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An oldie but goodie!
Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.....
Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.....
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That's one of the great things about living in Central New York.... I'm reminded daily of all the FIW & AWI events, including stopping by the site where St. Leger's force camped on Oneida Lake on it's way to Fort Stanwix, then travelling on to FT. Stanwix itself (albeit the re-built one), and then to the Oriskany battlefield & beyond. Some of the filming for "Drums Along the Mohawk" was done at a few of the existing sites. I hope that some of the Forum members will be able to make the trek to see these things for themselves.
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John Carradine and Ward Bond as well! Carradine's progeny still walk among us.
Watched a much older Ward Bond in Wagon Train at 6 o'clock then watched him as a much younger man at 8. Great fun. Bond and Carradine were everywhere in the movies and on tv back in the 50's. -- Al
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Bond was fortunate enough to be in John Ford's circle of stock players. That's why he appears in John Wayne films so often. Ford like his little clique of regular character actors and used them very often. It also didn't hurt that he a personal friend of the Duke...
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I enjoy just about anything Ford produced. I just picked up a DVD set at lunch, "World War II In Color"), that includes Ford's "Battle of Midway". (Not sure, but I don't think that this set is related to the series that aired on THC/TMC. But at $9.99, it was a bargain.)
Prost!
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So true, Gary. Watching the Ford westerns with the stock players was kind of like sitting down to watch family and friends. Just a real comfort zone, I guess. I never really thought about it, but I would bet that it was Bond's work on Wagon Train that kept him out of Duke's production of "The Alamo". -- Al