HONDO

PRODUCED BY ROBERT FELLOWS
DIRECTED BY JOHN FARROW
A WAYNE-FELLOWS PRODUCTION
WARNER BROS

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INFORMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary
Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe,
a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory.
She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio,
have always left them alone.
Later Lane has a run-in with Angie's reprobate husband and is forced to kill him,
not knowing who he is.
Vittorio captures Lane and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief
that Lane is her husband,
unaware that Lane has killed her real husband. In order to protect her
from a forced marriage with one of the Apache,
Lane reluctantly goes along with the lie, though he knows the truth
must eventually come out, to Vittorio and to Angie, both.
Summary written by Jim Beaver

Full Cast
John Wayne .... Hondo Lane
Geraldine Page .... Angie Lowe
Ward Bond .... Buffalo Baker, Army Indian Scout
Michael Pate .... Vittorio, Chiricahua Apache Chief
James Arness .... Lennie, Army Indian Scout
Rodolfo Acosta .... Silva
Leo Gordon .... Ed Lowe
Tom Irish .... Lieutenant McKay
Lee Aaker .... Johnny 'Small Warrior' Lowe
Paul Fix .... Major Sherry
Rayford Barnes .... Pete
Frank McGrath .... Lowe's partner (uncredited)
Morry Ogden .... Horse Rider-Opening Scene (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson .... Otawanga/Cavalry sergeant killed in Indian attack
(uncredited)
Sam ... Hondo's dog (uncredited)

Writing Credits
Louis L'Amour (story The Gift of Cochise)
James Edward Grant screenplay

Produced
Robert Fellows .... producer
John Wayne .... producer

Original Music
Hugo Friedhofer
Emil Newman

Cinematography
Robert Burks
Archie Stout

Production Management
Nate H. Edwards .... production manager
Andrew V. McLaglen .... unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nathan Barrager .... assistant director (as Nate R. Barragar)
John Ford .... second unit director (uncredited)
Cliff Lyons .... second unit director (uncredited)

Stunts
Chuck Hayward .... stunt double: John Wayne (uncredited)
Fred Kennedy .... stunts (uncredited)
Fred Krone .... stunts (uncredited)
Cliff Lyons .... stunts (uncredited)
Frank McGrath .... stunts (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson .... stunts (uncredited)
Bob Rose .... stunts (uncredited)
Terry Wilson .... stunts (uncredited)

Trivia
Originally filmed in 3-D.

Katharine Hepburn was originally sought for the role of Mrs. Lowe, but turned it down due to her outrage at John Wayne's activities as President of the far-right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which endorsed, among other things, the blacklisting of "Commies, pinkos and fellow travelers" in the motion picture business. Ironically, more than 20 years later Hepburn did act with Wayne in Rooster Cogburn ... and the Lady (1975).

Geraldine Page, a left wing liberal actress from Broadway, was horrified by the right-wing views of John Wayne, Ward Bond, James Arness and John Farrow.

According to TCM, John Wayne won the well-trained dog Sam from his owner/trainer in a poker game after the movie wrapped.

John Wayne was originally to be only the producer for his Batjac company, and wanted Glenn Ford for the title role. But Ford had such an unpleasant working experience with director John Farrow on their previous collaboration, Plunder of the Sun (1953), that he turned down the offer. Wayne then took on the role himself.

In the "Married with Children" (1987) episode "Assault and Batteries," Al Bundy says that Hondo is his favorite movie of all time, and he spends the entire episode trying to watch it in peace.

John Wayne attributed the film's moderate performance at the box office to its similarity with Shane (1953).

Film debut of Geraldine Page.

Pal, the dog that played Sam, was the son of Lassie. In the movie, he is supposed to be vicious and ill-tempered, but the temperatures during filming were so hot, he simply panted instead of snarling when on camera. In order to overcome this, he was kept in a special air-conditioned crate while on set and was only brought out for his shots.

