| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
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Snippet: I caught the beginning of this on one of the cable channels
over the weekend. "John Wayne and James Arness in the same movie???" I
thought, my mind boggling; so I watched some of it.
The premise: The Duke and the Marshall - I mean, Wayne and Arness - are
government agents, sent to Hawaii to seek out and report on those
dastardly communists. [This film seems to be very strongly in favor of
the Committee on Un-American Activities.] The rhetoric flew fast and
thick, and soon overcame my ability to cope, so I didn't watch the
rest, but I must say that it was a shocking reminder of some of the
nastiness that went on in the name of freedom. (If one watched it in
the right frame of mind, possibly with chemical assistance, I suppose
this might be a rough equivalent of "Reefer Madness Meets Joe
McCarthy," but it was a bit too unpleasant for me.)
Still, the idea of pairing Wayne and Arness _was_ amusing. Pity they
didn't do something more interesting with it.
-b
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| 262.1 | Oh, a blast from the past | 57176::MILANESE | Tue Jul 20 1993 15:04 | 17 | |
I remember seeing this movie as a kid
and loving it.
A few years ago, I saw it again and
was horrified. It reminded me of the
WWII movies with the "frothing-at-the
mouth" Japanese or the "mother-hating"
Germans.
In case you care...
[spoiler.....]
The James Arness character gets done in
by the dirty communists, who, as we know,
were against truth, justice, and the
American way!!
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| 262.2 | Not the only one... | QUARRY::reeves | Jon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler group | Wed Jul 28 1993 21:20 | 9 |
According to the movie databases, these two were actually paired in at least 4 movies: Big Jim McLain (1952) Hondo (1953) Island in the Sky (1953) Sea Chase, The (1955) No guarantees for accuracy on the above. | |||||