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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 88761 | Paramount PicturesSeries: John Wayne collectionPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2005]Edition: Special collector's edDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1415709009
  • 9781415709009
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .H655 2005
Production credits:
  • Photography, Robert Burks, Archie Stout ; editor, Ralph Dawson ; music, Emil Newman, Hugo Friedhofer ; art director, Alfred Ybarra ; wardrobe, Carl Walker.
Cast: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta, Leo Gordon, Tom Irish, Lee Aaker, Paul Fix, Rayford Barnes.Summary: Hondo Lane, a dispatch 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 Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order to protect her from a forced marriage with one of the Apaches, Hondo reluctantly goes along with the lie.
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VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD HON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000230170

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Based on the novel "The gift of Cochise," by Louis L'Amour.

Special features: Special introduction by Leonard Maltin; Commentary by Leonard Maltin, Western historian Frank Thompson and actor Lee Aaker; Featurette: The making of Hondo; Profile: James Edward Grant; From the Batjac vaults; The Apache.

Photography, Robert Burks, Archie Stout ; editor, Ralph Dawson ; music, Emil Newman, Hugo Friedhofer ; art director, Alfred Ybarra ; wardrobe, Carl Walker.

John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta, Leo Gordon, Tom Irish, Lee Aaker, Paul Fix, Rayford Barnes.

Hondo Lane, a dispatch 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 Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order to protect her from a forced marriage with one of the Apaches, Hondo reluctantly goes along with the lie.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, mono; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

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