Posts by Hondo Duke Lane

Monique,

That movie with Patrick Wayne & Robert Lansing was the 1966 release of the western, An Eye for an Eye. I haven't heard of this movie. Sounds interestring. This is what I found. Not released on DVD.

The Plot: (from an unnamed reviewer)

This is a great western about two bounty hunters one blinded and the other crippled from a man who doublecrossed them which they are seeking their revenge.Starring Robert Lansing and Slim Pickens,it's a must see movie!!

Cheers, Hondo B)

Jacob: If you don't stop showing off in front of your mother, not only will I throw you back in the mud, but I'll take away that gun, and put you over my leg and give you a woopin' you'll never forget.

James: I like to see you try to do that, DADDY!

Jacob: (whispers) Is your mother still behind me?

Cheers, Hondo B)

I pick BrianB for caption #8.

Hey All,

I found a copy of the Lone Ranger Creed. It starts out with:

"I believe:

1. That to have a friend, a man must be one.

2. That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.

3. That God put the firewood there, but every man must gather and light it himself.

4. In being prepared physically, mentally and morally to fight when necessary, for that which is right.

5. That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.

6. That 'this government, of the people, by the people, and for the people. shall live always.

7. That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.

8. That sooner or later, somewhere, somehow, we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.

9. That all things change but truth, and that truth alone lives on forever.

10. In my Creator, my country, my fellow man."

I wanted to share this after hearing from John Fain. Thanks for the great ones.

Cheers, Hondo B)

Music has a way of touching our emotions when we watch a moive. Some great composers have really made that special touch in Duke's movies. Victor Young has composed (8) eight movies, Roy Webb has (7) seven. Max Steiner did (3) three, Emil Newman did (3) three, Dimitri Tiomkin composed (6) six, just to name a few.

I have a collection of music from Elmer Bernstien (composed that has quite a selection from movies Duke starred in. I really liked the music from The Commancheros. The Sons from Katie Elder is also a good one. Maybe there is one that stands out to you.

I have to say that Hondo from Emil Newman gives me the chills, everytime I hear that theme music.

What is your favorite theme music? You might have to pull out those videos to watch and listen before responding.

Cheers, Hondo B)

Great Code!

We would have the greatest country ever if we lived by this today, and showed a little bit of guts. Nothing wrong with living this way. Thanks for the info.

Cheers, Hondo B)

Hey everyone,

Don't forget to vote for the best caption from #7. No one is voting. I put it on the top to get you to go back and see what was placed on the threads. I had to go back to the fifth page to retrieve it. Look and vote.

Hondo B)

Don't forget to place your vote of the best caption on the John Wayne Picture Game #8.

Hondo B)

My vote goes to itdo for caption #7

Here goes:

River Rat: " I thought this was a Coors commercial, Mr. Ermal. Why aren't you wearing your faded red shirt that looks pink? How come you didn't pull that knife from Bogie's back? Why doesn't anyone know how many movies you did officially? And you didn't serve in World War Two?"

Rooster: "I'm about to shoot a river rat!"

Hondo B)

Hope everyone has a great, safe, and happy 4th. Don't eat too much B-B-Que.

Stay Cool,
CHeers,
Hondo B)

Pete,

Welcome to the board. This is a great place to meet others who are John Wayne enthusiast.

To answer your question, I checked into the books I have about John Wayne bio's, and there is nothing in any of the books that talk about a relative involved at Mt. Rushmore. Duke's brother would have been too young to be a part of it. There are lots of Morrison's in this country.

Unless there is a distant relative, that the bio hasn't picked up, I don't think so. This project would have been done, the early part of the 20th century.

If I remember my history, this project had a lot of financial challenges, and almost didn't happen, but I haven't researched this part before responding to your thread. I'll look into the Mt. Rushmore info, and get back to you about this end of the Morrison connection. But I am almost 100% sure there is no relation.

Good question. I'll confirm this later if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Cheers,
Hondo B)

Kevin,

I doubled checked with imdb and the screen actor's guild sites, and he's still alive. He has not made any movie since 1995, but still alive. I wanted to make sure. I didn't think he passed away this year, but I could have missed it.

Cheers,
Hondo B)

Chester,

I might add to your list:

Maureen O'Hara (82)
Laurne Bacall (78)
Ernest Borgnine (86)
Jack Parr (85)
Mickey Rooney (82)
Jane Russell (82)
Peter Ustinov (82)
Eddie Albert (95)
Richard Widmark (88).

