Sheila Terry<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t really figured in the story up until now, has been kidnapped by Yak. <\/p>\n\n\n\nDuke selflessly offers to be exchanged as a hostage in return for Clara\u2019s release. For a moment I thought we were going to see an early rehearsal for the same setup in \u201cRio Bravo\u201d but unfortunately there\u2019s no room in the storyline of these early JW efforts for such a thing as tension or suspense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without retelling the whole of the narrative you can bet it predictably ends up with JW chasing Yak or, as seems to happen so often, Yak doubling as JW chasing Yak, the non-JW Yak also taking little Nina along for the horse chase as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JW and Yak fight it out in the water, although I\u2019m not sure how Yak ended up in the river as the film jumped at one point \u2013 which is damned annoying seeing as I\u2019d gone to the trouble to actually buy the film on DVD from a local charity shop for a whole pound (approximately $1.31 at local currency exchange rates). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hero and villain punch it out in the water with a rather unsporting Yak producing a knife. They pull each other under the water but only Duke makes it back to the surface, the assumption being that Yak\u2019s been splashed up, and we\u2019re not talking the water kind of splash either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I honestly couldn\u2019t tell you whether Daddy skunk actually did turn out to be Nina\u2019s pa on account of he appears to get shot by Yak in the shootout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duke gets the girl, one he hardly knows this time but then that\u2019s par for the course. On top of that, everyone lives happily ever after, even little mixed-race Nina, played by Shirley Jean Rickert, a young actress who used to play the little blonde girl in the \u201cOur Gang\u201d series, and who looks about as mixed-race as an Aryan fraulein. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One for the die-hard JW fanatics out there \u2013 of which we\u2019re probably talking millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Catch up with the rest of John Wayne’s 1930s Westerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Neath the Arizona Skies (1934) Lone Star, Dir: Harry Fraser, b\/w, 53mCast: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Shirley Jane Rickert, Jack Rockwell, Buffalo Bill Jr., Yakima Canutt \u201c\u2018Neath the Arizona Skies\u201d is the last of the nine Westerns John Wayne starred … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[107],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}