{"id":2710,"date":"2016-07-04T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2019-02-21T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T10:58:50","slug":"john-wayne-goes-war-dukes-wwii-films-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-goes-war-dukes-wwii-films-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Goes to War: Duke&#8217;s WWII Films of the 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-goes-war-dukes-wwii-films-1950s\/#Operation_Pacific_1951\" title=\"Operation Pacific (1951)\">Operation Pacific (1951)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-goes-war-dukes-wwii-films-1950s\/#The_Flying_Leathernecks_1951\" title=\"The Flying Leathernecks (1951)\">The Flying Leathernecks (1951)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-goes-war-dukes-wwii-films-1950s\/#The_Sea_Chase_1955\" title=\"The Sea Chase (1955)\">The Sea Chase (1955)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-goes-war-dukes-wwii-films-1950s\/#The_Wings_of_Eagles_1957\" title=\"The Wings of Eagles (1957)\">The Wings of Eagles (1957)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Operation_Pacific_1951\"><\/span>Operation Pacific (1951)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now. What\u2019s not to like about Operation Pacific? It\u2019s John Wayne&#8217;s&nbsp;first WWII movie&nbsp;of the 1950s AND it\u2019s a submarine movie as well and I just love submarine films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/operation+pacific-3.jpg\" alt=\"Operation Pacific with John Wayne\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst not exactly in the same league as Das Boot or Run Silent Run Deep \u2013 who could ever forget Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster finding themselves in the Bongo Straits? \u2013 or even Destination Tokyo, which the crew in this film coincidentally find themselves watching at some point, but it\u2019s still a worthy entry in the submarine genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s mainly due to this being the product of a major studio, Warner Bros, as opposed to Republic or RKO, so the production values are elevated somewhat as opposed to previous John Wayne&nbsp;WWII movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film is written and directed by George Waggner who worked with Wayne previously on The Fighting Kentuckian back in 1949. Strange to say after my comments on The Flying Leathernecks but for some reason the use of large amounts of stock footage in this film doesn\u2019t appear to have the same deadening effect upon the picture as a whole as it did with Nicholas Ray\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure that there\u2019s footage in here from another submarine film but I can\u2019t figure out which one, so I\u2019m going to put my money on Destination Tokyo, which is also a Warner Bros film, made back in 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial commander of the sub is Ward Bond, who pops up as \u2018Pop\u2019 Perry until he dies heroically whilst attacking a Japanese ship that has disguised itself as an unarmed vessel. He\u2019s then replaced by Duke, who pops up here as \u2013 well, someone called Duke Gifford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/operation+pacific-2.jpg\" alt=\"Operation Pacific with John Wayne\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movieactors.com\/superstars\/john_wayne_photos.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source:<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now why didn\u2019t anyone think of that before? We know from the beginning that Wayne is in nice guy as opposed to Sergeant Stryker mode in this film as he leads a bunch of rescued kids and nuns out of the jungle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wayne also has one of his better co-starring leading ladies in Patricia Neal (the soon-to-be Mrs. Roald Dahl a couple of years later), playing his ex-wife in a husky voice very reminiscent of Lauran Bacall. One of my few complaints about the film is that it has yet another clunky love triangle story going on, this time between Wayne, Neal and a very young and dashing pilot played by Phil Carey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t you just know it that out of all the places in the Pacific Carey gets shot down and rescued right when Wayne comes sailing by. Carey\u2019s character even comments on the coincidence himself, George Waggner as the writer having his cake and eating it too I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film reaches an exciting climax when Wayne and his crew find themselves slap in the middle of the Imperial Japanese Fleet although the depth charge scenes really do lack the tension of similar scenarios in Das Boot for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, we only find out after almost 90 minutes into the film that Wayne and Neal once had a child who obviously died very young. That\u2019s a hell of a plotline to just suddenly drop into the story literally 20 minutes before the end but I have to admit these are small quibbles to make about what I found to be a surprisingly enjoyable John Wayne&nbsp;WWII film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course, Wayne gets his girl back at the end. Besides, any submarine movie that features the line \u2018I could never marry a submariner. I like to sleep with the windows open\u2019 gets a thumbs-up from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Flying_Leathernecks_1951\"><\/span>The Flying Leathernecks (1951)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/the+flying+leathernecks-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Flying Leathernecks with John Wayne\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>First the good news. Based on watching this movie, I\u2019d say Sergeant Stryker miraculously recovered from being shot in the back on Iwo Jima, changed his name to Daniel Kirby, somehow managed to get himself in command of a Marine Fighter Squadron, then adopted the rank of Major which I guess obviously paid more.