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On Turner Classic Movies (TCM) there is only one John Wayne scheduled. Wednesday June 27 at 05:45 AM Pacific Time, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON ( 1949) - An aging Cavalry officer tries to prevent an Indian war in the last days before his retirement.
Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr, Victor McLaglen
Dir: John Ford
Color- 104 minutes
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Check out the newly launched website, Newt's Classic Movie Store. The films offered are classic films, a good deal of them are known as Film Noir. Most other genre of films are offered, comedy, drama, westerns, horror, musicals, etc.
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The featured film in this newsletter is Private Hell 36 (1954). This film stars Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Steve Cochran, Dorothy Malone, and Dean Jagger. This taut, low-key and highly effective film noir was an early example of a style that director Don Siegel came to perfect in his later films. Although dealing with robbery and murder it's at its most effective in the small scenes of domesticity between the central characters, a crooked cop, his partner and the women they are both involved with.
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Here are a few interesting links to pages of interest around the Internet.
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The link is from the late film critic Roger Ebert. Remembering John Wayne was an article that Ebert wrote on June 12, 1979. Ebert remembers his meetings and interviews with the Duke, a must read
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An article from the Film School Rejects website,
SHOT BY SHOT: THE OPENING SCENE OF �RIO BRAVO�
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Another slam at John Wayne from the Left Coast. Two articles from the Seattle Times tell the story.
Washington may rename the cross-state John Wayne Pioneer Trail; here�s why.
Former John Wayne Pioneer Trail renamed Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail.
One of the reasons given for the name change were offensive remarks made by trail namesake John Wayne were cited for the renaming. The �remarks� that are referenced to are those made by the actor in a May 1971 interview with Playboy magazine. These remarks that have come to be offensive, are just like everything else PC, as one event in lifetime makes a person a racist/bigot. These remarks caused California to vote down a resolution for a John Way Day. This is the same kind of thinking that founding fathers statues and monuments are being removed. History is history, you just can't remove it because you don't like it. Pardon my pique but this PC crap burns my butt.
- If you are not shopping at the John Wayne Store soon, you're burnin' daylight! Also check out the Newt's Classic Movie Store for your favorite classic DVDs on Demand.
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Your comments or suggestions are always welcome and encouraged. I am always on othe look-out for John Wayne and/or classic film information to pass along in these little newsletters, if you come across any news on these subjects, please let me know.
Later Pilgrim,
Paul Newton -
The link is from the late film critic Roger Ebert. Remembering John Wayne was an article that Ebert wrote on June 12, 1979. Ebert remembers his meetings and interviews with the Duke, a must read
