Showing posts with label John Wayne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Wayne. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 October 2017

An Irish cottage for the weekend ...

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Its a weekend with THE QUIET MAN - John Ford's immortal piece of Irish whimsy from 1952. No matter how many times I have seen it (qu...
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Wednesday, 10 May 2017

The Longest Day, 1962

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THE LONGEST DAY was one of the big ones in that great year 1962. I was 16 at the time but did not see it then, though have seen bits of ...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

White Feather, 1955

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WHITE FEATHER is a perfect mid-'50s western, which somehow I never saw at the time. I was 10 or so then and seeing all those early 5...
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016

"That'll be the day"

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A western double bill, for late autumn afternoons. Only the best western ever: John Ford's THE SEARCHERS , and a routine oater from 1...
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Thursday, 8 September 2016

Fun out west with Anne, Jeff, Rory, Randolph & Angela

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I have not seen the 1942 western THE SPOILERS - but it should be fun, with John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott heading this ...
Thursday, 15 October 2015

O'Hara

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It was nice watching a new Sky Arts documentary on Maureen O'Hara, the latest of an occasional series, reminding one of much much we ...
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Friday, 30 May 2014

Showpeople: visiting colleagues ...

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Never seen this shot before: Montgomery Clift with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon - presumably Monty was visiting the set of SOME LIKE IT HO...
Friday, 19 July 2013

Heatwave movies: Hatari!

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Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don...
Thursday, 11 April 2013

John Wayne in London, 1975

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Following on from checking out Gary Cooper in London in 1959, see recent post below , I have now discovered a proper lulu - John Wayne as...
Friday, 22 March 2013

Movies I love: The Scarlet Empress (Jet Pilot is O.K.!)

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Or MOROCCO , SHANGHAI EXPRESS , BLOND VENUS , or THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN - all as spell-binding as Von Sternberg/Dietrich's 1934 classi...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Up, up and away ...

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A perfect day's viewing for New Year's Day: a discovery, an old favourite, and an absolute horror: in other words: UP , LEGEND OF T...