I love this classic movie but just think it's kind of funny how the high country scenery (the Sierra Nevada and Colorado) is being passed off as Indian Territory (eventually Oklahoma). McAlester (in present-day Oklahoma) is visited by the trio and Kim Darby wants justice in Fort Smith (Arkansas).
shareI wonder if anyone ever decided to move to Arkansas or Oklahoma because they admired the beautiful scenery in this film.
At least the "posse" didn't take a shortcut through Monument Valley, to catch Ned Pepper and his gang.
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Can't understand why they didn't just set the story elsewhere.
Anyhow, the scenery is breathtaking and the movie kicks lots of ass.
"...if that was off, I'd be whoopin' your ass up and down this street." ~ an irate Tarantino
The story needed to be set in the Indian Nations (now Oklahoma) because the Federal Court presided over by Judge Isaac Parker in Ft. Smith, Ark. was responsible for policing the Indian Nations, and Rooster Cogburn was an officer of Parker's court.
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Captain Augustus McCrae
Boy, do YOU ever need a geography lesson !! The Sierra Nevada is in California, NOT in Colorado. The movie was actually filmed in and around Ridgeway, Colorado, in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado.
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