Katharine Hepburn was originally planned to have been cast as the female lead, with the idea being that her part and Wayne's would be roughly equal. However, the female lead role grew less prominent as the script was developed, until it was clearly subservient to Wayne's. Therefore, producer Bob Fellows sent a letter to Hepburn's agent expressing his belief that such a role was beneath a star of Hepburn's stature, and explaining that rather than embarrass her by offering her a part she would be forced to turn down, he decided not to offer it to her at all. The role went to Broadway actress Geraldine Page, instead, while Hepburn and Wayne finally teamed more than twenty years later in Rooster Cogburn.

After viewing the finished film at a private screening, John Wayne jokingly said, "I'll be damned if I'm not the stuff men are made of!"

Goofs
* Crew or equipment visible: When Hondo runs up a small rise to jump on a horse, the white shirt of the person holding the horse can be seen briefly at the left.

* Miscellaneous: The brim on Hondo's hat changes how it is bent, up or down, from one shot to the next.

* Continuity: The Apaches throw Hondo down in the mud when they return him to Mrs. Lowe's ranch. Mrs. Lowe takes Hondo inside and seats him in a chair. The back of the chair is already wet and mud-stained before Hondo sits down in it.

* Boom mic visible: When Hondo first encounters Ed Lowe, the shadow of a boom mic is visible in the tent.

* Continuity: In the final battle scene at the end of the movie, the wagon being driven by Buffalo Baker has one of its lead horses go down. John Wayne cuts the animal loose and the wagon takes off with three horses pulling it. In the final scene of the movie, after the battle has concluded, the wagon rides off with a full compliment of four horses.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: The sound of sharpening continues after Hondo has lifted the ax from the grind stone.

* Continuity: (At 25:00) When the Apache first appear (when Mrs. Lowe meets Vittorio for the first time), Johnny comes out to defend his mother. Silva goes to confront the boy and Johnny first tries to shoot Silva and then troughs the pistol at him. The pistol lands to the right on the ground by the pole (porch post), but then after a short scuffle, when Vittorio tells Silva to bring the boy, the pistol is laying on the porch next to where Johnny was.

Memorable Quotes (http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045883/quotes)

Filming Locations
Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico
Chihuahua, Mexico
Delle, Utah, USA
Lonerock, Utah, USA
Skull Valley, Utah, USA
Snow Canyon State Park - 1002 Snow Canyon Drive, Ivins, Utah, USA
Tooele County, Utah, USA
Utah, USA

Watch the Trailer:-

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This is a brilliant film, and right up there with the great ones,
not quite a classic, but nearly, or maybe it is, what do you think?
Duke is right at home in this role,slightly reminiscent of his first appearance
in THE SEARCHERS and come to think of it, ANGEL AND THE BADMAN.
Although John Farrow, was directing,

Chuck Roberson noted,

Duke's word was Law
In fact he relied heavily on Actors and craftsmen he knew from the Ford days,
using people like Andrew McLaglen, Archie Stout, Cliff Lyons,
basically now becoming The John Wayne Stock Company!
Ford turned up on the set, but Duke dispatched him off, for some menial 2nd. unit task, although he did direct the final battle scene.
Ward Bond, and James Arness, were both solid in their roles.
The strangest casting, was that of Geraldine Page, who had recently come to
Hollywood, from Broadway.

She said of Duke,

"He loved to swear.....He had the warmest, most spontaneous, most wonderful laugh...Everybody just adored him, in the most hysterical way
Duke and his pals considered her a peculiar eccentric!
Duke complained of her whiny voice, and inexperience in front of the camera.

Duke Said,

"She may have been great on Broadway, but she didn't know a thing about making movies
Duke was amazed, when she had been nominated for an Academy Award, for her
performance!!
However, Duke maintained, that the popularity of the very similar film Shane(also 1953) took the edge off Hondo.
The movie opened to favorable reviews, and did well, making enormous profits
across Europe and Japan.

Michel Wayne said of his father in 1991

HONDO holds up after all these years... I think my father, looked his best and was at his best, at the time.
In a way that film set some of the characters he played later.It wasn't his best film, by a long shot, but it set his character.

Well that sums it up nicely,
Rating 8/10

Hi,
I have been researching all the threads, back to the start of the JWMB,
looking for previous discussion, relating to the movies.
I have found the following, comments, and have copied them here,
so that they are now under one forum:-

If anyone is interested, please click on:-

Hondo vs. Shane, Similarity vs. Difference (http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=203)

We enjoyed Hondo, though have not watched it nearly as much as some other movies, but I think that is because we didn't own until it came it out last year.

