James Stewart - The legend of Shenandoah

[heartfire451]

I loved Stewart's performance and loved the strong anti-war sentiment of the film.

[123lindee]

Whatever anyone thought,of James Stewart,he was one of the greatest Actors ever lived,my favorite line in shenandoah,was when he asked Doug McClure,if he liked his Daughter,and he replied I love her Sir,and James Stewart, explained,that you will always like a person but Love sometimes wears thin oh and I was born on the 20th of May too

[Shabannie]

I enjoyed your wonderful tribute.

--------Ellen

[TAMUCDrDawg]

James Stewart was a great man who lived in a great time. He has always been one of my favorite Western stars. God bless his memory.

[progressiverebel]

Ah, the last good war movie to show the South as human. A lot of my people and ancestors lived in the Shenendoah Valley and it was hit hard by the war. Stewart was a decent man, and a conservative, and he flew many mission in the War and rose to Brigadier General USAF. Different times, different outlooks. God Bless Old Virginia.

[taliaegh]

As to accusations of being a war criminal for being a bomber pilot. If memory serves me right, no person convicted in the war crime trials that did not know of, or give orders for, or actively participate in crimes defined as against international law prior to the war. This includes no one was tried and found guilty for reprisals against underground activities, bombing, or taking purely military action. Yes, he few bombing missions, but those were declared legal for BOTH sides in the war.

[taliaegh]

I do not know what comments or actions supposedly Mr Stewart made to get people accusing him of being racist. I will say I am not racist, but if you go back 50 years I called blacks, colored. I will also say I tried to date a mulatto in college. Several of my best friends were mixed marriages. Times change people. What is acceptable, if not proper, at one time is not acceptable later? Our age of fast communication makes changes even faster. Do not blame him for living in a different era.

[purpleskycalm]

I love ya Jimmy

[72Yonatan]

Do not even mix the names of James Stewart with some grimy politician, please. Do not insult the dead.

[92af]

Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda were the 40s, 50s and 60s best movie actors ever

[jum1801]

This wasn't from the movie, but was a record from1965, making it to #133. While technically it was separate from the movie, it obviously followed the plot.

What a good and decent man he was. He deeply loved his country and felt a duty to serve her. He was one of a very tiny group: the "regular guy", down-to-earth movie star. David Niven was also among the group. How different Stewart was from today's young actors, almost all of whom are incredibly selfish, nasty, depressed pricks.

[torstvillinger]

Sir(s): "Don't let the guerillas take you for a grizzly." --J.D.

[poffy8888]

If it wasnt for this movie, i wudnt know hoo JS was.........

[breffnipark]

very good movie..

great performance by james stewart !

[Segnoqua]

Growing up I listened and loved this tune, along with tunes like 'Streets of Laredo,' 'Yellow Rose of Texas,' and 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' Did not know there was a film made on this. What a beautiful song. I closed my eyes and listening to this made it seem like it was really playing. Would like to watch this film. Seems like a great film.

[Wndtalker1]

@Segnoqua James Stewart was truly an American hero. And unlike a lot of today's actors and famous people you

don't hear to many bad things about him. I'm not trying to say the man was a saint but its nice that someone seemed

to be above reproach

[salome63]

great movie

[WOWJBEOWULF]

James Stewart is an American hero. An American bomber pilot and officer of World War Two, and he stayed with the U.S. Air Force and retired as a Brigadier General; between the Air Force and his acting career, the famous James Stewart became a household name and famous throughout the world.

[JuanMacready]

Shenandoah was just a poor rip-off of Friendly Persuasion.

[sleedolfine15]

@JuanMacready Not really. Although, both movies take place during the Civil War and are antiwar. Friendly Persuasion is ultimately upbeat whereas Shenandoah is a tragedy. Also,the the family in Friendly Persuasion were motivated to resist the war by Quaker pacifism while the family in Shenandoah were not pacifist,but libertarians who just wanted to be kept out of the war because they thought it had nothing to do with them.

