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In June 1966, John Wayne announced he had signed a two-picture deal with Universal, the movies being The War Wagon and The Green Berets. This film would be a co-production between Wayne's company, Batjac, and producer Marvin Schwartz. [7] The following month, it was announced that Kirk Douglas would play the co-starring role in the film and ...
Paint Your Wagon was shot near Baker City, Oregon, with filming beginning in May 1968 and ending that October. [3] Other locations included Big Bear Lake, California, and the San Bernardino National Forest; the interiors were filmed at Paramount Studios, with Joshua Logan directing. The film's initial budget was $10 million, before it ...
Actor Victor Mature portrayed Dresser in the musical film My Gal Sal (1942). [36] [99] The plot bears little resemblance to Dresser's life, and songs actually written by Dresser are mingled with songs attributed to him in the film but written for the movie by Harry Dacre, Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin. Dresser's works in the film include: "Come ...
The film grossed $5.4 million at the US box office, among the top ten films in box office receipts for 1965, a year in which Mary Poppins topped the list with $28.5 million. [3] The movie was not particularly successful at the French box office, failing to reach more than one million admissions. [4] [dead link ]
Riders of Destiny is a 1933 pre-Code Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders, the screen's second singing cowboy (the first being Ken Maynard in the 1929 film The Wagon Master).
The character Taw Jackson (John Wayne) mentions the War Wagon's guards: "Each carries a Henry rifle..with 60 rounds of ammunition". Yet, they carry 1894 or 1892 Winchesters. Henrys were pretty much dated by 1873 – the movie appears to be in the 1880s or 1890s.
Riding High is a 1950 American black-and-white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra. The songs were performed live during filming instead of the customary lip-synching to studio recordings. The film is a remake of an earlier Capra film with screenwriter Robert Riskin titled Broadway Bill (1934). While the ...
It has been called Paint Your Wagon's "best known song" and "rousing but plaintive." [9] Musicologist Stephen Citron wrote, "Perhaps the most unusual song in the score is a beautiful ballad of lonely prospectors hungering for their women, 'They Call the Wind Maria' – not chauvinistic in this case, for each man is yearning for his own girl."