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Batjac, the production company co-founded by Wayne, was named after the fictional shipping company Batjak in Wake of the Red Witch. (A spelling error by Wayne's secretary was allowed to stand, accounting for the variation.) Batjac (and its predecessor, Wayne-Fellows Productions) was the arm through which Wayne produced many films for himself and other stars. Its best-known non-Wayne production was the highly acclaimed Seven Men From Now, which started the classic collaboration between director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott.
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John Wayne movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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The man known as John Wayne was more than an actor. He was a humanitarian, patriot, father, husband, actor, politician, director, producer, and most of all, an AMERICAN. When he died, headlines in Japanese newspapers read, "MR. AMERICA IS DEAD."
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In addition to acting, in later years Wayne ... turned to producing and occasionally directing films. Among the films he produced were The High and the Mighty, Hondo, Island in the Sky, and The Alamo. He served as director for The Alamo and The Green Berets, as well as a few other films.
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It has been said that John Wayne represented John Ford on-screen as a younger 'alter-ego' of the famous American film director. [Ford was born Sean Aloysius Feeney/O'Fearna in 1895 in Maine, the youngest son of an Irish immigrant who had 13 children.] It is probably not just coincidence that Maureen O'Hara's character name is Mary (Ford's wife's name) Kate (the name of his unrealized love - Katharine Hepburn). Ford ... cast his brother Francis (a silent film actor and director) in a cameo role as patriarch Dan Tobin - an ailing, white-bearded elderly man who refuses to die before witnessing the donnybrook fist fight in the finale.
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When confronted by Wayne, Dmytryk pretended it was all a joke. Later, of course, the director took the Fifth Amendment and went to jail only to emerge as a born-again patriot anxious to fink on his former comrades.
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