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- Stands out as one of Wayne's best-remembered features, a smooth Western co-produced by Wayne and shot at the tail end of the '50s 3-D craze.
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Aug 18, 2012 · Based on Louis L’Amour’s short story “The Gift of Cochise,” Hondo Lane (John Wayne) wearily walks out of the New Mexico desert after Apaches stole his horse. He arrives at the Lowe ranch where Angie (Geraldine Page in her film debut) and young son Johnny (Lee Aaker) live.
Hondo is a 1953 Warnercolor 3D Western film directed by John Farrow and starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page. The screenplay is based on the 1952 Collier's short story "The Gift of Cochise" by Louis L'Amour. The book Hondo was a novelization of the film also written by L'Amour, and published by Gold Medal Books in 1953. [3]
An embittered Indian scout attempts to escort a homesteader's wife and her son back to safety after her cowardly husband deserts her during an Apache attack. When she refuses to go, the scout ...
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- John Farrow
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Jan 30, 2022 · Hondo the novel is a good read. Grant did a very fine job on the screenplay and Wayne made a magnificent Hondo Lane. The movie was the new Batjac company’s response to the hard-bitten, tough-guy adult Western movies of James Stewart and Anthony Mann – such as The Naked Spur, released eight months before.
Sep 10, 2012 · John Wayne's favourite John Wayne movie. Louis L'Amour's source novel is a variation on Shane, with Wayne as the eponymous stranger, a cavalry scout, whose manl.
Made in 1953 Warner Bros. HONDO is a good entertaining western. A Wayne/Fellows production it was originally filmed in the short lived process of 3D but here is thankfully without many of the gimmicks associated with that format.
May 22, 2012 · Whether flat or in 3-D, Hondo is an excellent film — not a great one. Its smaller size turns out to be a large part of its appeal, and it seems to hint at the look and tone of The Searchers (1956). Wayne’s performance is excellent. Despite his trouble working with Geraldine Page, their scenes together are very good, some of his best work.
