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Where was the hondo video shot?Honda—John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, James Arness, Lee Aaker, Leo Gordon (1953; Dir: John Farrow) John Wayne plays Hondo Lane, a mean Indian Army scout in Arizona territory in 1870. This movie doesn’t have the high reputation of some of the late 1940s and early 1950s Western Waynes (Red River, The Searchers), but Hondo Lane is a quintessential Wayne character. higher profile? There are at least three main reasons: (1) The story is not epic like some other stories. (2) The rights owned by Wayne, Batjac, and Batjac’s production company kept it largely uncirculated for a few decades. (3) It was produced during the brief 3D ubiquity of the early 1950s and bears some of the hallmarks of that particular type of filmmaking. Along with Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, it’s possibly the best 3D film made during that period. It’s certainly the best film made from a story by best-selling Western author Louis L’Amour, though it doesn’t have much of a good competition for that title. an isolated ranch in Arizona, looking worse because of his clothes, saddlebag and rifle, and followed by an ugly-looking wild dog, Sam. Lane’s horse was killed when he was attacked by the Apaches a few days earlier, and he has been walking since. At the farm, he finds Angie Lowe (Geraldine Page) and her son Johnny (Lee Aaker). She said her husband Ed was straying in the surrounding hills, but the place hasn’t shown much sign of a man’s maintenance over the past few months. Lane buys a wild horse from her, raises it and does a number of other quests to earn money to feed. He develops a relationship with Angie and Johnny, and reveals that he once lived among the Mescalero Apaches and was married to one of them. Lane tries to get Angie back to the military post and safe, but her family has lived for a long time on the ranch her father originally built. They have always had good relations with the Chiricauhua Apaches in the area, now led by Vittorio (Michael Pate), and Angie is determined to stay. He has a few runs with an annoying ruffian who turns out to be called Lowe (Leo Gordon, who is just starting his career as a villain and thug). Yes, he is Angie’s husband who left his family on an isolated farm in Apache country. As Lane led a herd of horses back to Lowe’s ranch, Lowe and a comrade followed from afar, planning to attack and rob Lane when they found him in a convenient location. As they attacked, a group of Apache warriors attacked three white men. They get Lowe’s friend; Lane was forced to shoot Lowe and then attempt to get past Apache. He fails and is captured by Silva (Rodolfo Acosta), one of Vittorio’s more evil villains. However, Vittorio was given Johnny’s soul in his youth efforts to protect his mother, and he adopted the boy as a biological brother. Now that Lane was in the custody of the Apache, they began torturing him until they discovered in his hand a Johnny’s tintype that Lane had taken from Lowe’s body. He was given the right to singlehandedly fight against Silva. He wins after being wounded, but refuses to kill Silva. Vittorio sends him to Lowe’s ranch, where Angie lies, and confirms to the chief that Lane is her husband. This saved her from having to marry an Apache husband. And she begins to wish that the lie was the truth. Then there’s an ending, in which Lane bonds with the boy and his mother. Vittorio appeared unexpectedly to tell Lane a promise that he would not help the soldiers and would mislead them about Vittorio’s whereabouts. Lane refused to lie to the soldiers, knowing that the Indians hated lies.When they appear, the soldiers are led by Lieutenant McKay, a West Point graduate who won’t listen to the voices of experience, represented by Lane and fellow scout Buffalo Baker ( Ward Bond). In a subsequent melee with the Apaches, McKay is mortally wounded and Vittorio is killed. With Vittorio dead, Lane learns that he and his new family are in greater danger from the Apache, and the white men learn that Lane killed Lowe. There was a solution that caused a stir with the ongoing cavalry-Apache battle. As he watched the Indians leave at the end, Lane noted, “The end of a life. Too bad. That’s a good way. “Hondo may not be different from other Western John Wayne characters, but he is not the same either. For one thing, it was Hondo’s invulnerability: “No wonder the Apaches call him Enverrado. It means evil”. He is said to be “A man should do what he thinks is best” right when someone is about to do something blatantly wrong or stupid. Note Hondo’s sedge hat throughout the film; it is also the one worn by Ringo Kid in Stagecoach, Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Sheriff John T. Chance of Rio Bravo. It was honored with retirement after Rio Bravo in 1959 after 20 years of hard use.The cast is stellar, and aside from the lead role of Hondo Lane, the young Geraldine Page really makes the film a bit of a tough avant-garde woman Angie Lowe. Previously known only for her work on the New York stage, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work here. (A political libertarian, she is said to be appalled by the right-wing views of Wayne, Bond, Arness and director Farrow.) Ward Bond, one of John Wayne-John’s usual suspects. Ford, also excellently, is a slightly rougher-than-usual variation of the rough frontier character he usually plays. Australian actor Michael Pate is relatable as Vittorio, more than you’d expect, and he’s appeared in other films (e.g. McLintock!,) as an Indian. Young and blonde James Arness plays another scout, who is of a morally questionable nature. Lieutenant McKay (Irish Tom) has just graduated from West Point overconfident, possibly stepping out of John Ford’s cavalry trio. And Paul Fix as chief of staff is also a bit good. Sam, Hondo’s dog, is a good character, very similar to “Dog” in Big Jake.Read more: where is the chest in avast | First Q&A There are some traces left of the film’s 3D origins, but they’re not too distracting. These include colorful titles, a few dashes into the camera during knife fights and fight scenes, and a few weird camera angles. An Intermission tag is required for this relatively short movie in order to be able to change movies in both projectors at the same time. Title Garish 3D The film was expertly directed by John Farrow, although there are stories that Farrow was restrained by Wayne to some extent. The final scenes of the film (including the cavalry-Apache battle) were directed by John Ford when Farrow had to leave before the film was completed. The script is written by James Edward Grant, whose brand of succinct dialogue is particularly relevant to Wayne. It was shot on location in the Mexican desert, in Camargo, Chihuahua, during the summer months, which is certainly because dust and sweat look lifelike. At less than 90 minutes, its storytelling is pretty tight. By the time the film was released in late 1953, the 3D trend had passed and Hondo was primarily viewed in a more casual format. But it was a hit. Based on the short story “A Gift of Cochise”, author L’Amour remade it into a novel that sold 3,000,000 copies, the first of which included his real name. It started him on the road to best-selling names, though that mostly came in the 1970s and 1980s. Lowe” twenty years later in one of his last films, The Train. Robbers. However, it’s not one of his better films, unlike Hondo.