and direction. Morally excellent.

[@rkgaustin]

Bronson is like the human pause button in this. Every time he walks in the music stops.

[@AWordonWesterns]

LOL

[@bengtwahlstedt1021]

CHARLES BRONSON = SUPERLEGEND !

[@miketully9905]

Most times when you see the First Starring Roll of a great actor the film is okay, but nothing to write home about. But this is a really well made, well written, and well acted story. The entire cast is good. Which makes me wonder who First Choice for the part of Luke was. I doubt it was Charles Bronson at this point in his career. I suspect it was someone, or possibly several someones, with a whole heck of a lot more box office draw than someone who'd never taken on a starring roll before. Usually having several top names turn down the leading role will sink a film. But someone greenlit the film anyway, with Bronson in the lead, despite it being his first time being saddled with that much responsibility. And he pulled it off brilliantly. Atta boy Chuck! R.I.P. Chuck It's been near to a quarter of a century since you left us. But we still remember you, and we still watch.

[@yogasamrat]

Bronson can certainly come off as a half breed.I am sure he played that part in some westerns.

[@AWordonWesterns]

CHATO'S LAND, CHINO

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@@AWordonWesternsGood movie but I thought it was a little over the top with the gratuitous violence and the rape scene

[@MikeBarratt-lk3gt]

​​​@@matthewnikitas8905Well that's Michael Winner for you.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@@MikeBarratt-lk3gt Apparently so

[@DavidPerry-do6xt]

Chato's land is the name with Jack Pallence

[@gregorymceaddy8884]

Chuck is an American badass .and he knows one harmonica tune.. you never want to be listening to it personally

[@RealBigBadJohn]

I guess my Friday popcorn deliveries will need to be changed!

[@AWordonWesterns]

Popcorn is two-for-one on Thursdays.

[@RealBigBadJohn]

@@AWordonWesterns 👍

[@freeshrugs63]

I've watched a lot of Westerns since Covid especially. I saw this one a couple of years ago, but I really appreciated your introduction to it. And I watched it again. Because now in my old age, frankly, I couldn't remember much about it!

[@AWordonWesterns]

Wow, thank you!

[@vdjelement1]

I think this is his first and best movie

[@subodhmimani]

Good movie. Worth watching.🎉🎉

[@jeffnorbert1871]

Excellent movie! Unexpected ending. Be sure and watch to the end.

[@harrynixon1984]

The comments are GREAT and so be it because CHARLES BRONSON IS STILL GREAT because we get to watch a MASTER act. Believe it or not I first got to know the actor in DEATH WISH and most people know how the game out. GREAT and they made so many I lost count..the first franchise RIGHT ?

[@MrMarcol29]

Can’t beat a good western ✌️

[@russellwarr3791]

Thanks, love Charlie, big up from Australia 🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘

[@GraftonDuncan-go8wd]

❤ Charles Bronson is so cool and deadly😛

[@williamthompson286]

This is a lot of fun. Its basically a TV western with better production values. The b&w cinematography is particularly good. I love all those crane shots. Thanks partner.🤠

[@anoldtoulon6978]

Maybe I just love good literature, but the script is really well quipped. Statements and retorts. ❤

[@DEVILDOG1964]

VERY GOOD MOVIE!! RIP CHARLES GOD BLESS.

[@pressureworks]

It could be argued he actually achieved superstar status as a result of staring in Death Wish.

[@lynderherberts2828]

Great job by the director and key grip.

[@mikeellis9720]

Dang. Sally was a pretty little thing.♡

[@kathleenpopata9718]

My Friday night essence goodo cowboy movie Coolest Actor Mr Charles Bronson

[@Dal-l7i]

As always, an excellent movie Rob...

[@alvilla9659]

That was a good movie Rob. Thank you

[@desertfox3860]

Thanks Rob. This is another one I had not seen.

[@TonyB-rv9qd]

Classic Movie 🎥🍿👍

[@yourfns]

Great movie. Thanks.

[@gerardjohnson2106]

Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👏👏🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@GlendaFoxhlove-n9f]

I thank you very much

[@AWordonWesterns]

You are welcome, Glenda. Thanks.

[@rachabcunanan2528]

EXCELLENT !!!

[@danielmanicolo8390]

Charlie Bronson looking good as the gunslinger but an unconvincing lover.

[@tomato1040]

Charles 1st🥇 movie & best 🏆 MOVIE=mc2🍿 EVA😂🎥!

[@OdeeOz]

I miss training horses, and trail riding to camp 👍👍💖🌟🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@venussky4677]

Good movie ❤❤❤❤

[@redfields5070]

Young or old, Bronson always looks the same to me. It seems like he started out older and stayed that way.

