Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Actors Who Can Ride

    > In the "Kentuckian", Wayne did some of his riding but not all.  He was
becoming a star.  Smiley Burnett was his side kick -- Burnett was an

        In "Fighting Kentuckian" (probably a different movie) - the "fat
guy" was Oliver Hardy (I just checked the movie credits--grin) - and he
played a straight role.   What seemed unusual to me was that he actually did
do some of his own riding - on those same plantation saddles - albeit not
"serious stuff".  There is one scene in which John Wayne is supposed to leap
(not "swing", but "leap") flat-footed from a standstill to astride the
saddle - there is a convenient cut in the film right there, between the
take-off of the leap and the landing--grin.    In another scene, John
Wayne's character is supposed to swing onto a running horse like the cowboy
stars always did---but remember, this was a plantation saddle he was using -
so for this scene it's very obvious the saddle has been changed to a trick
saddle---with a "horn" for the rider to grab.

Claudia


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