John Wayne’s movie with James Arnes led to television spin

During his 50-year film production career John Wayne was not a great risk when it came to materials. One day he broke through like a movie star with John Ford a template that sets the western “stagecoach” In 1939, he mostly bounced back and forth between the lake films and Rakh-Ra. When he made a feet with his image, he did it with excellent directors such as Ford and Howard Hox, whose opinion he implicitly trusted.

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When it came to experiments with new cinematic technologies and new formats, however, Wayne was open to give something a whirlwind that would help the film stop the threat of television. He made many movies in Cinemascope and starred in “How The West was won”, one of the first films about Cinerama. You might think that the 3D Fad 1950s would be too sweaty for the Duke, but he actually united with director John Farou to shoot Western “Hondo” with the universal new “All Media Camera”. And although the shooting was difficult, it caused such a number of technical delays that Farou had to leave to the end of the main photography to fulfill another directorial commitment (thus opening the door for Ford to finish the movie at the request of Wayne), he became the favorite of the Duke’s fans and, somewhat surprisingly, the Duke himself.

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The movie was united with Wayne with the Great Geraldine page and surrounded it with an extraordinary cast that included Ward Bond, Michael Pate and The Soon Star “Gunsmoke” James Arnes. Wayne was so pleased with how it turned out that in 14 years he turned it into a television series through his Productions Batjac. How did it work out?

Based on the novel “Gift Kochiz” Propagne West Louis L’amur, Honda “shoots Wayne, like Hondo Lane, a US Army racer who gets into a conflict with the participation of a mother (pages) who strives for her family’s family with her young son, while her husband obviously On cattle disk. The husband was absent for some time, but still alive and healthy. And when he crosses the paths from Honda, a fatal conflict is inevitable. Then there is an apache to fight.

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There are many incidents packed in a dense 84 -minute “Hondo”, and although it is not the same league as the best Wayne, Hondo was enough intriguing to support the film’s franchise if exactly Wayne wanted to play. Instead, he brought a character to ABC in 1967 with Ralph Tehor in the lead role. The Hondo TV show combined Tehor with the actor of the veteran’s hero Noah Berry, and Michael Pat returned to play the role of Vitorio.

“Hondo” seemed predetermined for the success of the ratings, but despite the respectable viewers, ABC hastily pulled the plug. Series fans rallied to save it from cancellation (As “Star Trek” Bosters did approximately at the same time with NBC), but ABC will not give a return. “Hondo” has for many years have acquired a reputation as one of the best television western TV, so it may now be time for rebooting. Do you think who can follow the steps of Wayne and Teher?

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