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College iStation, Texas
Friday, November 6, 1970
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
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Making the films
‘Monty Walsh’ good Marvin show
By BOB STUMP
Lee Marvin has made another
one of his memorable western
movies, this time playing the part
of a Cowboy during the dying days
of the profession enduring a di
minishing demand for his trade
— branding cows and busting
broncs.
As Monte Walsh (also the ti
tle), Marvin is introduced as a
rough-hewn cowboy returning
with his partner (played by Jack
Palance) from the mountains,
where they have spent the past
winter working for a ranch. They
find the rancher has gone broke
and left town, leaving them one
month’s pay for their troubles.
Disappointed, they accept work
on another ranch and, for a while,
the movie concentrates on depict
ing what the life of the cowboy
is really like and why Marvin
refuses to give it up.
But soon the ranch is forced to
lay off three of the youngest
hands, and from here it is a down
hill road for Marvin and his life
style.
Palance is the first to give it
up, getting married and moving
into town. Next to go is Marvin’s
girl (played by Jean Moreau),
who moves to another town forty
miles away. And finally, the ranch
itself is shut down, victim of hard
times that Marvin cannot under
stand.
He is offered a job performing
as a cowboy with a Wild West
show in the East, but turns the
offer down, saying “I’m not spit-
tin’ on my whole life.”
There is the whole philosophy
of Monte Walsh, symbolizing his
attitude against progress and his
determination to continue the life
he was brought up to.
Monte Walsh exemplifies the
true cowboy, content to live only
the life of bacon friedi over a
sagebrush fire and cornbread
downed with burnt coffee.
The film shows the conflict un
dergone by Marvin in coping with
the fact that his kind is a seclud
ed lot, far removed from anything
in contemporary society. One day
at the ranch, he and Palance are
sent to the outer fringe to deliver
some fencing supplies.
When they arrive, they find an
old man mending the fence. He is
one of the “old ones,” a cowboy
past working on the range and
forced to spend the remainder of
his days doing odd, lonely jobs.
They listen to the old man re
count some episodes from his life
and, when he has finished, he says
“I’ve had a good life,” and bends
down to resume fixing the end
less fence in his life.
The incident forces both of
them to realize they will one day
face the same fate when they
too become too old for the range.
Later, during a round-up, the
old man comes galloping down a
ridgeline on his horse and is
thrown off to his death. All the
hands gather around the body and
mourn the death in their own sort
of way. One says that he lost his
head, another one suggests they
ought to go see about the horse.
It is a crude sort of respect they
have among themselves, but it is
very binding one and they all
share in it.
Lee Marvin plays the part of
Monte Walsh with a genuine
sense of realness and perception
for the part, and responds to his
situation with the intensity and
purpose that you would expect
from someone of Monte Walsh’s
type. The film is strikingly in
volving for a western, one in
which you get caught up in the
nostalgia and urgency of the
time it portrays.
tonight on the tube
Numbers in () denote channels
7:30
3
(5) Heasmaster
5:00
3
(5)
General Hospital
on the cable.
8:00
3
(5) Movie—The Art
15
(12)
Misterogers’
2:30
3
(5)
Edge of Night
of Love
Neighborhood
15
(12)
This Land (PBS)
15
(12) A&M-Arkansas
(NET)
3:00
3
(5)
Gomer Pyle
football game
5:30
3
(5)
CBS News
15
(12) Gettysburg (PBS)
WEEKEND FOOTBALL
15
(12)
Playschool (PBS)
3:30
3
(5)
Town Talk
SATURDAY
(Repeat)
15
(12)
Our Vanishing
12:30
3
(5) A&M vs. SMU
6:00
3
(5)
Evening News
Wilderness (PBS)
15
(12)
Playschool (PBS)
4:00
3
(5)
Dark Shadows
SUNDAY
(Repeat)
15
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Film Scene (PBS)
12:00
3
(5) Dallas vs.
6:30
3
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Gunsmoke
4:30
3
(5)
Bewitched
N.Y. Giants
15
(12)
Campus and
15
(12)
What’s New
3:00
3
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Community Today
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7:00
15
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10:30
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8:00
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3
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(5)
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5:30
3
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(12) Playschool (PBS)
(NET Special)
15
(12)
This Land (PBS)
3:00
3
(5) Gomer Pyle
8:30
3
(5)
Doris Day
6:00
3
(5)
Evening News
15
(12) Playschool (PBS)
9:00
3
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Carol Burnett
15
(12)
Gettysburg (PBS)
3:30
3
(5) Town Talk
15
(12)
Speaking Freely
6:30
3
(5)
Brady Bunch
15
(12) University
(SEN)
15
(12)
Campus and
Instructional
10:00
3
(5)
Final News
Community Today
4:00
3
(5) Dark Shadows
10:30
3
(5)
The FBI
7:00
3
(5)
Nanny and the
4:30
3
(5) Bewitched
11:30
3
(5)
The Law and
Professor
15
(12) What’s New
Mr. Jones
15
(12)
Civilisation (PBS)
(NET)
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TONIGHT
Society of Iranian Students
will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the So
cial Room of the MSC. Inter
national Adviser Robert L. Mel-
cher will give a talk and answer
questions. Robert Elliot, a Peace
Corps worker who was in Iran
for three years, will give his ob
servations.
American Association of Uni
versity Women B-CS Branch will
meet at 7:45 p.m. at the Hillel
Foundation Building at Jersey
and Dexter. Techniques for com
munity change will be discussed.
Finance Association will meet
at 2 p.m. at 400 S. Ackard in
Dallas for a field trip to the
Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas.
SATURDAY
Game Club will meet at 9 a.m.
in room 3D of the MSC.
SUNDAY
Rainbow Girls will meet at
12:30 p.m. at the Ramada Inn to
hold their Grand Cross Mystic
Banquet. Those interested can
call Mrs. Hansons by noon
Thursday at 823-8157.
TUESDAY
Rugby Club of A&M will meet
at 8 p.m. in room 310 of the En
gineering Building to discuss ex
hibition schedule and Lone Star
Beer tourney.
Petroleum Engineering Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 211
of the Doherty Building. R. O.
Frederick will speak on small
business management.
Range and Forestry Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 112-
113 of the Plant Sciences Build
ing.
American Marketing Society
will meet at 8 p.m. in rooms 3B-
C of the MSC to hear Will Mas
ters from Sanger Harris in Dal
las.
WEDNESDAY
Laredo Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 108
of the Academic Building to se
lect a sweetheart and discuss
Christmas party plans.
Texas A&M Sports Car Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the old
College Station city hall, 101 N.
Church.
THURSDAY
Sociology Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in room 2C of the MSC
to hear Dr. Donovan of the Gen
etics Department. All sociology
majors will meet at 6:45 on the
steps of the MSC to have Aggie-
land pictures taken.
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chasing co-eds and pestering professors, they manage to turn a football game into a
rolicking riot.
Because of a different contractural agreement from the rest of the series this
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