A Final Outing For Ford/Wayne 2013

by **Admin** Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:21 am

2013 2013 2013 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sz5h8aq9O6s/UiSVL3Uj8PI/AAAAAAAAQLA/hNGqhPyctmo/s1600/aaawatch5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="564" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sz5h8aq9O6s/UiSVL3Uj8PI/AAAAAAAAQLA/hNGqhPyctmo/s640/aaawatch5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Hawaii Location Dressed Casual: <em>Donovan's Reef</em> (1963)</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YIuNf1BwlzE/UiSVOa7qI3I/AAAAAAAAQLI/X3iY_oVq7uk/s1600/aaawatch6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YIuNf1BwlzE/UiSVOa7qI3I/AAAAAAAAQLI/X3iY_oVq7uk/s640/aaawatch6.jpg" width="562" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Winston-Salem Hardtops Again Gangway For a Drive-In First-Run</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;"><em>Gangway For This Year's BIG Adventure!</em>, said posters for a last teaming of John Wayne and director John Ford. The tag was misleading for <em>Donovan</em> making no pretense toward adventure and looking for a most part like home movies the two sent back from Hawaii vacationing. In fact, this seems to have been Ford reward of a season in the sun for friends in then-good standing, finished work an apparent afterthought. Ford/Wayne's relaxation is what commends <em>Donovan's Reef</em> to us, especially now that Hawaiian scenery can be fullest enjoyed on streaming HD at Amazon, Vudu, and elsewhere. Para pluggers had little but fisticuffs, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Wayne</st1:city></st1:place>v. Lee Marvin's, to sell. Wayne in '63 mid-fifties admitted he was </span><span style="color: white;">too old for this, but how to turn down Ford's entreaty when the old man might not be able to get <em>Donovan's Reef</em> (or any) project aloft without Duke's OK?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rIGT7ndaYjA/UiSVTISuDjI/AAAAAAAAQLQ/e26Cn3V76yk/s1600/aaawatch3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="462" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rIGT7ndaYjA/UiSVTISuDjI/AAAAAAAAQLQ/e26Cn3V76yk/s640/aaawatch3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Wayne Still Buff, But Had He Begun To Suspect How Sick He Was?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lXjFJm3IDZM/UiSVWLioAeI/AAAAAAAAQLY/zfUhnHgOhNw/s1600/aaawatch4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="301" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lXjFJm3IDZM/UiSVWLioAeI/AAAAAAAAQLY/zfUhnHgOhNw/s400/aaawatch4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Imagine What It Cost Ford To Keep <em>This</em> Up</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">They'd use Ford's yacht, the Araner, as <em>Donovan</em>backdrop, meaning Ford could collect much needed rent for a floating drag on personal overhead. Such craft, wildly expensive to upkeep, had been a floating second home to JF and crew during freeboot days when more of them were alive and able to withstand international bar crawls, but life was simpler now, the Araner a harder to justify drag on Fordian resource. He'd sell the craft soon afterwards. As for <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:city>, years of dragging off the fags was headed home to roost. He'd get worst kind of news from docs the year after <em>Donovan's </em>release. With regard local circulation of the pic, our Robin Hood Drive-In of Winston-Salem got <em>Donovan's Reef</em>first-run in accord with product glut that bowed this and </span><a href="http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2013/07/they-wouldnt-let-007-indoors.html"><span style="color: yellow;">other big ones</span></a> <span style="color: white;">outdoors for the triad area. No wonder vast majority, there and elsewhere, would see <em>Donovan's Reef</em> first on TV (9/17/66 premiere via NBC), wait-time ever shortening for features to tube-land.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zz3IfoCtjYw/UiSVYsr0fLI/AAAAAAAAQLg/6WnNeOJe9C0/s1600/aaawatch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="482" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zz3IfoCtjYw/UiSVYsr0fLI/AAAAAAAAQLg/6WnNeOJe9C0/s640/aaawatch1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Another Haughty Miss Gets a Tanning From Big John. Content Like This </span><br /><span style="color: yellow;">Wouldn't Sustain Long After 1963</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fn1DzKfgCG8/UiSVbvTOm8I/AAAAAAAAQLo/Z8MyhgrwwcA/s1600/aaawatch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fn1DzKfgCG8/UiSVbvTOm8I/AAAAAAAAQLo/Z8MyhgrwwcA/s640/aaawatch2.jpg" width="516" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Mark Your Wayne Appointment Book: Scott Eyman's</span><br /><span style="color: yellow;">Definitive Biography of The Star Arrives 4/1/14</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">It's thankful we should be that <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:city>'s clout was such as to enable a <em>Donovan's Reef</em>. Behind-camera drama as since told makes us wish to have been on the trip to observe <em>Donovan's</em> team day-to-day: Ford losing</span> <span style="color: white;">interest and eyesight, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:city>his patience with a mentor headed for dotage, with other players who'd not seen Ford in years (Dorothy Lamour, Caesar Romero) and realizing good old days were spent. None of gloom spills onto resultant pic, however. <em>Donovan's Reef</em> wears a happy face and is catnip to Fordists. What he found funny was, as ever, a good sock to the jaw, one Victor McLaglen brawling as in old </span><span style="color: white;">updated to a whole cast of McLaglen successors doing so here. There was $2.7 million in domestic rentals, under the prior year's <em>Liberty Valance</em>, but that with whatever foreign was realized hopefully put <em>Donovan's Reef</em> into profit.