It is easy to see which scenes were originally meant for the 3D glasses in original release. They do literally jump out at you! :o

Deep Discount DVD (http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=PRD088761) has the Paramount release of this title, for under $10.

Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-2966141-4147854?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Hondo&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go) has the Paramount DVD, the book by Louis L'Amour (you can get it used, starting at $0.01, plus $3.49 shipping), and of course VHS.

Chester :newyear:

</span></span></span> is my all-time most favorite Western. Everything about that movie--cast, story, scenery and all; is just so classic. I remember the first time I ever saw this movie was back about 1980 or so. HBO, played it dozens of times on their station over the period of about 3 months. I watched this movie as many times as I could get away with it. The only other movie that comes as close to this one that I then never tired of is: The Big Red One. BRO, was played hundreds of times on HBO, TMC & Cinemax; in the period of about a year. Hondo was also played on Cinemax and HBO dozens more times that year.

Hi Keith

With regards to this movie it is unusually short, do you or anyone else know if many scenes were deleted from it.

:agent:

Hi Robbie
Looking through the information, I can't find any mention,
of cut scenes.
I can only assume, it was shorter, because of the costs involved,
of filming it, in its original 3D format.

Robbie,

As I understand it, most 3D films were generally pretty short. The reason being because the audience had to sit during the film holding a pair of 3D glasses and looking through them. After a while, people's arms and eyes started getting tired!

Plus with the added cost of shooting in 3D, you can be sure that they weren't going to shoot anything more then was absolutely necessary.

E.J.

Originally posted by ethanedwards@Feb 5 2006, 04:53 AM
Hi,
This is a brilliant film, and right up there with the great ones,
not quite a classic, but nearly, or maybe it is, what do you think?


Couldn't agree with you more. A film I could just watch again and again. Brilliant direction and photography, a great cast of actors, and a fantastic story all add up to a solid 9/10 in my book. And Paramount did a great job of transferring the film to DVD last year.

Hi all,
It will be shown at our TV tomorrow. Great expectations!
Regards,
Senta :rolleyes:

Hello All

Has this title ever been released on Region 2 yet?

I know Region 1 has been available in USA for some time



Best


Mike

Hi Mike,

As far as I know, not yet.

When it was released on VHS, if you didn't
purchase it then, you were out of luck,
cause it hasn't been released since!!

FINALLY! I located the collectors' edition of "Hondo" at our local H-E-B store yesterday evening and picked it up :lol: . Haven't had a chance to watch it (the wife went into the hospital the other day and, needless to say, things have been rather hectic.). But will as soon as possible.
Cheers - Jay :D

Originally posted by Jay J. Foraker@Jun 9 2006, 10:00 AM
FINALLY!* I located the collectors' edition of "Hondo" at our local H-E-B store yesterday evening and picked it up :lol: .* Haven't had a chance to watch it (the wife went into the hospital the other day and, needless to say, things have been rather hectic.).* But will as soon as possible.
Cheers - Jay :D
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Hi Jay, please relay my best wishes to your wife for a full and speedy recovery. Also, the brief moment I got to chat w/ her by phone was a nice time.

Take care and best regards--C. :)

Originally posted by The Ringo Kid@Jun 10 2006, 02:52 PM
Hi Jay, please relay my best wishes to your wife for a full and speedy recovery. Also, the brief moment I got to chat w/ her by phone was a nice time.

Take care and best regards--C.* :)
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Ditto from me as well Jay, hope your wife is feeling better.

Oh, and you will enjoy all the extras as well as the movie!!!

If we use these special 3D glasses can we watch it like that at home then?If yes,where can we get them???

One of my least favorite John Wayne films, but still head and shoulders above anything today. My favorite scene is the one where he's teaching the boy how to swim, Page's reaction was priceless.

Despite Geraldine Page . I have grown to love Hondo with every viewing. It is great movie to watch and because it was originally shot in 3D it has a short running time which makes it seem like there is action all the way through the movie.

Region 1 Print is magic too!


Mike

Check out this clip from YouTube. It claims to be a clip of 3D footage from Hondo.