Hondo B)

It seems everytime we talk about one who leaves us as a legend another leaves us a few weeks later. This is a truly sad day to say good-bye to one who did act with the Duke. Katherine Hepburn passed away today at the age of 96. It seems she was a couple of weeks older than Duke. It's sad to say good-bye, but here goes what I found from Reuters news.

You may pay your respects to her with any comments. Lets honor her with a great memory.

Hondo

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Katharine Hepburn, who won an unequaled four best actress Oscars in a career that spanned five decades, has died at her home in Connecticut at the age of 96, police in her hometown said on Sunday.

Hepburn, whose health had been in decline for some time and had not spoken for several days, passed away peacefully, said her brother-in-law Ellsworth Grant.

"She's the greatest actress of her age and with her passing that whole galaxy of great movie stars has ended," Grant, who saw the screen legend shortly before she died, told Reuters.

He said the cause of death was "simply complications from old age."

Hepburn's executor, Cynthia McFadden, told reporters the actress died at 2:50 p.m. "surrounded by loved ones."

"There will be no memorial service and her burial at a later date will be private... She died as she lived, with dignity and grace," McFadden said.

Hepburn won her first Oscar in 1933 for "Morning Glory" and won again for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "The Lion in Winter" and "On Golden Pond." She was nominated for the award eight other times.

Irreverent and feisty, Hepburn always spoke her mind. Her independent spirit made her a role model to many women, and she was voted America's most admired woman in a 1985 Ladies Home Journal survey.

Hepburn also starred in film classics including "Little Women" and "The African Queen."

Her last film was "Love Affair" with Warren Beatty, released in the early 1990s.

Hepburn was called the first lady of American cinema. Her trademarks: high cheekbones, auburn hair and a voice redolent of her upper-class New England origins.

"She is the person who put women in pants, literally and figuratively," her biographer, Christopher Andersen, told Reuters in 2000. "She is the greatest star, the greatest actress, that Hollywood has ever produced."

"With the passing of Frank Sinatra, and the death of Jimmy Stewart, she really was the last of that breed of Hollywood royalty," Andersen said. "And she was by far the greatest."

The actress did not escape criticism, however. Her performances were sometimes called cold, and it was of Hepburn that Dorothy Parker made her famous quip that she displayed "the gamut of emotions from A to B."

Hepburn also starred in film classics including "Little Women," "The African Queen," "The Philadelphia Story," "A Bill of Divorcement," "Pat and Mike," "Adam's Rib," "State of the Union" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

Her last film was "Love Affair" in 1994, in which she played Ginny, aunt of ex-football star Mike Gambril, played by Warren Beatty.

She played opposite such leading men as James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, <span style=\'color:red\'>John Wayne and Henry Fonda. But it is with Spencer Tracy that her name will be forever linked.

Not only did she make nine films with Tracy, but for 27 years she was the "other woman" in his life. Tracy, a Roman Catholic, would not divorce his wife. Hepburn, in a 1991 interview with ABC television, said she loved Tracy but did not remember if he had ever told her he loved her.

"We lived openly enough together," she said. "I certainly had no intention of breaking up his relationship with his wife."

Hepburn said she first met Tracy's wife on the night he died in Hepburn's house and she called his family.

In an interview four years before Tracy died, she said, "I have had 20 years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I've never regretted it."

She had a 1930s affair with billionaire Howard Hughes, but recounted in her 1991 biography "Me" that she never loved him.

Hartford, Connecticut, native Hepburn in late 1996 gave up the townhouse on New York's East 49th Street that she had kept since the 1930s. She retreated fulltime to the family mansion in Fenwick, an upper-class borough in Old Saybrook on Long Island Sound.

"Giving up the townhouse was a difficult decision for her; it was very wrenching emotionally," said Andersen, author of the 1997 book "An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy."

Hepburn lived a quiet, reclusive life in Fenwick, and was rarely seen in public. Friends and relatives said she suffered from short-term memory loss, but it was not clear if she had Alzheimer's disease.

Despite her carefully guarded privacy that fueled occasional speculation that she was seriously ill, Hepburn surprised the world in March of 2000 -- two months before her 93rd birthday -- when she told a New York newspaper she was feeling fine.

"Tell everyone I am doing fine!" she told the New York Post in a rare interview published on March 10, 2000. "I am OK."

Dressed in a purple jumpsuit and sitting by a roaring fire in her living room, the actress said she was still a big eater, enjoying homemade meals prepared by her cook.

