I do not ever hear him talk about westerns. They would have been very popular at that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rHrLHIeyI

Beaver and Gilbert watch a gangster movie on TV (Beaver's Long Night)

Beaver and some of the kids argued in the school hall about whether Wyatt Earp was a real guy. So he was probably a fan.

What movie did they watch when camping with Binoculars ?

We had a dinky movie theater in our downtown that showed various new, and older movies. Movie seen there when I was really young that I remember vividly seeing. "King of Kings", "Bonnie & Clyde".

Then, visiting my dad's home town, or kids getting dumped at the theater there during holidays.The only one there I remember was "The Out of Towners". This theater played a lot of Zulu warrior movies on Saturday afternoons for some reason.

Then getting a little older my dad wanted to see a popular R rated movie, and he'd bring the boys. Ones I remember, "The French Connection", "Lovers and Other Strangers", "Summer of 42".

Whoa Summer of ‘42. It was of course reminiscent of the war years. Bonnie and Clyde was panned then got very popular. Beatty and Dunaway were no Bonnie and Clyde but glamorous. The first movie I saw was at 4 years old, Tom Thumb. Movies I saw as a kid/teen that I always remembered were Help, Man in the Wilderness, Romeo and Juliet, Little Big Man and The Exorcist.

Beaver does see Spartacus but gets kicked out and another time he saw How The West Was Won, a long epic with a formidable cast in technicolor and CinemaScope. Remember advertising a movie in CinemaScope like Sensor-round in the 70’s.

I think they were watching Jungle Fever while camping. They loved all those horror movies like Vampire Valley, Planet of Doom and Voodoo Curse.

Speaking of R-rated movies, the first one I remember seeing at the theater was when my dad took me to see Used Cars with Kurt Russell at the drive-in.

Later he would buy me and friends tickets to the R-rated movies, then go home and pick us up when the movie was over.

I do not ever hear him talk about westerns. They would have been very popular at that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rHrLHIeyI


I imagine Westerns might be boring to a lot of kids

I think way back boys loved the westerns at the movies. I was a TV western fan in the 60’s early 70’s like Rifleman, Lancer, The Virginian, High Chaparral and Big Valley which was so fake. Seems most of the movies the boys saw were horror like The Thing That Creeps.

Whoa Summer of ‘42. It was of course reminiscent of the war years. Bonnie and Clyde was panned then got very popular. Beatty and Dunaway were no Bonnie and Clyde but glamorous. The first movie I saw was at 4 years old, Tom Thumb. Movies I saw as a kid/teen that I always remembered were Help, Man in the Wilderness, Romeo and Juliet, Little Big Man and The Exorcist.

Beaver does see Spartacus but gets kicked out and another time he saw How The West Was Won, a long epic with a formidable cast in technicolor and CinemaScope. Remember advertising a movie in CinemaScope like Sensor-round in the 70’s.

I think they were watching Jungle Fever while camping. They loved all those horror movies like Vampire Valley, Planet of Doom and Voodoo Curse.

I remember Eddie telling June they were going to see Spartacus. Then some line of bull about why.