THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, HONDO, McLINTOCK!: John Wayne on DVD
Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount’s Worldwide Television Distribution, in association with John Wayne’s old Batjac Productions, will be distributing several Wayne titles on DVD beginning in spring 2005.
The upcoming releases include:
Island in the Sky (1953), a rarely seen adventure film about a plane crash in sub-Arctic Canada;
Hondo (1953), a Western based on a story by Louis L’Amour, who was erroneously nominated for an Academy Award in — and was later withdrawn from — the Motion Picture Story category; additionally, Hondo earned Geraldine Page her first Academy Award nomination (as best supporting actress);
the comic Western McLintock! (1963), partly inspired by Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, and co-starring Maureen O’Hara and Stefanie Powers;
and a fully [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2004
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Tags: Adventure Movies, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, DVDs, John Wayne, McLintock, Plunder of the Sun, Robert Mitchum, The High and the Mighty, Track of the Cat