[hossmolly]

god bless old virginia

[FlyinLate]

just watched this again on tv. i love old westerns. Winchester 73 with james stewart is one of my favorite movies since i was a kid

[FunnyHaHa312]

Loved this movie, haven't seen it in years. About time to watch it again.

[Tejano44]

Unforgetable and classic movie .

[JayCares53]

Shenandoah

One of My all time favorites, Mr. Stewart

Was ONe of a Kind, May his Love and His Zeal for Life ,as well as His Godly Values

Live on in Our Hearts Forever. He Makes Me Proud to Be an American.

[smikro1]

Beautifully done. Thanks for posting this.

[FrankClanton]

Yes it's kind of ironic that Stewart starred in this movie and yet in real life he was a racist and a Vietnam hawk.

[suir52]

@FrankClanton I don't think Jimmy was a racist, he and John Wayne did have some strange ideas about civil rights, but they both came to the defence of Woody Strode when someone made a a racist remark about on the set of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

[emandem03]

This has got to be the best Jimmy Stewart movie ever.

[Archivdienst]

I also think so. An appell to keep peace.

[PeterFirthFan]

James Stewart was a racist.

[mistyred8]

@PeterFirthFan what makes you think that?

[TolsmaLMC]

I really like Jimmy Steward's character in Shenandoah.

[teamfab]

Go on Jimmy, lets hear ya sing...

[fanchbrezoneg]

Haha a general of the USAF. You have forgotten that ? a great american !

[PeterFirthFan]

A mass murderer.

[fanchbrezoneg]

Maybe ! bur for your liberty, coward !

[stilleyjohn5]

then stop looking at his videos you damn stalker! hahaha dayummmm.

[teamfab]

Just super................

[GILLHOOLEY44]

Un precioso homenaje cinéfilo al mejor actor de la historia del cine. Jimmy Stewart for ever!

[melollylolly]

great movie

[melollylolly]

harveyCartwright is pathetic--his account--i believe has been suspended--people don't like hearing great movie icons like Stewart and WAyne being put down--and peterfirthfan better be careful his coount may be suspended next

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

He was a great actor. Here he played an anti-war hero. Why did he have to condemn so many fine German cities to ruins and kill so many women and children. I don't understand him at all.

[jamierourketen]

@EasyCompanyAirborne the germans started bombing cities in the uk 1st,they were told to stop but did not head the warning,are you seriously blaming city bombings on one man called james stewart? also the bombing of germany was ordered from the top,the president and they were doing their job,same as the ss were doing their job! orders is orders!

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

jamie. He was guilty of war crimes. Stewart was the judge in the tribunal of the brutal bombing of Zürich by members of the USAF. The Zürich women and children killed were not even fighting Americans. He found the leaders not guilty.

[jamierourketen]

@EasyCompanyAirborne no different from the nazis bombing innocent london women and children!,and birmingham and liverpool and glasgow etc british women and children were not fighting anyone but still many of them died by the bombing campaigns that germany started

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

jamierourketen. It is quite different.

[jamierourketen]

@EasyCompanyAirborne so german women and kids are quite different from geman ones!

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

jamier. I think you have made a mistake. Zürich is not a German city.

[Pheonixfromtheshale]

EasyCompanyAirborne: why is it wherever your vile little bullshit statements pop up, 'Peterfirthfan' and 'Swanningaround' aren't far behind?

Multiple profiles means only one thing - the work of a lying Troll!

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

Huh? You are obviously the troll here.

[fanchbrezoneg]

That's right, Jamie.

[fee7757]

danke für dieses gute Video und James Stewart , den ich sehr verehre....einer der besten Schauspieler seiner Zeit...ein großartiger Charakter...ich liebe alle seine Filme und besonders "Ist das Leben nicht schön"....jedes Jahr zu Weihnachtszeit....Danke für diese Möglichkeit ihn zu hören und das schöne Lied....thanks a lot

[StormyValance]

Thanks Bzhig.

[horsebowshooter]

great actor with a wonderful voice

R.I.P.

