I had the opportunity to see "Saskatchewan" lately, and viewing it brought back memories of my parents telling me about the film. When they saw it in a Calgary theatre in 1954, the audience didn't stop laughing from beginning to end. Mounties -- in 1950s DRESS UNIFORMS -- travelling through the mountains of Saskatchewan on horses! While singing! Short, skinny little Alan Ladd (with the strongest American accent on file) as a NWMP officer! Protecting his pure, innocent white girl from the evil Indians! While the towering Rockies surround FORT WALSH! Even now, knowing that the old Saskatchewan Territory took in much of Southern Alberta (but not the mountains), it's a very, very funny movie. Imagine Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas in character as Bob and Doug MacKenzie playing New Jersey State Police officers and riding around Arizona on horseback - and it's not a comedy - and you get the idea.
I'm sure that people who have never seen a mountain would love "Saskatchewan" for the scenery, but by God this was funnier than the mountains of New York City in "Rumble in the Bronx". If you live here, it'll make tears fall down your face.
Incidentally, my dad actually turned to my mom after the movie and asked her why the RCMP, who function in the west as the equivalent of US state troopers, had never been riding horses when they pulled him over for speeding. Her answer: "You drive faster than a horse."
I'm sure that people who have never seen a mountain would love "Saskatchewan" for the scenery, but by God this was funnier than the mountains of New York City in "Rumble in the Bronx". If you live here, it'll make tears fall down your face.
Incidentally, my dad actually turned to my mom after the movie and asked her why the RCMP, who function in the west as the equivalent of US state troopers, had never been riding horses when they pulled him over for speeding. Her answer: "You drive faster than a horse."