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post #91 of 104
1/25/12 at 4:03pm

Don't know about the rest of you, but my favorite John Wayne/Paramount western is "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence", which co-starred him with Jimmy Stewart and Vera Miles...all three of them were brilliant in that picture!!!patriot.gif

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post #92 of 104
1/25/12 at 4:59pm
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Don't know about the rest of you, but my favorite John Wayne/Paramount western is "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence", which co-starred him with Jimmy Stewart and Vera Miles...all three of them were brilliant in that picture!!!patriot.gif

That is a good one too. All of the 1960s Westerns would be great on Blu-ray. I would like to see North To Alaska (Fox), El Dorado, War Wagon (Universal),and Chisum (1970, WB), among others.
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post #93 of 104
1/25/12 at 5:53pm
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Hatari! is one of John Wayne's very few comedies he did along with Donavan's Reef and Mclintock.



Those latter two I enjoy a lot more than Hatari and are among my favorite Wayne titles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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post #94 of 104
1/26/12 at 3:59am
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Those latter two I enjoy a lot more than Hatari and are among my favorite Wayne titles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Very true. I enjoy the ending scene in McLintock of John Wayne chasing after Maureen O'Hara thru town, a whole lot more than the ending scene in Hatari! of John Wayne chasing after a baby elephant thru a town. One played out with spectacular laughs, while the other just dragged on-and-on.

 

Now, all this said, I'd still get HATARI! in a heartbeat, if it ever arrives on blu. Like I previously mentioned, there is still lots of parts of the film that are enjoyable. But much like Rio Lobo, Hawks just didn't have a firm grasp on a tight story, nor did he hire the correct character actors to compliment John Wayne's leading role.

 

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post #95 of 104
1/26/12 at 4:53am
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Hawks just didn't have a firm grasp on a tight story, nor did he hire the correct character actors to compliment John Wayne's leading role.

Excuse me, but I disagree, he knows exactly how to tell a story and all the actors were perfect for their roles. Remember, Hawks is one who brought us Bringing Up Baby, an excellent film of the screwball comedy era. Hawks, was a director of many genres, only so few directors today can direct that wide of genres.
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post #96 of 104
1/26/12 at 5:59am
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Excuse me, but I disagree, he knows exactly how to tell a story and all the actors were perfect for their roles. Remember, Hawks is one who brought us Bringing Up Baby, an excellent film of the screwball comedy era. Hawks, was a director of many genres, only so few directors today can direct that wide of genres.



Hawks was a great director and one of my personal favorites.  However, I don't like all of his films in the same vain.  Some, I adore like His Girl Friday and others, like Hatari are okay films.  With film appreciation being so subjective, people will always disagree about them.  Furthermore, late in his career, Hawks had a tendency to recycle familiar storylines which some might appreciate more than others.

 

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post #97 of 104
1/26/12 at 6:20am
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Excuse me, but I disagree, he knows exactly how to tell a story and all the actors were perfect for their roles. Remember, Hawks is one who brought us Bringing Up Baby, an excellent film of the screwball comedy era. Hawks, was a director of many genres, only so few directors today can direct that wide of genres.


Well, of course Hawks made some of the finest movies ever put to film.  Red River and Bringing Up Baby are in a class by themselves.  That does not mean everything he did was of the same quality.  Just like John Ford made some of the cinema's great classics, he also had a few misses.

 

Not taking anything away from the genius of Hawks.  He was a master, no doubt.  However, Hatari! and Rio Lobo was not Hawks at his finest.

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post #98 of 104
1/27/12 at 1:31pm
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Those latter two I enjoy a lot more than Hatari and are among my favorite Wayne titles.







Crawdaddy

Agreed.
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post #99 of 104
1/27/12 at 7:07pm
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Those latter two I enjoy a lot more than Hatari and are among my favorite Wayne titles.







Crawdaddy

Some people like this, some people like that. I just hope we get a burst of Wayne title like last May/June.
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post #100 of 104
1/28/12 at 4:38am
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Some people like this, some people like that. I just hope we get a burst of Wayne title like last May/June.

That would be nice, but I don't think Paramount will, it dosen't seem to fit into their big picture.
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post #101 of 104
1/28/12 at 6:06am

Looks like Amazon has the blu of Hondo up for pre-order, although there is no date or details.  Pretty neat cover, I'll say that!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hondo-Blu-ray/dp/B006YZOXDK/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1327759077&sr=1-3

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post #102 of 104
1/28/12 at 7:03am
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Looks like Amazon has the blu of Hondo up for pre-order, although there is no date or details.  Pretty neat cover, I'll say that!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hondo-Blu-ray/dp/B006YZOXDK/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1327759077&sr=1-3



It's gone up in price since I preordered it ten days ago.

 

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post #103 of 104
1/28/12 at 1:23pm
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It's gone up in price since I preordered it ten days ago.

It seems a lot of Amazon pre-order titles went from 30% to 10% discount - Dark Shadows, Buck Privates. Not sure what is going on. I assume/hope it is back to normal before these are released

David
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post #104 of 104
2/8/12 at 9:18am
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Looks like Amazon has the blu of Hondo up for pre-order, although there is no date or details.  Pretty neat cover, I'll say that!

http://www.amazon.com/Hondo-Blu-ray/dp/B006YZOXDK/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1327759077&sr=1-3

I'll wait for the 3-D version.
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