This is a 14" x 22" US window card for the 1961 Michael Curtiz
film The Comancheros based on the 1952 Paul Wellman novel of
the same title, screenplay by James Edward Grant and Clair Huffaker
and starring John Wayne as Captain Jake Cutter. Plot summary: Texas
Ranger Jake Cutter arrests Paul Regret, a gambler, but soon joins
forces with his prisoner in a fight against a gang of arms merchants
and thieves.
Cast and crew: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne, James Edward Grant,
Clair Huffaker, Paul Wellman (1952 novel), Stuart Whitman, Ina
Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne,
Bruce Cabot, Joan O'Brien, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell,
Richard Devon
This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1971 George
Sherman film Big Jake written by Harry Julian Fink and Rita
M. Fink and starring John Wayne as Jacob McCandles. Plot summary: In
1909 John Fain [Richard Boone] and his gang raid the McCandles ranch,
kill all the ranch hands and then kidnap the McCandles grandson Jake.
Martha McCandles, [Maureen O'Hara] who is running the ranch alone,
sends for Big Jake, her estranged husband. Big Jake is an aging
gunfighter and the only person Martha considers up the task of
confronting the gang.
Cast and crew: George Sherman, Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink,
John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher
Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, Glenn Corbett, Harry Carey Jr.,
John Doucette, Jim Davis, John Agar, Gregg Palmer, Jim Burk, Robert
Warner
This is a 14" x 36" original US insert poster for the 1965 Andrew
V. McLaglane film Shenandoah written by James Lee Barrett and
starring James Stewart as Charlie Anderson. Plot summary: The Civil
War intrudes into the calm and secluded rural Virginia affairs of
Charlie Anderson and his large family of farmers.
Cast and crew: Andrew V. McLaglen, James Lee Barrett, Glenn
Corbett, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Rosemarty Forsyth, Patrick
Wayne, Phillip Alford, Katharine Ross, Charles Robinson, Jim McMullan,
Tim McIntire, Gene Jackson, Paul Fix, Denver Pyle, George Kennedy,
James Best
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Al-Thaghr Khamis for
the 1977 Sam Wanamaker film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
based on a story by Ray Harryhausen and Beverly Cross, screenplay by
Beverly Cross and starring Patrick Wayne as Sinbad. Plot summary:
Prince Kassim [Damien Thomas] was transformed into a baboon before he
was to become king; Sinbad must deliver him to Ademaspai where he will
be restored to human form. He will have to overcome some formidable
obstacles and a menacing Harryhausen menagerie to do this.
Cast and crew: Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret
Whiting, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton, Kurt Christian, Nadim
Sawalha, Damien Thomas, Bruno Barnabe, Bernard Kay, Salami Coker,
David Sterne, Ray Harryhausen
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Magdy William for a
1981 rerelease of the 1977 Kevin Connor film The People that Time
Forgot based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, screenplay by
Patrick Tilley and starring Patrick Wayne as Ben McBride. Plot
summary: Major Ben McBride organizes a mission to Antarctica in search
of his missing friend Bowen Tyler [Doug McClure]. When they reach
their destination they find themselves surrounded by primitive savages
who have learned English from Bowen Tyler, as well as ferocious
gigantic reptiles, living remnants of prehistoric times.
Cast and crew: Kevin Connor, Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah
Douglas, Dana Gillespie, Thorley Walters, Shane Rimmer, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, Tony Britton, John Halfam, David Prowse, Milton Reid, Kiran
Shah, Richard LeParmentier, Jimmy Ray, Tony McHale
This is a 27" x 39" Lebanese poster with a design closely derived from
that of the US one-sheet for the 1978 film Texas Detour written
and directed by Hikmet Avedis and starring Patrick Wayne as Clay
McCarthy. Plot summary: Three California teenagers lose their van to
escaped convicts in an armed robbery while driving it across the
United States. Unable to get support from the sheriff in the rural
area where they are stranded, they decide to take matters into their
own hands.
Cast and crew: Hikmet Avedis, Patrick Wayne, Mitch Vogel, Lindsay
Bloom, R.G. Armstrong, Priscilla Barnes, Anthony James, Michael
Mullins, Cameron Mitchell, Kathy O'Dare, Jeri Blender, Gary Davis,
Alan Sands, Michael Allen Honaker, Beau Gibson, Dee Cooper
This is a 27" x 39" Turkish one-sheet for the 1971 George Sherman
film Big Jake based on a story by Harry Julian and Rita M. Fink
and starring John Wayne as Jacob McCandles. Plot summary: In the year
1909 after the outlaw John Fain [Richard Boone] and his gang overrun
the McCandles ranch and kidnap Jacob McCandles [Ethan Wayne] for
ransom, Martha McCandles [Maureen O'Hara], the head of the family,
sends for her estranged husband the old gunfighter Big Jake McCandles,
who sets out to correct the situation.
Cast and crew: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot, Glenn Corbett, John Doucette, George Sherman, Elmer Bernstein, Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Maureen O'Hara, Jim Davis, John Agar, Harry Carey Jr., Gregg Palmer, Roy Jenson, Virginia Capers
Rustler's Rhapsody is a hypothetical movie about a silver screen cowboy. It is a movie the narrator (also Rex O'Herlihan's sidekick) imagines as a 1985 update of the old 1940s cowboy matinee films. The narrator believes if those films were still being made they would be more realistic. He tells us that in a modern film the bad guys wouldn't be such cowards, and Rex wouldn't be so damned perfect all the time! Of course the film is in color, not black and white, and in this more realistic scenario, the hero Rex knows he is playing out a script. Because of that, he knows what will happen! None of the other characters knows, because they're just people in a movie and they don't travel all over the West the way Rex does. When Rex travels from town to town, he rides his wonder horse Wildfire, and he also has a mule with him for hauling his wardrobe wagon. This wagon has a finely crafted cabinet inside with places for four guitars, about 10 different shirts, a stack of spare hats and a drawer for his knives, which he uses to cut pieces from some kind of intoxicating root he always takes along. When Rex arrives in Oakwood Estates, as always when he arrives in a western town he immediately gets into a conflict with the local bad guys. However, the evil power-mad cattle baron (Andy Griffith as colonel Ticonderoga) realizes he is operating under a set of silver screen cowboy rules, one of which is that the bad guys can never win. To solve this problem, he decides to find another good guy (who also rides around in the desert with a wardrobe wagon) to fight Rex. That is where the jaded and confident Rex encounters a first: Something that has never happened before! What will happen when he has to fight another good guy?
As Rustler's Rhapsody begins, Rex sings his theme song "I Ride Alone" to his horse Wildfire and mule as they stand listening beside his wardrobe wagon.
Patrick Wayne and Tom Berenger face off as the two good guys in Rustler's Rhapsody. They know the good guy always wins in B westerns, but which one? They agree that the "most-good good guy" will win. Then Patrick Wayne (as Bob Barber) explains to Berenger (as Rex O'Herlihan the singing cowboy) that one of the requirements for being a good guy is that he has to be a confident heterosexual. From Rex's expression Bob realizes Rex is a virgin and says "well don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm just gonna shoot the guns out of your hands." Rex says "I'd rather you shoot me in the heart!" Bob replies "You know I can't do that!" Rex then says "I can't fight you today," leaves and is met immediately in the street by a disgusted crowd throwing things at him and calling him a coward and a pervert.
