Tag: John Wayne
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TailSlate looks at D-Day movies
June 6, 1944. What is now commonly referred to as “D-Day.” The WWII Allies launch Operation Overlord. Over 150,000 Allied troops were involved in “Operation Overlord.” As is the case with most major historical events, we’ve seen D-Day as the main plot or an important event in a number of major motion pictures. With the…
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Tail Slate recasts 1968’s ‘The Green Berets’
TailSlate proudly presents our recast of… It has been almost exactly 50 years since the late Roger Ebert wrote the following about The Green Berets, John Wayne’s jingoistic film about Special Forces soldiers serving in Vietnam: “The Green Berets” simply will not do as a film about the war in Vietnam. It is offensive not…
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Screen legend Maureen O’Hara has passed away
Actress Maureen O’Hara, best known as the favorite leading lady of the late John Wayne has died. She was 95 years of age.
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Noted character actor Harry Carey Jr. has passed away
Yet another of Hollywood’s best character actors, Harry Carey Jr., has died.
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In ‘The High and the Mighty’ John Wayne takes a long flight to nowhere
Very much like an Irwin Allen disaster flick but in this case nothing much happens.
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John Wayne sours in ‘Island in the Sky’
This old black and white from 1953 features an all-star cast and while its probably a little longer than it needed to be [I]Sky[/I] is a strong feature about survival.
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‘The Quiet Man’ brings ‘Taming of the Shrew’ to Ireland
A former Irish boxer who has spent years in America returns to Ireland to escape a dark secret. But love and tradition challenge his wish to renounce violence as he is pressured to fight for the woman he loves.
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‘She Wore a Yellow Ribbon’ is John Wayne at his best in classic western
While the film appears simplistic and at times even cornball She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is grandiose in the way it handles the themes of the individual versus community.