The Lost Films of John Wayne

By Carolyn McGivern

Book Overview

In a career of more than fifty years'spanning the Golden Era from 1926 to 1976?Hollywood icon John Wayne created a treasure trove of movies. Today, scarcely an hour goes by without one of them appearing on television somewhere in the world. With most of the Wayne films available to his fans today, just a few of them remain unavailable in this era of remastered miracles. Of all the movies he made beyond the 1939 'Stagecoach' age, only two have been kept from the public: 'Island in the Sky' and 'The High and the Mighty.' Many reasons have been suggested for why the two films have been unavailable until the summer of 2005, from the thought that the original films were damaged and the copies were not good enough for additional distribution to the theory that they have been withheld for a future grand release. Whatever the reasons may be, 'The Lost Films of John Wayne' honors his work in both films and servesa as a loving portrayal of some fo the lesser-known images he left behind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581825676
• ISBN13: 9781581825671
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A 'must' for any definitive film holding strong in John Wayne's history, biography and productions.

Hollywood icon John Wayne's career spanned from 1926-76 and produced numerous movies, so you'd think most of them would have received much attention by now - but The Lost Films of John Wayne demonstrates there's a number which remain unavailable with only two kept from the public. These were released in the mid-1950s and based on novels by Ernest K. Gann, and are finally celebrated here, in a coverage which provides close inspection of the two movies and the reason why they were suppressed until the summer of 2005. A 'must' for any definitive film holding strong in John Wayne's history, biography and productions. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch