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Hondo
(1953)
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John Farrow
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John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness
Hondo is so "perfect" a John Ford western that many people assume it was directed by John Ford--or at the very least, Andrew McLaglen. Actually the director was suspense expert John Farrow, who worked with the "Duke" only twice in his career (the second film was an oddball war drama, The Sea Chase [55]). In Hondo, John Wayne plays a hard-bitten ...
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Wake of the Red Witch
(1949)
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Edward Ludwig, John Farrow
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John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Luther Adler, Adele Mara
This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two men of the sea. Ship's captain Rails (John Wayne) nurses a long-standing grudge against shipping magnate Van Schreeven (Luther Adler). The reason for the animosity: Van Schreeven stole away Rails' love, Angelique (Gail ...
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The Big Clock
(1948)
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John Farrow
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Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson
John Farrow's movie adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, based on a screenplay by Jonathan Latimer (and produced by future James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum), is a near-perfect match for the book, telling in generally superb visual style a tale set against the backdrop of upscale 1940s New York and offering an early (but accurate) ...
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The Sea Chase
(1955)
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John Farrow
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John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter
John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post WWII. Though staunchly opposed to the Nazi regime, Karl (Wayne) feels it would nevertheless be unpatriotic should he refuse to save his ship from destruction. His ship--an old, rusty 5,000 ton freighter named the Ergenstrasse ...
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China
(1943)
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John Farrow
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Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Iris Wong
Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a cynically materialistic American who has no qualms about selling oil to the enemy; as far as he's concerned, their money spends as well as anyone's. Against the advice of his friend and partner Johnny Sparrow (William Bendix ...
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Copper Canyon
(1950)
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John Farrow
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Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, MacDonald Carey, Mona Freeman
Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show to avoid detection by the Union army. Working his way West, he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living. John Bush, All Movie Guide
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Plunder of the Sun
(1953)
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John Farrow
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Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Sean McClory
Adapted from a novel by David Dodge, Plunder of the Sun is basically Treasure of the Sierra Madre in Aztec country. Several interested parties converge upon the Mexican Aztec ruins in search of a long-buried treasure. Insurance investigator Glenn Ford is ostensibly the hero, but he doesn't seem any more trustworthy than the rest of the petty ...
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Botany Bay
(1953)
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John Farrow
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Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke, Murray Matheson
Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the prison, Ladd is tormented by sadistic ship's captain James Mason, while Mason's beloved Patricia Medina takes a fancy to the new prisoner. Once at the colony, Ladd is befriended by governor Sir Cedric Hardwicke, since the ...
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Alias Jesse James
(1959)
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John Farrow, Norman Z. McLeod
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Gene Autry, Jay Silverheels, Roy Rogers, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott
Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his efforts to get the policy back, Hope finds himself ...
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Two Years Before the Mast
(1946)
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John Farrow
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Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, Roman Bohnen, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, George Bruggeman, Howard Da Silva, James Burke
Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century. Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the wealthy son of a Boston shipowner, is hijacked by Amazeen (William Bendix), the first mate on a ship bound for California. Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva) is the tyrannical captain of the ...
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The Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)
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John Farrow
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Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins
Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a wartime morale-booster, largely set in coastal Norway. Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, an apolitical and basically pacifistic Norwegian fisherman who is galvanized into action when his village is occupied by the Nazis. With ...
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John Paul Jones
(1959)
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John Farrow
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Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, MacDonald Carey
Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a fervent supporter of the American Revolutionaries, and he volunteers to lead the colonists' ragtag fleet to impressive victories against the British Navy; ...
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Wake Island
(1942)
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John Farrow
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Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, MacDonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton
The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced participation in World War II. The first two reels takes place in the weeks prior to Pearl Harbor, as Wake Island military commander Brian Donlevy carries on a friendly rivalry with Seabee supervisor Albert Dekker. Once the US ...
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