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1953 Certificate PG
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John Wayne takes the title role as half-Indian US Cavalry despatch rider Hondo Lane who must fight his own brethren when he goes to the aid of a young widow and her son living alone in Apache territory. Read more

Starring John Wayne
Director John Farrow
Genres Action/Adventure

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Hondo

John Wayne takes the title role as half-Indian US Cavalry despatch rider Hondo Lane who must fight his own brethren when he goes to the aid of a young widow and her son living alone in Apache territory.

Starring John Wayne
Director John Farrow
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 20 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Action/Adventure
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 14 May 2007
Production year: 1953
Format DVD

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  • John Wayne's favourite John Wayne movie. Louis L'Amour's source novel is a variation on Shane, with Wayne as the... read more on Time Out

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Tailor Made for The Duke

    A great film from a great book by Louis L'Amour. The Duke is on familiar ground with dialogue tailored to his persona. Some of the John Ford stock company make an appearance, Ward Bond & Paul Fix and James Arness before he became TV's Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke. Michael Pate that fine Australian actor appears in his first Indian role as Geronimo, this movie began for him a career playing Indians and no I'm not going to call them native Americans! Leo Gordon and Rudolfo Acosta play their customary bad guy roles. Newcomer to a leading Hollywood, role fresh from the Broadway stage, Geraldine Page is adequate, but there is not the chemistry with Wayne that is apparent with most of his other leading ladies. Director John Farrow had to skip out to go back to Hollywood to begin another film so John Ford stepped in to finish the picture.

      • Donensian from Doncaster
      • Posted 12 Mar 2009 12:45

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    Rated - 3 stars

    Hondo

    A nice western ( even my wife enjoyed it )

      • A customer from Sutton Coldfield
      • Posted 10 Nov 2008 14:20

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