<\/span><\/h2>\nIn The Wings of Eagles, Dan Dailey, as \u2018Jughead\u2019 Carson, plays a character very similar to that of Lee Marvin\u2019s \u2018Boats\u2019 Gilhooly in the later John Ford film Donovan\u2019s Reef.<\/p>\n
The film is a biopic of \u2018Spig\u2019 Wead, who in real life eventually ended up scripting a couple of films for Ford himself.<\/p>\n
After Wead is paralysed with a serious back injury, it falls to Jughead to help his friend recuperate, turning up at the hospital with a banjo and singing \u2018I\u2019m gonna move that toe\u2019 until the toe obeys and Wead walks again.<\/p>\n
This testament to the power of song shows that the approach Jughead adopts in his friendship with Wead is a damned sight more effective than that of Boots Gilhooly, who most likely would have just punched Mr. Wead in the face before passing out in an alcoholic stupor on the hospital floor.<\/p>\n
Dan Dailey isn\u2019t the most effective of John Wayne\u2019s leading men, but the scenes in which he helps Spig to start walking again certainly make him one of the most memorable.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>Henry Fonda | Fort Apache (1948)<\/span><\/h2>\nAlthough Henry Fonda and JW were both cast in How the West Was Won, The Longest Day and In Harms Way, it was only in the earlier Fort Apache that they actually co-starred with each other onscreen, a small scene in In Harm\u2019s Way notwithstanding.<\/p>\n
Fonda is superb in John Ford\u2019s Fort Apache, as the stiff-backed martinet, Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday. Wayne, as Captain York, finds himself the object of Thursdays disdain due to his sympathetic treatment of the Apache leader Cochise, and the sparks really do fly between the two of them whenever they butt heads together.<\/p>\n
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