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the bad news. This is a boring film, and I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying that about this or any other John Wayne movie. How can a film be this dull when it\u2019s supposed to be a war movie, it stars Duke, it\u2019s directed by Nicholas Ray \u2013 who went on to direct Rebel Without a Cause a few years later &#8211; and it pairs Wayne with Robert Ryan as two men at odds with each other on how to command a fighter squadron? And it has a halfway decent script from James Edward Grant as well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main problem is the overuse of stock footage in the battle sequences. This is just plain lazy and cheap filmmaking, even by RKO standards. By my reckoning, about 75 to 80 percent of the action in the film is comprised of shaky and out of focus shots of the real war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point, as a plane spirals into the ground, you can even see a hair in the camera gate flickering across the bottom of the screen. To be fair it looks as though some effort went into building a set on the back lot to then blow up using real fighter planes that have been hired for use in the movie itself but the constant insertion of stock footage detracts from keeping the audience immersed in the main story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The knock-on effect is that you end up not having that much interest in the characters themselves which leads to a lack of sympathy when some of them get killed because you\u2019re not that engaged with the story in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other issue is that the expected fireworks between Wayne and Ryan \u2013 Duke gets command of the squadron in favour of Ryan \u2013 doesn\u2019t really come to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/the+flying+leathernecks-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Flying Leathernecks with John Wayne\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/the+flying+leathernecks-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source:<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point they\u2019re about to get involved in fisticuffs but another interminable bout of stock footage intervenes and the promise of a good old fashioned John Wayne punch-up never materialises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main thrust of the issue between the two men is down to Ryan being unable to take responsibility for sending men to their death. It\u2019s only when he does actually cause a pilot to die in the usual futile gesture of war that he gets respect from Duke and then eventual command of the squadron, but by then I have to say I didn\u2019t care one way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t be certain \u2013 the constant intercutting between the action shot for the film and the stock footage causes confusion at times \u2013 but it looks as though Wayne goes in for yet another WWII suicide attempt, his third by my count after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-waynes-war-movies-1940s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Flying Tigers<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-waynes-war-movies-1940s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fighting Seabees<\/a><\/span>, when he runs out of ammo and appears to deliberately ram the back end of a Japanese bomber with his own plane. This time he gets to live but by the end of the film I\u2019d lost interest in the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Sea_Chase_1955\"><\/span>The Sea Chase (1955)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At first glance I\u2019d have to say this is somewhat of a departure for John Wayne. He plays a German sea captain. That\u2019s right, you heard it correctly the first time. A German sea Captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/sea+chase-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Sea Chase with John Wayne\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The anticipation that comes with the thought of hearing Duke&nbsp;having to utter the words Jawohl mein herr in that inimitable drawl of his, and with a German accent as well, was almost too much to bear. Alas, it was not to be. He pulls a Sean Connery instead and makes absolutely no attempt at all to talk in any way other than his normal voice. On balance, after his Swedish accent in The Long Voyage Home, that\u2019s probably a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by John Farrow (Mia\u2019s daddy and director of Hondo) and co-written by occasional Ford scriptwriter James Warner Bellah, Wayne plays Karl Ehrlich, captain of a German freighter which is confined to harbour in Australia prior to the imminent breakout of WWII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s basically a chase movie, with Wayne trying to stay one step ahead of a British destroyer determined to catch him and his ship as he breaks out of the harbour and tries to make it back to Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just in case we don\u2019t know which boat is which, the British one is signified by the occasional burst of Rule Britannia. In return I was expecting to hear Deutschland uber alles every time Wayne\u2019s boat comes into view but, what with Karl being one of the many ubiquitous \u2018good\u2019 Germans Hollywood loves so much, nothing remotely smelling of Nazism is going to smear our hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The supporting cast is a collection of some of the usual John Wayne film suspects; Paul Fix \u2013 how many movies did that guy make, for Heaven\u2019s sake? \u2013 and John Qualen, the actor who plays the Swedish guy in The Searchers, but here playing a German with an accent that is definitely not German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s James Arness lurking in the background along with Claude \u2018Joe Burdette\u2019 Akins, and a very tiny looking Lana Turner as Wayne\u2019s love interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/sea+chase-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Sea Chase with John Wayne Lana Turner\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/ravepad.com\/page\/the-sea-chase\/images\/type\/photo\/4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source:<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I swear she looks so short standing next to Duke it\u2019s a wonder he doesn\u2019t accidentally tread on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of that we get heartthrob of the day Tab Hunter, or Slab Grunter as I remember he was once referred to in an old episode of The Flintstones I saw back in the 60s \u2013 how the hell do I remember stuff like that when I can\u2019t recall what I had for breakfast this morning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s also a nasty turn by Lyle Bettger as a slimy Nazi who murders three men in cold blood, for which the British blame