[@kennethd4645]

Back in the days of bloodless bullets. :)

[@pressureworks]

Perhaps neither Blondie or Colonel Mortimer cared about finding someone with Mere $200 Bounty. Rough way for Harmonica to scrape a living. But was less rough than his fate joining the 7

[@jonathanvince8173]

This was so well acted by all not sure why it took so long for Mr Bronson to make a name John was really good too. Mr Bronson was in WW2 James Gardner was in Korean war They both looked after Donald Pleasance in the Great Escape after some of the Ideas in the Great escape was from him as Donald was a Prisoner of war and new about escapes planning scams so on. As the directors were not going for realism Charles and James both had words with them backing Donald making sure they all respected Donald.

[@bobyouel7674]

thanks

[@RobertKetteringham]

Ii agree with the man ho said thanks ❤❤❤❤

[@wmden1]

To me there was a little weirdness in this movie, but all in all it was pretty good. If the girl's mother hadn't been killed the ending would have been close to perfect. It was satisfying, as it was. John Carradine's character was about the most levelheaded character I remember seeing him play and he still did an outstanding job of it.

[@objectivesovereignty]

I remember Bronson in an episode of The Twilight Zone along side Elizabeth Montgomery 1961 ( Two )

[@grahamhill6340]

Good B-WESTERN... shot on my old lot of 20th Century-Fox, oh by the time I arrived there (1980) the western sets were long gone. Notice the credits with John Chambers doing the make-up, of course this was before he became the father of prostectic make-up, as in the Oscar he got for PLANET OF THE APES. Director of photography John M. Nickolaus did three seasons on TV's RAWHIDE, and writer Louis Vittes wrote many an episode for it too... and the director of SHOWDOWN AT BOOT HILL Gene Fowler, well he directed and edited on RAWHIDE. Even Charles Bronson worked on RAWHIDE, and this film could've easily have been just another episode from any TV western. The final scene, the cemetery and surrounding scenery was shot by the studio's eastern boundry line, later to become Century Park East when the backlot was sold-off.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks for the terrific (as usual) information, Graham. That was a time when all of the major studios had western towns on the back lot. I got to town in late 1978 and walked through the old Republic (and GUNSMOKE) western streets of MTM on Radford. A thrill! Now it's up to Melody Ranch which is still a great location, perhaps only, for filmmakers today. This Bronson film has lots to recommend it.

[@rubiconklbrutorowman7577]

I watched this n good...

[@cwtckness]

I walked right by him in Malibu California some 50 years ago short maybe 5 feet 7

[@redfields5070]

That's normal, not a circus freak.

[@anoldtoulon6978]

Movie title: "How I met Sally" 😂😂😂

[@pressureworks]

11:00 Johnson Hall.....I thought this town looked like Rock Ridge !!!

[@brunodesamber5714]

I. Seen. This. Western. Never. Before. But. What. Can. I. Say. 🤠 it's. A. Dam. Very. Very. Good. And. A. Gold. Western. 🐴 whit. Perfect. And. Exelent. Script. And. Story. 💣 a. Absolutely. Howdy. Movie. To. See. No. Dauts. 🤠 may. Thanks. Rob. For. Uploading. This. Gold. Western. Movie. Keep. On. Raiding. This. Way. Yihaa. 🐴 🎉🎉🎉🎉 🤠 💣 👌👌

[@brunodesamber5714]

That. Was. A. Very. Exelent. Western. Rob. 🤠 👌👌😀

[@pdrphil8159]

The movie was downright average , but its nice to see Bronson before he was a household name... He was a veteran of WW2 . He was a gunner on a B29 bomber and was shot in the shoulder... In the move , The Great Escape , Bronson , Lee Marvin & several other actors were WW2 vets . It made them super stars & later Bronson stated that he felt the success of that movie was owed to their war experience .. Both Bronson & Marvin (a WW2 marine) became life long friends ..

[@chadwedul1787]

Pretty neat lo-tech trick -- speeding up the film to speed up the draw.

[@WEEwillycoolb68-q5r]

The boy gets the girl. Good ending.

[@KhikhiM]

As a sherrif you must have a bolls of steel

[@peter-sr1zd]

❤

[@johnhalley974]

I know all the sets get used over and over again but noticed at 5:45 the saloon used in Warlock…The one that Hank Fonda burns down with a dead Anthony Quinn in it.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks for the info, John.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Sadly, sound keeps cutting out. Not sure why.

[@dassjaganathan6476]

💗💗💗

[@yogasamrat]

They were short on money for this movie!😂 The doctor, barber and undertaker is played by John Carradine!

[@AWordonWesterns]

lol

[@redfields5070]

That's not a matter of being short on money. That's the way it was in old west towns where they were short on people.

[@cwtckness]

Pedro made movies with John Wayne

[@pressureworks]

Now we know from whom Paul Kersey inherited his skills from.

[@LeeDishman-x3k]

No

[@skipstreet]

Who was Sally's father?

[@GlendaFoxhlove-n9f]

Jill is serious😮

[@richardkulik3204]

Good flic except for phony shoot the gun from the guys hand, In reality he would have no hand left