For those who have seen this movie, how big is Nick Chinlund's role in this? I want to buy the movie, but only IF Nick is featured a lot in it. Please help.
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His role is not that great, i.e., not much screen time.
shareHe's in four pretty brief scenes. I wouldn't buy it just to see him.
I haven't had a horse shot out from under me in thirty years... Still a thrill!
He's not in it alot and is skinnier than the actual Frederic Remington was but his grouchy but calm attitude in the face of heavy artillery fire painting at the river during the Battle of San Juan Hill is a pretty neat scene.
Chris
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That's a great quote! I also like when Remington says somthing like, "You might follow them, they seem to know what there up to." All of the events leading to Nash (Brad Johnson) coming back are really stirring plus when Roosevelt says "Nash, splendid behavior" is just great.
I really love this film. It inspired me when I watched it back in 1997 to read and study Theodore Roosevelt in more depth and since he has become one of my favorite historical figures. I recommend Virgil Carrington Jones book on the Rough Riders it has a great narrative plus a full unit roster.
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Chinlund's scenes with George Hamilton as Hearst were also great - I loved the scene where they were arguing over the accuracy of Hearst's report on the Las Guasimas skirmish. "Shut up and finish your painting, Freddie!"
I'm only slightly off your experience - it was not this film (which I only saw a few months ago), but Milius's earlier The Wind and the Lion (and Brian Keith's brilliant portrayal of TR) that got me "into" Theodore Roosevelt. I recently read and loved Edmund Morris's The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (along with an in-depth book on the Spanish-American War, although I don't recall the author) and hope to re-read Theodore Rex in the near-future, as well as Candace Millard's The River of Doubt, an account of his ill-fated Amazon expedition of 1913. I even played Roosevelt in a high school talent show a few years back. I'll keep an eye out for the Rough Riders book, thanks for the recommendation.
PS: Extra points for the Once Upon a Time in the West signature.
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Thanks for the reply, I have all of those books that you mention on Theodore Roosevelt and find them just excellent! Other books that are great reading on Roosevelt that you might want to look for are:
1)Theodore Roosevelt: A Life by Nathan Miller
2)T.R.: The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands
3)Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life by Kathleen Dalton
4)When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O'Toole
5)Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
6)My Last Chance to Be a Boy: Theodore Roosevelt's South American Expedition of 1913-1914 by Joseph R. Ornig
Hope you (and other people) get a chance to read these excellent books.
I wish someone would do a film on Roosevelt's early life and his adventures in the West plus a film on his 1913 South American Expedition. I guess Scorsese's never going to do his film on Roosevelt, kinda ashame. Roosevelt's life is so full of adventures and cinematic potential.
Thanks again,
Chris
PS: Once Upon A Time in the West is one of my favorite films so I wanted to pay homage to it in some way.
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