Wayne. We don\u2019t actually get to see Bettger\u2019s comeuppance in full, but I\u2019m prepared to wager it was never going to be as good as his finest screen moment in Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s 1952 circus epic, The Greatest Show On Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tries to stop a train wreck by driving his car into the path of a speeding locomotive. One hundred tons of steel traveling at 80 miles an hour versus a flimsy looking Eldorado Cadillac. It was never going to happen. Spectacular, but stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where was I? Yes, war breaks out during the chase which therefore qualifies this in some way as a Wayne WWII film, but the only action we get to see is a model boat shooting at another model boat as the dastardly British try to stop Wayne from escaping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, our hero indulges in what looks suspiciously like another of his futile suicide attempts \u2013 scuppering the ship after the crew has left in a lifeboat \u2013 but it turns out Ms Turner\u2019s still on board so Wayne fools the British into thinking that he\u2019s gone down with the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ending is somewhat ambiguous, but seeing as The Sea Chase never seems to appear in the list of films in which Duke goes to that great roundup in the sky, I\u2019m guessing he and Lana live happily ever after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Wings_of_Eagles_1957\"><\/span>The Wings of Eagles (1957)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t really a John Wayne war film per se, more of a bio pic about the navy aviator turned screenwriter turned naval commander, Frank \u2018Spig\u2019 Wead. He and director John Ford had worked together on Air Mail in 1932 and They Were Expendable in 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/wings+of+eagles-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Wings of Eagles with John Wayne Maureen O'Hara\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Wead also wrote screenplays for quite a few other war and air-based melodramas such as Ceiling Zero, Test Pilot and Dive Bomber. Somewhere along the way, Ford must have decided Spig\u2019s life story was eventful enough to turn into a film and this is the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The start of the movie, an extended slapstick sequence in which Spig crashes his plane into an admiral\u2019s garden party, belies the serious undertone of the film as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wayne plays someone who can\u2019t keep his marriage together \u2013 appearing with Maureen O\u2019Hara for the third time in this film \u2013 and then ends up crippled for the rest of his life when he accidentally falls down the stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Hara\u2019s role is a bit thankless, required to come out of the shadows every now and then for most of the film to indicate the on-off nature of her relationship with Wayne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/mostlywesterns\/wings+of+eagles-2a.jpg\" alt=\"The Wings of Eagles with Duke &amp; Maureen O'Hara\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanpop.com\/clubs\/john-wayne\/images\/21939132\/title\/wings-eagles-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source:<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Towards the end of the film she just kind of disappears, which is a bit of a shame because her early scenes with Wayne illustrate she could always more than hold her own opposite Duke onscreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portraying a man who is physically weak is quite a departure for Duke. Audiences don\u2019t want to see Wayne channeling his inner Douglas Bader and struggling to walk, not for long periods of time anyway, which is probably why the film isn\u2019t exactly one of Ford\u2019s totally successful efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also notable that Wayne plays someone his own age and as his character ages the make-up starts to come off until we see something that doesn\u2019t happen very often in a John Wayne film \u2013 he takes his wig off as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s an interesting scene in which Wayne as Spig meets the famous Hollywood director John Dodge, with Ward Bond lording it up as a thinly disguised portrayal of Ford himself. We know he\u2019s supposed to be Ford because he has a big portrait of Harry Carey Senior on his office a wall and a big model of a stagecoach on the table. I would have liked to have seen more of this part of Spig\u2019s screenwriting life but, wouldn\u2019t you know it, WWII gets in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The war part of the film doesn\u2019t start until about three quarters of the way through when we see Spig listening to the radio as he hears about the attack on Pearl Harbour. I\u2019ve lost count of the number of times in a film that this device is used to indicate the start of WWII.&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Ford\u2019s They Were Expendable also has a similar scene. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Anyway, Spig drops the scriptwriting and somehow ends up seeing action in the Pacific. Unfortunately we get another great dollop of stock footage war sequences \u2013 I\u2019m guessing although I can\u2019t be totally sure but maybe some of Ford\u2019s war materials might be in there somewhere \u2013 but as I said earlier this isn\u2019t a war film, it\u2019s about someone who just happens to play a small part in the proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found the ending quite poignant, with Spig invalided out of the navy due to ill health. The final scene in which an old-looking Wayne is hoisted across the water from his battleship to a cruiser that will take him home almost brings tears to your eyes. Not exactly a classic film for either Wayne or Ford but as a rumination on ageing and mortality it\u2019s worth taking a look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the John Wayne <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">WWII movies&nbsp;of the 40s<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Pacific (1951) Now. What\u2019s not to like about Operation Pacific? It\u2019s John Wayne&#8217;s&nbsp;first WWII movie&nbsp;of the 1950s AND it\u2019s a submarine movie as well and I just love submarine films. 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