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Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1956
Language
English
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Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
3) Hondo
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1953
Language
English
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Description
Hondo Lane, a cavalry dispatch rider, becomes the protector of strong-willed Angie Lowe, a woman living with her young son in hostile Apache territory. After being forced to kill Angie's husband, Hondo is captured by the Apache and only a concocted marriage between Hondo and Angie saves them both.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Two classic films featuring John Wayne. In harm's way: Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base. Donovan's Reef: A strait-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
5) True grit
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1962
Language
English
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times best-selling biographer of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American film icons of all time.
An audience favorite and top box office draw for decades, John Wayne symbolized masculinity, power, and patriotism, and inspired millions of Americans. Yet despite his popularity and success, he was unfairly dismissed as a "B" movie actor lacking elegance, creativity, range,...
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