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...wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams, "and said, Tm gonna have to desert you if you don't stop makin' cars for women.' " They fixed him up with a model deep enough to accommodate him, Stetson and all. Three of his seven children live with him: Aissa, 13, John Ethan, 7, and Marisa, 3. Two older sons, Pat and Michael, run Wavne's Batjac film-production outfit. And 16 grandchildren frequently wander around the spacious house. No one has counted all the people on the payroll; there are the folks at Batjac, the moviemaking cronies who travel...
...songs, slapstick, civic spirit and a drawing room comedy cut to the size of a range war. It is dedicated to the proposition that where there's a will, there's a Wayne, or even several of them. McLintock is produced by Son Michael, 29, casts Daughter Aissa, 7, in a minor role, and features Heir Apparent Patrick Wayne...
When Gary wrote Aissa Saved (published in 1932), he thought he had done it. A too-weedy clearing in the same bush out of which he later hacked Mister Johnson, it was the story of an African girl bursting with savage life who tried her pagan best to be a Christian; the inevitable friction burnt her alive. In spite of its authentic glare and beat, the book sold badly and Gary "got no bean of royalty." The next year, a second book about Africa, An American Visitor, fared even worse. His first break came in 1936 when The African Witch...
...enchanted prisoner of the tropics is Willems (Trevor Howard), a weakling fired from his job in Macassar for stealing, who goes to live at a lonely trading post run by pompous Almayer (Robert Morley) and his wife (Wendy Hiller). Willems falls in love-temporarily but passionately-with Aissa, a sinuous, savage native beauty (played by Kerima, a 22-year-old Arab girl) for whom he sells out the secret of the post's channel shipping route. Also on hand: Captain Tom Lingard (Ralph Richardson), man of the sea and lover of justice, who punishes Willems for his treachery...
...picture lops off the last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed has captured the rank, overwhelming atmosphere with which the story is saturated: the landscape of brown golds and brilliant emeralds, the oppressiveness of the jungle, the steaming sunshine, the murmuring river, the endless chattering and chanting of the natives...