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Post by yanmacca on Mar 21, 2016 14:37:20 GMT
I do recall some pubs selling picked eggs, they would be on the bar in a huge glass jar, I didn't care for them much and would rather go straight to the peanuts.
I watched a movie on Saturday called Hondo and it starred John Wayne, it is one of those Wayne films that seem to go under the radar compared with his other big western movies and I thought it was very good, it had all the ingredients with cavalry, hostile Indians and great landscape shots. It was directed by John Farrow who did an average job, but the battle sequence at the end was directed by John Ford, apparently Farrow had to leave before the movie was finished and Ford stepped as a personal favour to Wayne. If you haven't seen it, then keep a look out as it is well worth a viewing.
Yan.
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Post by colt45 on Mar 21, 2016 18:40:40 GMT
Hondo is one of Wayne's better westerns. His best was probably "The Searchers".
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Post by quincannon on Mar 21, 2016 19:45:29 GMT
Agreed on both points Colt. Hondo and another Wayne flic about a House Un-American Activities Committee investigator, I can't recall the name of the movie, is probably the reason Arness was offered the Matt Dillon role in Gunsmoke, acting on Wayne's recommendation.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 21, 2016 20:04:09 GMT
Hondo is one of Wayne's better westerns. His best was probably "The Searchers". Glad you agree with me Colt, as many people don't seem to remember that film, do you remember the TV series of the same name? It ran for only one series in the late 1960s and starred a certain Ralph Taeger. |
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Post by dave on Mar 21, 2016 21:28:13 GMT
Colt
I agree that The Searchers was Wayne's finest role and should have won the Oscar in 1957.
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Post by colt45 on Mar 21, 2016 21:33:42 GMT
No, I don't remember that series. Late 60's found me about to get out of high school and not watching too much TV.
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Post by colt45 on Mar 21, 2016 21:35:16 GMT
Dave,
I believe the role of Ethan was Wayne's favorite, as he named a son after "Ethan".
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Post by Beth on Mar 21, 2016 23:31:55 GMT
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Post by carl on Mar 21, 2016 23:59:26 GMT
The Shootist. Wayne's last. The supporting cast contributed to the story. Bacall, Stewart, Boone, O'Brian, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, plus Ron Howard.
I personally rate it on a par with The Searchers.
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Post by quincannon on Mar 22, 2016 1:34:08 GMT
The trick was in both of them that he played the part, not the Wayne character, and I agree with you. You must also include True Grit and Rooster Cogburn
The Searchers was my favorite though.
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Post by azranger on Mar 22, 2016 12:09:44 GMT
John Wayne had a country club in Southern California. My brother Mark Andrews was a tennis professional and John Wayne's wife was his doubles partner sometimes at his club. I was in the Marine Corps at the time and still hold it against my brother that he got to meet him and I didn't. My mom and dad got to watch them play.
He was a patriot and someone I looked up to in real life. There was a freedom hall at Knott's Berry Farm and they sold John Wayne's album of why he loved America.
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Steve
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 22, 2016 14:40:44 GMT
He certainly made an impact over here, Red River was another good film.
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Post by quincannon on Mar 22, 2016 15:07:30 GMT
I think one of the reasons we admire Wayne is that he did not need a female co-star to bring out a good performance. He did of course have o'Hara and Hepburn in a couple of his better movies, but his stand alone movie in most folks mind is the Searchers where Ethan Edwards was a one of a kind never to be repeated by anyone.
Contrast that to Bogart, another of my favorites who only seemed to get better if he had a first rate female co-star. Lupino, Bergman, Astor, Bacall, and Hepburn, especially Hepburn. African Queen was his best ever, although emotionally I love Casablanca (but really a B movie).
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Post by Beth on Mar 22, 2016 15:21:09 GMT
I would never consider Casablanca a B movie!
I think the reason John Wayne movies work is because he always places an ordinary person caught in extra ordinary situations. Hi characters are always believable because they are genuine.
I really think that everyone knows someone who is a lot like John Wayne in their life.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 22, 2016 16:19:00 GMT
In the Sands of Iwo Jima, Wayne plays a hardnosed US Marine Sergeant called “Striker” and is described by one of his men as an “Extra-hard product of a hard school”
His big line was “You gotta learn right and you gotta learn fast, and any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make him wish he had never been born”
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