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Display Moreej,
you're almost certainly right,
as the same book has no mention of
Flashing Spikes
nor any other books that I have!
See my post on that thread
I can only assume as I said, that the author got confused.
Yeah, both are TV shows, both directed by John Ford, both are about baseball, and both feature Duke and Pat Wayne. Pretty easy to see how it could happen.
Display MoreThanks for pointing that out,
The description is
from Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne
where it clearly states:-
Like youself I have watched the show, after posting the initial post.
I can only assume, that the author was thinking of something else!
I have edited the post accordingly.
It's probably a reference to "Flashing Spikes" where Duke is credited with playing "Sergeant-Umpire in Korea."
Here's a head-to-head "comparison" of the two films. Shapes up pretty well for Duke.
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[/extendedmedia]Here's the new "extended" trailer. LOL at the 2:00 mark. I presume this must be "Bear Grit." Geez Louise, what were they thinking.
I wonder why they decided to only go with corporate sponsorship and not include private donations. Many small donations can add up to an appreciable amount (as we know from some fundraising we've done around here over the years).
My guess is that it was probably some B.S. tax @#$%& that lead them to cancel the private donations.
I've known for the past few years that Collins was a huge Alamo fan. Over on the johnwayne-thealamo web site, many of the guys over there meet every year in March during the High Holy Days, as they call them. And a few years ago, a few said they met Collins there during a battle re-enactment that's put on and other ceremonies. At the time, he wasn't there as an authority on it but, just as a fan and mingled with other people in the plaza. And now, he's very much involved in anything having to do with the Alamo and speaks at the symposium they hold during the first week in March.
As for him buying Alamo Village, that would be nice or he could make it a joint effort with one David Jones, of whom I don't know much about but, has been interested in buying Alamo Village for the last few years. A man named Rich Curilla, who is a film maker and also an expert on many things Alamo and has worked at Alamo Village for many years, knows Mr. Jones and says that he's still hoping to buy it and restore it to it's original state from when John Wayne built it for his movie. He wants to also make other improvements and upgrades to the place and make it the type of tourist attraction that all people will want to go see.
Maybe Collins could work to help get financing to restore the film? Just a thought.
BTW, does anyone know whatever happened to that project? Robert Harris sounded like he was all set and ready to go, and they were even collecting donations for financing, then the whole thing seemed to drop off the face of the planet. I haven't heard anything about it for over a year.
Screencap, anyone? From my current project, One-Eyed Jacks.
It's sad that the last movie filmed in Vistavision is represented so poorly on DVD, but a fellow at Home Theater Forum looked at all *19* DVD versions and determined that the (now out of print) one from Front Row Entertainment was the best. Which isn't saying much. But that's the one I am using for screencaps.
Is that a widescreen DVD? All the versions of One-Eyed Jacks I've seen have all been lousy Pan & Scan garbage copies.
I don't know why, but somehow I find this hilarious. . .
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[/extendedmedia]If you go to youtube, you can see that the same guy has done the same thing to memorable moments from other movies (Spartacus, Planet of the Apes, ect.). Cracks me up, every time.
I dunno about this picture, maybe it's just me but doesn't the fellow on the far right (identified as Chuck Robertson) look an awful lot like Yak Canutt?
Yes, apparently the original LA Times article ripped Tony Curtis as well for expressing similar sentiments about Broke-back. But, do you think any of this will matter or even be remembered whenever Sean Penn or some other leftist loon is up for a SAG award? Of course not. To liberals, "tolerance" and "equality" are one-way streets. Disgusting.
Donald Meek, made 4 movies with John Ford,
but for Duke's fans, he is probably best known, for his memorable
role as Mr. Peacock the devious bank manager in Stagecoach
Peacock was the whiskey drummer. Berton Churchill played the banker.
I believe they are all from Madame Toussard's wax museum, if I'm not mistaken. . .
Something neat was played this morning on TCM which is a movie that starred James Cagney. It was soemthing to do with the Irish Rebellion of around 1920??? Anyway, it was a gem of a movie I cought most of. It also had a young Sir Richard harris, Harry Andrews (as a Scottish Sergeant) and I THINK Torin Thatcher??? These names are not listed with the movie in leonard maltins book, so seeing them in it was a pleasant surprise ;-))
It was Shake Hands with the Devil (1959). A shame it isn't available on DVD. Ringo, if you liked it, I would also recommend A Terrible Beauty (1960) starring Robert Mitchum and Richard Harris. Another great, under-rated classic about the Irish Rebellion and the IRA.
EJ, any hopes that you have some magic you can use to get the studios to release: Target Zero, The Glory Brigade, Prisoner of War (Reagan movie-not the David Carradine movie though I would like his too) and the peeeece day wresistance of my want list-any hopes you can force them to release: Northwest Passage. ;-))
Sorry, Ringo, nothing right now. My best guess is that at some point at least Prisoner of War and Northwest Passage will be coming out through the Warner Archive Collection. My best advice is to go to their site and sign up for their newsletter so you'll be sure to get any advanced heads up that might be coming from them.
More than likely to save money and to make use of actual war footage. Also Otto's toy boat sequence aka battle sequence would have looked worse if that is possible in colour.
Kirk Douglas mentioned in his autobiography how terrible he felt the battle sequences were. I guess they were spending so much on the stars (Wayne, Douglas, Neal, ect.) that the special effects budget suffered accordingly.
http://www.google.com/hostedne…xJIDxSgh1zgBgTCgD9GRNE883
Hate to see this happening. Hopefully, the folks in Winterset will be able to learn from whatever mistakes were made here so they can prevent it from happening to Duke's museum.
More celebrations for Ringo here.
Well, with all the mess going on in college football right now, it put me in the mood for this film. Then, I went back and read this thread from the beginning. Funny that all the Americans who watched this film loved it, whereas all the Europeans hated it. Of course, since it's about a uniquely American sport, football, I guess it shouldn't be too surprising. At any rate, this is certainly one movie that, if anything, is even more relevant now than it was when it was first released. The slimy underbelly of college football is even bigger now, and of course, is playing for a lot more money and even bigger payoffs now. Even Duke's own USC Trojans aren't immune from it all. Sad. I also noticed Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) in an early role as one of Duke's assistant coaches. Here's an interesting article about the film, as well.
This sums up my feelings on "Lost" completely:
