The music is wonderful too!
Composed by the great Elmer Bernstein.
Posts from may2 in thread „The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)“
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My sister was a big fan of Earl Holliman. I gave her the sound track album for Xmas long ago. It has a theme song by Johnny Cash not heard in the film.
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I came upon this under Tommy Kirk's entry at IMDB awhile ago,
QuoteIn 1965, I'd signed a contract for 'The Sons of Katie Elder' with John Wayne, but a week before shooting I went to a Hollywood party that the vice squad busted because of marijuana. I was handcuffed and photos of me got in the papers with headlines like 'Ex-Disney Child Star Arrested for Pot!' So Wayne and the producers fired me."
I assume he was going to play Bud. I think he would have been even more unbelievable as Duke's brother that Michael Anderson Jr. was, he's really short.
As it was Katie must have been fertile for 35 years to have sons with such a large age span.
I always thought it was odd they used the name Katie Elder. Wasn't there an actual Katie Elder in the old West famed as a madam or one of the girls?
It's one of my favorite John Wayne movies anyway. It has a great Elmer Bernstein score.
