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Articles tagged "john wayne"NewsHistoric ‘Big Trail’ makes widescreen DVD debutby Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][13.May.08] :. One of the great Hollywood fables is that the 1930 Western epic “The Big Trail” was a box-office failure because of its young star, John Wayne. It definitely was a financial flop, but...  NewsTRAVELOGUE: The Duke’s co-star: A movie pilgrimage to Monument Valleyby Alan Solomon [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][1.Jun.07] :. MONUMENT VALLEY, Ariz./Utah—He remembered the first time he saw this place. It was October 1948, and the chill of high-country autumn had already set in. He was here to work with Victor...  NewsWrestling with the Duke: Love him or loathe him?by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][24.May.07] :. John Wayne swaggered like a rodeo bull, thundered like a storm over Monument Valley, and towered over the West like a craggy butte. And he looms as large in death as he did on-screen. Duke, as he...  Film DVD ReviewHondo: Special Collector’s Edition / McLintock!: Authentic Collector’s Edition (1953)by Zack Adcock[15.Nov.05] :. As pointed out in a making-of featurette, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara had such 'chemistry' in their films together that moviegoers took them to be a real-life couple.  Film ReviewHatari (1962/2001)by David Sanjek['Hatari'] reminds us as well that, as David Thomson observes, Hawks is 'the greatest optimist the cinema has produced.' He delineates a world in which men and women, humans and animals, co-exist and achieve an enviable degree of harmony and serenity. |
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