Posts by ColeThornton

Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear was infinitely better than the original.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle was a great one.

Yes I was hoping somebody here could prove to me that he wasn't. Perhaps "racist" was too strong a term, maybe I should have just said "prejudiced" instead. The thing is though that the author quoted two of Stewart's closest friends who said he was always uncomfortable around black people. One of them suggested it was because he had lived almost all of his life in either Indiana or Beverly Hills, and so had no understanding of another race's problems.

I guess that since James Stewart was born in 1908 it may be a generational thing. My grandfather, born in 1924, is slightly racist but he is a good man nonetheless who has been married for 61 years, he started working when he was 14 and even after he retired at 67 he kept going back for a further two years when his firm needed extra help. I just accept the fact that he is from a different time and people probably related to each other differently during his formative years.

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I agree that movie was well cast but, I do believe that Duke would havd also been great in the role of the Father. I never looked at this movie as an anti-war movie which it aint. An anti-war movie is one such as platoon, or apacalypse now and thin red line - all of which are way overrated and suck prune pits. In other words, films like those make me want to

I fail to see how Shenandoah was anything but anti-war. Although I'm not a great fan of Stewart I did feel tears welling in my eyes during his final speech to his wife's grave. It is notable that Stewart only ever made one proper war film, turning down all the others because, as he said, "they're hardly ever like the real thing." His career had declined after "Anatomy of a Murder" in 1959, but "Shenandoah" restored him to the Top 10 Box Office stars for one final time in 1965.

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Hi,
I argee with you. But Flora Robson like Flynn and Bette Davis didn't so Essex and Elisabeth failed becouse of lack of interest between their stars who supposed to be lovers in the plot. They have many arguments during the filming and Errol remembers in My Wicked Wicked ways that she slaped him real hard with all rings on her fingers in theat scene.
Regards,
Senta

It's ironic that Errol was often criticized as a bad actor, yet his underacting holds up well today while Davis' performance seems over the top.

Robert Ryan played a great Thornton in that wonderful western "The Wild Bunch".

I had assumed Wayne was called Cole Thornton in "El Dorado" to remind older members of the audience of his earlier film.

I don't know if he was hospitalized, but it was a serious thing for a man of his age, particularly one who had been working on one lung for the past 9 or 10 years. It's possible that the illness in 1974 damaged a valve in his heart, necessitating surgery in 1978.

I thought Roger gave one of the few good performances in that film.

I heard Ed's TV series was cancelled due to his opposition to Reagan's activities in South America.

Yes, Hank may have been the greatest American actor of his generation, along with Spencer Tracy of course.

The Sea Hawk. My favourite Errol Flynn film. I thought Dame Flora Robson made a better Elizabeth I than Bette Davis.

Perhaps Cole Thornton in El Dorado was a reference to The Quiet Man?

When Mitchum made "Heaven Knows, Mr Allison" in 1956 he thought he would hate Kerr. He was pleasantly surprised to find she was nothing like the prim characters she played!

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Chester, this ColeThornton person is the same nut from IMdB who spends every waking moment flooding the boards over there with negative posts about Duke and Jimmy Stewart. Among other things, he has said was that Duke and Stewart were racists, that Duke was a Nazi, and that Duke deserved to die of cancer.

He has had over thirty accounts deleted on IMdB (he has been known over there as TheLeft, JessBirdwell, BenTrane, CliveJohnson, LinkJones, and OliverIsTheBest, among others), and after single-handedly ruining the IMdB boards he has now come over here with the intent of ruining this board as well. This troll has in the past stated repeatedly on IMdB that he/she/it was a registered user on this board. I think now we all know who it is. It can change its user name, but not its writing style.

I hope the moderators here take a strong, swift stand here and delete this troll's account permanently. This person is NOT a John Wayne fan, and this board will suffer as long as it is allowed to remain and poison the discussions on this great site.

Sorry but I have never been a member of the imdb or any other film site. That book has been published for 11 years, I'm sure many others have read it.

Yep, it's certainly far better than the first one. Perhaps this will mark Russell Crowe's comeback.

I'm surprised Gerladine Page received an Oscar nomination, Jean Arthur gavea far better performance as the mother in Shane. Maybe it was just because it was one of her first films. Certainly there was no love lost between her and Duke.

Yes, Stewart had played a pacifist before, in the excellent western Broken Arrow. I can't see Duke in either of those roles.

He's also appearing in pantomine with his wife in Sunderland at Christmas.

Shenandoah was a huge success because it was an anti-war film as the Vietnam conflict was esculating. Although it had Patrick Wayne in the cast, I'm not sure Duke could have played the father.

Well Duke I read an excellent bio of Stewart by Donald Dewey, published in 1996, which revelead the actor was a racist who supported the McCarthy witch hunts and had an actor fired just for being black. He also fell out with director Anthony Mann pretty disgracefully. After all that I could never look at Stewart the same.