Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end?

[KG]

[KG]

1. Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I'm sure.

[rug]

2. He was shot?

Thanks for the spoiler.

:grr:

[pokerfan]

18. Don't you hate that?

It's like when someone told me about Titanic sinking

[WinkyDink]

27. WHAT?!

[pokerfan]

29. I'm sorry, I thought you knew

like Darth Vader being Luke's father or the Planet of the Apes being Earth all along.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Our town of 50,000 people had two movie theaters downtown, right around the corner from each other,

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Once, MiddleFingerMomMom dropped me and my friend Ricky
off at the Capitol Theater to see "Old Yeller". We waited 'til
she drove off -- then ran around the corner to the Michigan
Theater and went in to watch "The Graduate" (I still have a
crush on Anne Bancroft/Mrs. Robinson to this day).
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Ricky's mom picked us up (in front of "Old Yeller") and dropped
me off at home. In the front door and straight up to my room.
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MiddleFingerMomMom called after me, "How was the movie."
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"Aw, it was about some dog. It was sad. I gotta go to bed now."
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I never did see "Old Yeller" 'til I was about 40 years old.
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And, yes... I did cry.
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[pacalo]

6. I always loved Anne Bancroft's looks

BUT...




You weren't taken in by Katharine Ross?! I loved her clothes (well, her total look) in "The Graduate" & "The Stepford Wives". She was one of my favorites.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Also "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" -- she's pretty, but kinda generically so...

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... and she never really bowled me over in any of her roles...
whereas Anne Bancroft was hot and vaguely exotic.
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Damn you, husband Mel Brooks... damn you!!!
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[SwampG8r]

25. i will agree with you on this

anne bancroft and leopard print lingerie
i wont even mention the stockings(oops i did)

[pacalo]

4. It upset me so badly that I've NEVER watched it a second time.

[polly7]

5. I did, and my Mom said I freaked out and cried half the night. I could

never watch it again.

[pokerfan]

7. Tito Puente's gonna be dead

and you're gonna say, "Oh, I've been listening to him for years, and I think he's fabulous.

[Twillig]

9. "I thought that was a dog

around your neck."

[7wo7rees]

13. You can't go!!! All the plants will die!!!!

And then... depression set in. ;)

[pokerfan]

14. I've had an interesting morning...

Winger: In the last two hours I've lost my job, my apartment, my car and my girlfriend.
Russell: You still have your health.

:rofl:

[Twillig]

38. There are 4 fans of 'Stripes'

Four.

Let's keep the memory alive.







(who's your buddy?)

[tblue]

8. Who didn't cry?!

Maybe Dick Cheney. He thought it was a training film.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. There's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt.

[Aristus]

12. I did.

I've never seen the movie since. Just couldn't bear it...

[Deep13]

15. Shooting the dog symbolized the kid's passage to manhood.

In native American societies, at least in the East, women created life and men took it. That is, women raised children, maize and vegetables. Men hunted, sometimes harvested, cut wood and made war. A boy lived in the women's world until he was old enough to ritually die as a boy and resurrect as a man. In this film shooting the dog with what had become synonymous with white, male citizenship--firearms--symbolized the transformation.

[InkAddict]

16. Don't remember seeing OY as a kid, but I do remember crying my

eyes out while reading "The Yearling." As I got to the really, really sad part, my Mommy Dearest, empathy not being her strong suit, told me to quit all the sobbing and blubbering RIGHT NOW and get to the table for dinner.

[applegrove]

17. Never saw it. But I did see "Where The Red Fern Grows". Does that count?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

19. Fuck that. When Godzilla stepped on Bambi, that was traumatic!

It's even more frightening to think that there are enough people on this board who remember "Ol Yeller" God I'm old!

So, who had a crush on Annette?

[Kablooie]

32. What about the baby becoming an old man and opening the door with the golden doorknob?

Any idea what I'm talking about?

[Kablooie]

33. Also I had a crush on Doreen. But she became a pro weight lifter.

[XemaSab]

20. As of Sept 15th

My dog is off quarantine for rabies. :D

Does that count? :D

[backwoodsbob]

23. grats

went through that once with a dog that got into a tussle with a raccoon.

Nerve racking


:hug:

[MrMickeysMom]

21. Bill Murry?

Is that YOU?

[blogslut]

22. I don't remember

I do know I read the shit out of the book and its sequel Savage Sam. Old Yeller, the film, came out 3 years before I was born and while I definitely remember seeing it, I probably saw it in a theatrical re-release or caught it while watching The Wonderful World of Disney.

I had a serious animals-as-protagonist reading phase when I was in grade school and I imagine Old Yeller was book/patient zero.

[bluesbassman]

24. I thought they shot him in the head? That would have been the humane thing to do.

End shots hurt like a sonofabitch.





























Oh and BTW, I cried too. I may be a bass player, but I do have feelings. :)

[WinkyDink]

26. Me, and me. :-(

[barbtries]

28. yes and yes

i cry at lots of movies. always have. i don't know if they've made a new one by the way but just in case, when i saw old yeller i was a young child so it was sometime in the 1960s. i think i cried in the book too.

[Zorra]

30. Geez, i'm almost in tears again just thinking about it. nt

[Kablooie]

31. My mom cried. I was 6 and told her it was only a movie. He's not really dead.

[Brickbat]

34. Nice spoiler, Hitler!

:hide:

[nolabear]

35. Seen it many times. Cried every time.

[RebelOne]

36. I cried and also cried at "The Yearling."

I cry whenever an animal is killed or dies whether in the movies or real life.

[yellerpup]

37. Oh yes, I cried buckets.

Being a country kid, I knew they had to shoot him because he had rabies, but that fact didn't make the loss any easier to take.

[SlimJimmy]

39. I'm pretty sure almost everyone who saw it. (nt)

[Curmudgeoness]

40. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert!!!!! nt