Interesting 1930 John Wayne movie "The Big Trail" is on AMC this week,

[old mark]

directed by Raoul Walsh-John Wayne's first starring role, and the last for nearly a decade to come...The film was shot in widescreen - 70mm film- and required special screens and projectors to shot it. Released in November 1930, it found very few theaters able to afford to run it, and it languished, along with Wayne's career.
A 35mm shorter version was done - virtually a different movie- but found little success till TV movies.
The ONLY SURVIVING COPY of the 70mm film was successfully copied and this is the one being shown on AMC. Link to Wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Trail

Hope you get to see it and enjoy it - a lot of our (incorrect) understanding of our history comes from movies...but they actually researched this one and tried for accuracy.

Interesting in a lot of ways.

mark

[madrchsod]

1. i`ll have to check that out.it was gene tierny yesterday on tcm and.....

all i can say she really was the most beautiful actress during the 30`s and 40`s.

[panader0]

2. A friend of mine with a metal detector

found out that John Wayne's 'Red River' was filmed nearby. (Howard Hawks-1946) He went to the sight and found many artifacts, such as wagon parts, spent shells, horse and mule shoes etc. He spends his time researching old battle sites and movie locations now and has a huge collection old stuff.