Shemp Howard enjoyed a successful solo career in movies...
...before returning to the Three Stooges to replace ailing brother Curly.
Here he shares the screen with fellow Hollywood icon John Wayne...
...as well as Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott.
Shemp could hold his own with anyone on the screen.
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While John Wayne rarely wore a toupee in his private life...
...he was never without it in his later films and personal appearances.
But we get a rare glimpse of his thinning pate in NORTH TO ALASKA (1960)...
...when a punch from Ernie Kovacs sends both hat and hairpiece flying.
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Right around the one-hour mark in John Ford's western cavalry classic "Fort Apache" (1948)...
...the camera pans right along a line of mounted Indian warriors.
When it stops, watch the lower right of the screen...
...to catch a modern vehicle driving by in full view. Oops!
Originally posted on 6/1/19
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John Wayne as "Singin' Sandy"?
Here are some of the attempts by various movie studios in the 30s to turn John Wayne into a singing cowboy. (Dubbed, that is.)
Scenes used are from:
"Riders of Destiny" (1933)
"Westward Ho!" (1935)
"Lawless Range" (1935)
"Man From Utah" (1934)
Originally posted on 11/26/18
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Grizzed old lawman Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne)...
...and a callow Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell)...
...forbid young Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to join the hunt for the man who killed her father.
But the determined girl is not so easily left behind.
Originally posted on 7/28/19
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7 Times John Wayne Got Killed In A Movie
(SPOILERS!)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Fighting Seabees (1944)
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
The Alamo (1960)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Shootist (1976)
Originally posted on 5/23/18
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During the key flood sequence, safety was ignored in favor of spectacle.
Extras were not warned of the severity of the water that would engulf them.
These included a young Marion "Duke" Morrison (John Wayne).
While the stars were doing their closeups...
...the unwary extras were being deluged by deadly torrents of water.
Their fear is real as they scramble for their lives.
Several extras were seriously injured.
Three of them were killed.
Originally posted on 8/31/18
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Originally posted on 4/14/21
Currently watching: SANTA FE STAMPEDE (1938), starring John Wayne, Max Terhune, and Ray "Crash" Corrigan as "The 3 Mesquiteers."
This horse opera is no better or worse than a lot of Duke's "B" westerns from the 30s, which means it's mildly enjoyable while also being wholly unremarkable.
(I won't mention the fact that there aren't even any cattle in the movie, and thus no titular "stampede.")
The plot is the usual stuff about a town bigwig with a sinister plot to make a bundle of easy money at the expense of innocent townsfolk, with Duke getting wrongly accused of murder in the bargain.
The thing that sets it apart is that something happens midway through that's so shocking, and such a horrific downer, that it casts a pall of tragedy over the rest of the film from which it never recovers.
It's so bad, in fact, that seeing the main villain get punched unconscious by our hero at the end doesn't even begin to give us the vengeance we crave.
Nor does the traditional weak bit of comedy relief at the fadeout seem in any way appropriate for characters who should still be in a state of profound grief and outrage.
Probably the most noteworthy thing about it is that only a scant year later, John Wayne would finally become a major Hollywood star in John Ford's classic STAGECOACH.
But just as the horrific passenger plane crash in DIE HARD 2 lingered over that film's attempts at a feelgood ending, SANTA FE STAMPEDE's mid-film shocker plunges a hot branding iron through its modest enjoyment value.
John Wayne plays the no-nonsense commander of an embattled cavalry regiment.
Claude Jarman, Jr. is his estranged son, a rookie soldier...
...who joined up after flunking out of West Point.
They both have a lot of measuring up to do.
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Quirt Evans (John Wayne) finds himself with an empty pistol...
...just when his mortal enemy Laredo (Bruce Cabot) shows up with two gun hands.
With an innocent Quaker family looking on, including his new love Penny (Gail Russell)...
...Quirt must rely on sheer nerve to bluff his way through the situation.
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Big Jim (John Wayne) knows how to talk to a lady (Veda Ann Borg).
But Poke (Hal Baylor) doesn't share his verbal finesse...
...and requires an on-the-nose lesson in etiquette.
John Wayne
Veda Ann Borg
Hal Baylor
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