It's a good film, although a bit too much talk between the fights. It looks pretty amazing in widescreen on the new edition DVD.
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My grandfather served with the RAF from 1939 to 1945, he lied about his age so he could join on the first day of war.
Wayne was about 43/44 in Flying Leathernecks so I doubt there were pilots that old. As you get older your reflexes slow.
When Michael Caine made The Battle of Britain he asked if he was too young at 36 to play a squadron leader and they told him he was actually too old, because most of them were 24. -
He can't breathe without an oxygen mask. He's in far worse health than Mickey.
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It should have been in black & white because the colour made the archive footage too obvious. It's hard to take the film seriously at all. My grandfather told me he never saw a pilot over the age of thirty through six years of war, yet Wayne and Ryan were in their forties.
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Yes, Marvin was only 42 and perfectly cast. Really it's just as well Duke did turn it down otherwise it might not have been as good.
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Nevada Smith (1966). Sadly Steve McQueen was ridiculously miscast as a 16-year-old.
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Did Patti ever reconcile with her father?
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Oh, I always thought he committed suicide.
Zulu was another major anti-war film. It would have been interesting to see Wayne make a movie with Stanley Baker, although I know they wouldn't have got on. -
The worst one of the trilogy was Flying Leathernecks. A shame, because it had the great Robert Ryan.
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Yeah, but his stupid remarks can.
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I must admit I wasn't overly impressed by Sands. Yopu would expect it to have dated after all these years, but while Wayne gave a good performance I found the story rather cliched. In some ways I prefered Operation Pacific which at least had Ward Bond.
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When I was 15 I watched "The Shootist" and I wondered how 6'4" John Wayne could have died of cancer when he seemed so indestructible. The problem was I had only seen movies he made after 1964 at that time, or earlier ones like "The Comancheros" where he only smoked cigars.
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Watched Dr No tonight they have really cleaned up the print & sound on recent DVD release.
Great stuff!!
Mike
Yes I generally much prefer the Connery Bond films. The only problem with Dr No is its low budget - the very obvious studio sets and that model harbour getting blown up at the end! -
He made a big mistake turning the film down. I believe The Dirty Dozen was filmed in 1966 so he could have made it and then The Green Berets the nex year. Although, at 59 Wayne would have been a bit old for Lee Marvin's role.
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I've never understood about Hatari, surely Gable would have played the Sean Mercer part so how would Wayne have fitted in? Unless the script was radically changed of course.
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Well, Mickey was in great form on the Saturday before last.
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Some article about Gable that I read online. I was surprised since I always thought Gable was a Republican as well.
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Ah yes Scarface, I must see that again soon.
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1969 was the greatest year of film making:
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Midnight Cowboy
Easy Rider
Burn!
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -
The remake is far better than the boring and dated original film.