TYPECASTING

I watched that old John Ford classic MY DARLING CLEMENTINE today. It's still a masterpiece like all of Ford's Westerns were.

It got me thinking that the plot of this film is well suited to our blog community and the occasional skirmishes that take place.
The location of the final shootout is The OK Corral. This is on the outskirts of town (Tombstone) as I guess corrals are noisy and smelly places. Since in the 1880s horses were the principal form of transport the corral was a big place where townsfolk kept their horses, livestock, buggies etc and the stagecoach kept spare horses, coaches and supplies.
In our community the OK Corral was like the hub or 'bus station' that Richard's Bass Bag operates as whereby visitors can find other more worthwhile blogs to scoot to.

I've drafted up a blogs scenario using the film plot as a template. This is just a draft as of course I'm far too busy to waste time creating the entire scenario. Here it is:

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE synopsis.

In 1882 the Earp bothers (Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil and James) are driving cattle to California when they meet up with the Clanton clan (father and four sons). They offer to buy the Earp's herd, but they  refuse to sell. The Earp's make camp and the three older brothers head into Tombstone for 'a shave and a beer' leaving the youngest brother James as watchman over the herd. When the brothers return to their camp, they find their cattle rustled and James murdered.
Wyatt returns to Tombstone. Seeking to avenge James' murder, he takes the open position of town marshal and encounters Doc Holliday. Wyatt hires his brothers as deputies and they have a couple of run-ins with the Clancys not knowing at this stage that they were the ones who murdered James.  During this time, Clementine Carter, Doc's former love interest  arrives after a long search for her beau. She is given a room at the same hotel where both Wyatt and Doc Holliday reside.
Chihuahua, Doc's girlfriend l sings in the local saloon. Doc, who is suffering  from tuberculosis is unhappy with Clementine's  arrival and he tells her to return to Boston or he will leave Tombstone. Clementine stays, so Doc leaves for Tucson. Wyatt, who has been taken by Clementine since her arrival, begins to court her. Angry over Doc's leaving Chihuahua screws one of the Clancy sons who gives her a medallion that he had taken off James Earp's body. Wyatt discovers this and she tells him that Doc Holliday had given it to her. Wyatt then hunts down the Doc.
Wyatt catches Doc and shoots his gun out of his hand and drags him back to Tombstone. Chihuahua confesses that the medallion was actually given to her by Billy Clanton but just after she said this Billy shoots Chihuahua through a window and takes off on horseback. He's wounded by Wyatt and Virgil chases him to the Clanton homestead where Billy dies but Virgil is killed by old man Clanton.
In town Doc is persuaded to operate on Chihuahua. It looks OK (no pun) at first but she dies. The Clantons  arrive, and toss Virgil's body on the announcing they will be waiting for the rest of the Earps at the O.K. Corral. Wyatt and Morgan Earp take off to the corral and Doc joins them. The old man Clancy and his remaining thee sons are killed along with Doc Holliday.
Wyatt and Morgan resign their positions. and head off further West. Wyatt bids Clementine farewell  promising that if he ever returns he will look her up. Mounting his horse he say's "Ma'am, I sure like that name...Clementine," and rides off to join his brother.

OK so far?

Good.

I guess you can see where this is going. The Earps and Doc Holliday obviously can be played by THE CURMUDGEONS INC.ⓒ who are ideally suited to the role being basically the good guys.

Enough said - a perfect match.

The Clancys are ideally suited to be replicated by Richard's Bass Bag cronies.

Rude and uncouth the Clancys are ideally played by the Bass Bag lot

As the principal roles have been covered by THE CURMUDGEONS INC.ⓒ and Richard's Bass Bagging lot and the only other lead roles were women I struggled to find where Robert could fit in but then it hit me - Robert and his manifestations can be the stand-in preacher and the band at the commissioning of the new church. Hell, he can be the entire congregation:

ROBERT AS PREACHER AND BAND