Posts by The Irish Duke

The relationship between Duke and BJ is one of the best things about Chisum another fine movie. I only have one episode of Maverick starring Garner left before i'm done, real shame as it's been an absolutely superb series.

Been watching Breaking Bad, amazing show. Very suprised it lived up to the hype

The Comancheros is one of Wayne's best from that period, he was on a pretty hot streak post Rio Bravo after being abit disappointing in the mid 50's (pre searchers)

The Comancheros is one of Wayne's best from that period, he was on a pretty hot streak post Rio Bravo after being abit disappointing in the mid 50's (pre searchers)

The Comancheros is one of Wayne's best from that period, he was on a pretty hot streak post Rio Bravo after being abit disappointing in the mid 50's (pre searchers)

The Comancheros is one of Wayne's best from that period, he was on a pretty hot streak post Rio Bravo after being abit disappointing in the mid 50's (pre searchers)

Sad to hear about Hal, another Pal lost

Big Happy Days fan myself, have season one but really should invest in the others. Wish they were on Netflix. My favorite episode is the fencing one.

It's worth the effort for me just because it has the Duke in it and i'm aiming to watch everythings hes been in thats avaliable. As a film I didn't think it was great but it's probably fairly standard for most mid 1940's rom-coms. I found Claudette Colbert intensely annoying in this whereas I quite enjoyed her in It's a Wonderful World with Jimmy Stewart.

It's worth the effort for me just because it has the Duke in it and i'm aiming to watch everythings hes been in thats avaliable. As a film I didn't think it was great but it's probably fairly standard for most mid 1940's rom-coms. I found Claudette Colbert intensely annoying in this whereas I quite enjoyed her in It's a Wonderful World with Jimmy Stewart.

It's worth the effort for me just because it has the Duke in it and i'm aiming to watch everythings hes been in thats avaliable. As a film I didn't think it was great but it's probably fairly standard for most mid 1940's rom-coms. I found Claudette Colbert intensely annoying in this whereas I quite enjoyed her in It's a Wonderful World with Jimmy Stewart.

It's worth the effort for me just because it has the Duke in it and i'm aiming to watch everythings hes been in thats avaliable. As a film I didn't think it was great but it's probably fairly standard for most mid 1940's rom-coms. I found Claudette Colbert intensely annoying in this whereas I quite enjoyed her in It's a Wonderful World with Jimmy Stewart.

It's worth the effort for me just because it has the Duke in it and i'm aiming to watch everythings hes been in thats avaliable. As a film I didn't think it was great but it's probably fairly standard for most mid 1940's rom-coms. I found Claudette Colbert intensely annoying in this whereas I quite enjoyed her in It's a Wonderful World with Jimmy Stewart.

Without Reservations. Not the Duke's best to say the least, the idea had some potential and I quite liked the bits in Hollywood towards the end including the Grant cameo but the middle with the latin family and all the train stuff was pretty terrible. This really felt like much more of a Jimmy Stewart style movie than a Duke one but the Duke acquainted himself alright. Think alot more comedy could have been found if the film covered Duke trying to play the guy in the film but that may have been the kind of satire that was avoided at the time.

Without Reservations. Not the Duke's best to say the least, the idea had some potential and I quite liked the bits in Hollywood towards the end including the Grant cameo but the middle with the latin family and all the train stuff was pretty terrible. This really felt like much more of a Jimmy Stewart style movie than a Duke one but the Duke acquainted himself alright. Think alot more comedy could have been found if the film covered Duke trying to play the guy in the film but that may have been the kind of satire that was avoided at the time.

Without Reservations. Not the Duke's best to say the least, the idea had some potential and I quite liked the bits in Hollywood towards the end including the Grant cameo but the middle with the latin family and all the train stuff was pretty terrible. This really felt like much more of a Jimmy Stewart style movie than a Duke one but the Duke acquainted himself alright. Think alot more comedy could have been found if the film covered Duke trying to play the guy in the film but that may have been the kind of satire that was avoided at the time.

Without Reservations. Not the Duke's best to say the least, the idea had some potential and I quite liked the bits in Hollywood towards the end including the Grant cameo but the middle with the latin family and all the train stuff was pretty terrible. This really felt like much more of a Jimmy Stewart style movie than a Duke one but the Duke acquainted himself alright. Think alot more comedy could have been found if the film covered Duke trying to play the guy in the film but that may have been the kind of satire that was avoided at the time.

Without Reservations. Not the Duke's best to say the least, the idea had some potential and I quite liked the bits in Hollywood towards the end including the Grant cameo but the middle with the latin family and all the train stuff was pretty terrible. This really felt like much more of a Jimmy Stewart style movie than a Duke one but the Duke acquainted himself alright. Think alot more comedy could have been found if the film covered Duke trying to play the guy in the film but that may have been the kind of satire that was avoided at the time.

There are a few similar ones here Robbie http://www.ebay.com/bhp/buckskin-jacket not all that cheap though.

Haha you are very right Keith that alot of young people just aren't that interested in older movies which is a shame, as you maybe I have seen I like films with a message or a point even if it's just good v bad etc and the reason I think I gravitate to the older movies is the focus on stories and characters over the glitz of newer ones. I find the old JW etc movies alot more human if that makes sense. I badger my friends to watch older films and I do have a few real life friends who are JW fans so that is nice, I was in the living room just now and Ward Bond was strutting across the screen as my father was watching Only the Valiant! I think although it may seem that the JW etc fans out there are dwindling there are probably more out there than you think. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Peck, Cooper are the actors with the most films shown on tv around here and they couldn't be on so often if nobody was watching them! Since I became a Duke fan there has been a JW film on tv every day since, there is a never a day on UK tv that a John Wayne film doesn't feature and that's a great sign of his continuing popularity. If you ever need a young guy to talk about the duke for your book i'm right here