John Wayne: Rainbow Valley/His Private Secretary/Paradise Canyon/Shadow Of The Eagle
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I'm a big fan of John Wayne and have now seen roughly 115 of his roughly 152 movies thanks to the additional four that I saw in this collection. It's no secret that John Wayne became a greater actor beginning with his role in "Stagecoach". His second time around with John Ford turned him from a Saturday afternoon B movie star to an actor worthy of the feature film. Wayne wasn't bad in the sort of roles that this collection featured. Indeed, he was the able rival of the likes of Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autry (without the singing). He might have retired into a status of a hero to pre-teen boys of a former generation.
Watching these movies is a reminder of that screen persona he had before stardom. It's actually a pretty good collection with a couple of Westerns, a non-Westrern romance, and the complete serial of "Shadow of the Eagle". It was "Shadow of the Eagle" that impressed me the most although not necessarily in a positive light. I had previously seen the first 4 of 14 chapters of Wayne's "The Three Musketeers". In the DVD I watched, each episode was introduced the way the audience would have seen it at the time; the introduction with the cast and characters, a recap of the story to date, and completing the episode with a cliffhanging situation. In the presentation of "Shadow of the Eagle" everything was run together as though it were an uninterrupted movie. Too bad, because, although I could generally tell where each segment might have ended, I was able to see the resolution to the crisis immediately appear on the screen. It made for one LONG movie. In the abbreviated version of "The Three Musketeers" I grew tired of the repeated intros. In "Shadow of the Eagle" I became confused by everything happening so fast. I couldn't tell who were the good guys and the bad guys (partly because that's what the writer wanted, partly because they all looked and acted alike). I wondered how many times our hero could have been knocked cold and still get out of bed and chase the bad guys. I'm glad I had the opportunity to understand this and, hopefully, come to appreciate that these hastily-made productions were meant to be seen one at a time and only on a weekly basis. All in all, though, I'd still probably rate it as better than "Rio Lobo". |
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