Saw this on the big screen in the 50s. This is classic "Duke".
Lauren Bacall is tops also.
Blood Alley
A Classic that has lost nothing with time. A great Saturday afternoon film (with popcorn).
Duke & Bacall. What more do you want?
Sort of a strange film but, dare I say it, entertaining. Nicely made. This feels as if were made in between major efforts. Not one of Wayne's best but certainingly not his worst. For that, see (or don't see) "The Conquerer". The pairing with Bacall is very good. The two stars work well together and their interaction provides the story's framework and keeps things interesting.
Just curious, are the Chinese village sets the same as those used in the Bogart film "The Left Hand of God"? Now there's a DVD candidate.
The DVD image looks good. Yes, the color is somewhat muted, but this film is around 50 years old and film stock from that period wasn't the best nor was it carefully preserved. Still, this film has never looked, or sounded, better on home video -- and at long, long last we have the full CinemaScpoe image!
Duke and Bacall in an entertaining film. Microwave some popcorn and enjoy.
John Wayne personally produced many of his '50s films, which is why some of them have languished in corporate limbo following his death. The High and the Mighty was one of his most popular vehicles (no pun intended). This long, necessarily sedentary drama aboard an endangered airliner is a CinemaScope bridge between 1932's Grand Hotel and 1970s disaster movies. Despite Wayne's iconic presence as a pilot--now copilot--who survived the plane crash that wiped out his family, it's an ensemble movie with an impressive cast: Robert Stack sharing the cockpit, Oscar® nominees Claire Trevor and Jan Sterling, Laraine Day, Robert Newton, Paul Kelly, John Qualen, Regis Toomey, the ubiquitous Paul Fix, and director William A. Wellman's good-luck character actor Douglas Fowley.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Claire Trevor - Laraine Day Director(s): William A. Wellman DVD Release Date: Released the 02 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Out of circulation for a quarter-century following the death of producer-star John Wayne, Island in the Sky is a tale of survival focused on the pilot (Wayne) and crew of a DC-3 forced to crashland somewhere in the uncharted Canadian wilderness, and the fellow airmen (Lloyd Nolan, James Arness, Andy Devine, Paul Fix) determined to find them before hunger and the 70-below winter do them in. The movie, set in the post-WWII era when military and commercial aviation were still intertwined, was written by bestselling novelist Ernest K. Gann and directed by William A. Wellman, an aviation-movie veteran whose Wings won the first-ever Academy Award (1927–28).
Wellman resolutely downplays the histrionics and conventional heroics; Wayne indulges in none of the macho... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Lloyd Nolan Director(s): William A. Wellman DVD Release Date: Released the 02 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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For some reason I never thought of Wayne as playing the role of a German sea captain. Well, he does here and does very well indeed in this very entertaining film. Here he has a decent script to work with that gives him an opportunity to shine. Both Wayne and Turner seem to grow in their respective roles.
The film looks and sounds great on DVD with its original CinemaScope aspect ratio intact. A very entertaing film set on the high seas. Enjoy. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Lana Turner Director(s): John Farrow DVD Release Date: Released the 03 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Although scarcely seen in its original 3-D, and entirely out of sight for a decade and a half after its producer-star died, Hondo has maintained a high rep among John Wayne fans--and it wasn't even directed by Howard Hawks or John Ford. (Actually, Ford did shoot some second-unit stuff while visiting Wayne on location.) Half-breed Hondo, companioned only by an antisocial dog, tends to be more sympathetic toward the Apaches than toward the white society he occasionally scouts for. He falls into uneasy friendship with a New Mexico farmwoman (Geraldine Page) whose husband deserts her for long stretches, and whose son (Lee Aaker) is blood brother to the local Apache chieftain. A good, spare frontier tale--Louis L'Amour via James Edward (Angel and the Badman) Grant--in which... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Geraldine Page Director(s): John Farrow DVD Release Date: Released the 11 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I always find this movie a little sad to watch, I guess because John Wayne looks so old and almost feeble here. This is a much different role from the "Cowboys," where he consciously played an old man. This is the kind of movie he should have made five or ten years earlier. In addition, the plot itself is so feeble that if John Wayne and Ben Johnson weren't in it, no one would watch it. Still I feel an obligation to watch it whenever it's on, perhaps out of loyalty to the Duke for all the great movies he made. Even at age 66, he still had an undeniable presence that transcended the quality of a particualr movie. (And Ann Margret's not bad to look at either!) More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Wayne - Ann-Margret Director(s): Burt Kennedy DVD Release Date: Released the 03 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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