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Post by london777 on Sept 15, 2017 23:09:04 GMT
For some reason I also remember Tripoli (1950), a totally banal actioner which I saw once 67 years ago as a ten-year-old. No idea why that stuck in my mind when I have forgotten hundreds of better movies Payne was bland (as usual) but Howard da Silva spiced it up. I was curious about this one. I was looking at his filmography after commenting on this thread and came across Tripoli. Interesting that at the beginning of Shores of Tripoli Randolph Scott discusses the action of the US Marines against the Barbary Pirates, and then John Payne goes on to star in this exact engagement. Maureen O'Hara is in both films as well. Pretty interesting coincidence. Maybe not a coincidence. Payne was a pretty shrewd businessman and invested in his own movies when he thought they deserved it. He may have remembered it as a good theme for a movie (the mystic orient and harems combined with American flag-waving) and had a hand in its emergence. |
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