Name a John Wayne film that isn't a Western and you will surely come up with "The Quiet Man," a film from 1952 and directed by John Ford. The film stars John Wayne as an American boxer with a violent past who comes to his mother's native land, the country known as Ireland. The rest of the cast is filled out with Maureen O'Hara, as Irish a woman as one can get, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald.
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Name any classic film and nine times out of ten, and one would run into the name and work of popular music's most busiest figures, Victor Young (1899 - 1956). Young was one of the first of the great film composers, writing his scores in a classical way, building the tensions more like a great musical figure would rather than short stings that would become the norm for many movies. These film sc...
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" ranks as one of Ernest Hemingway's greatest novels, standing side by side with "The Sun Also Rises." The action centers around the exploits of Richard Jordan, a character modeled by Hemingway as himself during the Spanish Civil War of the middle 1930's. Jordan has to come back to Spain to help blow up an important bridge with a band of guerillas. One of the people he m...
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When in 1953 "Shane came out, the era of the so-called "Adult" western was becoming something of a norm in the motion picture industry. Tough, Gritty stories with an almost Shakespeare like dramatic tension began to invade what was once thought of as a kiddie genre in film. Yet in this mixture was a film that expressed tenderness and love in the midst of the rough, violent times in the Old West...
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First of all, I wanted to find at least one sample of the friendly partnership between Victor Young and fellow composer and pianist Harry Sukman. Normally it would be Sukman you would hear on Young's easy listening albums of the early 1950's. "Written on the Wind" is a roilin, boisterous film about family jealousies and hatreds starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malon...
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