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I only you-tubed once and that was to watch the final episode of Justice League Unlimited and a special tribute video. It loads up way too slow on my crappy dial-up.

Wow, where's my 3-D glasses...

I know I've got a pair of those glasses around here somewhere!!!:ohmy:

I have two or three glasses around here but I can't find a single one :cry2:

Hi

This film was released on DVD in the UK on Monday. along with The High and the Mighty and Island in the Sky. I picked it up for £10 as I was collecting the other two. Comes complete with a poster for the film but at first glance it looks foreign.

Regards

Arthur

Hi Arthur

Shame we had to wait so long as most have now bought on Region 1.

Wonder will play.com undercut HMV?


Mike

Hello, I wanted times to ask whether I the picture of Honshu on my live journal insert may? Here mine left: www.livejournal.de.ki

Are you trying to ask if you can insert you photo on here?

We haven't seen this movie in a couple of years, might have to break it out and watch again!

Meanwhile, I thought I'd share this poster with you -

1978

Not one of Duke's best westerns. The first half is better, nice scenes between Wayne and Ward Bond, and the best in the whole movie is when Duke throws the boy into water. I also like the dog. Geraldine Page irritates me and her relationship with Duke's character is unexciting. Hondo should remain an angry, but capable outsider, that would make the movie much more interesting

Hi etsija

I think Hondo suffered a bit by being made in 3D. I do still find it an enjoyable western to watch.

I agree with your comments on Geraldine Page. Apparently, she stank of BO and had the breath of a sewer and the film company had to spend a fortune on sending her to a dentist to fix her teeth. Makes you appreciate what a professional Duke was and how he kept his face straight when he says the line about being able "to smell her" is beyond me.

Mike

Still one of my favorite Duke westerns. Adding this because feel that all later critic comments are unfair to this movie.
Regards,
Senta

Still one of my favorite Duke westerns. Adding this because feel that all later critic comments are unfair to this movie.
Regards,
Senta

I agree with you Senta, one of my favorites as well; there are several movies I like better, but Hondo Lane is one my favorite Duke characters. I thought there was a lot of good story packed into the short running time.

ethanedwards
However, Duke maintained, that the popularity of the very similar film Shane(also 1953) took the edge off Hondo.
The movie opened to favorable reviews, and did well, making enormous profits
across Europe and Japan.
Michael Wayne said of his father in 1991
Hondo holds up after all these years... I think my father, looked his best and was at his best, at the time.
In a way that film set some of the characters he played later.It wasn't his best film, by a long shot, but it set his character.

This is taken from my initial post,
and Michael Wayne, just about sums it up.
Still one of my favourites.

I'm surprised Gerladine Page received an Oscar nomination, Jean Arthur gavea far better performance as the mother in Shane. Maybe it was just because it was one of her first films. Certainly there was no love lost between her and Duke.

At least Geraldine got a brand new set of teeth courtesy of Batjac. Shame she didnt wash to often and reeked of BO and had breath like a sewer. Duke deserved a Oscar for kissing her.

Never liked Shane Jack Palance is about the best thing in it. Alan Ladd Yuk When I heard about the trenches they had to dig for his leading ladies to stand in that topped it.

Didn't Hondo inspire a TV series as well?


Mike


Mike

Hi Mike,

Yes it was and here is some info:-

Hondo TV Series

Cast:

Ralph Taeger as Hondo Lane,
Buddy Foster as Johnny Dow,
Gary Clarke,as Captain Richards
William Bryant as Col.Crook,
Kathie Browne as Angie Dow,
Noah Beery as Buffalo Baker,
Michael Pate as,Chief Vittoro


Orginal run of show:September 1967 to December 1967 on ABC

Note:

The epsisodes are listed in the order shown on TNT ('92) The first 2 episodes were made into the movie "Hondo and the Apaches" (or vice versa)

Episode Titles:

1. Hondo and the Eagle Claw
2. Hondo and the War Cry
3. Hondo and the Singing wire
4. Hondo and the Superstition Massacre
5. Hondo and the Savage
6. Hondo and the Apache Kid
7. Hondo and the War Hawks
8. Hondo and the Mad Dog
9. Hondo and the Judas
10. Hondo and the Comancheros
11. Hondo and the Sudden Town
12. Hondo and the Ghost of Ed Dow
13. Hondo and the Death Drive
14. Hondo and the Hanging Town
15. Hondo and the Gladiators
16. Hondo and the Apache Trail
17. Hondo and the Rebel Hat

My brother who is older than me had a TV annual of the programme and used to talk mention it. I presume it is not available on DVD.

