“He couldn’t tell the right story”: John Wain didn’t get it with this director … and still, they made 2 films together!

John Wayne has worked with John Ford, Henry Hatava or Howard Hoks several times, is a director with whom he has not received him in an interview.

It was in 1972 in the magazine How. Bedding Joe McInern dared to solve the tense topic: the chaotic filming of the movie Hondo, the desert man, directed by John Farrow. And if this is undoubtedly the West, in which John Wayne is the most classic, the actor did not express the words to show the experience with Faru:

“He couldn’t”

“In fact, Hondo was producing a batjac. So the film had not much in common. Everything was ready before it happened.

According to Wein, Hondo “Already written and the places of shoots have already been selected” When the director arrives. To which his interlocutor journalist asks him: “But on the team, it was Faru, who turned to the actors and said where the camera would be?” And concise, the actor puts the topic at the bottom: “You are the one you say. Obviously, there was no need for too many “Duke” shots.

And yet, they made two films together!

In 1953, Hondo came out, a desert man tells a meeting between Scout, which serves the US troops and the Apaches and his mother, who raises his young son in India. The Ocean Fox (1955), which Wayne mentioned, is the second film he shot with Farrow. This is a war film in which the captain of the German cargo, against the Nazi regime, decides to force Sydney blockade. The film has not left an unforgettable memory in the genre history, where Hondo will still collect two nominations with Oscars.

He died in 1963, John Farrow again winning the Oscar for the best scenario for the world tour for the best scenario in 1957 in 1957, and they are obliged to be completely excited to films, such as black trillers with a big watch or a pact with the devil or West Wakero with Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner.