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Johnny Cash plays Marshall Curly Willcox in "Stagecoach," a 1986 TV movie remake of the John Wayne classic.

A 50 year old Kris Kristofferson plays the "Ringo Kid," originally acted by Duke. Willie Nelson had the lead as Doc Holiday, who is nowhere to be seen in the original.

Johnny Cash returned to Old Tucson after 15 years. Ted Post, who had directed Clint Eastwood in "Rawhide," "Hang 'Em High," and "Magnum Force" helmed this bottom of the barrel TV (despite high ratings) recycling of a certified classic.

This is an amusing clip from the project shot at Old Tucson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pohPIhANlM

@2009 David Lee Guss Film homage, Johnny Cash by rail, Old Tucson, AZ, 1971-2008

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...