[copewood333]

PeterFirthFan is a shit-pusher and xenophobe with a recurring theme in all his posts.

[mitchwall52]

@PeterFirthFan ...thanks for letting me know there are still idiots in germany.....your last name must be hitler...so i'll steer clear of that weenie of a country who we whipped twice..and could easily make it thrice.

[pencian]

Reggisplay. You are the asshole!!!!

[Craigmillar2000]

Jimmy Stewart was a gentleman... So many wonderful roles and this is one of my favorites.

[ReggiesReply]

Hasty generalization - a logical fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence, also known as: fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, generalization from the particular, leaping to a conclusion, hasty induction, law of small numbers, unrepresentative sample, and secundum quid.

EXAMPLE: YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE

[RlrbladeMan07]

I liked James Stewart in this Universal film which also featured Glenn Corbett. Glenn never made it to the top but was thought to be a fine gent.

[SADDLEPRINCESS08]

On the Hal Williams thing and racism - again from Michael Munn's biography "Stewart didn't fire Hal Williams directly.. He was against a scene where his character, a white college professor gets pushed around by a bully cop played by the black actor, a situation that certainly would arise racial tensions. Stewart didn't want to bring those delicate political issues on a prime time tv show." Remember this was the late 1960s, early 1970s - tv had to be careful. So when scene was gone so was actor

[SADDLEPRINCESS08]

Michael Munn in his biography "The Truth Behind the Legend: dismisses these racist accusations. When filming of Liberty Valance a supporting actor referred to Woody Strode as "a n***er". Stewart got boiling angry and he "grabbed this actor by the shirt, tearing it, ... and said "Don't ever use that word around me again, or I might do something our director will regret because he'll have to replace you with an actor who's not all broken up and reshoot a helluva lot of expensive scenes".

[SADDLEPRINCESS08]

James Stewart was not a racist. Actor Hal Williams was let go from the "The Jimmy Stewart Show" because his scene wasn't needed for the show - so he just wasn't needed - no racism here.

[bondie45]

Great upload well done in stero as well 10/10

[SoBelleofTN]

Jimmy Stewart, the best of all the best! What an actor he was. I loved this movie and the beautiful song 'Shenandoah", although this movie was about the Valley of Virginia. The original song was about an Native Americans, daughter.Thank you for this much loved movie. It brings back fond memories.

[nexttimewelove51]

Oh, Jimmy Stewart, how much I love you, let nothing ever change you. Legend of Shenandoah.

[fanchbrezoneg]

James Stewart was a great american actor, a hero of USAF during the World WaR II.

Be sure he's not jew and commie.

RIP Jimmy

[Bzhig]

Dear ObamaRules4Ever, I´m no racist,I´m happy that Mr.Obama is President and I´m sad that Martin Luther King was murdered. Pleeeeease stop your dumb comments about James Stewart,we know that you don´t like him.Your words sounds like a racist too,that´s what I think.

[nexttimewelove51]

I think Harvey Cartwright/ObamaRules4Ever, whatever his name is, ENJOYS digging up dirt about wonderful human beings. And your perfect!?

[nexttimewelove51]

I think Harvey Cartwright is a racist.

[ObamaRules4Ever]

No, I think it was your hero Stewart who had an actor fired just because the poor guy was black.

[golf7272]

What if he deserved to be fired? Grow up little black boy.

[nexttimewelove51]

James Stewart...The greatest legend of all time. This was a powerful movie.

[HarveyCartwright]

The greatest racist.

[cymbali]

Please don't defend yourself aganist being a Racists anyMore..Say you are with Pride and they will shut the hell up..Written by Racists Jake...

[bosox5757]

I loved this movie too, plus how the west was won, and winchester sixty something

[montonman1]

thanks for the post, what a wonderful actor

who is so sadly missed

[ObamaRules4Ever]

James Stewart was a racist.

[SharleneKathryn]

And how exactly does that fit in with his acting?? Who really cares about personal(true or not)He still stands to be one of the greatest actors ever...

[ObamaRules4Ever]

I could never enjoy watching him again after finding out the truth.

