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...Informer. Victor McLaglen gives his Oscar-winning performance as the bumbling drunkard who has no place in the revolutionary schemes of the IRA. The strong visual compositions of John Ford are very much in evidence, and the sole disconcerting fact is that McLaglen reminds one of a combination of John Dean and Bart Porter, torn between their own stupidity and a misplaced sense of duty. Channel...
...London took a fancy to one of the tracks on the album, Amazing Grace, and began promoting it. As performed first by the soloist, Pipe Major Tony Crease, then by the full band, the song is as unabashedly emotional as the sound of the pipers accompanying Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on their march to the rescue in Gunga...
...trying to go fifty-fifty. 'Fifty-fifty, hell,' he said. 'It's your scene. Take it.' Then he added under his breath, 'If you can.' " The master of the western, Director John Ford, calls Wayne "a splendid actor who has had very little chance to act." Agrees Director Andrew McLaglen: "All of a sudden they're saying that he's an actor. Well, he always...
...really happened. Wagonmaster (1950) is rarely seen and one of Ford's most personal Westerns. One of the purest joys in all film. The Quiet Man (1952) is a ravishing color film shot in Ireland with the staples of the Ford "stock company": Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victory McLaglen, Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald. The Sun Shines Bright, Ford's deserved favorite of his films, is complex and unfashionable, and one of Ford's four unqualified masterpieces (How Green Was My Valley, The Searchers, Liberty Valance). The Searchers (1956) is the great epic of American film, and The Man Who Shot...
Director Andrew V. McLaglen seems to have made the movie while his mind was on something else-probably quitting time. Katharine Ross, Dustin Hoffman's sidekick in The Graduate, plays Duke's daughter with an understandable lack of enthusiam. A few more parts like this and she'll be about as well remembered as Vera Hruba Ralston...