Tag: John Farrow
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John Wayne – The Teeth Demand, The Duke’s Disapproval, and Geraldine Page’s Oscar-Worthy Rebellion
1953’s Hondo wasn’t John Wayne’s most successful film, but its legacy has endured thanks in part to the powerful acting and the slightly more sympathetic than usual portrayal of its Indigenous characters. Based on the Louis L’Amour story “The Gift of Cochise,” the film follows a burgeoning love affair between Wayne’s Hondo and a frontierswoman,…