Hepburn was an amateur painter of some skill and her work decorated walls at the New York townhouse that she shared with Tracy and where she lived for over 60 years.

Her career began an on the stage in the early 1930s, moved mainly to the screen and expanded to television in the 1980s.

She once said, I find myself absolutely fascinating ... but I'm uncomplicated. When I'm supposed to talk, I talk. When I go to bed, I sleep. When I'm supposed to eat, I eat.

But summarizing a Hepburn film retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, critic Kenneth Tynan countered: "She is not versatile. She is simply unique."

She told The New York Times in an interview published in September 1991 that her screen and private personas hardly differed. "I had a very definite personality and I liked material that showed that personality," she said.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born May 12, 1907, to an upper-class doctor's family in Hartford, Connecticut, but reference books listed her birthday as 2 1/2 years later, on Nov. 8, 1909.

Later in life she admitted that she had lied about her age, telling The New York Times that she knocked two years off when she approached 30 and had adopted the November birth date of her elder brother Tom, who killed himself when she was 14.

She discovered his body and, according to a recent biography of her by Barbara Leaming, Hepburn tried to become him, fulfilling his role as his father's favorite child.

Hepburn was educated at home by tutors. She was a tomboy and at 15 cut her hair very short, wore pants and pretended to be a young man named Jimmy.

Despite her masculine tendencies, rumors that Hepburn was bisexual or gay were not true, author Andersen said.

Hepburn became interested in dramatics while attending college at Bryn Mawr, where she received a B.A. in 1928. After some summer stock success, she made her Broadway debut in a show called "Night Hostess." The show was short-lived but it led to other Broadway parts and to her first big stage success, "The Warrior's Husband," which brought her film offers.

In 1933 she starred on screen in "Morning Glory," winning her first Academy Award for her portrayal of a stage-struck tomboy.

She was married from 1928 to 1934 to Ludlow Ogden Smith, a wealthy Philadelphian, who changed his name to Ogden because she did not want to be known as Mrs. Smith. After the divorce she decided that "marriage was not a natural institution" and never remarried.

Impatient with the films she was being forced to make for RKO Pictures, Hepburn bought out her contract for $220,000 in 1939 and returned to the stage where she starred as Tracy Lord in Philip Barry's 1939 comedy, "The Philadelphia Story."

She also starred as a prim missionary in the 1951 film "The African Queen" with Humphrey Bogart and later wrote a book about her experiences on location in Africa with Bogart and director John Huston.

I am a fan because of his movies. If it wasn't for his movies none of us would be a fan of Duke. I can appreciate all he contirbuted, and have learned to understand his belief and causes. But without his movies there would be no Duke to appreciate today.

Hondo B)

My fan status would be around 1991 when I started collecting John Wayne on the Timelife John Wayne collection. This started out with Rio Bravo, and I have been a rabid fan ever since.

But going back, I saw my first Duke movie in 1967 with the re-release of McLintock! and love the comedy. I especially enjoyed as a 6 year old the fact that adults could get a wooping if they act up, but the mud fight scene was the best. Later, I saw The Green Berets, Ture Grit, The Train Robbers, and The Shootist at the drive-in.

I collected John Wayne posters in the early days before his death, and of course hung them up with Farrah Fawcett Majors, and some other cute women (can't remember their names, must not have been important).

I remember seeing Duke on Bob Hope specials, Laugh-In, Red Skelton and Lucy Shows. He was always someone I respected and liked. I loved him on a Dean Martin Roast, and found him funny. So, I guess, I have always been a fan as long as I can remember, but more so today, because of his causes, and beliefs. He was tough, and hard, but he was a very fair man. He always wanted what was best for everyone, and he was no nonsense kind of person.

During the "hippie days", I didn't hear much about Duke, because I was caught up with the scene, and Duke didn't fit in that scene. He wasn't in my generation, and I was into what my friends were into.

By the time I got into high school, I had several friends who loved John Wayne and loved imitating him by his talk and walk. We all did that, and had a great time.

Most of the movies up to the time of 1991 I seen on TV were his movies in the '60's and '70's. So what a great discovery to find classics in video before the '60's.

Hondo B)

Here I am at number 200. I wanted to get here as I welcome smokey and want to say, it's been fun.

