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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 19, 2017 21:58:14 GMT
One of the all time great WWII movies and one of John Wayne's greatest performances. A must see for war movie fans.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 23, 2017 6:32:23 GMT
Excellent movie, somewhat old-fashioned by today's standards, I like it a lot. It's probably,--and maybe someone can correct me on this--the first truly big budget A level movie the third tier, mostly B western and serials oriented Republic studios produced, and it was a huge hit when it came out in 1949. That studio chief Herbert Yates and director Allan Dwan assembled that cast amazes me. Only John Wayne was a top star, but co-star John Agar was still fairly hot and had worked with Wayne and John Ford just prior to Sands Of Iwo Jima. Many in the supporting cast were prominent players, most of them up and comers, who had worked for the major studios: Forrest Tucker, James (no, not King Of Soul) Brown, Richard Webb, Arthur Franz and Richard Jaeckal come to mind. They used a lot of stock footage in the film, but most of it's seamlessly worked into the main body of the film, in itself a major accomplishment.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 17, 2017 14:57:36 GMT
Excellent movie, somewhat old-fashioned by today's standards, I like it a lot. It's probably,--and maybe someone can correct me on this--the first truly big budget A level movie the third tier, mostly B western and serials oriented Republic studios produced, and it was a huge hit when it came out in 1949. That studio chief Herbert Yates and director Allan Dwan assembled that cast amazes me. Only John Wayne was a top star, but co-star John Agar was still fairly hot and had worked with Wayne and John Ford just prior to Sands Of Iwo Jima. Many in the supporting cast were prominent players, most of them up and comers, who had worked for the major studios: Forrest Tucker, James (no, not King Of Soul) Brown, Richard Webb, Arthur Franz and Richard Jaeckal come to mind. They used a lot of stock footage in the film, but most of it's seamlessly worked into the main body of the film, in itself a major accomplishment. Peter Bogdanovich interviewed “Sands” director Allan Dwan in the late 1960s. The interview was published in Bogdanovich’s book, “Who The Devil Made It: Conversations With Legendary Film Directors” (1997). (I have an autographed copy.) Here is what Dwan says about the budget and Republic Studio founder and President Herbert Yates:
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Post by telegonus on Aug 17, 2017 17:33:47 GMT
That sounds typical of Yates, Mike, which is why Republic never got into the big leagues. Yet he seemed to be aiming in that direction for a spell prior to SOIJ, and even after, if Wayne was in it, and John Ford produced it, he'd take the plunge. The Quiet Man was a monster hit, even if a co-production, but still. Little came afterwards to suggest that the studio was aiming higher. They did sign on Sterling Hayden as their in-house major star, and some of what Hayden did for them was good. Johnny Guitar, co-starring Joan Crawford, no less, and directed by Nicholas Ray, actually turned a profit, but Yates seemed content to continue making smaller pictures, leasing back lot space for television shows. In the end Republic didn't out of business because it was losing money, the way RKO was, but because Herbert J. Yates willed it.
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