Mike

Hi Mike,

Take a look at this,
maybe in French of course.

Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Louis-LAmour-Hondo-Apaches-Called/dp/B0000A02V9/ref=sr_1_1/202-4994424-9609450?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1191054438&sr=8-1)

and a VHS


Amazon 2 (http://www.amazon.com/Hondo-Apaches-Ralph-Taeger/dp/6303102786)

and the IMDB link

Hondo and The Apaches (1967) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061779/)

Thanks Keith

At those sort of prices worth checking out.

Mike

Check out these two links about some of the digital 3-D restoration work being done on Hondo:

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/videoedsys/revfeat/video_return_duke/

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mil/features/hondo_audio/

I watched Hondo for the first time last week, I quite enjoyed it,although it was short, I believe, it showed Duke at his best :)

Another enjoyable western of Dukes, Geraldine Page was also noteworthy, some nice scenery too

Here is an example of the book. Enjoy!

Mark

http://www.dukewayne.com/imagehosting/2147f8e89d006bb.jpg

Here is another example of the book.
this paperback was published in Japan about twenty years ago.


H.sanada

I finally got my hands on the DVD but was dissapointed with the special features.
Chance

Here is a little Video Clip on Hondo from YouTube.
:cowboy:
http://www.tvparty.com/movwayne1.html

Chilibill
:cowboy:

While I enjoyed the Hondo trailer, I really enjoyed reading the article about John Wayne (six parts in all). Interesting that there was more mention of his second marriage, and passing mention of his third, but no mention whatsoever of his first marriage.

More importantly, however, it is an excellent listing of the many times Duke appeared on television throughout his career. It would be interesting to check the article against some of the lists of TV appearances our members have posted (Elly and Colorado Bob come to mind). If I'd have been as big a JW fan in the sixties and seventies as I am now, I would have been a happy camper, as many times as he was on the small screen.

Chester :newyear:

i really enjoyed Hondo - a proper old fashioned cowboy and indian film, beautiful scenery and a touch of romance thrown in as well. i enjoyed the special features on the dvd as well as i knew nothing about ward bond before http://www.dukewayne.com/images/editor/smilie.gif

Hi Everyone

a while back I bought a copy of the 3D version of Hondo that was shown on US television a long while back. I bought the glasses, in fact managed to get the very ones that I beleive were sold or given away at a big supermarket chain at the time of this showing.

Well I was a bit disappointed because to me it just seemed out of focus and the glasses gave me a headache.

I keep reading that the original 3D print has been restored and shown at a few premieres etc.

WHEN are we going to get a proper 3D version on DVD?

Who do we have to plague to get it? You might have thought that as it is hailed as one of the very best 3D films ever that a special release to celebrate JW 100th birthday would have been forthcoming.

I would pay well over the odds for this and I know MANY other would do the same. After all, I was one of those that paid over the odds for copies of 70mm version of Big Trail, several times, only to discover it being released on commercial DVD a few months later. (now have the commercial DVD, thanks to my good buddy Colorado Bob.)

I do have a couple of 3D pictures one of which is from Hondo.

I would also love to have a commercial 3-D version of Hondo. I love the film. and would pay good to get a great copy in 3-D.

Elly, did your 3-D glasses look like this?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn188/wazootie/Stuff/3DGlassesHondo.jpg

I got them back in the early 90's when Hondo was shown on TV in 3-D. If I remember correctly, Burger King sold them. Like you, I wasn't overly impressed with the showing on TV. That is why I would love to see it done properly and released on DVD in it's original 3-D. I hope Batjac does in the near future. I feel it would sell a whole lot of copies.

Mark

I would also love to have a commercial 3-D version of Hondo. I love the film. and would pay good to get a great copy in 3-D.