I really enjoy reading the threads from so many people. They put a lot of thought into this, and I also enjoy responding to questions, opinions, and sometimes arguments. We are at what I think is the best place to talk John Wayne. He has been so instrumental in the topics, by asking the questions that gets me to search for an answer and study up on Duke. I also learn from so many people. But most of all, its great to see JW fans all over the world and the wide age gap.

What a great site, Kevin. Thanks for this site. We are fortunate to be able to respond to each other.

Cheers, Hondo B)

P.S. Come on in Smokey!!

The Man From Laramie is one of the best James Stewart western moive I've seen. "It has one explosive confrontation is which Stewart is dragged by a wild horse and shot in the hand at close range, is one of movie history's most memorable sequences."

Hondo B)

Glad to see you back, Baron. Sure did miss you.

Here's my caption:

"Well, if you have the baby you have to breast feed. So, here is the slip to put on. Hey, Harry did you find the bonnet to cover his head?"

Hondo B)

P.S. I pick smokey on picture #6 with the caption - i forgot to tell you "i put iching powder in your pants"

Gregory Peck passed away today. The story from Reuters can tell this better.

By Steve Gorman and Arthur Spiegelman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gregory Peck, one of the last great stars from Hollywood's golden era and a man who embodied on-screen heroism and dignity, died peacefully during the night at his home, his spokesman said on Thursday.

He was 87 and his films included some of Hollywood's most memorable: "To Kill a Mockingbird," in which he played a white lawyer defending a black man, "Roman Holiday," the film that made Audrey Hepburn a star, 'Gentleman's Agreement," one of the first movies to confront the taboo subject of anti-Semitism, and Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound."

Spokesman Monroe Friedman said Peck's French-born wife of 48 years, Veronique Passani Peck, was at his side when he died. "She told me he just died peacefully. She said she was holding his hand and he just closed his eyes and went to sleep and he was gone," Friedman told Reuters.

His death came just days after the American Film Institute named his role as the idealistic Southern lawyer Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" as the greatest movie hero of all time. The role earned Peck an Oscar for best actor in 1963.

The tall, lean, square-jawed Peck began his film career in the 1940s and became Hollywood's symbol of moral strength and sincerity both on screen and off. At one point, Democrats tried to persuade him to run for governor of California -- a role that Republicans later succeeded in casting Ronald Reagan for.

The California-born Peck, who once thought of becoming a priest, attended a military academy as a boy and his soldier-like bearing served him well in such roles as Captain Ahab of "Moby Dick," King David ("David and Bathsheba"), Gen. Douglas MacArthur ("MacArthur") and even Abraham Lincoln (television's "The Blue and the Gray").

Duke and Peck never did a movie together. That would have been a great duo. Just though you'd like to know. Any thoughts of him will be fine to voice on this thread.

Hondo B)

Northern,

Here is what I've found out from IMBd. The movie you might be talking about is Guns of the Timberland released on February 1, 1959. It co-stars Jeanne Crain.

This is the story line.

Alan Ladd is cast as Jim Hadley, who with his crew of lumberjacks, was searching for a new forest to cut.. He never thought 'to fight' for his load of wood.

Residents of the valley town of Deep Wells - led by the beautiful Laura Riley (Jeanne Crain) - recognize that without the natural protection provided by the surrounding woodlands, their homes and ranches would be covered over by mud during the heavy rains..

The interests of the inhabitants to drive out the intruders started with their refusal to give horses or supplies of any kind..and increased to blow out the logging road..

Jim - resisting the pressure to fight - was standing on legal means to get the lumber..His impetuous partner Monty Welker (Gilbert Roland) showed partiality towards a friendly settlement..

The relationship between the two 'friends' was soon damaged to the 'breaking point' when Monty was determined to open the road by same way that closed it : dynamite.

The result : a spectacular fire where Laura's young minor Bert (Frankie Avalon) was caught in the blast.. Jim reconsidered his view declaring : "We came here to cut down trees, not kids".. Before moving to another forest he was compelled into a confrontation with an uncontrolled Monty who perish i n the gunfight.. asking his partner's forgiveness..

Jim - worried and sad - as he takes the train out of town - was suddenly recovered by seeing Laura (his attractive horse trader) ready to leave the place with him for a new life..

The film, photographed in Technicolor, set against some spectacular scenery and climaxed by a forest fire - under Robert D. Webb's direction - was a routine & simple outdoor melodrama.. Frankie Avalon (in his film debut) sung some musical numbers.

As far as I know it is not released on VHS or DVD.

Hope this is it.

Hondo
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