Chester provided an image once that had Duke lying in the boot and it seemed to be from the beach scene, however I've no idea how this would have related to the movie.
Posts from Robbie in thread „McQ (1974)“
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Was that when his TA was wedged between the 2 trucks? Duke was jostled down from his seat while the car was crushed. The footage is in the film.
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What was the idea of John Wayne hiding in the car boot in this film? The footage however never made the final print.
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"McQ," and "Brannigan" are two grossly underrated John Wayne movies in my opinion, if anyone gets an opportunity try to catch these movies again.
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Channel 5 is notorious for cutting large segments from movies, "McQ," got of fairly lightly. I remember watching "Big Jake," in which most of the opening sequence at the ranch was cut out (obviously considered too violent).
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Actually I think McQ was more of a copy of Bullitt than Dirty Harry. I quite enjoyed both of the Duke's cop movies, even though he was clearly too old.
With respect I disagree, I feel his age is irrelevant and if anything it makes the character more interesting. Lon McQ has a history, his personal life has fallen apart in the past, yet when it comes to police work there is a wealth of experience to draw from.
There is nothing in the script to indicate that McQ should be a young man, only the critics ever made an issue of Dukes age while playing this role and these were the same critics who were stating that Duke was too old to be acting.
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It is interesting, I am sure it is not a behind the scenes photo. Could it have been Duke and Louis in the policestation after McQ realises her true colours?
Its interesting to see that only McQ thus far from the Bonanza website has pictures in relation to deleted scenes.
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Hi Keith
I recently watched this movie and prior to entering the hospital Duke was involved in a shootout during which he wore a nifty purple jacket. In the next scene he is in the hospital and still has this jacket on. The setting is of a warm and dry day so it makes no sense that he would put his raincoat on entering the hospital only for it to disappear once he met louis, are there any other explanations?
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Danny Wilde
Does the High and the mightly DVD include delteted scenes?
Keith
Do you know where the scenes with Duke in the raincoat (on the links above) relate to in accordance with the final movie?
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Thanks Chester, its an excellent web site.
Below is a link to a deleted scene which is presumably Stan Boyles funeral.
http://www.netropolisusa.biz/mptv/cgi-bin/...ll&tt=&bool=and
Below is another from that same scene:
http://www.netropolisusa.biz/mptv/cgi-bin/...ll&tt=&bool=and
Below are some more deleted scenes but I am unsure as to what part of the plot they are from.
http://www.netropolisusa.biz/mptv/cgi-bin/...ll&tt=&bool=and
http://www.netropolisusa.biz/mptv/cgi-bin/...ll&tt=&bool=and
http://www.netropolisusa.biz/mptv/cgi-bin/...ll&tt=&bool=and
http://www.netropolisusa.biz/mptv/cgi-bin/...ll&tt=&bool=and
And I don't know whats going on here, maybe someone else can explain.
http://www.netropolisusa.biz/mptv/cgi-bin/...ll&tt=&bool=and
For me personally I find it fascinating to view these pictures from deleted scenes. These are the first pictures of any deleted scene from a John Wayne movie that I have ever come across and from McQ of all movies. I would be very interested to hear where this web site got them from as pictures of McQ are generally not that well circualted on the web as a whole.
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I think this is quite a decent John Wayne movie with plenty happening in it and a good plot to hold the entire movie together. The Duke is on fine form playing out a few scenes he would usually not be associated with, the actions well directed and its good to see that there are plenty of villains for the Duke to deal with which makes a nice change.
I would rank it 6.5/10
Keith
For your records there are several deleted scenes from this movie such as Boyles funeral, interestingly there are pictures available of the deleted scenes on a photograpic website called Bonanza. I cant remember the link but Chester provided it some years ago maybe he could refresh our memories.