Elly, did your 3-D glasses look like this?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn188/wazootie/Stuff/3DGlassesHondo.jpg

I got them back in the early 90's when Hondo was shown on TV in 3-D. If I remember correctly, Burger King sold them. Like you, I wasn't overly impressed with the showing on TV. That is why I would love to see it done properly and released on DVD in it's original 3-D. I hope Batjac does in the near future. I feel it would sell a whole lot of copies.

Mark

Hello Mark

Yes! the glasses were exactly like this! I won them on ebay cost me $25.00 including shipping. when they and the film arrived I invited some friends had a barbie, and a "premiere". So was doubly disappointed that is was not very good.

Batjac should be aware that there are thousands of 3D film collectors, not neccessarily JW fans who really rate this film and would also pay good money for a copy.

Perhaps we all should start writing to Batjac, anyone got the contact details please?

Did the cinema release of Hondo contain a pre-credit fight sequence...showing how the Duke lost his horse?
I discovered the above question, from 2007, tucked away in a thread totally unrelated to the movie Hondo, and it was never answered. I don't know if SPARTAN is still around, but I am curious to see if anyone knows the answer.

Chester :newyear:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c187/john-wayne/John%20Wayne/HONDOweb.jpg

John Ford visits director John Farrow and producer/star
John Wayne on the Mexican location for HONDO in 1953.
In fact, Ford wound up shooting some action scenes for the film.
(photo courtesy of Batjac Productions)


Leonard Matlin.
Then, earlier this month, I was honored to be asked to host a screening of Hondo (1953) at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hondo is one of the few major films of its time that couldn’t be shown at the World 3D Film Festival in recent years, so hardly anyone has seen it projected in 3D since its original release. There was a television airing in anaglyph red-green 3D in 1991, and of course the film itself is now available on DVD . This past spring, however, Gretchen Wayne, who now runs Batjac (the company her father-in-law founded and her late husband Michael Wayne headed), presented a new, state-of-the-art digital version of the 3D western at the Cannes Film Festival. Apparently it was a sensation, and completely sold out.

A photo of John Wayne in Hondo, from the July 1997 issue of Arizona Highways magazine, which had a cover story (Tom Mix on the cover) about westerns shot in Arizona.

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/8569/ahjuly19974small.jpg (http://img837.imageshack.us/i/ahjuly19974small.jpg/)

Chester has anyone ever posted an answer to Spartans post? :shades_smile:

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The first John Wayne movie I ever saw. I absolutely love it and it'll remain one of my favorite Duke movies for both reasons.

It has pretty much everything a good western needs. It had an interesting love story, fighting scenes, nice scenery and lots of gun battles. Classic American western from this era IMO. I liked the humor in the movie, too. It had a whole bunch of humorous scenes for us to enjoy. I think my personal favorite is when Hondo learns that the boy can't swim and simply grab him and throw him into the lake http://www.albundy.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif When he learns that his mother can't swim either, she runs away, scared to death that he'd do the same to her http://www.albundy.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif Classic stuff.

It's been a while since I saw Hondo, I think I'll watch it again this weekend.

P.S. I took a picture last time I watched it, which is now my signature pic. I have to say it turned out great.

Great signature pic. Popcorn, beer and a Duke flic? What a combo!

Mark

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Always very interesting documents, real museum pieces. Lasbugas thank you very much!

In addition, the latter are in French!

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Anybody remember that scene where the Indian stabbed Sam ( the dog ) with his spear then stood there smileing? When i first saw that i was like: Wow! that's almost graphic for a movie of this timeframe! Kinda hoping Hondo would have chased after him! Great Movie! One of my favorites! ( just not a fan of 3D ) bill

Has anyone heard anything about any possible 3D DVD or Blu-Ray releases for this movie? I know it was restored and exhibited theatrically in 3D around the time the 2D DVD was released. With the growing popularity of 3D TV's, I wonder if a 3D version will be released sometime in the future.

Amazon is listing a Blu-ray release for Hondo, but without a release date. Paramount has not yet made an official announcement either.

No mention of whether this Blu-ray will include the 3-D version. They really should, since 3-D players and televisions are now available. Actually I'd love to see this re-released into theaters since so many are now 3-D enabled, too.

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