</span></span></span></span><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sz5h8aq9O6s/UiSVL3Uj8PI/AAAAAAAAQLA/hNGqhPyctmo/s1600/aaawatch5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="564" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sz5h8aq9O6s/UiSVL3Uj8PI/AAAAAAAAQLA/hNGqhPyctmo/s640/aaawatch5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Hawaii Location Dressed Casual: <em>Donovan's Reef</em> (1963)</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YIuNf1BwlzE/UiSVOa7qI3I/AAAAAAAAQLI/X3iY_oVq7uk/s1600/aaawatch6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YIuNf1BwlzE/UiSVOa7qI3I/AAAAAAAAQLI/X3iY_oVq7uk/s640/aaawatch6.jpg" width="562" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Winston-Salem Hardtops Again Gangway For a Drive-In First-Run</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;"><em>Gangway For This Year's BIG Adventure!</em>, said posters for a last teaming of John Wayne and director John Ford. The tag was misleading for <em>Donovan</em> making no pretense toward adventure and looking for a most part like home movies the two sent back from Hawaii vacationing. In fact, this seems to have been Ford reward of a season in the sun for friends in then-good standing, finished work an apparent afterthought. Ford/Wayne's relaxation is what commends <em>Donovan's Reef</em> to us, especially now that Hawaiian scenery can be fullest enjoyed on streaming HD at Amazon, Vudu, and elsewhere. Para pluggers had little but fisticuffs, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Wayne</st1:city></st1:place>v. Lee Marvin's, to sell. Wayne in '63 mid-fifties admitted he was </span><span style="color: white;">too old for this, but how to turn down Ford's entreaty when the old man might not be able to get <em>Donovan's Reef</em> (or any) project aloft without Duke's OK?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rIGT7ndaYjA/UiSVTISuDjI/AAAAAAAAQLQ/e26Cn3V76yk/s1600/aaawatch3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="462" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rIGT7ndaYjA/UiSVTISuDjI/AAAAAAAAQLQ/e26Cn3V76yk/s640/aaawatch3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Wayne Still Buff, But Had He Begun To Suspect How Sick He Was?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lXjFJm3IDZM/UiSVWLioAeI/AAAAAAAAQLY/zfUhnHgOhNw/s1600/aaawatch4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="301" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lXjFJm3IDZM/UiSVWLioAeI/AAAAAAAAQLY/zfUhnHgOhNw/s400/aaawatch4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Imagine What It Cost Ford To Keep <em>This</em> Up</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">They'd use Ford's yacht, the Araner, as <em>Donovan</em>backdrop, meaning Ford could collect much needed rent for a floating drag on personal overhead. Such craft, wildly expensive to upkeep, had been a floating second home to JF and crew during freeboot days when more of them were alive and able to withstand international bar crawls, but life was simpler now, the Araner a harder to justify drag on Fordian resource. He'd sell the craft soon afterwards. As for <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:city>, years of dragging off the fags was headed home to roost. He'd get worst kind of news from docs the year after <em>Donovan's </em>release. With regard local circulation of the pic, our Robin Hood Drive-In of Winston-Salem got <em>Donovan's Reef</em>first-run in accord with product glut that bowed this and </span><a href="http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2013/07/they-wouldnt-let-007-indoors.html"><span style="color: yellow;">other big ones</span></a> <span style="color: white;">outdoors for the triad area. No wonder vast majority, there and elsewhere, would see <em>Donovan's Reef</em> first on TV (9/17/66 premiere via NBC), wait-time ever shortening for features to tube-land.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zz3IfoCtjYw/UiSVYsr0fLI/AAAAAAAAQLg/6WnNeOJe9C0/s1600/aaawatch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="482" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zz3IfoCtjYw/UiSVYsr0fLI/AAAAAAAAQLg/6WnNeOJe9C0/s640/aaawatch1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Another Haughty Miss Gets a Tanning From Big John. Content Like This </span><br /><span style="color: yellow;">Wouldn't Sustain Long After 1963</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fn1DzKfgCG8/UiSVbvTOm8I/AAAAAAAAQLo/Z8MyhgrwwcA/s1600/aaawatch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fn1DzKfgCG8/UiSVbvTOm8I/AAAAAAAAQLo/Z8MyhgrwwcA/s640/aaawatch2.jpg" width="516" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Mark Your Wayne Appointment Book: Scott Eyman's</span><br /><span style="color: yellow;">Definitive Biography of The Star Arrives 4/1/14</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">It's thankful we should be that <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:city>'s clout was such as to enable a <em>Donovan's Reef</em>. Behind-camera drama as since told makes us wish to have been on the trip to observe <em>Donovan's</em> team day-to-day: Ford losing</span> <span style="color: white;">interest and eyesight, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:city>his patience with a mentor headed for dotage, with other players who'd not seen Ford in years (Dorothy Lamour, Caesar Romero) and realizing good old days were spent. None of gloom spills onto resultant pic, however. <em>Donovan's Reef</em> wears a happy face and is catnip to Fordists. What he found funny was, as ever, a good sock to the jaw, one Victor McLaglen brawling as in old </span><span style="color: white;">updated to a whole cast of McLaglen successors doing so here. There was $2.7 million in domestic rentals, under the prior year's <em>Liberty Valance</em>, but that with whatever foreign was realized hopefully put <em>Donovan's Reef</em> into profit.</span></span></span></span><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>