[jimymax58]

Mangina, you are proven LIAR who supports racist, ie sean spikey. By the way hows you mommy doing?

[amburgertje]

Hello, over here in the Netherlands also lives a big fan from James Stewart!

It is one of the best actors, who ever played in Westerns, next to John Wayne!

I like this movie very much, but it's a shame that there are not so much westerns of James available over here, with dutch subs.

Greetings from a little place across the big waters called Klazienaveen!

[nexttimewelove51]

I loved this movie. If Jimmy Stewart were alive today, he would give "The Jimmy Stewart Hater" a piece of his mind.

[ObamaRules4Ever]

Stewart's extreme and very vocal racism is mentioned in great detail in the biographies by Donald Dewey, Michael Munn, Marc Eliot and many more. You just ask Hal Kanter, Leonard Gershe, Lucille Gipson or Hal Williams about the real James Stewart. He was just as racist as his friend John Wayne.

[ketyto]

It figures something like this would be written by somebody named "ObamaRules4Ever" Actually, James Stewart was not racist at all - He actually saved an African American church from bankruptcy by personally giving money to it - and as was his style, he did this without drawing attention to himself. Dewey, Munn, and especially Eliot are all tabloid writers who make an easy buck by adding phony controversy to the lives of stellar Americans.

[ObamaRules4Ever]

I think I will believe Hal Kanter, Leonard Gershe, Lucille Gipson, Hal Williams and Henry Fonda (who all knew the Goldwater Republican Stewart).

[ketyto]

The saving of the church is published public info! Do you know haw hard it would be to find anybody to agree with you? Your posting seems quite hard on a guy who lead pretty darn straight life. Why do you dislike him so much? I dont know of anything he ever did that was racist.

[ObamaRules4Ever]

Read about how the racist had actor Hal Williams fired from his show just because he was black.

[mightisright]

Good.

You're fired!

[saracousineau]

YOur a dumb shit

[ketyto]

You cant even type you schmuck

[suir52]

Hi, MG135711, Doug is my favourite actor and I love the scene where Jimmy advises him on how to handle a woman "You,see, Sam, woman are strange creatures, they get mad at ya for not doin' somethin' ya didn't know you were supposed to do in the first place, but don't get mad at her,Sam just give her a hug ,ya understand,Sam? to be met with a blank stare by Doug while Katharine Ross tries to explain how to handle a man to Rosemary Forsyth, to get the same blank look!

[xinawarriorprincess]

i liked this movie! i saw it like a while ago though! i like ur vid!

[MG135711]

love the scene where jimmy gives advice to Doug McClure...

"No, no. You just said you loved her. There's some difference between lovin' and likin'. When I married Jennie's mother, I-I didn't love her - I liked her... I liked her a lot. I liked Martha for at least three years after we were married and then one day it just dawned on me I loved her. I still do... still do. You see, Sam, when you love a woman without likin' her, the night can be long and cold, and contempt comes up with the sun."

[montonman1]

watched this film as a child, thanks for the post this brings back wonderful memories.

[rdulaneyjr]

A Class Act! An impressing presentation, Thanks for posting this. one of my most favorite movies of all time. It was this movie that caused me to get into the Civil War and history - first saw it a a Drive-In when I was about 5 years old.

[robertmartinez]

Remember the TV series that probably followed this movie by the same title in the 1960's ? It didn't last long, but I always remembered the song.

[Thespadecaller]

Excellent movie. Thanks jch for the heads up.

[jch35vt39h206]

Thank you for posting this!!! Oh how I loved this movie and had almost forgotten about it until seeing your video. I Remember it in detail now. So now I have heard all three version of the song Shenandoah. I have been searching all day!

[jonny7england]

Brilliant film..Brilliant music..Brilliant actor...thanks for this posting

[lan262]

62,63, Saw this movie at the "Byrd" theatre in Chicago.

[klaranovak]

Love the movie, love this song.

[cambridgefan1966]

I liked this film

[dezingendebroeder]

Cool!! I like it